Cisco MDS 9000 Series Installation Guide

• If the switch has port-side exhaust modules (fan modules with blue coloring), position the switch so that its fan
and power supply modules is in the cold aisle.
b) Position a rack–mount bracket so that four of its screw holes are aligned to the screw holes on the side of the chassis.
Then, secure the front-mount bracket to the chassis using four M4 screws.
You can align four of the holes in the front rack-mount bracket to four of the screw holes on the front side
of chassis or four of the screw holes on the rear side of the chassis. The holes that you use depend on which
side of your chassis needs to be put in the cold aisle.
Note
Figure 5: Installing Rack-mount Brackets on the Front Side of the Chassis
Installing a Cisco MDS 9132T Switch
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Installing a Cisco MDS 9132T Switch
Installing the Switch into a 2-Post Rack

Cisco MDS 9000 Series Specifications

General

Category	Switch
Operating System	Cisco NX-OS
Ports	Varies by model
Protocols	Fibre Channel (FC), Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), iSCSI
Redundancy	Redundant supervisors, power supplies, and fans
Management	Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM), CLI, SNMP
Virtualization Support	VSANs (Virtual SANs)
Security Features	Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP)
Hot Swappable Components	power supplies, fans
Power Supply Options	AC and DC options available