Cisco MDS 9140

Cisco MDS 9140 ... scalability, ease of management and lower total cost of SAN ownership. MDS 9100 series switches run Cisco SAN-OS software providing the same advanced features found on MDS 9500 series directors and MDS 9216 series fabric switches. This includes integrated management, an embedded Fabric Manager and integration with HP OpenView SAM and CiscoWorks RME, provides ease of administration to improve customer productivity. This common software platform ensures that your SAN environment will scale seamlessly as your business grows protecting your investment in SAN infrastructure.

The Cisco MDS 9100 Series elevates the standard for Fiber Channel fabric switches, bringing Cisco Multilayer Intelligent Networking to small and medium scale SANs and Data Center edge applications. The MDS 9100 series provides the ideal balance of cost-performance and enterprise class features in a compact 1 Rack Unit form factor. Available in 20-port and 40-port configurations, the MDS 9100 Series offers the port densities required for a wide variety of storage environments. Providing class-leading availability, scalability, security, and management, the Cisco MDS 9100 Series allows you to deploy high performance storage-area networks with low total cost of ownership. Layering a rich set of intelligent features onto a cost-effective small profile switching platform, the Cisco MDS 9100 Series addresses the cost-performance, ease of management and connectivity requirements of small and medium scale storage environments and provides full feature compatibility with other Cisco MDS 9000 family products for seamless end to end service delivery in large data center core-edge deployments. Each switch is packaged in a 1 RU rack-mountable chassis with redundant hot-swappable power supplies, fans and comes fully populated with short wave, small form factor pluggable transceivers (SFPs included). Both chassis' utilize front to rear chassis airflow. Management access is provided through 10/100 Ethernet and serial console interfaces.

The Cisco MDS 9100 series is a cost effective solution for enterprise departments, workgroups, small and medium scale SAN deployments and for edge connectivity in core-edge environments not requiring modularity and support for non-Fiber Channel data transports.