Cisco MDS 9300 Switches

The Cisco MDS 9300 series family Switch is the next generation of the high performance, high density and highly reliable Cisco MDS Series Fabric switches. It combines high performance with exceptional flexibility and cost effectiveness.

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MDS 9300 Models of MDS 9300

The Cisco MDS 9396S 16G Multilayer Fabric is a powerful, compact, 2-rack-unit (2RU) switch scales from 48 to 96 line-rate 16-Gbps Fibre Channel ports. The Cisco MDS 9396S is excellent for A standalone SAN in large departmental storage environments, A middle-of-row or top-of-rack switch in medium-sized redundant fabrics or an edge switch in enterprise data center core-edge topologies.

The Cisco MDS 9396S empowered by Cisco NX-OS Software and delivers advanced storage networking features and functions with ease of management and compatibility with the entire Cisco MDS 9000 Family portfolio for reliable end-to-end connectivity.

The Cisco MDS 9396T 32-Gbps 96-Port 2-rack unit Fibre Channel Switch provides high-speed Fibre Channel connectivity in the SAN. This switch offers extensive analytics and high capability built into its next-generation Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) platform.

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MDS 9300 Benefits

• Available in a 48-port or 96-port with 2/4/8/10/16-Gbps speed
• VSAN fabric isolation
• Hardware zoning by Access Control Lists (ACLs)
• Fibre Channel Security Protocol (FC-SP) switch-to-switch authentication
• FC-SP host-to-switch authentication
• Role-based access control (RBAC) using RADIUS, TACACS+, or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) functions
• Secure FTP (SFTP)
• Secure Shell Protocol Version 2 (SSHv2)
• Scriptable CLI
• Cisco Prime DCNM web services API

Cisco MDS 9300 License 

All Cisco MDS 9300 devices support hybrid licensing meaning that customer can either use a traditional license, such as PAK, or smart licenses. 

Cisco MDS 9300 Smart License  

In smart licensing, all product instances need to be registered on the Cisco smart software management website. Also, specific licenses have to ordered with a smart account and placed into inventory. Then, by connecting the device to the Internet or a proxy server, the product instances should be activated.  

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