DS-C9148V-48PIVK9

Description

Product overview

1. High-speed Fibre Channel connectivity: The switch offers high-speed connectivity for all-flash arrays and high-performance hosts, enabling fast data transfers and improved application performance.

2. Analytics and telemetry capabilities: The switch incorporates advanced analytics and telemetry capabilities, leveraging its next-generation ASIC chipset. This allows for enhanced monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization of the storage network.

3. Seamless transition to Fibre Channel NVMe workloads: The switch supports Fibre Channel Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe/FC) workloads without requiring any hardware upgrades in the SAN. This provides flexibility and future-proofing for evolving storage technologies.

4. Benefits for small-scale SANs: For small-scale SAN deployments, the switch offers features such as automatic zoning, nonblocking forwarding, and smaller port groups of 24 ports. These features simplify configuration and enhance performance in smaller environments.

5. Benefits for mid- to large-scale SANs: For mid- to large-scale SANs, the switch provides higher scale for Fibre Channel control-plane functions, Virtual SANs, fabric login, device alias, and name server scale. It also offers 48 ports of 64-Gbps non-oversubscribed line-rate ports, bidirectional airflow, and enhanced Buffer-to-Buffer (B2B) credits. Additionally, it is capable of hardware-assisted Fibre Channel link encryption.

6. Expansion capabilities: The switch can be used in large-scale SAN architectures alongside SAN core directors. It enables the expansion of 64-Gbps connectivity to the server rack, supporting both switch mode and Network Port Virtualization (NPV) mode.

7. Enhanced diagnostic and reliability features: The switch includes advanced diagnostic features such as Inter-Switch Link (ISL) and Host-Bus-Adapter (HBA) diagnostics, remote SFP diagnostics, remote port beaconing, and link level Forward Error Correction (FEC) with HBA ports. These features contribute to improved reliability and troubleshooting capabilities.

Overall, the Cisco MDS 9148V 64-Gbps 48-Port Fibre Channel Switch offers high-speed connectivity, advanced analytics, and seamless support for NVMe workloads. It is suitable for small, midsize, and large-scale SAN deployments, providing scalability, reliability, and enhanced diagnostic capabilities.

Main features and benefits

1. High performance: The MDS 9148V offers consistent 64-Gbps low-latency performance across all traffic conditions, providing high-speed connectivity for all-flash arrays and high-performance hosts.

2. Fully integrated SAN Analytics: The switch includes state-of-the-art data traffic analytics and telemetry capabilities, leveraging a next-generation ASIC chipset and a dedicated Network Processing Unit (NPU). This allows for real-time performance data calculation and streaming to analytics platforms.

3. Cisco Dynamic Ingress Rate Limiting (DIRL): DIRL detects and dynamically rate limits congested and slow-drain devices, preventing adverse effects from spreading to other devices and adapting to traffic profiles.

4. CapEx savings: The switch supports backward compatibility with existing 32- or 16-Gbps transceivers, providing investment protection while offering the option to upgrade to 64-Gbps transceivers when needed.

5. High availability and reliability: The MDS 9148V is designed for 99.999% availability, featuring redundancy in major components, such as power supplies and cooling subsystems. It also includes reliability features like FEC, Buffer-to-Buffer State Change Notification (BBSCN), and buffer-to-buffer credit recovery.

6. Next-generation ASIC: The switch is powered by Cisco’s next-generation high-performance 64G ASICs, delivering advanced functionality and performance.

7. Enhanced scalability: The switch offers increased fabric scalability, providing flexibility for a variety of SAN architectures.

8. Telemetry: The switch allows for inspection and export of Fibre Channel and SCSI or NVMe headers for analysis without external taps or appliances.

9. Intelligent services: Features such as auto-zoning, Smart Zoning, slow-drain detection and isolation, Virtual SAN (VSAN), and Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR) enable efficient SAN consolidation, migration, and management. Traffic encryption is available for enhanced security.

10. Sophisticated diagnostics: The switch provides intelligent diagnostics tools for enhanced reliability and faster problem resolution, including ISL diagnostics, HBA diagnostics, remote SFP-error collection, Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN), and more.

11. Virtual-machine awareness: The MDS 9148V offers visibility into virtual machines accessing storage LUNs or namespaces, enabling performance monitoring and analytics at the virtual machine level.

12. Programmable fabric: The switch supports Cisco NX-API and specific modules for Ansible and Python, enabling flexible and rapid programming of SAN utilities.

13. Secure-boot and anti-counterfeiting technology: The switch includes onboard hardware to protect against malicious attacks and unauthorized access.

Additionally, the Cisco MDS 9148V provides benefits for SAN architecture, such as server port consolidation, simplification of management, multiprotocol convergence, scale and performance, and support for VSAN and IVR.

The comprehensive solution for robust network security includes features such as Smart Zoning, intelligent packet inspection, port security, FC-SP ESP payload encryption, authentication mechanisms, and digital certificates.

Ease of management is facilitated through the Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI and integration with third-party storage management tools. The switch also supports Cisco Smart Licensing for simplified license management.

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