DS-C9220I-12PIK9

Description

The Cisco MDS 9220i Multiservice Fabric Switch offers a range of features and benefits:

1. High-performance connectivity: The switch provides up to twelve 32-Gbps Fibre Channel ports, enabling high-speed connectivity for storage networks. It also includes four 1/10-, two 25-, and one 40-Gigabit Ethernet IP storage services ports, offering versatile multiprotocol connectivity.

2. SAN extension capabilities: The Cisco MDS 9220i supports the Cisco SAN Extension over IP application package license, which is enabled as standard on the fixed 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet IP storage services ports. This allows for Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) and compression features without the need for additional licenses, enabling efficient SAN extension solutions.

3. Distributed intelligent fabric services: The switch is designed to support distributed intelligent fabric services, providing advanced capabilities such as virtual SAN (VSAN) technology, Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR), quality of service (QoS), port channels, and more. These services enhance the flexibility and efficiency of the fabric.

4. Multiprotocol connectivity: The Cisco MDS 9220i offers multiprotocol connectivity for both open systems and mainframe environments. It supports Fibre Channel, FICON, and IP storage protocols, allowing for seamless integration and connectivity across different storage environments.

5. Compact form factor: With its fixed One-Rack-Unit (1RU) form factor, the switch is compact and space-efficient. This makes it suitable for departmental and remote branch-office SANs, as well as large-scale SAN deployments when used in conjunction with Cisco MDS 9700 Series Multilayer Directors.

6. Investment protection: The switch is designed to connect to existing native Fibre Channel networks, ensuring compatibility and protecting investments in storage networks. This allows for seamless integration with current infrastructure without the need for extensive reconfiguration or upgrades.

7. Advanced fabric services: The Cisco MDS 9220i supports a range of advanced fabric services, including security features such as role-based access control (RBAC) and port security, as well as diagnostic tools like Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) and Call Home. These services enhance the overall functionality, security, and management of the fabric.

The Cisco MDS 9220i Multiservice Fabric Switch is a high-performance, versatile, and compact solution for SAN extension, distributed fabric services, and multiprotocol connectivity. Its advanced capabilities, investment protection, and compact form factor make it suitable for a wide range of SAN deployments.

The Cisco MDS 9220i Multiservice Fabric Switch offers a wide range of features and benefits, including:

1. SAN consolidation with integrated multiprotocol support: The switch supports both Fibre Channel and Ethernet protocols, allowing for the consolidation of SAN environments and providing flexibility for different storage connectivity requirements.

2. High port density in a compact form factor: The switch offers up to twelve 32-Gbps Fibre Channel ports and multiple Ethernet storage services ports, all in a fixed 1RU form factor. This high port density allows for efficient connectivity in a small space.

3. Flexible FCIP port speed: The switch provides flexible connectivity options, including 1/10-, 25-, and 40-Gigabit Ethernet ports, enabling seamless integration with different data center switches, routers, or DWDM systems.

4. IBM Fibre Connection (FICON) support: The switch is designed to scale up for IBM FICON mainframe environments, allowing for the integration of mainframe and open-systems environments in a single fabric.

5. Intelligent application services engine: The switch includes a built-in application-services engine that enables the Cisco SAN Extension over IP software solution package. This package provides integrated, cost-effective, and reliable business-continuance solutions, including FCIP for remote SAN extension and advanced features for optimizing performance and manageability.

6. Advanced fabric services: The switch supports hardware-based virtual fabric isolation with Virtual SANs (VSANs) and Fibre Channel routing with Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR). These features enable large-scale multisite and heterogeneous SAN topologies without the need for external routing appliances.

7. Remote SAN extension with high-performance FCIP: The switch simplifies data protection and disaster recovery strategies by enabling backup, remote replication, and other services over WAN distances using FCIP tunneling. It also optimizes WAN resource utilization through hardware-based compression, encryption, and acceleration features.

8. Advanced FICON services: The switch provides comprehensive FICON support, including cascaded FICON fabrics, VSAN-enabled intermixing of mainframe and open-systems environments, N-Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) for mainframe Linux partitions, and FICON tape acceleration for reduced latency effects.

9. Platform for intelligent fabric applications: The switch serves as a platform for hosting or accelerating applications for data migration, storage backup, and data replication. Hosting these applications in the network improves scalability, availability, security, and manageability, leading to lower TCO.

10. Comprehensive network security framework: The switch includes various security features such as access control lists (ACLs), per-VSAN Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), hardware-enforced zoning, IPsec authentication, and data encryption for FCIP.

11. High availability: The switch is designed to provide 99.999% availability through redundancy on major components like power supplies and cooling subsystems, ensuring continuous operation and minimizing downtime.

12. Sophisticated diagnostics: The switch offers intelligent diagnostics, protocol decoding, and network-analysis tools, as well as integrated Cisco Smart Call Home capability, which enhances reliability, speeds up problem resolution, and reduces service costs.

The Cisco MDS 9220i Multiservice Fabric Switch is a high-performance and highly versatile solution that provides advanced capabilities for SAN consolidation, multiprotocol support, remote SAN extension, FICON environments, and intelligent fabric applications. It offers a compact form factor, high availability, and comprehensive security features, making it suitable for a wide range of storage networking environments.

The Cisco MDS 9220i Multiservice Fabric Switch offers a range of features and benefits related to VSANs, IVR, FCIP for remote SAN extension, advanced traffic management, comprehensive network security, advanced diagnostics and troubleshooting tools, ease of management, and optional advanced software packages:

1. VSAN (Virtual SAN): VSANs allow for efficient and secure SAN consolidation by creating hardware-based isolated environments within a single physical fabric or switch. Each VSAN maintains its own fabric services and zoning, enabling better resource utilization, traffic segregation, and independent configuration control.

2. IVR (Inter-VSAN Routing): IVR is a Fibre Channel routing function that allows for selective transfer of data between specific initiators and targets on different VSANs while maintaining control plane isolation. IVR simplifies the deployment and optimization of large-scale fabrics, increases routing scalability, delivers line-rate performance, and reduces total cost of ownership (TCO).

3. FCIP (Fibre Channel over IP) for remote SAN extension: FCIP enables the interconnection of SAN islands over extended distances by using IP networks. The Cisco MDS 9220i supports FCIP for efficient data distribution, data protection, and business continuity services. It offers hardware-based compression, encryption, and high-performance capabilities to optimize WAN resource utilization and ensure secure transmission of sensitive data.

4. Advanced traffic management: The switch includes various advanced traffic management capabilities, such as Virtual Output Queue (VOQ) to ensure line-rate performance, PortChannels to aggregate multiple ISLs for optimized bandwidth utilization, and Fabric Shortest Path First (FSPF)-based multipathing for load balancing and dynamic traffic rerouting.

5. Comprehensive network security: The switch incorporates an extensive security framework, including features like smart zoning, intelligent packet inspection, switch-to-switch and host-to-switch authentication, FC-SP (Fibre Channel Security Protocol), IPsec protocol suite, digital certificates, and fabric binding. These security features help protect sensitive data, authenticate devices, control access, and provide secure transmission over FCIP.

6. Advanced diagnostics and troubleshooting tools: The switch offers proactive diagnostics, tools for connectivity verification and latency analysis, and mechanisms for capturing and analyzing traffic. Features like Power-on Self-Test (POST), Online Health Monitoring System (OHMS), Fibre Channel traceroute, Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN), and Cisco Fabric Analyzer help with network analysis, performance monitoring, and problem resolution.

7. Ease of management: The switch supports three principal modes of management: Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI (Command-Line Interface), Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) SAN for converged SAN and LAN management, and integration with third-party storage management tools. These management options provide flexibility and ease of use for administrators in enterprise environments.

8. Optional advanced software packages: The switch can be further enhanced with optional licensed software packages, including the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Enterprise Package for traffic engineering and advanced security features, Cisco DCNM SAN Advanced License for advanced management capabilities, and the Cisco MDS 9000 Mainframe Package for mainframe storage network support.

Overall, the Cisco MDS 9220i offers a robust and comprehensive solution for SAN consolidation, routing, remote SAN extension, traffic management, network security, diagnostics, management, and optional advanced software functionality. It is designed to meet the needs of enterprise storage networks with scalability, performance, and reliability.

Advanced optional software packages

Ordering information

 

Part #	Accessories Description
DS-9220I-KIT-CSCO(=)	MDS 9220 Accessory Kit for Cisco (Spare)
DS-9220I-KIT-EM(=)	MDS 9220 Accessory Kit for DellEMC (Spare)
DS-9220I-KIT-HDS(=)	MDS 9220 Accessory Kit for HDS (Spare)
DS-9220I-KIT-HPE(=)	MDS 9220 Accessory Kit for HPE (Spare)
DS-9220I-KIT-IBM(=)	MDS 9220 Accessory Kit for IBM (Spare)
DS-C32S-FAN-E=	MDS 9132 FAN module, port-side exhaust (works with 9220I switch), (Spare)
DS-C32S-FAN-I=	MDS 32G Switch FAN module, port-side intake (works with 9220I switch), (Spare)
DS-CAC-500W-E=	MDS 9100 500W port-side exhaust PSU (works with 9220I switch), (Spare)
DS-CAC-500W-I=	MDS 9100 500W AC PSU port-side intake (works with 9220I switch), (Spare)
DS-CAC-1200W=	1200W AC Power Supply (bi-directional), spare

 

Part #	Optional Licenses
M9200ENT1K9(=)	Cisco MDS 9200 Series Enterprise Package (Spare)
DCNM-SAN-M92-K9(=)	Cisco Data Center Network Manager (Server Based) (Spare)
DCNM-S-M92XK9(=)	Cisco Data Center Network Manager (Switch Based) (Spare)

 

Part #	Optics Description
DS-SFP-FC32G-SW(=)	32 Gbps Fibre Channel SW SFP+, LC (Spare)
DS-SFP-FC32G-LW(=)	32 Gbps Fibre Channel LW SFP+, LC (Spare)
DS-SFP-FC32G-ELW(=)	32 Gbps Fibre Channel Extended LW SFP+, LC (Spare)
DS-SFP-FC16G-SW(=)	16 Gbps Fibre Channel SW SFP+, LC (Spare)
DS-SFP-FC16G-LW(=)	16 Gbps Fibre Channel LW SFP+, LC (Spare)
DS-SFP-FC16GELW(=)	16 Gbps Fibre Channel Extended LW SFP+, LC (Spare)
DS-SFP-FC8G-SW(=)	8 Gbps Fibre Channel SW SFP+, LC (Spare)
DS-SFP-FC8G-LW(=)	8 Gbps Fibre Channel LW SFP+, LC (Spare)
DS-SFP-FC8G-ER(=)	8 Gbps Fibre Channel Extended Reach SFP+, LC (Spare)
GLC-SX-MMD(=)	1000BASE-SX SFP transceiver module, MMF, 850nm, DOM (Spare)
GLC-LH-SMD(=)	1000BASE-LX/LH SFP transceiver module, MMF/SMF, 1310nm, DOM (Spare)
DS-SFP-GE-T(=)	Gigabit Ethernet Copper SFP, RJ-45 (Spare)
SFP-10G-SR(=)	10GBASE-SR SFP Module (Spare)
SFP-10G-LR(=)	10GBASE-LR SFP Module (Spare)
DS-SFP-10GE-LR(=)	10 Gbps Ethernet LR SFP, LC (Spare)
SFP-25G-SR-S(=)	25GBASE-SR SFP Module (Spare)
SFP-10/25G-CSR-S(=)	Dual rate 10/25GBASE-CSR SFP Module (Spare)
SFP-10/25G-LR-S(=)	10/25GBASE-LR SFP28 Module (Spare)
QSFP-40G-SR4	40GBASE-SR4 QSFP Transceiver Module with MPO Connector
QSFP-40G-CSR4(=)	QSFP 4x10GBASE-SR transceiver module, MPO, 300M (Spare)
QSFP-40G-LR4-S(=)	QSFP 40GBASE-LR4 Trnscvr Mod, LC, 10km, Enterprise-Class (Spare)
QSFP-40G-LR4-S=	QSFP 40GBASE-LR4 Trnscvr Mod, LC, 10km, Enterprise-Class
QSFP-40/100-SRBD(=)	100G and 40GBASE SR-BiDi QSFP transceiver, LC, 100m OM4 MMF (Spare)