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Product Overview
The Cisco MDS 9500 Multilayer Director elevates the standard for director-class switches. Providing
industry-leading availability, scalability, security, and management, the Cisco MDS 9500 Series allows
deployment of high-performance SANs with lowest total cost of ownership. Layering a rich set of
intelligent features onto a high-performance, protocol-agnostic switch fabric, the Cisco MDS 9500
Series of Multilayer Directors addresses the stringent requirements of large data-center storage
environments: uncompromisingly high availability, security, scalability, ease of management, and
transparent integration of new technologies.
The Cisco MDS 9500 Series includes the Cisco MDS 9513 Director, the Cisco MDS 9509 Director, and
the Cisco MDS 9506 Director, which all provide the following high availability features:
• Redundant Supervisor-2 modules with associated external crossbar modules for the Cisco MDS
9513 Director.
• Redundant Supervisor-2 modules with associated integrated crossbar modules for the Cisco MDS
9509 and 9506 Directors.
• Redundant Supervisor-1 modules with dual switching fabrics for the Cisco MDS 9509 and 9506
Directors.
• Optional hot-swappable switching or services modules.
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• Switching module port interfaces that support field-replaceable, hot-swappable, form-factor
pluggable X2 transceivers.
• Switching module port interfaces that support field-replaceable, hot-swappable, small form-factor
pluggable (SFP) and Enhanced small form-factor pluggable (SFP+) transceivers.
• Redundant and hot-swappable power supplies and fan modules.
• Power and cooling management and environmental monitoring.
• Nondisruptive code load and activation.
• Redundant and self-monitoring system clocks.
For more information about high availability features, redundant supervisor operation, and how to
configure the Cisco MDS 9500 Series, see the Cisco MDS 9000 Family NX-OS High Availability and
Redundancy Configuration Guide and the Cisco Fabric Manager High Availability and
Redundancy Configuration Guide.
The Cisco MDS 9500 Series supports the following hot-swappable, field-replaceable modules:
• Cisco MDS 16-port Storage Services module (DS-X9316-SSNK9)
• 48-port 8-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module (DS-X9248-96K9)
• 24-port 8-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module (DS-X9224-96K9)
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• 4/44-port 8-Gbps Host-Optimized Fibre Channel switching module (DS-X9248-48K9)
• 48-port 4-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module (DS-X9148)
• 24-port 4-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module (DS-X9124)
• 12-port 4-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module (DS-X9112)
• 4-port 10-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module (DS-X9704)
• 32-port 2-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module (DS-X9032)
• 16-port 2-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module (DS-X9016)
• 18/4-port Multiservice (MSM-18/4) module (DS-X9304-18K9)
• 14/2-port Multiprotocol Services (MPS-14/2) module (DS-X9302-14K9)
• 8-port IP Storage Services (IPS-8) module (DS-X9308-SMIP)
• 4-port IP Storage Services (IPS-4) module (DS-X9304-SMIP)
• Storage Services Module (SSM) (DS-X9032-SSM)
• Advanced Services Module (ASM) (DS-X9032-SMV)
• Caching Services Module (CSM) (DS-X9560-SMC)
Chassis
This chapter includes the following sections:
• Chassis, page 1-2
• Backplane and Clock Modules, page 1-8
• Cisco MDS Fibre Channel Switch for IBM Blade Center, page 1-9
• Power Supplies, page 1-9
• Fan Modules, page 1-16
• Supervisor Modules, page 1-16
• Crossbar Modules, page 1-25
• Cisco MDS 9000 Series Module Compatibility, page 1-27
• Port Index Availability, page 1-28
• Switching Modules, page 1-32
• Services Modules, page 1-41
• Supported Transceivers, page 1-57
This section describes the different chassis offerings in the Cisco MDS 9500 Series:
• Cisco MDS 9513 Director, page 1-3
• Cisco MDS 9509 Director, page 1-6
• Cisco MDS 9506 Director, page 1-7
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Cisco MDS 9513 Director
The Cisco MDS 9513 Director is a 13-slot Fibre Channel switch. The front panel consists of 13
horizontal slots, where slots 1 to 6 and slots 9 to 13 are reserved for switching and services modules only,
and slots 7 and 8 are for Supervisor-2 modules only. A variable speed fan tray, with 15 individual fans,
is located on the front left panel of the chassis.
The Cisco MDS 9513 Director uses a midplane. Modules exist on both sides of the plane. (See
Figure 1-1.) The Cisco MDS 9513 Director supports the following:
• Two Supervisor-2 modules that reside in slots 7 and 8.
• Switching and storage services modules. (See the “Port Index Availability” section on page 1-28 for
possible configurations.)
• One hot-swappable front panel fan tray with redundant individual fans.
• Two power supplies located at the rear of the chassis. The power supplies are redundant by default
and can be configured to be combined if desired.
• Two crossbar modules located at the rear of the chassis.
• One hot-swappable fan module for the crossbar modules located at the rear of the chassis.
• Two hot-swappable clock modules located at the rear of the chassis.
Note The Cisco MDS 9513 Director does not support the Advanced Services Module (ASM) or the Caching
Services Module (CSM).
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Figure 1-1 Cisco MDS 9513 Chassis Front Panel View
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2 Supervisor-2 modules in slots 7 and 8 4 Fan tray
The rear of the chassis supports two vertical, redundant power supplies, two clock modules, two vertical,
redundant, external crossbar modules, and a variable speed fan tray with two individual fans located
above the crossbar modules. (See Figure 1-2.)
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Figure 1-2 Rear Panel 9513 Chassis
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Cisco MDS 9509 Director
The Cisco MDS 9509 Director has a 9-slot chassis as shown in Figure 1-3, and it supports the following:
• Redundant Supervisor-2 modules with associated internal crossbar modules.
• Up to two Supervisor-1 modules that provide a switching fabric, plus a console port, COM1 port,
and a MGMT 10/100 Ethernet port on each module. Slots 5 and 6 are reserved for the supervisor
modules.
• Seven slots for optional modules that can include up to seven switching modules or six IPS modules.
• Two power supplies located in the front of the chassis. The power supplies are redundant by default
and can be configured to be combined if desired.
• One hot-swappable fan module with redundant fans.
Figure 1-3 Cisco MDS 9509 Chassis
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Cisco MDS 9506 Director
The Cisco MDS 9506 Director has a 6-slot chassis as shown in Figure 1-4, and it supports the following:
• Up to two Supervisor-1 modules that provide a switching fabric, with a console port, COM1 port,
and a MGMT 10/100 Ethernet port on each module. Slots 5 and 6 are reserved for the supervisor
modules.
• Four slots for optional modules that can include up to four switching modules or three IPS modules.
• Two power supplies located in the back of the chassis. The power supplies are redundant by default
and can be configured to be combined if desired.
• Two power entry modules (PEMs) in the front of the chassis for easy access to power supply
connectors and switches.
• One hot-swappable fan module with redundant fans.
Figure 1-4 Cisco MDS 9506 Chassis
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3 Fan module 6 Location of power entry modules (PEMs) --
one PEM shown and one filler panel shown.
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Backplane and Clock Modules
The Cisco MDS 9500 Series includes one or more clock modules that are accessible from the back of
the chassis. The Cisco MDS 9513 and 9509 Directors have two field-replaceable clock modules for
redundancy and failover. The Cisco MDS 9506 Director has one field-replaceable clock module. In the
unlikely event of a clock module failure, the Cisco MDS 9500 Series generates an error message and a
switchover from one clock module to the other, causing the system to reset automatically. Cisco
recommends that the failed clock module be replaced during a maintenance window. See the “Removing
and Installing Clock Modules” section on page 2-76 for information on replacing clock modules.
There are two LEDs per clock module. Figure 1-5 shows the upper and lower LEDs.
Figure 1-5 Clock Module LEDs
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Table 1-1 Clock LEDs for the Cisco MDS 9500 Series Directors
LED Status Description
Upper LED Green Clock module is active and in use.
Off Clock module is in standby mode.
Lower LED Green Power supply is on and working properly.
Red Power supply is not in a stable state. If this
indication continues after initial power on, check
that all connections are secure.
Off Normal operation or power supply is turned off.
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Cisco MDS Fibre Channel Switch for IBM Blade Center
The Cisco MDS Fibre Channel Bladeswitch for IBM BladeCenter is designed for IBM BladeCenter
environments. The Cisco MDS Fibre Channel Bladeswitch is based on the Cisco MDS 9000 Family SAN
switching technology, which integrates the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of switches and directors into a
blade-switch architecture. The advanced architecture of the Cisco MDS Fibre Channel Bladeswitch for
IBM BladeCenter, along with 4-Gb technology, provides outstanding performance between
Bladeswitches and the rest of the Fibre Channel infrastructure.
The Cisco MDS Fibre Channel Bladeswitch for IBM BladeCenter provides 4-Gb Fibre Channel
performance to blade-server switching. It also provides network intelligence features such as virtual
SANs (VSANs), quality of service (QoS), and N-port interface virtualization (NPIV). It also offers
nondisruptive software upgrades and on-demand port activation and is the most complete embedded
Fibre Channel switching available for the IBM BladeCenter, BladeCenter-T, and BladeCenter-H
platforms.
The Cisco MDS Fibre Channel Bladeswitch for IBM BladeCenter provides up to 20 nonblocking 1-, 2-,
and 4-Gb Fibre Channel ports that are available in two configurations: 7 internal ports and 3 external
ports, or 14 internal ports and 6 external ports. Each port provides line-rate performance up to 4-Gb
without any performance loss for integrated features such as VSANs, QoS, or Network Address
Translation (NAT). The Cisco MDS Fibre Channel Bladeswitch for IBM BladeCenter supports up to 16
VSANs per blade switch.
Each external port on the Cisco MDS FC Bladeswitch for IBM BladeCenter also provides line-rate
performance up to 4-Gb for Inter-Switch Links (ISLs) or additional device connectivity such as storage
or host bus adapters (HBAs).
The Cisco NX-OS software provides role-based access control (RBAC) for management access of the
Cisco Fibre Channel Bladeswitch for IBM BladeCenter command-line interface (CLI) and Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP). For more information, see the Cisco 9000 Family Command
Reference.
Power Supplies
The Cisco MDS 9500 Series supports dual hot-swappable power supplies, each of which is capable of
supplying sufficient power to the entire chassis should one power supply fail. The power supplies
monitor their output voltage and provide status to the supervisor modules. To prevent the unexpected
shutdown of an optional module, the power management software only allows a module to power up if
adequate power is available.
The power supplies can be configured to be redundant or combined. By default, they are configured as
redundant, so that if one fails, the remaining power supply can still power the entire system. For
information about how to configure the power supplies, see the Cisco MDS 9000 Family NX-OS
Fundamentals Configuration Guide.
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Cisco MDS 9513 Power Supplies
The Cisco MDS 9513 Director supports the 6000-W AC power supply (AC input). (See Figure 1-6.)
Figure 1-6 Cisco MDS 9513 Power Supply
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Table 1-2 describes the LEDs for the Cisco MDS 9513 Director power supplies.
Table 1-2 LEDs for the Cisco MDS 9513 Director Power Supplies
LED Status Description
Input 1 OK Green AC input at greater than 85 V is good and power
supply is functioning normally if two single 110 V
or one single 220 V are connected.
Off Power supply is turned off or power is not
connected.
Input 2 OK Green AC input at greater than 85 V is good and power
supply is functioning normally if two single 110 V
or one single 220 V are connected.
Off Power supply is turned off or power is not
connected.
INPUT 1 = 220VAC Green AC input is good at greater than 168 V and power
supply should function normally.
Off AC input is 163 V or less or power is not
connected.
INPUT 2 = 220VAC Green AC input is good at greater than 168 V and power
supply should function normally.
Off AC input is 163 V or less or power is not
connected.
FAN OK Green Power supply fans are operating properly.
Off Fan is not operating or power supply is off.
OUTPUT FAIL Red Power supply is not in a stable state. If this
indication continues after initial power on, check
that all connections are secure, including the
system fan tray.
Off Normal operation or power supply is turned off.
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Cisco MDS 9509 Power Supplies
The Cisco MDS 9509 Director supports the following types of power supplies:
• 4000-W AC power supply (AC input and DC output)
The 4000-W AC power supply has a permanently attached power cable, and it requires 220-VAC
input. (See Figure 1-7.)
• 3000-W AC power supply (AC input)
The 3000-W AC power supply requires 220 VAC to deliver 3000 W of power. If powered with
110 VAC, it delivers only 1400 W. (See Figure 1-8.)
• 2500-W AC power supply (AC input and DC output)
The 2500-W AC power supply requires 220 VAC to deliver 2500 W of power. If powered with 110
VAC, it delivers only 1300 W. (See Figure 1-9.)
• 2500-W DC power supply (DC input and DC output)
The 2500-W DC power supply requires positive, negative, and ground wires. (See Figure 1-10).
Figure 1-7 4000-W AC Power Supply for the Cisco MDS 9509 Director
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Figure 1-8 3000-W AC Power Supply for the Cisco MDS 9509 Director
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Figure 1-9 2500-W AC Power Supply for the Cisco MDS 9509 Director
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Cisco MDS 9506 Power Supplies
The Cisco MDS 9506 Director supports the following types of power supplies:
• 1900-W AC power supply (AC input and DC output)
• 1900-W DC power supply (DC input and DC output)
Power is supplied to the Cisco MDS 9506 power supplies though PEMs in the front of the chassis. The
AC power requires an AC PEM, and the DC power requires a DC PEM.
The 1900-W AC and DC power supplies are similar in appearance (see Figure 1-11), except for the label
that indicates whether the power supply is AC or DC.
Figure 1-11 Cisco MDS 9506 Power Supply (1900-W AC or DC)
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Table 1-3 describes the power supply LEDs for the Cisco MDS 9509 and 9506 Directors.
Table 1-3 Power Supply LEDs for the Cisco MDS 9509 and 9506 Directors
LED Status Description
Input OK Green AC input is good and power supply is functioning
normally.
Off Power supply is turned off or is not seated
properly in the chassis.
Fan OK Green Power supply fans are operating properly.
Off Fan is not operating or power supply is off.
Output Fail Red Power supply is not in a stable state. If this
indication continues after initial power on, check
that all connections are secure, including the
system fan tray.
Off Normal operation or power supply is turned off.
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Fan Modules
The Cisco MDS 9513 Director has a front panel fan tray with 15 fans with an abrupt stop-to-fan rotation
safety feature after power is disconnected or the fan tray is removed from the midplane. The Cisco MDS
9509 Director has a front panel fan module with nine fans and the Cisco MDS 9506 Director has a front
panel fan module with six fans.
Sensors on the supervisor module monitor the internal air temperature. If the air temperature exceeds a
preset lower-level threshold, the environmental monitor displays warning messages. If the air
temperatures exceeds a preset higher-level threshold, the switch will shut down.
If one or more fans within the module fail, the Fan Status LED turns red and the module must be
replaced. If the higher-level temperature threshold is not exceeded, the switch continues to run for five
minutes after the fan module is removed. This allows you to swap out a fan module without having to
bring the system down. For information on how to replace a fan module, see the “Removing and
Installing Fan Modules” section on page 2-68.
The fan module has one status LED that indicates the following conditions:
• Green—Fan module is operating normally.
• Red—One or more fans failed. Fan module should be replaced.
• Off—Fan module is not properly seated in the chassis or power supply has failed.
Caution The Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches have internal temperature sensors that are capable of shutting
down the system if the temperature at different points within the chassis exceed certain safety thresholds.
To be effective, the temperature sensors require the presence of airflow; therefore, in the event a fan
module is removed from the chassis, the Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches will be shut down after five
minutes to prevent potentially undetectable overheating. However, the switches will shut down sooner if
the higher-level temperature threshold is exceeded.
The Cisco MDS 9513 Director also has crossbar module fan trays located at the back of the chassis.
There is one fan per crossbar module. There is one LED that provides operational status. Figure 1-2
shows the fan status LED on the Cisco MDS 9513 Director. To replace these fan modules, see the
“Removing and Installing Fan Modules” section on page 2-68.
Supervisor Modules
The Cisco MDS 9500 Series supports two types of supervisor modules: Supervisor-1 and Supervisor-2
modules. Both the supervisor modules provide the control and management functions for the Cisco MDS
9500 Series. The Cisco MDS 9500 Series supports two supervisor modules for redundancy. In the event
of an internal component failure, the standby supervisor module takes over, if installed. This section
discusses the following modules:
• Supervisor-2 Modules, page 1-17 (DS-X9530-SF2-K9)
• Supervisor-1 Modules, page 1-21 (DS-X9530-SF1-K9)
Note The internal bootflash installed on the modules are not field-replaceable units. Do not remove or replace
internal bootflash on the modules. Modifying the factory installed bootflash is not supported.
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Supervisor-2 Modules
The Cisco MDS 9500 Series offers redundant, hot-swappable, Supervisor-2 modules. (See Figure 1-12.)
Supervisor-2 modules can be used in the Cisco MDS 9509 and 9506 Directors in slots 5 and 6.
Supervisor-2 modules must be used in slots 7 and 8 of the Cisco MDS 9513 Director.
Supervisor-2 modules provide an integrated crossbar switching fabric to connect all the switching
modules when used in a Cisco MDS 9509 or 9506 Director. Single fabric configurations provide
720-Gbps full duplex speed with 80-Gbps full duplex bandwidth per switching module. Dual fabric
configurations provide 1.4-Tbps speed with 160-Gbps full duplex bandwidth per switching module. This
integrated crossbar switching fabric is disabled when a Supervisor-2 module is installed in a Cisco MDS
9513 Director. The Cisco MDS 9513 Director supports two external crossbar modules located at the rear
of the chassis that handle this function. (For more information, see the “Crossbar Modules” section on
page 1-25.)
Figure 1-12 Cisco MDS 9500 Series Supervisor-2 Module
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2 Reset button 7 CompactFlash eject button
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4 MGMT 10/100/1000 Ethernet port
9 USB ports
(with integrated Link and Activity
LEDs)
5 COM1 serial port
1. See Table 1-4 on page 1-20 for status LED descriptions.
The main functions and components of the Supervisor-2 modules are as follows:
• Control and Management
• Processor
• Port Interfaces
• LEDs on the Supervisor-2 Module
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Control and Management
The Supervisor-2 modules provide the following control and management features:
• A redundant central arbiter that provides traffic control and access fairness.
• A nondisruptive restart of a single failing process on the same supervisor.
A service running on the Supervisor-2 module keeps track of the high availability policy of each
process and issues a restart when a process fails. The type of restart issued is based on the process’s
capability:
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Warm or stateful (state is preserved)
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Cold or stateless (state is not preserved)
• A nondisruptive switchover from the active Supervisor-2 to a redundant standby without loss of
traffic.
If the Supervisor-2 module has to be restarted, then the secondary Supervisor-2 (which is
continuously monitoring the primary) takes over. Once a switchover has occurred and the failed
Supervisor-2 has been replaced or restarted, operation does not switch back to the original primary
Supervisor-2, unless it is forced to switch back or another failure occurs.
Processor
Port Interfaces
The Supervisor-2 module has a processor running at 1.4 GHz. It contains a PowerPC class processor and
offers the following memory specifications:
Memory Bytes
DRAM 1 GB
1 internal CompactFlash card
1 external CompactFlash slot
1. The card stores software images.
2. The slot is for optional cards to store additional images, and for configuration, debugging, and
syslog information.
3. NA = not applicable.
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512 MB
3
NA
The Supervisor-2 module provides the following port interfaces:
• RS-232 (EIA/TIA-232) console port with an RJ-45 connection that you can use to:
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Configure the Cisco MDS 9500 Series from the CLI
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Monitor network statistics and errors
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Configure SNMP agent parameters
• RS-232 COM1 port with a DB-9 connector, which can be attached to a modem.
• Front panel triple speed (10/100/1000) management port with CTS function. This port is used as an
out-of-band management port. There are two LEDs associated with it. The Link LED on the left side
indicates the link status and the Activity LED on the right side blinks when there is traffic going
through this port.
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