Cisco MDS 9132T - Switch - Managed - 8 x 32Gb Fibre Channel SFP+ - rack-mountable

The Cisco MDS 9132T switch provides high-speed connectivity from the server rack to the SAN core. It empowers small, midsize, and large enterprises that are rapidly deploying cloud-scale applications using extremely dense virtualized servers, providing the dual benefits of greater bandwidth and consolidation. Small-scale SAN architectures can be built from the foundation using this low-cost, low-power, non-blocking, line-rate, and low-latency, bi-directional airflow capable, fixed standalone SAN switch connecting both storage and host ports. Medium-size to large-scale SAN architectures built with SAN core directors can expand high-speed connectivity to the server rack using these switches either in switch mode.

• High performance
• High availability
• Sophisticated diagnostics
• Virtual machine awareness

• High performance
  MDS 9132T architecture, with chip-integrated non-blocking arbitration, provides consistent low-latency performance across all traffic conditions.
• High availability
  MDS 9132T switches provide outstanding availability and reliability by providing optional redundancy on all major components such as the power supply and fan. Dual power supplies also facilitate redundant power grids.
• Sophisticated diagnostics
  The MDS 9132T provides intelligent diagnostics tools, read diagnostic parameters, protocol decoding, network analysis tools, and reduced service costs.
• Virtual machine awareness
  The MDS 9132T provides visibility into all virtual machines logged into the fabric. Virtual machine awareness can be extended to intelligent fabric services such as analytics to visualize performance of every flow originating from each virtual machine in the fabric.

The Cisco MDS 9132T switch provides high-speed connectivity from the server rack to the SAN core. It empowers small, midsize, and large enterprises that are rapidly deploying cloud-scale applications using extremely dense virtualized servers, providing the dual benefits of greater bandwidth and consolidation. Small-scale SAN architectures can be built from the foundation using this low-cost, low-power, non-blocking, line-rate, and low-latency, bi-directional airflow capable, fixed standalone SAN switch connecting both storage and host ports. Medium-size to large-scale SAN architectures built with SAN core directors can expand high-speed connectivity to the server rack using these switches either in switch mode.