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The Cisco MDS 9250i Multiservice Fabric Switch provides superior flexibility in SAN connectivity by delivering state-of-the-art multiprotocol convergence and distributed fabric services, along with many advanced capabilities. With 50 fixed ports in a compact form factor, the Cisco 9250i brings high performance and scalable storage connectivity for converged LAN and SAN fabrics.

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Scale your SAN to new levels of performance, reliability, and flexibility.

SAN consolidation and convergence with integrated multiprotocol support for Fibre Channel (FC), FC over Ethernet (FCoE), FCIP, iSCSI, and FICONOptimized for performance, power, and space, with 40 line-rate 16-Gbps FC ports and 10 10-Gbps Ethernet portsRemote SAN extension with high-performance FC over IP (FCIP) for remote replication and other disaster-recovery servicesIntelligent fabric services, such as I/O Accelerator (IOA) and Data Mobility Manager (DMM)Flexibility for future growth and capacity expansionHardware-based virtual fabric isolation with virtual SANs (VSANs) and FC routing with Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR)Enterprise-class availability features for departmental SANsIntelligent network services and advanced traffic management capabilitiesIndustry-leading SAN security to support compliance and regulatory requirementsCommon Cisco NX-OS and management platform (Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager) across Cisco MDS and Nexus product families

Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS Software Release 6.2, supporting Cisco MDS 9250i and Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) for SAN

Port speed:

16, 8, 4, and 2 Gbps auto-sensing with 16 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth per Fibre Channel port10 Gbps per FCoE and FCIP port

Buffer credits:

64 per port (shared-mode ports) and up to 256 on an individual port (dedicated-mode ports with optional Cisco MDS 9000 enterprise package license activated)

Ports per chassis:

Up to 50 fixed ports, including 40 16-Gbps Fibre Channel, eight 10-Gbps FCoE, and two 10-Gbps FCIP and iSCSI portsBase configuration with 30 ports; includes 20 16-Gbps Fibre Channel, eight 10-Gbps FCoE, and two 10-Gbps FCIP and iSCSI portsPort activation license to upgrade license remaining 20 16-Gbps Fibre Channel portsSAN extension built inCisco IOA and Cisco DMM activated by separate licensesVirtual SAN (VSAN)IVRPort channel with multipath load balancingFlow-based and zone-based QoSFCIP tape read-and-write acceleration and FCIP compressionFICON over FCIP tape read-and-write acceleration (pipelining)

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