DS-X9304-18K9 Cisco MDS 9000 18/4-Port Multiservice Module

This multiservice module combines 18 fixed autosensing 1-, 2- and 4-Gbps Fibre Channel ports with 4 fixed 1-Gbps Ethernet ports for FCIP and iSCSI. It fits the MDS 9200 Series Multilayer Switches and the MDS 9500 Series Multilayer Directors, takes one chassis slot, and requires SAN-OS 3.2(1) or NX-OS 4.1(1c) or later.

Buffer credits are 16 per port in shared mode and up to 250 per port in dedicated mode, with up to 4095 per port in dedicated mode when the Enterprise Package license is installed. Software features include FCIP with hardware compression, IPsec encryption and write and tape acceleration, FICON with CUP and XRC acceleration, iSCSI, VSANs, Inter-VSAN Routing and PortChannels of up to 16 links, with up to 3 FCIP tunnels per port. Storage Media Encryption, Data Mobility Manager, I/O Accelerator and SANTap are also supported.

The module and its SFP optics are hot-swappable. Supported optics are the 4G shortwave and 4 km longwave Fibre Channel SFPs, a 10 km 4G longwave option, Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel combination SFPs in shortwave and longwave forms, and a copper Gigabit Ethernet SFP on the IP services ports only.

It weighs 7.75 lb (3.5 kg) and measures 1.75 x 14.4 x 16 in (3.0 x 35.6 x 40.6 cm). Operating conditions are 0 to 40 C, 10 to 90 percent noncondensing humidity, and altitude from -60 to 2000 m. The spare is ordered as DS-X9304-18K9=.

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