CCNA Data Center DCICT 640-916 Official Cert Guide

Where Do I Start?

The Cisco MDS 9000 family of storage networking products supports 1-, 2-, 4-, 8-, 16-, 10-Gbps Fibre Channel, 10-Gbps Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), 1- and 10-Gbps Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) on Gigabit Ethernet ports. The MDS multilayer directors have dual supervisor modules, and each of the supervisor modules have one management and one console port. The MDS multiservice and multilayer switches have one management and one console port as well. In Chapter 7 we described all the details about the MDS 9000 product family; if needed, you may want to quickly review the chapter.

Before starting any configuration, the equipment should be installed and mounted onto the racks. For each MDS product family switch there is a specific ...