Network Device Installation Guide

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Cisco MDS 9500 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Product Overview
Chassis
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).