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Cisco MDS 9500 Series Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Product Overview
Services Modules
IP Storage Services Modules
The 4-port and 8-port IP Storage services (IPS-4 and IPS-8) modules provide four or eight 1-Gigabit
Ethernet ports for iSCSI as well as FCIP over Gigabit Ethernet, and they support the intelligent features
available on other modules, including VSANs, security, and traffic management.
The IPS module ports can be configured to support the iSCSI protocol, the FCIP protocol, or both
protocols simultaneously. For information about configuring the ports, see the Cisco
MDS 9000 Family
CLI Configuration Guide or the Cisco MDS Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide.
The Fibre Channel port interfaces support hot-swappable Gigabit Ethernet SFP transceivers, which can
be short wavelength (SWL) for connectivity up to 1640 feet (500 meters), or long wavelength (LWL) for
connectivity up to 6.2 miles (10 km). The port interfaces also support coarse wavelength-division
multiplexing (CWDM) SFP transceivers, which can be used for extended long wavelength (ELWL)
transmission or for CWDM. See the
“Supported Transceivers” section on page 1-55.
Figure 1-29 shows an IPS-8 services module.
Figure 1-29 Cisco MDS 9000 Family IPS-8 Services Module
Link Solid
green
Link is up.
Flashing
green
Link is up (beacon used to identify port).
Solid
yellow
Link is disabled by software.
Flashing
yellow
A fault condition exists.
Off No link.
Table 1-16 LEDs for the Cisco MDS 9000 Family MPS-14/2 Modules (continued)
LED Status Description
1 Status LED 3 Link LEDs
2 Gigabit Ethernet ports 4 Asset tag
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2
1
4
3