- Enables storage consolidation, simplified management of SAN environment
- Integrates fiber channel, iSCSI, and FCIP in one system
- Supports throughput up to 160 Gb in a single PortChannel ""ISL Trunk""
- Offers 12 to 528 fiber channel ports
- IPsec for data in transit over IP networks
- Storage media encryption of data at rest on tape - FIPS 140-2, level 2 certifications.
- Embedded fabric manager
- Integration with HPE OpenView and HPE storage essentials
- Integration with CiscoWorks Resource Manager Essentials (RME)
- Fabric-based storage virtualization
- Network assisted back-up
- Data replication
- 2.4 terabit/sec total internal system throughput
- 10 Gb fiber channel
- Port channels up to 160 Gb for Inter-switch Links (ISLs)
- Supports data compression
- Data replication
- Network-assisted back-up IP and FC network acceleration Virtual SANs
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- Management security
- Embedded diagnostics
- Hardware-based intelligent frame processing
- VSAN-based access control
- Role based access control within VSANs
- Hardware-enforced zoning
- Fibre Channel Congestion Control (FCC)
- Fabric-wide QoS
- Egress-based CoS enables granular control of bandwidth allocation
- CoS-based buffer credit allocation fiber channel write acceleration
Cisco MDS 9513 director switch supports from 12 to 528 auto-sensing 1/2/4-Gb auto-sensing fiber channel ports, from 2 to 58 1-Gb Ethernet ports (user configurable for iSCSI or FCIP) and up to 10, 10-Gb fiber channel modules in a single chassis and up to 1,584 fiber channel ports in a single rack.