Cisco MDS 9250i vs Lenovo ThinkSystem DB620S
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco MDS 9250i was a 2U multiservice fabric switch designed for long-distance SAN extension, backup over IP, and high-performance FCIP routing. The ThinkSystem DB620S is Lenovo's midrange 1U Gen 6 Fibre Channel SAN switch, built on OEM Brocade G620 hardware and running Brocade Fabric OS.
| Cisco MDS 9250i | Lenovo ThinkSystem DB620S | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Lenovo |
| Status | end-of-sale | current |
| Released | May 2013 | May 2017 |
| Form factor | 2U rack | 1U rack |
| Port count | 40x 16Gbps FC ports, 2x 10GbE FCIP ports, and 8x 10GbE FCoE ports | — |
| Port speeds | 16Gbps, 8Gbps, 4Gbps FC, and 10Gbps Ethernet | — |
| Protocols | Fibre Channel, FCIP, FCoE, and Mainframe FICON | — |
| Hardware acceleration | Hardware compression, encryption, and FCIP tape acceleration | — |
| Power supply | Dual redundant hot-swap power supplies | Dual redundant hot-swap AC power supplies (front-to-back or back-to-front airflow) |
| Management | Cisco DCNM and CLI | — |
| Ports | — | 48x 32Gb/s SFP+ Fibre Channel ports + 4x 128Gb/s QSFP28 ports (expandable from 24 to 64 ports via PoD) |
| Switching capacity | — | 2.048 Tbps aggregate full duplex throughput |
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