Cisco MDS 9706 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem DB720S
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco MDS 9706 is a 9U 6-slot director-class Fibre Channel switch designed for enterprise SAN backbones. The ThinkSystem DB720S is Lenovo's high-density 1U Gen 7 Fibre Channel SAN switch, based on OEM Brocade G720 architecture running Fabric OS 9.x.
| Cisco MDS 9706 | Lenovo ThinkSystem DB720S | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Lenovo |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Apr 2014 | Mar 2021 |
| Form factor | chassis | 1U rack |
| Chassis form factor | 9U 6-slot modular chassis (2 supervisor slots and 4 payload switching slots) | — |
| Port capacity | Up to 192 ports (up to 48 ports per switching line card) | — |
| Port speeds | 64Gbps, 32Gbps, 16Gbps, and 10GbE/40GbE FCIP options | — |
| Switching capacity | Up to 24.5Tbps system switching capacity | 3.584 Tbps aggregate full duplex throughput |
| Supervisors | Dual redundant Cisco MDS 9700 Supervisor-4 or Supervisor-1 modules | — |
| Power supply | Up to 4x redundant hot-swap power supplies | Dual redundant hot-swap AC power supplies (port-side exhaust or port-side intake) |
| Management | Cisco Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) | — |
| Ports | — | 56x 64Gb/s SFP+ Fibre Channel ports (expandable from 24 to 56 ports in 8-port PoD increments) |
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