Cisco MDS 9718 vs Lenovo ThinkSystem DB730S
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco MDS 9718 is a massive 26U 18-slot director-class SAN switch built for the largest enterprise data centers and private clouds in the world. The ThinkSystem DB730S is Lenovo's highest-port-density Gen 7 Fibre Channel enterprise SAN switch, built on OEM Brocade G730 hardware.
| Cisco MDS 9718 | Lenovo ThinkSystem DB730S | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Lenovo |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Mar 2016 | Aug 2021 |
| Form factor | chassis | 2U rack |
| Chassis form factor | 26U 18-slot modular chassis (2 supervisor slots and 16 payload slots) | — |
| Port capacity | Up to 768 line-rate Fibre Channel ports | — |
| Port speeds | 64Gbps, 32Gbps, 16Gbps, 10GbE/40GbE FCIP | — |
| Switching capacity | Up to 98Tbps aggregate system bandwidth | 8.192 Tb/s aggregate full duplex throughput |
| Supervisors | Dual redundant Supervisor-4 or Supervisor-1 modules | — |
| Power supply | Up to 16x 3000W redundant power supplies | Dual redundant 1100W AC hot-swap power supplies |
| Management | Cisco NDFC and CLI | — |
| Ports | — | Up to 128 ports: 96x 64Gb/s SFP+ ports plus 16x 2x64Gb/s SFP-DD (double density) ports |
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