HP Cisco MDS 8/12c HP C-series Fabric Switches for NX-OS 5.0(4d) Release Notes - Page 2

Table of Contents Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS Release Notes 3 rebranding of SAN-OS to NX-OS 3 NX-OS Images and management Software Updates 4 FICON Support ...6 Hardware Components ...6 C-series Support Matrix with NX-OS 5.x 7 c-series Switch and switching module Bandwidth and port group 8 NX-OS 5.0(4D) Naming Convention 9 SAN-OS 3.x to NX-OS 5.x Migration 10 NX-OS 4.x to NX-OS 5.x Migration 11 MDS 9513 Fabric-2 module and 8-Gbps Modules 12 Additional Mounting Requirements 13 Serial Port ...14 Initial Installation Recommendations/Requirements 14 Fabric Manager & Device Manager GUI Setup 16 Cisco MDS 9000 N-Port Virtualization (NPV) Mode 17 Cisco MDS 9000 FlexAttach...17 QLogic HBAs And Mezzanine Cards connected to NPIV-based fibre channel interconnects ..... 18 Cisco MDS 9000 Storage Media Encryption (SME 19 FC and FCIP Write Acceleration Feature Must Not Be Enabled When Implementing Continuous Access Enterprise Virtual Array...20 FCIP Tape Acceleration ...20 Switch Settings for HP Continuous Access Enterprise Virtual Arrays 20 HP Storageworks SN6000C Fabric switch 21 Cisco MDS 8Gb Fabric switch for HP bladesystem c-Class 21 C-series MDS 9134 Fabric Switch 23 C-series MDS 9124 Fabric Switch 24 C-series MDS 9124e Fabric Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem 24 Upgrade from 2Gb Fibre Channel Switching Modules to 4Gb and/or 8Gb Fibre Channel Switching Modules...25 Upgrade from 14/2 Multiprotocol Services Module to 18/4 Multiservice Module 27 HP Specific Known Issues ...28 2 MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Director & Multilayer Fabric Switches Release Notes