HP Cisco MDS 8/24c HP StorageWorks C-series Fabric Switches for NX-OS 5.0(4b) - Page 2

Table of Contents Release Notes ...1 hp StorageWorks ...1 C-series Fabric Switches ...1 for NX-OS 5.0(4b) ...1 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 ...4 Hardware Components ...4 C-series Support Matrix with NX-OS 5.x 5 c-series Switch and switching module Bandwidth and port group 6 NX-OS 5.0(4b) Naming Convention 7 SAN-OS 3.x to NX-OS 5.x Migration 8 NX-OS 4.x to NX-OS 5.x Migration 9 MDS 9513 Fabric-2 module and 8-Gbps Modules 10 Additional Mounting Requirements 11 Serial Port ...12 Initial Installation Recommendations/Requirements 12 Fabric Manager & Device Manager GUI Setup 14 Cisco MDS 9000 N-Port Virtualization (NPV) Mode 15 Cisco MDS 9000 FlexAttach...15 QLogic HBAs And Mezzanine Cards connected to NPIV-based fibre channel interconnects ..... 16 Cisco MDS 9000 Storage Media Encryption (SME 17 FC and FCIP Write Acceleration Feature Must Not Be Enabled When Implementing Continuous Access Enterprise Virtual Array...18 FCIP Tape Acceleration ...18 Switch Settings for HP Continuous Access Enterprise Virtual Arrays 18 HP Storageworks SN6000C Fabric switch 19 Cisco MDS 8Gb Fabric switch for HP bladesystem c-Class 19 C-series MDS 9134 Fabric Switch 21 C-series MDS 9124 Fabric Switch 22 C-series MDS 9124e Fabric Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem 22 Upgrade from 2Gb Fibre Channel Switching Modules to 4Gb and/or 8Gb Fibre Channel Switching Modules...23 Upgrade from 14/2 Multiprotocol Services Module to 18/4 Multiservice Module 25 HP Specific Known Issues ...26 2 MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Director & Multilayer Fabric Switches Release Notes