HP Cisco MDS 8/24c Cisco MDS 9000 Family Release Notes for Cisco MDS NX-OS Rel - Page 2

Introduction Send documentation comments to [email protected] Introduction The Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Directors and Fabric Switches provides industry-leading availability, scalability, security, and management, allowing you to deploy high performance storage-area networks with lowest total cost of ownership. Layering a rich set of intelligent features onto a high performance, protocol agnostic switch fabric, the Cisco MDS 9000 Family addresses the stringent requirements of large data center storage environments: uncompromising high availability, security, scalability, ease of management, and seamless integration of new technologies. Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS Software powers the award winning Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches. It is designed to create a strategic SAN platform with superior reliability, performance, scalability, and features. Formerly known as Cisco SAN-OS, Cisco MDS 9000 NX Software is fully interoperable with earlier Cisco SAN-OS versions and enhances hardware platform and module support. Components Supported Table 1 lists the NX-OS software part numbers and hardware components supported by the Cisco MDS 9000 Family. Note For the latest information about supported transceivers, see the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Pluggable Transceivers data sheet. Table 1 Cisco MDS 9000 Family Supported Software and Hardware Components Component Part Number Software M95S2K9-5.2.1 M92S2K9-5.2.1 M91S3K9-5.2.1 Licenses M9500SSE184K9 M9222ISSE1K9 M9200SSE184K9 M95DMM184K9 M9222IDMMK9 M92DMM184K9 Description MDS 9500 Supervisor/Fabric-2, NX-OS software MDS 9200 Supervisor/Fabric-2, NX-OS software MDS 9148 Supervisor/Fabric-3 NX-OS software Storage Services Enabler License for one MSM-18/4 module Storage Services Enabler License Storage Services Enabler License for one MSM-18/4 module Data Mobility Manager License for one MSM-18/4 module Data Mobility Manager License for Cisco MDS 9222i Data Mobility Manager License for one MSM-18/4 module Applicable Product MDS 9500 Series only MDS 9222i Switch only MDS 9148 Switch MDS 9500 Series only MDS 9222i Switch only MDS 9200 Series only MDS 9500 Series only MDS 9222i Switch MDS 9200 Series only Cisco MDS 9000 Family Release Notes for Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(1) 2 OL-25090-01