HP Cisco MDS 8/24c Cisco MDS 9000 Family Release Notes for Cisco MDS NX-OS Rel - Page 20

New Features in Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(1) Send documentation comments to [email protected] New Features in Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(1) Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(1) is a major software release that includes new features, enhancements, new hardware, and bug fixes. Enhancements in this release to Cisco MDS 9000 switches enable convergence, scale, and intelligence in the data center. In addition to the information about new features that is included in this Release Notes document, you can find more product information about Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS and SAN-OS Software at this link: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5989/index.html New Software Features Cisco NX-OS Release 5.2(1) supports the following software features: • Software support for the MDS 9000 8-port 10-Gbps Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) module The MDS 9000 8-port 10-Gbps Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) module is a multihop-capable FCoE module for the core data center. This full line-rate FCoE module for the MDS 9500 Series Director switches allows you to extend FCoE benefits beyond the access Layer into the data center core. FCoE supports I/O consolidation by preserving all Fibre Channel constructs, and maintaining the same latency, security, and traffic management attributes of Fibre Channel. In addition, FCoE extends Fibre Channel SAN connectivity to Cisco Nexus 7000 switches that are FCoE capable. • Software support for Cisco MDS 9000 Family 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching Modules Cisco NX-OS Release 5.2(1) includes software support for the 32-port and the 48-port 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel switching modules that can be used in the MDS 9500 Series Directors. The MDS 9513 Multilayer Director can be upgraded with the new Generation 4 Fabric-3 module to increase bandwidth to 256 Gbps per slot. In addition, the 8-Gbps Advance Fibre Channel switching module support speeds of 10 Gbps on the MDS 9513 with the Fabric-3 module installed. The upgrade from the Fabric-2 module to the Fabric-3 module is nondisruptive. Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel switching modules support Cisco FlexSpeed technology that enables ports to be configured as either 1-, 2-, 4-, or 8-Gbps, or 10-Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces. Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel switching modules support Arbitrated Local Switching to locally switch traffic at line rate 8-Gbps in a fair manner across all ports on the module through central arbitration. • Storage Media Encryption for Disk The Storage Media Encryption (SME) solution, which currently protects data at rest on heterogeneous tape drives and virtual tape libraries (VTLs), has been enhanced to encrypt data on disk arrays in a SAN environment using secure IEEE-standard Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithms. SME Disk requires the Storage Media Encryption Package license. See the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Media Encryption Configuration Guide for more information on configuring and deploying SME Disk. • Cisco Data Center Network Manager for SAN Cisco Fabric Manager and Cisco Data Center Network Manager have merged into a unified product that can now manage and monitor both SAN and LAN environments. As a part of this merger, Cisco Fabric Manager has been rebranded as Cisco DCNM for SAN. Cisco MDS 9000 Family Release Notes for Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(1) 20 OL-25090-01