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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Release Notes for Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(8a) (OL-27554-05, May 16, 2013)

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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Release Notes for Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(8a)
OL-27554-05
Introduction
• Deprecated Features, page 31
• Limitations and Restrictions, page 31
• Caveats, page 39
• Related Documentation, page 53
• Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request, page 55
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 the 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-OS software is fully
interoperable with earlier Cisco SAN-OS versions and enhances hardware platform and module support.
Components Supported
Table 2 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 2 Cisco MDS 9000 Family Supported Software and Hardware Components
Component Part Number Description Applicable Product
Software M95S2K9-5.2.8a MDS 9500 Supervisor/Fabric-2, NX-OS software MDS 9500 Series only
M92S2K9-5.2.8a MDS 9200 Supervisor/Fabric-2, NX-OS software MDS 9222i Switch only
M91S3K9-5.2.8a MDS 9148 Supervisor/Fabric-3 NX-OS software MDS 9148 Switch
M91S2K9-5.2.8a MDS 9100 Supervisor/Fabric-2, NX-OS software MDS 9134 Switch and
MDS 9124 Switch