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

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Release Notes for Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(8a)

OL-27554-05

New Features in Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2

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.

As a part of NX-OS Release 5.2(1), Cisco DCNM for SAN introduces server-based licenses that

allow you to purchase a pool of Cisco DCNM for SAN licenses instead of a switch-based Fabric

Manager Server (FMS) license. The installed base of existing FMS licenses are grandfathered into

Cisco DCNM for SAN, which means that you do not have to purchase a new license to use Cisco

DCNM for SAN if you have an existing FMS license.

There are many new features in Cisco DCNM for SAN, including:

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Summary and host dashboards

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VMware topology and performance

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Performance forecasting charts

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External SMI-S 1.4 agent

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FCoE provisioning and management

Detailed information about Cisco DCNM features is available in the Cisco DCNM Release Notes,

Release 5.2, and in the feature configuration guides for Cisco DCNM for SAN.

For additional information about Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(1), see the Cisco MDS 9000 Family

Release Notes for Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(1).

New Hardware in Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(1)

Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(1) supports the following new Generation 4 hardware devices:

• Cisco MDS 9000 8-port 10-Gbps Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) module (DS-X9708-K9)

• Cisco MDS 9000 32-port 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching module (DS-X9232-256K9)

• Cisco MDS 9000 48-port 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching module (DS-X9248-256K9)

• Cisco MDS 9513 Switching Fabric 3 module (DS-13SLT-FAB3)