HP C-series Fabric Switches for NX-OS 5.0(4d) Release Notes (5697-1239, September 2011)

2 MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Director & Multilayer Fabric Switches Release Notes
Table of Contents
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 ............................................................................................................................... 6
Hardware Components .................................................................................................................... 6
C-series Support Matrix with NX-OS 5.x ....................................................................................... 7
c-series Switch and switching module Bandwidth and port group.................................................. 8
NX-OS 5.0(4D) Naming Convention .............................................................................................. 9
SAN-OS 3.x to NX-OS 5.x Migration .......................................................................................... 10
NX-OS 4.x to NX-OS 5.x Migration ............................................................................................. 11
MDS 9513 Fabric-2 module and 8-Gbps Modules ....................................................................... 12
Additional Mounting Requirements .............................................................................................. 13
Serial Port ...................................................................................................................................... 14
Initial Installation Recommendations/Requirements ..................................................................... 14
Fabric Manager & Device Manager GUI Setup ............................................................................ 16
Cisco MDS 9000 N-Port Virtualization (NPV) Mode .................................................................. 17
Cisco MDS 9000 FlexAttach......................................................................................................... 17
QLogic HBAs And Mezzanine Cards connected to NPIV-based fibre channel interconnects ..... 18
Cisco MDS 9000 Storage Media Encryption (SME) .................................................................... 19
FC and FCIP Write Acceleration Feature Must Not Be Enabled When Implementing Continuous
Access Enterprise Virtual Array .................................................................................................... 20
FCIP Tape Acceleration ................................................................................................................ 20
Switch Settings for HP Continuous Access Enterprise Virtual Arrays ......................................... 20
HP Storageworks SN6000C Fabric switch .................................................................................... 21
Cisco MDS 8Gb Fabric switch for HP bladesystem c-Class ......................................................... 21
C-series MDS 9134 Fabric Switch ................................................................................................ 23
C-series MDS 9124 Fabric Switch ................................................................................................ 24
C-series MDS 9124e Fabric Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem ................................................ 24
Upgrade from 2Gb Fibre Channel Switching Modules to 4Gb and/or 8Gb Fibre Channel
Switching Modules ........................................................................................................................ 25
Upgrade from 14/2 Multiprotocol Services Module to 18/4 Multiservice Module ....................... 27
HP Specific Known Issues ............................................................................................................ 28