Environmental and System Requirements
Power Supply
You can place the CSM in any slot in the Catalyst 6500 series chassis except for the slots that are occupied by the supervisor engine and the standby supervisor engine. The CSM operates on power that is supplied by the chassis.
Hardware Supported
Before you can use the Catalyst 6500 series CSM, you must have a Supervisor Engine 1A or a Supervisor Engine 2 with a Multilayer Switch Feature Card (MSFC) or Multilayer Switch Feature Card 2 (MSFC2), a Policy Feature Card (PFC), and a module with ports to connect server and client networks. The PFC is required for the VLAN access control list (VACL) capture functionality.
Caution The
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Content Switching Module |
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12.1(8a)EX | 12.1(13)E | N/A | |
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Supervisor Engine 2 with MSFC2 | 12.1(8a)EX or | 12.1(13)E or higher | N/A |
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12.2(14)SX1 | 12.2(14)SX1 or | N/A | |
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Software Compatibility
Software release 4.1(3) requires Cisco IOS Release 12.1(8a)EX or higher. However, the features new to CSM release 4.1(3) are only available with Cisco IOS Release 12.1(19) E and Catalyst operating system release 7.6 and subsequent releases.
Table 3 and Table 4 list the CSM software release compatibility.
The software release that is listed is the minimum required to support the CSM hardware with a given supervisor engine to perform basic CSM configuration.
The recommended release is the base release to support new commands for a given CSM release.
Catalyst 6500 Series Switch Content Switching Module Installation Note
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