Cisco Systems MDS 9500 Series manual Overview

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Migrating to Generation 3 8-Gbps Fibre Channel Switching Modules

This appendix describes the tasks associated with readying the MDS 9500 Series to support Generation

38-Gbps Fibre Channel switching modules. It presents an overview of the Generation 3 8-Gbps modules, provides usage guidelines for the modules, and describes three procedures for migrating hardware and upgrading software to enable use of these modules in an MDS 9513 Director.

This appendix includes the following sections:

•Overview, page A-1

•Usage Guidelines, page A-2

•Before You Begin Upgrading the MDS 9513 Director, page A-3

•Migration Procedures for the MDS 9513 Director, page A-3

•Migration Procedure for the MDS 9509 Director and MDS 9506 Director, page A-12

Overview

Cisco MDS NX-OS 4.1(1b) supports the following Generation 3 8-Gbps modules:

•MDS 9000 4/44-port 8-Gbps Host-Optimized Fibre Channel module (DS-X9248-48K9)

•MDS 9000 24-port 8-Gbps Fibre Channel module (DS-X9224-96K9)

•MDS 9000 48-port 8-Gbps Fibre Channel module (DS-X9248-96K9)

In addition, Cisco MDS NX-OS 4.1(1b) supports two fabric modules, which are also known as crossbar modules, for the MDS 9513 Director:

•MDS 9513 Fabric 2 module, DS-13SLT-FAB2

•MDS 9513 Fabric 1 module, DS-13SLT-FAB1

The MDS 9513 Director requires Cisco MDS NX-OS 4.1(1b) and the MDS 9513 Fabric 2 modules to support the MDS 9000 48-port 8-Gbps Fibre Channel module and the MDS 9000 24-port 8-Gbps Fibre Channel module. Two MDS 9513 Fabric 2 modules can double the active backplane bandwidth of the MDS 9513 Director to 192-Gbps full duplex per slot when used in conjunction with these two Generation 3 modules.

The MDS 9513 Director requires Cisco MDS NX-OS 4.1(1b), but does not require the MDS 9513 Fabric 2 modules to support the MDS 9000 4/44-port 8-Gbps Host-optimized Fibre Channel module.

Cisco MDS 9500 Series Hardware Installation Guide

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