Sun Microsystems MDS 9134 manual Product Features, Supported Software, Firmware Requirements

Product Features

The Cisco MDS 9134 32-port Multilayer Fabric Switch provides up to 32 4-Gbps Fibre Channel ports and two 10-Gbps Fibre Channel ports in a one rack unit (1RU) chassis. A port activation license allows you to add an extra eight ports to the original 24-port configuration for a total of 32 4-Gbps ports. Another port activation license will allow you to activate the two 10-Gbps Fibre Channel ports for a total of 34 active ports.

The Cisco MDS 9134 switch can be used as a stand-alone switch or stacked together via copper X2 transceivers for up to 64 4-Gbps ports.

Note – Optical X2 transceivers can also be used to stack the Cisco MDS 9134 switches together.

The part numbers for the optical and copper X2 transceivers are as follows:

■Cisco 10 Gbps Fiber Channel-short wavelength X2 SFP: SG-XSWCS-10G-X2S-Z

■Cisco 10 Gbps Fiber Channel-long wavelength X2 SFP: SG-XSWCS-10G-X2L-Z

Supported Software

This section describes the firmware and operating system requirements for the Cisco MDS 9134 switch.

Firmware Requirements

The Cisco MDS 9134 Hardware requires SAN OS rev 3.2(1a) (minimum) which is delivered as patch 126488-03 and available from SunSolveSM. See “Downloading and Installing the Firmware” on page 6 for more information.

Operating System Requirements

The following operating systems running on hosts on the SAN are compatible with the Cisco MDS 9134 switch:

2 Cisco MDS 9134 Multilayer Fabric Switch Hardware Release Notes • November 2007