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Cisco BPX 8600 Series Installation and Configuration
Release 9.3.30, Part Number 78-12907-01 Rev. E0, May 2005
Appendix A Upgrade Information
Feature Mismatching
Note
VSI 1.0 is supported in Release 9.1 switch software and Release 9.1 BXM firmware. In Release 9.2,
VSI 1.0 will not be supported in switch software. You must upgrade firmware before switch software
can support VSI 2.0. (Refer to 9.2 Release Notes for firmware and hardware requirements to use VSI
2.0 and VSI 2.2.) Release 9.2 switch software will mismatch BXM cards that have VSI 1.0 supported
when the VSI feature is configured.
If BXM cards are configured for Y-cable redundancy and the cards do not support the same feature sets,
if the feature is not enabled, the cards will not mismatch. If you attempt to enable the Y-cable redundancy
feature, it is blocked at the command line interface.
Multiple VSI Partitions
Support for up to two partitions requires BPX switch software 9.2.3 and Firmware Ez. The card uses a
flag in the capability message to report multiple partition capability. Firmware releases that do not
support multiple partitions set this flag to OFF. The multiple partitions capability is treated as a card
attribute and added to the attribute list.
Use of a partition with ID higher than 1 requires support for multiple VSI partitions in both switch
software and BXM firmware, even if this is the only partition active on a the card.
In a Y-red pair configuration, the multiple partition capability is determined by the minimum of the two
cards. A card with no multiple partition capabilities will mismatch if any of the interfaces has an active
partition with ID higher than 1. Attempts to enable a partition with ID higher than 1 in a logical card that
does not support multiple partitions are blocked.
The mismatch conditions are listed in Table A-5.
Table A-5
Mismatch Conditions if Number of Channels Changes
Configurations
Mismatch
Replacing the current active card with a card with more channels: card will not
mismatch, although the additional channels are NOT available to the user.
No
Replacing the current active card with a card with fewer channels: the inserted card
will mismatch.
Yes
Active or standby Y-cable configuration with both the primary and secondary card
supporting the same number of channels as defined in the logical database.
No
Active Y-cable configuration with the Secondary Card supporting fewer channels
than defined in the logical card (primary card) database.
Secondary card
mismatch
Active Y-cable configuration with the primary card supporting fewer channels than
the logical card database.
Primary card
mismatch
Active Y-cable configuration with the primary or secondary cards (or both)
supporting more channels then the logical card database: neither card will
mismatch although the additional channels are NOT available to the user.
No
Standby Y-cable configuration with the primary or secondary cards supporting
different number of channels.
Mismatch
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