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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Release Notes for Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(2)
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New Features in Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2
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Cisco MDS 9134 Fabric Switch
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Cisco MDS 9124 Fabric Switch
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Cisco MDs 4-Gbps Fabric Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem
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Cisco MDS 4-Gbps Fabric Switch for IBM BladeCenter
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Port Group Monitoring
Port group monitoring and SNMP are available on the Cisco MDS 9000 32-port 8-Gbps Advanced
Fibre Channel Switching module and the Cisco MDS 9000 48-port 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel
Switching module.
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Availability of IVR on the Cisco MDS 9148 Switch
Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(2) supports Inter-VSAN Routing (IVR) on the Cisco MS 9148
multilayer fabric switch.
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IOA with NPV
Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(2) supports configuring IOA with NPV.
New Software Features in Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(1)
Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(1) supports the following software features:
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Software support for the MDS 9000 8-port 10-Gbps Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) module
The MDS 9000 8-port 10-Gbps Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) module is a multihop-capable
FCoE module for the core data center. This full line-rate FCoE module for the MDS 9500 Series
Director switches allows you to extend FCoE benefits beyond the access Layer into the data center
core. FCoE supports I/O consolidation by preserving all Fibre Channel constructs, and maintaining
the same latency, security, and traffic management attributes of Fibre Channel. In addition, FCoE
extends Fibre Channel SAN connectivity to Cisco Nexus 7000 switches that are FCoE capable.
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Software support for Cisco MDS 9000 Family 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching Modules
Cisco NX-OS Release 5.2(1) includes software support for the 32-port and the 48-port 8-Gbps
Advanced Fibre Channel switching modules that can be used in the MDS 9500 Series Directors. The
MDS 9513 Multilayer Director can be upgraded with the new Generation 4 Fabric-3 module to
increase bandwidth to 256 Gbps per slot. In addition, the 8-Gbps Advance Fibre Channel switching
module support speeds of 10 Gbps on the MDS 9513 with the Fabric-3 module installed. The
upgrade from the Fabric-2 module to the Fabric-3 module is nondisruptive.
Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel switching modules support Cisco FlexSpeed
technology that enables ports to be configured as either 1-, 2-, 4-, or 8-Gbps, or 10-Gbps Fibre
Channel interfaces.
Cisco MDS 9000 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel switching modules support Arbitrated Local
Switching to locally switch traffic at line rate 8-Gbps in a fair manner across all ports on the module
through central arbitration.
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Storage Media Encryption for Disk
The Storage Media Encryption (SME) solution, which currently protects data at rest on
heterogeneous tape drives and virtual tape libraries (VTLs), has been enhanced to encrypt data on
disk arrays in a SAN environment using secure IEEE-standard Advanced Encryption Standard
(AES) algorithms.
SME Disk requires the Storage Media Encryption Package license.
