Introduction
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Introduction
The Cisco MDS 9000 Family of Multilayer Directors and Fabric Switches provides industry-leading
availability, scalability, security, and management, allowing you to deploy high performance
storage-area networks with lowest total cost of ownership. Layering a rich set of intelligent features onto
a high performance, protocol agnostic switch fabric, the Cisco MDS 9000 Family addresses the stringent
requirements of large data center storage environments: uncompromising high availability, security,
scalability, ease of management, and seamless integration of new technologies.
The Cisco MDS 9000 Family SAN-OS is the underlying system software that powers the Cisco MDS
9500 Series, 9200 Series, and 9100 Series multilayer switches. The Cisco SAN-OS provides intelligent
networking features, such as multiprotocol and multitransport integration, virtual SANs (VSANs),
advanced security, sophisticated debug analysis tools, and unified SAN management.
Components Supported
Table 1
9000 Family.
To use the Cisco Storage Services Enabler package, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 1.3(5) or later must
Note
be installed on the MDS switch.
Table 1
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Supported Software and Hardware Components
Component
Part Number
Software
M95S2K9-3.1.3
M95S1K9-3.1.3
M92S1K9-3.1.3
M91S2K9-3.1.3
M91S1K9-3.1.3
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Release Notes for Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.1(3)
2
lists the SAN-OS software part number and hardware components supported by the Cisco MDS
Description
MDS 9500 Supervisor/Fabric-2, SAN-OS software.
MDS 9500 Supervisor/Fabric-I, SAN-OS software.
MDS 9216 Supervisor/Fabric-I, SAN-OS software.
MDS 9100 Supervisor/Fabric-2, SAN-OS software.
NDS 9100 Supervisor/Fabric-I, SAN-OS software
Applicable Product
MDS 9500 Series only
MDS 9500 Series only
MDS 9200 Series only
MDS 9100 Series only
MDS 9100 Series only
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