Cisco MDS 9000 Family Release Notes for Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(2d) (OL-25090-04 A0, April 2012)
7 MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Director & Multilayer Fabric Switches Release Notes
MDS Switch Model
Switch Description
Supported Switching Modules
SN6000C Fabric Switch (MDS
9148)
(AW585A,AW586A)
Fabric switch with sixteen, thirty two, or
forty eight 8-Gbps FC ports
N/A
MDS 8Gb Fabric Switch for HP
BladeSystem c-Class
(AW563A,AW564A)
Fabric switch for HP BladeSystem c-
Class with eight 8-Gbps internal FC ports
& four external 8-Gbps FC ports or
sixteen 8-Gbps internal FC ports & eight
external 8-Gbps FC ports.
N/A
Note 1: NX-OS Release 5.2(1) is not supported on this switch; Cisco NX-OS Release 5.0(x), and 5.2(2) or later are supported
Note 2: HP SN8000C 13-Slot Supervisor 2A Fabric 3 Director Switch is supported with NX-OS 5.2(2) or later
Note 3: HP SN8000C 8Gb 32-Port Advanced Fibre Channel Module and HP SN8000C 8Gb 48-Port Advanced Fibre Channel Module are supported
with NX-OS 5.2(2) or later
C-SERIES SWITCH AND SWITCHING MODULE BANDWIDTH AND
PORT GROUP
MDS Product
Number of
FC port
groups
Number of
ports per FC
port group
Bandwidth
per FC port
group (Gbps)
HP SN8000C 8Gb 32-Port Advanced Fibre Channel Module
8
4
line rate
Note 1
HP SN8000C 8Gb 48-Port Advanced Fibre Channel Module
8
6
32
Note 1
24-port 8-Gbps FC switching module
8
3
12.8
48-port 8-Gbps FC performance switching module
8
6
12.8
48-port 8-Gbps FC host-optimized switching module
4
12
12.8
12-port 4-Gbps FC switching module
4
3
12.8
24-port 4-Gbps FC switching module
4
6
12.8
48-port 4-Gbps FC switching module
4
12
12.8
4-port 10-Gbps FC switching module
4
1
10
18/4-port Multiservice module
3
6
12.8
MDS 9222i
4
6
12.8
MDS 9134 4-Gbps ports
8
4
line rate
MDS 9134 10-Gbps ports
2
1
line rate
MDS 9124
6
4
line rate
MDS 9124e
6
4
line rate
SN6000C (MDS 9148)
12
4
line rate
MDS 8Gb Fabric Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class
6
4
line rate
Note 1: The bandwidth shown requires:
HP SN8000C 13-Slot Supervisor 2A Fabric 3 Director Switch (QW927A)
HP SN8000C 13-Slot Supervisor 2A Fabric 2 Director Switch (AJ905C), upgraded with Fabric 3 modules installed
MDS 9513 with Fabric-2 Modules (AJ905B, AJ905A), upgraded with Fabric 3 modules installed