Cisco Cisco MDS 9500 Series Supervisor-2 Module Guía De Información
Product End-of-Life Notice
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End-of-Sale and End-of-Life Announcement for the
Cisco MDS 9000 8-Port 1GE IP Storage Services Module
Cisco MDS 9000 8-Port 1GE IP Storage Services Module
EOL6629
Cisco
®
announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco MDS 9000 8-Port 1GE IP
Storage Services Module. The last day to order the affected product(s) is July 8, 2009. Customers
with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance
Center (TAC) as shown in Table 1 of the EoL bulletin. Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones,
definitions, and dates for the affected product(s). Table 2 lists the product part numbers affected
by this announcement. For customers with active and paid service and support contracts, support
will be available until the termination date of the contract, even if this date exceeds the Last Date
of Support shown in Table 1.
Customers are encouraged to migrate to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family 18/4-port Multiservice
module. This module delivers state-of-the-art multiprotocol and distributed multiservice
convergence, offering high-performance SAN extension and disaster-recovery solutions, intelligent
fabric services such as Cisco Storage Media Encryption, and cost-effective multiprotocol
connectivity.
Table 1.
End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the Cisco MDS 9000 8-Port 1GE IP Storage Services
Module
Milestone
Definition
Date
End-of-Life
Announcement Date
Announcement Date
The date the document that announces the end of sale and end of life of a
product is distributed to the general public.
product is distributed to the general public.
January 7, 2009
End-of-Sale Date
The last date to order the product through Cisco point-of-sale mechanisms. The
product is no longer for sale after this date.
product is no longer for sale after this date.
July 8, 2009
Last Ship Date: HW
The last-possible ship date that can be requested of Cisco and/or its contract
manufacturers. Actual ship date is dependent on lead time.
manufacturers. Actual ship date is dependent on lead time.
October 6, 2009
End of Routine Failure
Analysis Date: HW
Analysis Date: HW
The last-possible date a routine failure analysis may be performed to determine
the cause of product failure or defect.
the cause of product failure or defect.
July 8, 2010
End of New Service
Attachment Date: HW
Attachment Date: HW
For equipment and software that is not covered by a service-and-support
contract, this is the last date to order a new service-and-support contract or add
the equipment and/or software to an existing service-and-support contract.
contract, this is the last date to order a new service-and-support contract or add
the equipment and/or software to an existing service-and-support contract.
July 8, 2010
End of Service Contract
Renewal Date: HW
Renewal Date: HW
The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product.
October 3, 2013
Last Date of Support:
HW
HW
The last date to receive service and support for the product. After this date, all
support services for the product are unavailable, and the product becomes
obsolete.
support services for the product are unavailable, and the product becomes
obsolete.
July 7, 2014
HW = Hardware
OS SW = Operating System Software
App. SW = Application Software
OS SW = Operating System Software
App. SW = Application Software
Table 2.
Product Part Numbers Affected by This Announcement
End-of-Sale Product Part
Number
Number
Product Description
Replacement Product
Part Number
Part Number
Replacement Product Description
DS-X9308-SMIP
MDS 9500 8-port 1GE IP
Storage Module
Storage Module
DS-X9304-18K9
MDS 9000 18-port FC and 4-port GE
Module
Module