Cisco Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS Software Release 4.2 Release Notes

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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Release Notes for Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.2(7e)
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This document includes the following:
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.
Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS Software powers the award winning Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer 
Switches. It is designed to create a strategic SAN platform with superior reliability, performance, 
scalability, and features. Formerly known as Cisco SAN-OS, Cisco MDS 9000 NX Software is fully 
interoperable with earlier Cisco SAN-OS versions and enhances hardware platform and module support.