Cisco Cisco MDS 9000 SAN-OS Software Release 1.0 Guía De Instalación

The following section describes how to downgrade from NX-OS Release 5.2(x) to NX-OS Release 
5.0(x).

The following sections describe how to perform downgrades on an MDS 9513 switch:

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To determine whether high bandwidth capability is enabled, issue the show hardware fabric-mode 
command. The following example shows that the higher bandwidth capability has not been activated: 

switch# show hardware fabric-mode

Fabric mode supports only one configuration of 8G FC modules - 4/44 Host-Optimized 8G FC 

module.

switch#

The following example shows that the higher bandwidth capability has been activated: 

switch# show hardware fabric-mode

fabric mode supports FCoE, Gen2 and above linecards

switch#

The following sections describe how to perform downgrades on an MDS 9509 and MDS 9506 switch:

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The following section describes how to perform a downgrade on an MDS 9222i switch:

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For information on supported chassis and modules, refer to 

. For information on the procedures for installing and upgrading software for Intelligent 

Storage Services on the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Services Module (SSM), refer to the 

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This procedure describes how to downgrade from NX-OS Release 5.2(x) to NX-OS Release 5.0(x) on 
an MDS 9513 Multilayer Director with higher bandwidth capability. To downgrade on an MDS 9513 
Multilayer Director that does not have higher bandwidth capability, see 

To verify that higher bandwidth capabilities are activated, issue the show hardware fabric-mode 
command. The following example shows that the higher bandwidth capability has been activated: