Cisco Cisco MDS 9000 SAN-OS Software Release 1.2 Guía De Información
IBM z Systems
®
Qualification support for Cisco NxOS 6.2(11c) and
Data Center Network Manager 7.1(2)
International Business Machines Corporation and Cisco Systems have successfully completed qualification testing, of High
Performance FICON for z Systems (zHPF), FICON
Performance FICON for z Systems (zHPF), FICON
®
and FCP protocols, using the switches and directors in Table 1 with NxOS
6.2(11c) and DCNM 7.1(2), in the configurations in Table 2, for the following IBM z System platforms: IBM z13, IBM zEnterprise
®
EC12 (zEC12), IBM zEnterprise
®
BC12 (zBC12), IBM zEnterprise
®
196 (z196), and IBM zEnterprise
®
114 (z114).
Vendor
Name
Name
IBM Machine
Type
Type
Max. Logical
Switches
Switches
Max. CUP
Instances
Instances
Supported Blades
Supported SFP Optics
a
MDS 9710
9710-E08
8
8
DS-X9448-768K9
8, 10, 16 Gbs
MDS 9706
9710-E06
8
8
DS-X9448-768K9
8, 10, 16 Gbs
MDS 9250i
9710-E01
8
8
DS-X9448-768K9
8, 16 Gbs
MDS 9513
2062-D11
2054-E11
2054-E11
8
8
DS-X9232-256K9
DS-X9248-256K9
DS-X9224-96K9
DS-X9248-96K9
DS-X9248-48K9
DS-X9304-18K9
DS-X9316-SSNK9
DS-X9704
DS-X9112
DS-X9124
DS-X9148
DS-X9248-256K9
DS-X9224-96K9
DS-X9248-96K9
DS-X9248-48K9
DS-X9304-18K9
DS-X9316-SSNK9
DS-X9704
DS-X9112
DS-X9124
DS-X9148
2, 4, 8, 10 Gbs
MDS 9509
2062-D07
2054-E07
2054-E07
8
8
MDS 9506
2062-D04
2054-E04
2054-E04
8
8
MDS 9222i
2054-E01
8
8
DS-X9224-96K9
DS-X9248-96K9
DS-X9248-48K9
DS-X9304-18K9
DS-X9316-SSNK9
DS-X9704
DS-X9112
DS-X9124
DS-X9148
DS-X9248-96K9
DS-X9248-48K9
DS-X9304-18K9
DS-X9316-SSNK9
DS-X9704
DS-X9112
DS-X9124
DS-X9148
2, 4, 8 Gbs
Although the distances for the protocols supported for these switches, FICON, FCP, FCIP, and ISLs, have been successfully tested
to a distance of 300km, IBM requires an Extended Distance for System z RPQ to assure applications greater than 100km adhere to
the bounds of our qualification.
The new supported hardware in this release are:
MDS 9706
MDS 9250i with 10G FCIP
The new supported features and functions in this release are:
Forward Error Correction (FEC) for FICON Express16S {support on 9700s only}
16 Member FICON Port Channel as Hop-of-no-Consequence
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June 1, 2015