Cisco Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS Software Release 5.2 Notas de publicación

The Storage Media Encryption (SME) solution, which currently protects data at rest on 
heterogeneous tape drives and virtual tape libraries (VTLs), has been enhanced to encrypt data on 
disk arrays in a SAN environment using secure IEEE-standard Advanced Encryption Standard 
(AES) algorithms.

SME Disk requires the Storage Media Encryption Package license.

See the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Media Encryption Configuration Guide for more 
information on configuring and deploying SME Disk.

Cisco Data Center Network Manager for SAN

Cisco Fabric Manager and Cisco Data Center Network Manager have merged into a unified product 
that can now manage and monitor both SAN and LAN environments. As a part of this merger, Cisco 
Fabric Manager has been rebranded as Cisco DCNM for SAN. 

As a part of NX-OS Release 5.2(1), Cisco DCNM for SAN introduces server-based licenses that 
allow you to purchase a pool of Cisco DCNM for SAN licenses instead of a switch-based Fabric 
Manager Server (FMS) license. The installed base of existing FMS licenses are grandfathered into 
Cisco DCNM for SAN, which means that you do not have to purchase a new license to use Cisco 
DCNM for SAN if you have an existing FMS license.

There are many new features in Cisco DCNM for SAN, including:

Summary and host dashboards

VMware topology and performance

Performance forecasting charts

External SMI-S 1.4 agent

FCoE provisioning and management

Detailed information about Cisco DCNM features is available in the

 and in the feature configuration guides for Cisco DCNM for SAN.

For additional information about Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(1), see the

 

Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 5.2(1) supports the following new Generation 4 hardware devices:

Cisco MDS 9000 8-port 10-Gbps Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) module (DS-X9708-K9)

Cisco MDS 9000 32-port 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching module (DS-X9232-256K9)

Cisco MDS 9000 48-port 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel Switching module (DS-X9248-256K9)

Cisco MDS 9513 Switching Fabric 3 module (DS-13SLT-FAB3)

See the 

 for descriptions of, and specifications for 

the new Generation 4 modules. This guide also provides instructions for migrating to the new Fabric 3 
module and guidelines for installing the new 8-Gbps Advanced Fibre Channel switching modules.

Most Cisco MDS 9000 family software features are included in the standard package. However, some 
features are logically grouped into add-on packages that must be licensed separately, such as the Cisco 
MDS 9000 Enterprise package, SAN Extension over IP package, Mainframe package, Storage Services