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-OS software is fully
interoperable with earlier Cisco SAN-OS versions and enhances hardware platform and module support.

Components Supported

Table 2

lists the NX-OS software part numbers and hardware components supported by the Cisco MDS

9000 Family.

Note

For the latest information about supported transceivers, see the

Cisco MDS 9000 Family Pluggable

Transceivers

data sheet.