Cisco Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS Software Release 6.2 Notas de publicación

This section briefly describes the new software features introduced in Cisco NX-OS Release 6.2(5a).

Full FICON support for the Cisco MDS 9710 switch

Support for Cascaded FICON using Fabric-binding

Support for FICON CUP Management

Capability for FICON VSANs to support Originator Exchange ID (OXID)-based routing

The OXID-based routing is currently not supported by IBM. 

This section briefly describes the new hardware introduced in Cisco NX-OS Release 6.2(5). For detailed 
information about the new hardware, see the Cisco MDS 9250i Hardware Installation Guide that is 
available from this URL:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps5989/prod_installation_guides_list.html

The Cisco MDS 9250i Multiservice Fabric Switch (DS-C9250I-K9) is an optimized platform for 
deploying high-performance SAN extension solutions, distributed intelligent fabric services, and 
cost-effective multiprotocol connectivity for both open systems and mainframe environments.

The Cisco MDS 9250i switch is an ideal solution for local office and remote branch-office SANs and 
also in large-scale SANs operating the Cisco MDS 9700 and 9500 Series Multilayer director platforms.

The Cisco MDS 9250i switch offers 40 autosensing 2-, 4-, 8-, and 16-Gbps line-rate Fibre Channel ports, 
eight 10-Gigabit Ethernet Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) ports, and two 10-Gigabit Ethernet IP 
storage services ports in a fixed two-rack-unit (2RU) form factor.

This section briefly describes the new software features introduced in Cisco NX-OS Release 6.2(5).

DMM support for Cisco MDS 9250i switch

FCIP support for Cisco MDS 9250i switch

FCR support for Cisco MDS 9250i switch 

IOA support for Cisco MDS 9250i switch

Path Trace

Command-line interface (CLI) command changes, including the following:

Changed the CLI output for the show ioa cluster flows command.

Introduced the ioa-ping command.

Introduced the ability to display IOA engine utilization.