Cisco Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS Software Release 6.2

The system and kickstart image that you use for a Cisco MDS 9396S switch is shown in 

.

The system and kickstart image that you use for a Cisco MDS 9500 Series switch with a Supervisor-2 or Supervisor-2A module 
is shown in 

. The Supervisor 1 module is not supported from NX-OS Release 4.2(1) and later releases. 

Use the show module command to display the type of supervisor module in the switch. The following is sample output from 
the show module command on a Supervisor-2 module:

switch# show module

Mod  Ports  Module-Type                      Model              Status

---  -----  -------------------------------- ------------------ ------------

7    0      Supervisor/Fabric-2              DS-X9530-SF2-K9    active *

8    0      Supervisor/Fabric-2              DS-X9530-SF2-K9    ha-standby

The system and kickstart image that you use for a Cisco MDS 9700 Series switch is shown in 

No payload encryption (NPE) images are available with Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 6.2(13b) software. The NPE images are 
intended for countries who have import restrictions on products that encrypt payload data.

To differentiate an NPE image from the standard software image, the letters npe are included in the image name as follows: 

m9100-s3ek9-kickstart-mz-npe.6.2.13b.bin

m9100-s3ek9-mz-npe.6.2.13b.bin

m9100-s5ek9-kickstart-mz-npe.6.2.13b.bin

m9100-s5ek9-mz-npe.6.2.13b.bin

m9200-s2ek9-kickstart-mz-npe.6.2.13b.bin

MDS 9396S

Filename begins with m9300-s1ek9

Cisco MDS 9513, 9509, and 9506

Filename begins with m9500-sf2ek9 

Cisco MDS 9710 and 9706

Filename begins with m9700-sf3ek9