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    Sun Microsystems, Inc. www .sun.com Submit comments about this document at: http://www.sun.com/hwdocs/feedback Cisco MDS 9134 Multila y er F abr ic Switch Hardw are Release Notes F or Installation in a Sun ™ Storage Area Network P ar t No . 820-2855-10 Nov ember 2007, Revision A[...]

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    Please Recycle Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, California 95054, U.S.A. All rights reserved. Sun Microsystems, Inc. has intellectual pr operty rights relating to technology that is described in this document. In particular , and without limitation, these intellectual property rights may include one or mor e [...]

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    1 Cisco MDS 9134 Multilayer Fabric Switch Har dware Release Notes This document contains important information about the Cisco MDS 9134 34-port Multilayer Fabric Switch hardware installed in Sun storage area networks (SANs). Read this document so that you are aware of issues or r equirements that can affect the installation and operation of the Cis[...]

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    2 Cisco MDS 9134 Multilay er F abric Switch Hardware Release Notes • Nov ember 2007 Pr oduct Features The Cisco MDS 9134 32-port Multilayer Fabric Switch provides up to 32 4-Gbps Fibre Channel ports and two 10-Gbps Fibre Channel ports in a one rack unit (1RU) chassis. A port activation license allows you to add an extra eight ports to the origina[...]

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    Cisco MDS 9134 Multilay er F abric Switch Hardware Release Notes 3 Solaris ■ Solaris 9 Update 1 or higher for SP ARC ■ Solaris 10 for SP ARC and x86 Linux ■ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (32-bit/64-bit) ■ SuSE Linux 9 Professional Community Edition (32-bit/64-bit) ■ SuSE Linux 10 Professional Community Edition (32-bit/64-bit) Microsoft W i[...]

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    4 Cisco MDS 9134 Multilay er F abric Switch Hardware Release Notes • Nov ember 2007 Supported Har dware This section lists the hardwar e that is compatible with the Cisco MDS 9134 switch. Supported Switches and Dir ectors The Cisco MDS 9134 switch interoperates with the Cisco MDS 9000 family of products. For mor e information, see Cisco’s inter[...]

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    Cisco MDS 9134 Multilay er F abric Switch Hardware Release Notes 5 ■ SG-XPCI1FC-QLC and SG-XPCI1FC-QLC-Z (Maximum of two cascaded switches between devices) ■ SG-XPCI1FC-EM2 and SG-XPCI2FC-EM2 ■ SG-XPCI1FC-QF4 and SG-XPCI2FC-QF4 ■ SG-XPCIE1FC-QF4 and SG-XPCIE2FC-QF4 ■ SG-XPCI1FC-EM4-Z and SG-XPCI2FC-EM4-Z ■ SG-XPCIE1FC-EM4 and SG-XPCIE2F[...]

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    6 Cisco MDS 9134 Multilay er F abric Switch Hardware Release Notes • Nov ember 2007 ■ Sun Fire 2900 ■ Sun Fire 12k/15k/20k/25k ■ Sun Enterprise™ 4900/6900 Downloading and Installing the Firmwar e This section provides instructions for downloading and installing the Cisco MDS 9000 SAN-OS firmwar e. Note – Download the latest version of t[...]

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    Cisco MDS 9134 Multilay er F abric Switch Hardware Release Notes 7 Related Documentation For more information about the Cisco MDS 9134 switch, refer to the following documents: ■ Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide, Release 3.x ■ Cisco MDS 9000 Family Software Upgrade and Downgrade Guide ■ Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Config[...]

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    8 Cisco MDS 9134 Multilay er F abric Switch Hardware Release Notes • Nov ember 2007[...]