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    Sun Microsystems, Inc. www .sun.com Submit comments about this document at: http://www.sun.com/hwdocs/feedback Cisco MDS 9222i Switch and 18/4-P or t Module Hardw are Release Notes F or Installation in a Sun ™ Storage Area Network P ar t No . 820-2856-11 April 2008, Revision A[...]

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    Please Recycle Copyright 2008 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 9222i Switch and 18/4-Port Module Har dware Release Notes Read this document so that you are aware of the r equirements and issues that can affect the installation and operation of the Cisco Multilayer DataCenter Switch (MDS) 9222i Multiservice Modular Switch (MDS 9222i) and Cisco MDS 18/4-port Multiservice Module (MSM-18/4) hardware in[...]

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    2 Cisco MDS 9222i Switch and 18/4-por t Module Hardware Release Notes • April 2008 Pr oduct Features The MDS 9222i switch integrates Fibre Channel (FC) and IP (FCIP) storage services in a single system to allow maximum flexibility in user configurations. The MDS 9222i switch has eighteen 4-Gbps FC ports, four 1-Gigabit Ethernet IP storage service[...]

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    Cisco MDS 9222i Switch and 18/4-P or t Module Hardware Release Notes 3 ■ Mainframe connections using FICON requir e SAN-OS version 3.2(2c) (minimum). Note – SAN-OS 3.2(2c) is not qualified for channel extension with Cisco V isual Switch Manager (VSM) or any Sun StorageT ek FICON tape drives. For FICON, ensure the channel extension feature is di[...]

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    4 Cisco MDS 9222i Switch and 18/4-por t Module Hardware Release Notes • April 2008 ■ Solaris 10 Linux ■ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (IA32/AMD64) ■ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (IA32/AMD64) ■ SuSE Linux 9 Professional Community Edition (IA32/AMD64) ■ SuSE Linux 10 Professional Community Edition (IA32/AMD64) Micr osoft W indows ■ W indows [...]

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    Cisco MDS 9222i Switch and 18/4-P or t Module Hardware Release Notes 5 Cisco Storage Media Encryption Cisco MDS 9000 Family Storage Media Encryption (SME) encrypts data at rest on heterogeneous tape devices and virtual tape libraries. SME is completely integrated with the Cisco MDS 9000 family of switches and Cisco Fabric Manager , enabling highly [...]

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    6 Cisco MDS 9222i Switch and 18/4-por t Module Hardware Release Notes • April 2008 ■ Sun StorEdge™ 3510, 351 1 FC arrays ■ Sun StorEdge 9910, 9960, 9970, 9980, 9985, and 9990 ■ Sun StorEdge Fibre Channel 9840B/C, 9940B, T10K, L TO 3/4, SDL T 600, SDL T4 tape drives ■ Sun StorEdge FC420 FC-SCSI Bridge for L25 and L100 tape libraries with[...]

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    Cisco MDS 9222i Switch and 18/4-P or t Module Hardware Release Notes 7 x64/x86 Systems ■ Sun Blade 6000 & 8000 Modular System ■ Sun Fire™ V20/40z ■ Sun Fire x2100 and x4100/4200 (M2) ■ Sun Fire x2200 and x4600 SP ARC Servers ■ Sun Blade 1500/2500 ■ Sun Blade 2500+ ■ Sun Enterprise™ 4900/6900 ■ Sun Fire T1000/T2000 ■ Sun Fi[...]

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    8 Cisco MDS 9222i Switch and 18/4-por t Module Hardware Release Notes • April 2008 Downloading and Installing Patches The following tasks provide instructions for downloading and installing patches for the MDS 9222i switch and MSM-18/4 module. See “SAN-OS Firmware Requirements” on page 2 for the required or r ecommended firmwar e versions and[...]

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    Cisco MDS 9222i Switch and 18/4-P or t Module Hardware Release Notes 9 Related Documentation Cisco documentation is equipment-specific and can be obtained directly fr om Cisco’s web site. ■ For documentation related to Cisco MDS 9200 Series Multilayer Switches: http://cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5988/tsd_products_support_seri es_home.html ■ Fo[...]

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    10 Cisco MDS 9222i Switch and 18/4-por t Module Hardware Release Notes • April 2008[...]