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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Fabric Manager Configuration Guide
OL-17256-03, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.x
Chapter 18 Managing System Hardware
About Crossbar Management
• MDS 9513 Fabric-2 Crossbar Switching module
Note The new software features in Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.1(1b) and later will not be supported in the
Generation 1 hardware.
Note Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.1(1b) and later does not support the following hardware: Supervisor-1
module, the IPS-4 and IPS-8 storage modules, the MDS 9216 switch, the MDS 9216A switch, the MDS
9020 switch, the MDS 9120 switch, and the MDS 9140 switch.
Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.0(1) and later supports two types of hardware for the Cisco MDS 9500
Series Directors: Generation 1 and Generation 2.
Generation 2 consists of all new hardware supported by Cisco SAN-OS Release 3.0(1) and later,
including the following:
• Cisco MDS 9513 Director chassis
• Supervisor-2 module
• MSM-18/4 Multiservice Storage module
• MDS 9222i Module-1 module
• 48-port 4-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
• 24-port 4-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
• 12-port 4-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
• 4-port 10-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
The Cisco MDS 9500 Series Directors running Cisco MDS SAN-OS 3.0(1) or later support the following
types of crossbars:
• Integrated crossbar—Located on the Supervisor-1 and Supervisor-2 modules. The Cisco MDS 9506
and 9509 Directors only use integrated crossbars.
• External crossbar—Located on an external crossbar switching module. Cisco MDS 9513 Directors
require external crossbar modules.
Generation 1 consists of all hardware supported by Cisco SAN-OS earlier to Release 3.0(1), including
the following:
• Cisco MDS 9506 and 9509 Director chassis
• Supervisor-1 module
• 32-port 2-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
• 16-port 2-Gbps Fibre Channel switching module
• 8-port IP Storage Services (IPS-8) module
• 4-port IP Storage Services (IPS-4) module
• Storage Services Module (SSM)
• 14/2-port Multiprotocol Services (MPS-14/2) module