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Brass Tacks · March 9, 2011

Connectivity changes for March 2011

Originally posted March 9, 2011 at 02:19 PM on brasstacksblog.typepad.com/brass-tacks/2011/03/connectivity-changes-for-march-2011.html

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The updates for the month of March are listed below:

Brocade 

Firmware added to the March ESM to support the FCoE 10-24 blade in DCX (Courtesy of Erik Paine and Aditya Nadkarni)

  • FOS 6.4.1_FCoE – This version adds support for non-disruptive CP failover and is capable of supporting connections from both FCoE initiators and targets.

Hardware added to the March ESM (Courtesy of Erik Paine and Aditya Nadkarni)

  • FCoE 10-24 blade

Cisco MDS

Firmware added to the March ESM (Courtesy of Rich Hultman)

  • Cisco NX-OS 4.2.7d

Cisco UCS (Courtesy of Shreedhan Nikam)

Feature support added:

  • F-port trunking and channeling in NPV mode

Thanks for reading!