2.0(1b) Features
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Description
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Extended ping command
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Provides additional options to verify the connectivity of a remote host or server.
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Initial setup changes
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The questions in the initial set up routine and the order in which they appear is enhanced to reflect the various changes in the Cisco SAN-OS Release 2.0(1b) software
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New inventory information
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Displays information for the field replaceable units (FRUs) in the switch, including product IDs, serial numbers, and version IDs.
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Cisco Fabric Services Infrastructure
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Enables efficient database distribution and fosters device flexibility.
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Dynamic VSANs
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Allows you to dynamically assign VSAN membership to ports based on the device WWN.
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Graceful shutdown
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Allows the Cisco SAN-OS software to implicitly perform a graceful shutdown if you shut down an interface operating in the E port mode or if a Cisco SAN-OS software application executes a port shutdown as part of its function.
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Extended BB_credits
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Allows you to configure up to 3,500 receive BB_credits on a Fibre Channel port to facilitate BB_credits for long haul links.
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Small form-factor pluggable (SFP)
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Replaces the term FCOT (Fibre Channel optical transmitter) with the term SFP in the Cisco SAN-OS software and in the documentation.
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PortChannel
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Includes a new mode (ACTIVE) and a new protocol (autocreation).
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Zone-based QoS
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The zoning feature provides an additional segregation mechanism to configure the Quality of Service (QoS) priority as a zone attribute.
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Enhanced zoning
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Is enhanced to be compliant with FC-GS-4 and FC-SW-3. Both standards support basic zoning and enhanced zoning functionalities.
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Distributed Device Alias Services
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Allows you to distribute device alias names on a fabric-wide basis.
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Security
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Network operator default
Administrator password must be configured
Multiple roles support
Advanced Encryption Standard usage
Unified users and passwords
Enables an error message to be displayed when a remote AAA server is unavailable
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Enable SNMP trap notification
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Enables a specific SNMP trap (for example, fcdomain traps) notification.
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RMON configuration
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Allows you to configure RMON alarms and events through the CLI.
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Multicast compliance
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To interoperate with other vendor switches, the Cisco SAN-OS software uses the lowest domain switch as the root to compute the multicast tree in interop mode.
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IP-ACL changes
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As of Cisco SAN-OS Release 2.0(1b), you can also apply IP-ACLs to Gigabit Ethernet interfaces (IPS modules) and Ethernet PortChannel interfaces.
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IP storage
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Tape acceleration.
iSNS server.
Mutual CHAP authentication.
FCIP compression enhancements.
Other changes (defaults).
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AAA accounting log
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The AAA accounting log size cannot be configured. The default size of the accounting log is increased to 250,000 bytes and cannot be changed.
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IP Security (IPsec)
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Provides security services at the IP layer, including protecting one or more data flows between a pair of hosts, between a pair of security gateways, or between a security gateway and a host.
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Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
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IPsec uses the IKE protocol to handle protocol and algorithm negotiation and to generate the encryption and authentication keys to be used by IPsec.
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Call Home enhancements
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Provides message throttling capabilities, periodic inventory messages, port syslog messages, and RMON alert messages.
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Port tracking
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Is unique to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family. It uses information about the operational state of the link to initiate a failure in the link that connects edge device.
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SAN extension (SET) tuner
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Is unique to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family. It helps you optimize FCIP performance by generating SCSI I/O commands and directing such traffic to a specific virtual target.
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Command Scheduler
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Helps you schedule configuration and maintenance jobs in any switch in the Cisco MDS 9000 Family.
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WWW changes
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Exchange Link Protocol (ELP) and Exchange Fabric Protocol (EFP) use WWNs during link initialization.
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FC ID changes
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To conserve the number of FC IDs used, Cisco MDS 9000 Family switches use a special FC ID allocation scheme.
The persistent Fibre Channel ID (FC ID) feature is enabled by default.
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Storing the last core to Flash
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The last core dump (service core) is automatically saved to the Flash in the /mnt/pss/ partition before the switchover or reboot occurs.
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Feedback
New Features for SAN-OS Release 2.1(3)