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Cisco MDS 9000 Family SSM Configuration Note

Installing the SSI Image

Cisco MDS 9000 Family SSM Configuration Note

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Release Date: August 15, 2006

Text Part Number: 78-16982-04

This document describes how to install the boot image for the Cisco MDS 9000 Family 32-port Fibre Channel Storage Services Module (SSM). The SSM supports normal Fibre Channel switching and Intelligent Storage Services. To use Fibre Channel switching and Intelligent Storage Services, you must install a boot image on the SSM using the CLI.

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Note As of Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 2.1(2), the SSM initializes in Fibre Channel switching mode and you do not need to perform the SSI boot image installation unless you want to use Intelligent Storage Services.

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Installing the SSI Image

To install the SSI image, follow these steps:

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Step 1 Log into the switch through the console port, an SSH session, or a Telnet session.

Step 2 Issue the dir bootflash: command or, as of Cisco SAN-OS Release 2.1(2), the dir modflash://slot-1/ command to verify that the SSI software image file corresponding to your Cisco MDS SAN-OS release is present on the active supervisor module. For example, if your switch is running Cisco SAN-OS Release 2.1(2), you must have m9000-ek9-ssi-mz.2.1.2.bin in modflash: on the SSM. You can find the SSI images at the following URL:

http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/mds9000-ssi-3des

Step 3 If the file is not present in bootflash: or the modflash:, follow these steps:

a. Issue the dir bootflash: command or, as of Cisco SAN-OS Release 2.1(2), the dir modflash://slot-1/ command to ensure that there is enough free space for the SSI image file. If necessary, issue the delete bootflash:filename or dir modflash://slot-1/filename command to remove files.

b. Download the appropriate SSI software image file to your FTP server and copy it from an FTP server to bootflash: on the active supervisor module or, as of Cisco SAN-OS Release 2.1(2), to modflash: on the SSM:

switch# copy ftp://10.1.7.2/m9000-ek9-ssi-mz.2.1.1b.bin 
bootflash:m9000-ek9-ssi-mz.2.1.1b.bin

or

switch# copy ftp://10.1.7.2/m9000-ek9-ssi-mz.2.1.2.bin 
modflash://4-1/m9000-ek9-ssi-mz.2.1.2.bin

Step 4 Set the SSI boot variable.

switch# config t

switch(config)# boot ssi bootflash:m9000-ek9-ssi-mz.2.1.1b.bin module 4

switch(config)# exit

or

switch# config t

switch(config)# boot ssi modflash://4-1/m9000-ek9-ssi-mz.2.1.1b.bin module 4

switch(config)# exit

Step 5 Reload the SSM to install the SSI image.

switch# reload module 4

reloading module 4 ...

Step 6 Issue the show module command to verify the status of the SSM.

switch# show module 4

Mod  Ports  Module-Type                      Model              Status

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4    32     Storage Services Module          DS-X9032-SSM       ok

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Mod      Application Image Description       Application Image Version

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4        SSI linecard image                  2.1(2)

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Cisco MDS 9000 Family SSM Configuration Note

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