Change Summary
This chapter lists the New and Changed features for this guide.
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Feature |
New and Change Topics |
Changed in Release |
Where Documented |
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FSPF Database |
The Link Type for the command show fspf database vsan is changed from numerical to alphanumerical. |
9.4(1) |
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Device Alias |
The default device alias mode is changed to enhanced mode. |
8.5(1) |
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Zoning Single Session |
A new option to allow only a single configuration session at a time on a switch when in enhanced zoning mode. |
8.4(2) |
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Autozone |
Autozone provides options to enable or disable automatically saving of the running configuration to the startup-configuration after making a zoning change, using the enableautosave and disableautosave options respectively. |
8.4(1) |
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Autozone |
The Autozone feature is a mechanism to automate zoning via a single command or to allow minimal effort for deploying of fabric switches that support 32 Gbps or higher speed Fibre Channel interfaces. |
8.3(1) |
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FLOGI Scale Optimization |
Changed the default FLOGI quiesce timeout value from 2000 to 0 millisecond. |
8.3(1) | |
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Virtual Machine Identifier (VMID) |
VMID support allows unique identification of virtual machines (VMs) by SAN fabric infrastructure. |
8.2(1) |
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FLOGI Scale Optimization |
The FLOGI scale optimization feature enables users to increase the chassis-wide FLOGI scale limits. This feature is supported only on Cisco MDS 9718 Directors. |
8.1(1) |
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Zone Server Enhancements |
The Zone Server performance is enhanced using the following features:
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7.3(0)D1(1) |
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Device Alias Diffs-only Distribution |
When this feature is enabled on all the switches in a fabric, it enables better scalability. |
7.3(0)D1(1) |
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Organizationally Unique Identifiers |
This feature introduces a new command which enables dynamic addition of Organizationally Unique Identifiers (OUIs) to the system OUI database. |
7.3(0)D1(1) |
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Confirm commit device-alias Confirm commit zone |
Added pending-diff display on commit for zone and device-alias. |
6.2(9) |
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FC and FCOE Scale – Device Alias |
Added “Device Alias Configuration Best Practices” section. |
6.2(9) |
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Fibre Channel Common Transport Management Server Query |
Configuring Fibre Channel Common Transport Management Server Query |
6.2(9) |
Configuring Fibre Channel Common Transport Management Security |
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FCNS, RSCN |
Added bulk notification feature to improve the performance of all the components listening to FCNS database changes. Added coalesced SWRSCN to improve RSCN performance. |
6.2(7) |
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Added “Displaying Fabric Switch Information” section. |
6.2(7) |
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Smart Zoning |
Added the command output. |
6.2(7) |
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Smart Zoning |
Added the Smart Zoning section. |
5.2.6 |
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FICON Tape Read Acceleration |
Added “FICON Tape Acceleration” section. |
5.0(1a) |
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