The Cisco MDS 9000 Series of multilayer directors and fabric switches provides best-in-class high availability, scalability, security, and management, allowing you to deploy high-performance storage-area networks (SANs). Layering a rich set of intelligent features onto a high-performance switch fabric, the Cisco MDS 9000 Series addresses the stringent requirements of large data center storage environments: high availability, security, scalability, ease of management, and seamless integration of new technologies.
This chapter discusses the following key topics:
Cisco MDS NX-OS Setup Utility: This section discusses the Cisco MDS NX-OS Setup Utility and shows how it allows you to build an initial configuration file using the System Configuration dialog.
Cisco MDS NX-OS Software Upgrade and Downgrade: This section discusses the Cisco MDS NX-OS software disruptive and nondisruptive upgrade and downgrade procedures along with the electrical programmable logical device (EPLD) upgrade procedure.
Infrastructure Monitoring: This section discusses various system management features used to monitor and manage a switch using Cisco MDS NX-OS software including system messages, Call Home, Embedded Event Manager, RMON, SPAN, and RSPAN features.
“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
The “Do I Know This Already?” quiz enables you to assess whether you should read this entire chapter thoroughly or jump to the “Exam Preparation Tasks” section. If you are in doubt about your answers to these questions or your own assessment of your knowledge of the topics, read the entire chapter. Table 11-1 lists the major headings in this chapter and their corresponding “Do I Know This Already?” quiz questions. You can find the answers in Appendix A, “Answers to the ‘Do I Know This Already?’ Quizzes.”
Table 11-1 “Do I Know This Already?” Section-to-Question Mapping
Caution
The goal of self-assessment is to gauge your mastery of the topics in this chapter. If you do not know the answer to a question or are only partially sure of the answer, you should mark that question as wrong for purposes of the self-assessment. Giving yourself credit for an answer you correctly guess skews your self-assessment results and might provide you with a false sense of security.