The Cisco MDS 9000 Series includes software and hardware for storage area networks. The software includes Cisco NX-OS and features for services-oriented SANs, data mobility, acceleration, and network management. The Cisco MDS 9000 Family Enterprise Package provides advanced traffic engineering and security features for large or complex SANs through licensing per switch. Limitations on the Cisco MDS 9100 Series exclude some enterprise package features.

1. Cisco MDS 9000 Series Software License Packages
The Cisco MDS 9000 Family comprises both hardware and software products.
The SOFTWARE contains
 Cisco NX-OS Software for MDS 9000
 Services-Oriented SANs
 Cisco I/O Accelerator
 Cisco Data Mobility Manager
 Cisco XRC Acceleration
 Cisco Prime Data Center Network Manager
The Cisco MDS 9000 Family Enterprise Package enables a set of advanced
traffic-engineering and security features that are useful for large or complex
SANs. It is well suited for enterprise customers who have more sophisticated
requirements beyond the standard SAN features that are included at no
charge with Cisco MDS 9000 Series Multilayer Switches.
The Cisco MDS 9000 Family Enterprise Package is licensed per switch
for all the ports on the switch. Some package features can be used only if all
the switches in the fabric have licenses for this package. Please refer to the
data sheets for the respective switches for information about features with
limited or no support listed in this document.
Limitations on Cisco MDS 9100 Series Switches
The following features of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family Enterprise License are
not supported on Cisco MDS 9100 Series Multilayer Fabric Switches:
● IPsec
● Extended credits
● SCSI flow statistics
● Cisco TrustSec Fibre Channel Link Encryption
To use Cisco MDS 9000 Family Enterprise Package features, Cisco MDS 9000
NX-OS 4.1(1) or later must be installed on a Cisco MDS 9000 Family switch.
Licensed
Package
Description Features
Enterprise
license
This package includes advanced
traffic engineering and advanced
security features for enterprise
Advanced traffic
management
• Inter-VSAN Routing

2. SANs. (IVR)
• Quality of service
(QoS)
• Extended credits
Security
• Switch-to-switch and
host-to-switch
authentication
• Logical unit number
(LUN) zoning
• Read-only zones
• Port security
• VSAN-based access
control
• IP Security (IPsec) for
Internet Small Computer
Systems Interface and
FCIP
• Internet Key Exchange
(IKE) digital certificates
• Fabric binding for Fibre
Channel
Cisco Data
Center
Network
Manager
(DCNM)
license
Data Center Network Manager is
designed to help customers
efficiently implement and manage
next-generation virtualized data
centers. It provides timely
management support for data
center hardware platforms and
Cisco NX-OS Software innovations.
SAN management
• Virtual machine–aware
path management
• Monitoring and
troubleshooting
• Single-pane
management
• Scalability: Federation
and VSAN
• Scoping LAN
management
• Network virtualization
through creation of
virtual device contexts
(VDCs)
• Full automation of
virtual-port-channel
(vPC) operations
• Cisco FabricPath
SAN
Extension
over IP
license
This package provides an
integrated, cost-effective, and
reliable business-continuance
solution that uses the existing IP
• FCIP compression
• FCIP write acceleration
• FCIP read-write tape
acceleration

3. infrastructure. • SAN extension tuner
• Inter-VSAN Routing
(IVR) for FCIP
Cisco I/O
Accelerator
(IOA)
license
IOA provides a fabric-based
service to accelerate SCSI disk
write and tape read and write I/O
operations across metropolitan
area network (MAN) and WAN
links. The IOA feature is a highly
available service with clustering
capability that increases reliability,
performance, scalability, and
application stability.
• Accelerated disk write
and tape
• Fibre Channel link
compression channel
links
• Transparent insertion
of fabric service
• Clustered IOA service
engines with load
balancing and failover
• Port-channel flexibility
across multiple slots
within a chassis.
• Read and write
operations over Fibre
Channel and FCIP
Mainframe
license
This package includes features
required in mainframe
environments. FICON is an
architecture for high-speed
connectivity between mainframe
and I/O devices.
• VSAN for FICON and
Fibre Channel Protocol
(FCP) intermode
channel-to-channel
operations
• FICON Control Unit
Protocol (CUP)
• Fabric binding
• Switch cascading
• IBM TotalStorage
virtual tape server
• IBM TotalStorage
Extended Remote Copy
(XRC)
• FICON native mode
and native mixing
operation
• Persistent FICON FCID
assignment
• Port swapping for host
channel cable
connectors
• FICON tape
acceleration
Ordering Information

4. The Table below lists the part numbers associated with this package.
Part Number Description
M97ENTK9
M97ENTK9=
L-M97ENTK9=
● Enterprise Package for one Cisco MDS 9700 Series Multilayer
Director
● Spare
● Spare-Electronic Delivery
M9500ENT1K9
M9500ENT1K9=
● Enterprise Package for one Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer
Director
● Spare
L-M95ENT1K9=
● Enterprise Package for one Cisco MDS 9500 Series Multilayer
Director, spare-Electronic Delivery
M9200ENT1K9
M9200ENT1K9=
● Enterprise Package for one Cisco MDS 9200 Series Multilayer Fabric
Switch
● Spare
L-M92ENT1K9=
● Enterprise Package for one Cisco MDS 9200 Series Multilayer Fabric
Switch, spare-Electronic Delivery
M9100ENT1K9
M9100ENT1K9=
● Enterprise Package for one Cisco MDS 9100 Fabric Switch
● Spare
L-
M9100ENT1K9=
● Enterprise Package for one Cisco MDS 9100 Fabric Switch, spare-
Electronic Delivery
Info from http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/storage-
networking/mds-9700-series-multilayer-directors/guide-c07-738795.pdf
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