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Catalyst 6500 Series Switch Content Switching Module Installation Note
78-15751-04
Environmental and System Requirements
Power Supply
You can place the CSM in any slot in the Catalyst 6500 series chassis except for the slots that are
occupied by the supervisor engine and the standby supervisor engine. The CSM operates on power that
is supplied by the chassis.
Hardware Supported
Before you can use the Catalyst 6500 series CSM, you must have a Supervisor Engine 1A or a Supervisor
Engine 2 with a Multilayer Switch Feature Card (MSFC) or Multilayer Switch Feature Card 2 (MSFC2),
a Policy Feature Card (PFC), and a module with ports to connect server and client networks. The PFC
is required for the VLAN access control list (VACL) capture functionality.
Caution The WS-X6066-SLB-APC module is not fabric enabled.
Software Compatibility
Software release 4.1(3) requires Cisco IOS Release 12.1(8a)EX or higher. However, the features new to
CSM release 4.1(3) are only available with Cisco IOS Release 12.1(19) E and Catalyst operating system
release 7.6 and subsequent releases.
Table 3 and Table 4 list the CSM software release compatibility.
The software release that is listed is the minimum required to support the CSM hardware with a given
supervisor engine to perform basic CSM configuration.
The recommended release is the base release to support new commands for a given CSM release.
Product Number Minimum Cisco
IOS Release
Recommended
Cisco IOS Release
Recommended
Catalyst OS Releases
Content Switching Module
WS-X6066-SLB-APC with Supervisor Engine 1 and MSFC1
or MSFC2
12.1(8a)EX 12.1(13)E N/A
Supervisor Engine 2 with MSFC2 12.1(8a)EX or
12.2(17d)SXB
12.1(13)E or higher N/A
WS-X6066-SLB-APC with Supervisor Engine 720. 12.2(14)SX1 12.2(14)SX1 or
higher
N/A
Console Cable
72-876-01 Not applicable
Accessory Kit
800-05097-01 Not applicable
