Storage Media Encryption Compatibility with MDS 9710/9706

[sundar sk]

Hello Team

From data sheets and WP's, i could see SME is supported only with MDS 9500/9200 series. Why is that? We have MDS 9710 and 9706 switches in which we hope to use SME to encrypt data at rest. The SAN arrays are IBM DS8886 and HPE 3PAR 20850. My vendor offers to provide me the following in the proposal : 

1. Storage Media Encryption package for one MSM 18/4-port for Cisco MDS 9500, Spare 
2. Will the above purchase help me with my objective?
3. Do I need to buy the MSM hardware separately?

[Walter Dey]

Sorry, I'm not a Cisco product manager nor sales Person, but I see

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Interoperability Matrix for Cisco Nexus and MDS 9000 Products

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/mds9000/interoperability/matrix/inChapter 

Storage Media Encryption for Disk

Note

Storage Media Encryption for Disk (SME-Disk) reached End of Life on March 10, 2013.

For more information, see the EoL announcement (EOL9051) 

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/storage-networking/mds-9000-intelligent-fabric-applications/eol__C51-727124.html

Cisco is no longer accepting requests to qualify new Arrays.

There is no replacement available for the Cisco MDS Storage Media Encryption for Disk at this time.