Cisco MDS 9000 Family Release Notes for Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.1(1b) (OL-17675-02, October 2008)

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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Release Notes for Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.1(1b)
OL-17675-02
Upgrading Your Cisco MDS NX-OS Software Image
Note When upgrading Fabric Manager, refer to the supported upgrade path shown in Table 10. For example,
when upgrading from SAN-OS Release 3.1(x) to NX-OS Release 4.1, you will need to upgrade from
Release 3.1(x) to Release 3.2(x) and then upgrade to NX-OS Release 4.1(1b)
Note Fabric Manager Server can not be installed on an Active Directory Server when using PostgreSQL,
Fabric Manager servers are domain controllers and can not create local PostgreSQL user accounts.
The Fabric Manager Installation Process Overview
The following section presents the flow of the installation process at a high level. Review these guidelines
before you begin the installation process.
Caution Windows 2000 is incompatible with Cisco Fabric Manager Release 4.1(1b). If you are currently running
Windows 2000, Cisco strongly recommends that you update your environment before you begin the
installation of Fabric Manager. This section lists the supported software that has been tested with Cisco
Fabric Manager. See Table 10 for the supported upgrade paths for Cisco Fabric Manager.
1. Verify supported software. Cisco Fabric Manager has been tested with the following software:
• Windows 2003 SP2, XP SP2, Windows Vista
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (AS Release 4)
• Solaris (SPARC) 8, 9, and 10
• VMWare ESX 3.5:
– Virtual Operating System: Windows 2003 SP2
• Java Sun JRE and JDK 1.5(x) and JRE 1.6 are supported
• Java Web Start 1.2, 1.0.1, 1.5, 1.6
• Firefox 1.5 and 2.0
• Internet Explorer 6.x, and 7.0
• Oracle Database 10g Express
• PostgreSQL 8.2 (Windows and Linux)
• PostgreSQL 8.1 (Solaris)
Table 10 Supported Fabric Manager Upgrade Paths
Current Upgrade Path
3.0.x 3.1.x
3.1.x (HSQL) 3.2.x (Oracle)
3.1.x (HSQL) 3.2.x PostgreSQL
3.1.x (Oracle) 3.2.x (Oracle)
3.2.x (Oracle) 3.3.x (Oracle
3.2.x (PostgreSQL) 3.3.x (PostgreSQL)