Cisco AJ732A - MDS 9134 Fabric Switch Release Note page 16

Upgrading Your Cisco MDS NX-OS Software Image
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a c k - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m
When upgrading Fabric Manager, refer to the supported upgrade path shown in
Note
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)
Table 10
Current
3.0.x
3.1.x (HSQL)
3.1.x (HSQL)
3.1.x (Oracle)
3.2.x (Oracle)
3.2.x (PostgreSQL)
Fabric Manager Server can not be installed on an Active Directory Server when using PostgreSQL,
Note
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.
Windows 2000 is incompatible with Cisco Fabric Manager Release 4.1(1b). If you are currently running
Caution
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
1.
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Release Notes for Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.1(1b)
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Supported Fabric Manager Upgrade Paths
Table 10
Verify supported software. Cisco Fabric Manager has been tested with the following software:
Windows 2003 SP2, XP SP2, Windows Vista
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (AS Release 4)
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Solaris (SPARC) 8, 9, and 10
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VMWare ESX 3.5:
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Virtual Operating System: Windows 2003 SP2
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Java Sun JRE and JDK 1.5(x) and JRE 1.6 are supported
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Java Web Start 1.2, 1.0.1, 1.5, 1.6
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Firefox 1.5 and 2.0
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• Internet Explorer 6.x, and 7.0
• Oracle Database 10g Express
• PostgreSQL 8.2 (Windows and Linux)
PostgreSQL 8.1 (Solaris)
•
Upgrade Path
3.1.x
3.2.x (Oracle)
3.2.x PostgreSQL
3.2.x (Oracle)
3.3.x (Oracle
3.3.x (PostgreSQL)
for the supported upgrade paths for Cisco Fabric Manager.
Table 10. For example,
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