Required Operating Systems; Required Patch For Solaris 10 U6 With Sata Drives; Required Firmware And Drivers - Sun Microsystems J4200 System Overview Manual

Required Operating Systems

TABLE 5-1
arrays
TABLE 5-1
Operating System
Microsoft
Windows
Solaris™
Operating
System
Linux
Operating
System
Required Patch for Solaris 10 U6 With SATA
Drives
To use the Solaris 10, update 6, operating system with multipathing and SATA
drives, you must use a patch for the operating system. The patch ID is 138888-03 5.10
(SPARC) and 138889-03 5.10_x86 (x86).
Note – These patches are required only for multipathing with SATA drives.
Multipathing with SAS drives and Solaris 10, U6 requires no patches.

Required Firmware and Drivers

To use multipathing with the J4200/J4400 arrays, the firmware in your configuration
must meet these requirements:
Every J4200/J4400 must have the latest SIM firmware available from the Common
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Array Manager (CAM) version 6.1.2.
Every server must have the latest operating system firmware.
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For each operating system,
50 Sun Storage J4200/J4400 Array System Overview • June 2009
lists the operating systems that support multipathing with the J4200/J4400
Operating Systems That Support J4200/J4400 Multipathing
Versions That Support Multipathing With J4200/J4400 Arrays
Windows 2008 (32/64 bit)
Solaris 10, update 6
Linux RHEL 4, version 4.5 and higher
Linux RHEL 5, version 5.2 and higher
Linux SUSE 9, SP 3 and higher
Linux SUSE 10, SP 2 and higher
TABLE 5-2
lists the required drivers.