iSCSI Solaris™ Host Utilities 3.0.1 for Native OS

 

Last Updated: 12 June 2007

Original Date: 12 June 2007

 

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Regulatory Compliance Verification

 

Date of Revision

Summary of changes

 12 June 2007

Initial version

 

1.       Summary

2.       What's New?

3.       Sales Tools

4.       Customer-Ready Tools 

5.       System Requirements

6.       Product Information

7.       Regulatory Compliance

8.       Warranty and Service

9.       Additional Information


 

1.   Summary

 

This product bulletin announces the availability of iSCSI Solaris Host Utilities 3.0.1 for Native OS.

                              

iSCSI Solaris Host Utilities is a set of documentation and utilities for simplifying configuration and troubleshooting Solaris iSCSI deployments.

2.   What’s New

 

iSCSI Solaris Host Utilities 3.0.1 for Native OS adds support for Solaris 10 Update 3 and its bundled iSCSI software initiator.

 

The ZFS file system is now supported with Solaris 10 Update 2 and Solaris 10 Update 3 iSCSI.

3.   Sales Tools (Sales Guides, Training Presentations, SE Presentations)

 

Not applicable.

 

4.   Customer-Ready Tools (Customer Presentations, Datasheets)

 

Not applicable.

 

5.   System Requirements

 

Supported platforms

The following table lists the hardware and software platforms supported by the iSCSI Solaris  Host Utilities 3.0.1 for Native OS.

Software iSCSI initiator

Bundled with Solaris 10 Update 3

Host OS

Solaris 10 Update 3

Host CPU Architecture

AMD64, SPARC

Data ONTAP

7.1,2, 7.1.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.2L1

 

Unsupported platforms   

Limitations of hardware and software platform support for the iSCSI Solaris Host Utilities 3.0.1 for Native OS: ALUA with Solaris 10 Update 3 iSCSI is not supported. Although NetApp claimed support for iSCSI  ALUA with iSCSI Solaris Host Utilities 3.0 for Solaris 10 Update 2, NetApp no longer supports ALUA with iSCSI.

 

6.   Product Information

 

There is no license, part number, or price for this product offering.

 

Software Subscription Plans

 

Not applicable.

 

Upgrades

 

Not applicable. New versions of iSCSI Host Utilities are released periodically. See the SAN Support Matrix for the latest information.

                                                                                              

Quoting

 

Not applicable. iSCSI Host Utilities are free of charge.

 

Product Availability

The Solaris iSCSI software initiator is bundled with the Solaris 10 operating system. Documentation is also available from Sun.

NetApp iSCSI Host Utilities are available for download from NOW™ (NetApp on the Web) free of charge, with a valid NOW login ID.

NetApp continues to offer the Data ONTAP® iSCSI licenses free of charge to customers who meet the program requirements. Details of the free iSCSI license enablement program are available here. iSCSI in Data ONTAP is also supported over the TCP/IP Off-load Engines (TOEs) and iSCSI Target cards that are supported by Data ONTAP.

 

7.   Regulatory Compliance

 

Products must be validated against the Netapp Regulatory Compliance Country List prior to order submission. The list is available at PartnerCenter Compliance Information. This is required to ensure that products are being sold only in the countries in which NetApp has received regulatory compliance certification. For further information on this requirement, please see the Regulatory Compliance Verification Product Bulletin.

 

 

8.   Warranty and Service

 

Not applicable.

 

9.   Additional Information

 

See the SAN Host Support Matrix for the latest information.

 

Contact Information: Please contact your Network Appliance sales or channel partner representative with questions concerning this bulletin.

 

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