PRODUCT BULLETIN

PB-iSCSI-Solaris-Host-Utilities-3.0-for-Native-OS-0107

iSCSI Solaris™ Host Utilities 3.0 for Native OS

Last Updated:  18 January 2007

Original Date:  18 January 2007 

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All rights reserved.

 

Revisions History

 

Date of Revision

Summary of Change

 18 January 2007

Initial version

 

1.      Summary

2.      What's New?

3.      Sales Tools

4.      Customer-Ready Tools 

5.      System Requirements

6.      Product Information

7.      Warranty and Service

8.      Additional Information

 

1.   Summary

This product bulletin announces the availability of the iSCSI Solaris Host Utilities 3.0 for Native OS for First Customer Ship.

The iSCSI Solaris Host Utilities provide a set of documentation and utilities for simplifying configuration and troubleshooting of Solaris iSCSI deployments connecting to NetApp storage systems.

2.   What's New?                                                                          

The iSCSI Solaris Host Utilities 3.0 for Native OS are the follow-on release of the Solaris iSCSI Support Kit 1.0. The naming scheme has been changed to match that of Fibre Channel Host Utilities.

1.       Support for Solaris 10 Update 2 software iSCSI initiator (Solaris 10 Update 2 is sometimes also referred to as Solaris 10 6/06 Release). In this release of Solaris, Sun introduced:

·         Support for Multiple Sessions per Target (MS/T). This allows host to create multiple iSCSI sessions to a single target.

·         Support for iSCSI ‘static discovery’. This corrects a known issue found in Solaris 10 Update 1 with the Sun™ native software initiator.

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 configurations supported by the iSCSI Solaris Host Utilities.

Host CPU

·         AMD64

·         SPARC

Host OS

·         Solaris 10 Update 2

Data ONTAP®

·         7.0.5

·         7.1.1.1

·         7.2.1

·         Static Discovery – Static Discovery with the Solaris 10 Update 2 software iSCSI initiator has been fixed & is now supported. In Solaris 10 Update 1 there was a known issue with static discovery (See Public Burt #195104). Please see Knowledge Base article 13278 for additional information.

            Unsupported Platforms

The following lists the configurations not supported by the iSCSI Solaris Host Utilities:

·         Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS) – Although Sun claims support for iSNS client support with Solaris 10 Update 2 iSCSI, NetApp does not support this due to known issues discovered in testing & which remain unresolved (See Public Burt #230557).

6.   Product Information

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

Software Subscription Plans

Not applicable to iSCSI Host Utilities.

Upgrades

Not applicable with iSCSI Host Utilities. New versions of iSCSI Host Utilities periodically occur. Please see the SAN Support Matrix for the latest support information.

Quoting                                                         

Not applicable with iSCSI Host Utilities. NetApp iSCSI Host Utilities are available free of charge.

Product Availability

The Solaris S/W iSCSI initiator is available bundled with Solaris 10 Update 2. Documentation is also available from Sun.

NetApp iSCSI Host Utilities and Support Kits are available for download from NOW™ (NetApp on the Web) free of charge.

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

7.  Warranty and Service  

 ·      Not applicable.

8.   Additional Information

See the SAN Host Support Matrix for the latest information.

Sun Solaris 10 Release names:

·        Solaris 10 11/06 Release – a.k.a. Solaris 10 Update 3

·        Solaris 10 6/06 Release – a.k.a. Solaris 10 Update 2

·        Solaris 10 1/06 Release – a.k.a. Solaris 10 Update 1

·        Solaris 10 3/05 Release – a.k.a. Solaris 10

See “What’s New in the Solaris 10 6/06 Release” from Sun for additional information on Solaris 10 Update 2.

Contact Information:  Please contact your Network Appliance™ Sales or Channel Partner Representative with questions about this bulletin.

 

 

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