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iSCSI Windows® Host Utilities 3.1 for Native OS

Last Updated: 12 June 2007

Original Date: 12 June 2007

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 Windows Host Utilities 3.1 for Native OS.

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

2. What’s New?

The iSCSI Windows Host Utilities 3.1 for Native OS supersedes the iSCSI Windows Host Utilities 3.0 for Native OS, and adds support for the Microsoft® software iSCSI initiator version 2.04.

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

TR 3441: iSCSI Multipathing Possibilities on Windows with Data ONTAP® 7.1

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 Windows Host Utilities 3.1 for Native OS:

Microsoft software iSCSI initiator	2.04, 2.03
Host OS	Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2
Host CPU Architecture	x86, x64 (AMD64, EM64T), IA-64
Data ONTAP	7.1.2, 7.1.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.2L1

Unsupported platforms

The following lists limitations of hardware and software platform support for the iSCSI Windows Host Utilities 3.1 for Native OS:

· Data ONTAP DSM 3.0 – The NetApp Data ONTAP DSM 3.0 does not support iSCSI and cannot co-exist with the Microsoft iSCSI DSM.

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. Please see the SAN Support Matrix for the latest information.

Quoting

Not applicable. iSCSI Host Utilities are free of charge.

Product Availability

The Microsoft iSCSI software initiator is available free of charge for download from Microsoft.com. The Microsoft iSCSI DSM is included in this initiator bundle. Documentation is also available from Microsoft.

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 Data ONTAP supported TCP/IP Off-load Engines (TOEs) and iSCSI Target cards.

7. Regulatory Compliance

Products need to 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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