Cisco Cisco MDS 9000 NX-OS Software Release 4.1

Installing Cisco Fabric Manager is a multi-step process that involves installing a database, as well as Fabric 
Manager. The complete installation instructions are provided in the “Installation of Cisco MDS NX-OS and 
Fabric Manager” section in the

and are 

available on-screen once you launch the Fabric Manager installer from the CD-ROM. 

When upgrading Fabric Manager, refer to the supported upgrade path shown in 

. For example, 

when upgrading from SAN-OS Release 3.1(x) to NX-OS Release 4.1(x), you will need to upgrade from 
Release 3.1(x) to Release 3.2(x) and then upgrade to NX-OS Release 4.1(x)

Fabric Manager Server can not be installed on an Active Directory Server when using PostgreSQL, 
Fabric Manager servers are domain controllers and can not create local PostgreSQL user accounts.

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(3). If you are currently running 
Windows 2000, we strongly recommend 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 

 for the supported upgrade paths for Cisco Fabric Manager.

Verify supported software. Cisco Fabric Manager has been tested with the following software:

Windows 2003 SP2, XP SP2, Windows Vista

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS Release 4 (Nahant Update 6)

Solaris (SPARC) 8, 9, and 10

VMWare ESX 3.5: 

Virtual Operating System: Windows 2003 SP2

Java Sun JRE and JDK 1.5(x) and JRE 1.6 are supported

3.0.x

3.1.x

3.1.x (HSQL)

3.2.x (Oracle)

3.1.x (HSQL)

3.2.x PostgreSQL

3.1.x (Oracle)

3.2.x (Oracle)

3.2.x (Oracle)

3.3.x (Oracle

3.2.x (PostgreSQL)

3.3.x (PostgreSQL)

3.3.x (Oracle)

4.1.x (Oracle

3.3.x (PostgreSQL)

4.1.x (PostgreSQL)