Cisco Cisco Fabric Manager Release 5.0

This section lists the guidelines recommended for upgrading Cisco Fabric Manager and includes the 
following topics:

If you plan to make use of the new Fabric Manager Server federation feature, then you need to follow a 
slightly different installation procedure for Cisco Fabric Manager. See the “Installation of Cisco MDS 
NX-OS and Fabric Manager” section in the Cisco Fabric Manager Fundamentals Configuration Guide for 
details.

If you do not plan to install a federation of servers, then the installation procedure is unchanged from 
Cisco Fabric Manager Release 4.1(3b). 

Cisco Fabric Manager is included on the CD-ROM that ships with the switch. You can install Fabric 
Manager from the CD-ROM or from files that you download. 

Installing Cisco Fabric Manager is a multistep 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 Cisco Fabric Manager Fundamentals Configuration Guide,

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 4.2(x), you will need to upgrade from 
Release 3.1(x) to Release 3.2(x) to Release 3.3(x) and then upgrade to NX-OS Release 4.2(x). 

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) or 4.2.x(Oracle)

3.3.x (PostgreSQL)

4.1.x (PostgreSQL)