Chapter 1 What's New in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3.3

This chapter details the new hardware and operating systems supported in the Sun N1^TM System Manager 1.3.3 release.

New Hardware and Operating System Support in N1 System Manager 1.3.3

N1 System Manager 1.3.3 supports Solaris 10 11/06 on the management server.

The N1 System Manager 1.3.3 release provides the following new hardware and operating system support.

For a complete list of hardware and operating systems supported by N1 System Manager, see Chapter 3, Supported Hardware and Operating Systems.

Table 1–1 New Hardware and Operating System Support in N1 System Manager 1.3.3


Hardware	Provisionable OS	Minimum Firmware Version	Recommended Firmware Version
Sun Blade^TM T6300	Solaris 10 11/06	6.3.6	6.3.6
Sun Blade X6220	Solaris 10 11/06 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 AS Update 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 AS Update 8 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Windows 2003	SW 1.0/ILOM 1.1.6/ BIOS ABJT024	SW 1.0/ILOM 1.1.6/ BIOS ABJT024
Netra^TM X4200 M2	Solaris 10 11/06 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Update 8, 32-bit and 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Update 4, 32-bit and 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3, 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10	1.1.7	1.1.7
Sun Fire V125	Solaris 10 11/06	1.6.3	1.6.3
Sun Blade X8420	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 AS Update 3, 64-bit SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3, 64-bit Solaris 10 6/06, 64-bit Windows 2003 SE and EE SP1, 32-bit Windows 2003 SE and EE, 64-bit	SW 1.2/ILOM 1.1.5/BIOS 0ABJL032	SW 1.2/ILOM 1.1.5/BIOS 0ABJL032

Upgrading From N1 System Manager 1.3.1 and 1.3.2

You can upgrade to N1 System Manager 1.3.3. from the 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 releases. You can directly upgrade to 1.3.3 from 1.3.1 and 1.3.2. A partial upgrade is required from 1.3 to 1.3.1 to upgrade to 1.3.3.

The upgrade procedure to N1 System Manager 1.3.3 is identical to the upgrade procedure to N1 System Manager 1.3.2 from N1 System Manager 1.3.1. See Upgrading to Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for details.

Online Help Updates for New System Support

This section details some minor additions that were added to the online help for the N1 System Manager 1.3.3 release. The following model names are required for the firmware-related commands: create firmware, delete firmware, and show firmware.

Table 1–2 Updated Model Name Values for Firmware Commands


System Name	Firmware Command Model Name Value
Sun Blade T6300	`SB-T6300`
Sun Blade X6220	`X6220`
Netra X4200 M2	`NETRA-X4200M2`
Sun Fire V125	`SF-V125`
Sun Blade X8420	`X8420`