Cisco Systems SN 5428 Network Equipment, IP Hosts, Graphical User Interface, Browser, Platform

System Requirements

Network Equipment

•The Gigabit Ethernet interfaces on the SN 5428 Storage Router use a flow control mechanism for stopping and starting traffic that prevents the loss of data. Flow control should also be turned on at the router’s Gigabit Ethernet interfaces where the SN 5428 Storage Router is connected.

•If the SN 5428 Storage Router is participating in a cluster (SCSI routing only), and the HA or management interfaces are plugged into a switch that has Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) enabled, the storage router should be considered as an end station and the affected ports on the switch should be configured appropriately. For example, set “portfast” on Cisco switches to cause the ports to immediately switch from blocking mode to forwarding mode. This helps prevent time-outs, which can cause unexpected behavior when storage routers join a cluster.

IP Hosts

To ensure the best performance for the SN 5428 Storage Router and the iSCSI drivers, the extended windowing feature of TCP and the receive and transmit flow control feature of the Gigabit Ethernet driver should be enabled on all IP hosts connecting to the SN 5428. On the SN 5428 Storage Router, you can use the CLI show scsirouter all connection tcp command to display the current and maximum TCP window size for each connected host.

Graphical User Interface

The SN 5428 Storage Router web-based GUI officially supports the following browsers. The browser must be enabled to support JavaScript and style sheets.

Browser	Platform
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.5 with service pack 2, or later	Microsoft Windows NT 4.0,
Note To use the HTTP Put File function to update software, you	Microsoft Windows 2000
must use Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0 or later
Netscape Navigator version 4.76	Linux
Netscape Navigator version 4.7	Sun Solaris

Note With certain versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, the links in the left frame may fail to function after performing a remote backup. If this occurs, click on the Maintenance menu link at the top of the page to reactivate the links.

iSCSI Driver Version Support

A Cisco SN 5428 Storage Router running software release 3.5.3 or later is interoperable with an IP host running any Cisco iSCSI Driver version 2.1.1 or later. It is not interoperable with an IP host running any Cisco iSCSI Driver version 1.8.x.

Release Notes for Cisco SN 5428 Storage Router Release 3.5.3

4 OL-6542-01