Chapter 1 Important Information About This Release

This chapter lists new features provided in this release.

New Features

The following features have been added or substantially changed in this release:

• Improved installation

• Support for B100n blades

  • Solaris^TM x86 platform

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1

• Limited support for dual SSC configurations

• Support for flash as an archive type (Solaris only)

• Support for the JumpStart^TM software as a deployment option (Solaris only)

  • “Pseudo” image

  • Supports customization of profiles

• Preconfigured images provided for the Solaris software on SPARC^TM and on x86 architectures

• Image wizard

• Support for Sun Fire B10n blades

  • Improved representation of load balancers

  • Separate VLANs for data, service, and management traffic

  • Device and path failover modes

• Improved support for unmanaged devices

• Ability to import and export farms from the Control Center

• Improved localization support for non-ASCII characters

• Multiple database support including the free PostgresSQL database

• Improved security

DVD-ROM Contents

The N1 Provisioning Server 3.1, Blades Edition product is shipped on a DVD-ROM. The directory structure is as follows:

README

Text file that contains important information

./docs

Directory that contains user documentation

./Images/solaris9u5-sun4ublade-flash and ./Images/solaris9u5-i86pc-flash

Solaris 9 Operating System images for blade systems

./install

Executable for installing the product

./installer

Directory that contains installer support files

./Solaris

Directory that contains all N1 Provisioning Server software packages, including Java Runtime Environment 1.4.1, the SunOne Application Server 7.0, and Content Load Balancing software for Solaris and Linux clients

./uninstall_PS

Executable for uninstalling the product