Installation guide

Acopia Networks, Inc.

New Features

Release 2.7.1 is a maintenance release for release 2.7.0. This release corrects anomalies in the 2.7.0

release. It does not offer new features.

Upgrade Paths

You can upgrade to 2.7.1 from any of the following releases:

• 2.4.3,

• 2.5.1,

• 2.5.2,

• 2.6.0, or

• 2.7.0.

New/Updated Certifications

There are no new client or file-server operating systems certified for use with the ARX.

For customers upgrading from Release 2.4.3, some certifications were added as of release 2.5.1. Acopia

has certified the following platforms for use with the ARX:

• Microsoft Vista Business Edition clients.

This is supported for Kerberos-only namespaces. The ARX does not support Microsoft Vista Home

Edition.

• IBM Total Storage NAS 300G V2.0.1 file servers.

This is supported for CIFS-only namespaces.

• Pillar Data Axiom V2.05 file servers.

This is supported for CIFS-only namespaces and NFS-only namespaces.

• Acopia Secure Agent (ASA) support on Windows2003 SP2 platforms.

Firmware

This release does not supersede the firmware upgrades from release 2.5.1.

However, there is a firmware upgrade for installations that are upgrading from Release 2.4.3 (which pre-

dated release 2.5.1). The firmware upgrade is for the ARX1000. After 2.7.1 is installed, you can use the

firmware upgrade command to install the firmware. For detailed syntax and guidelines, refer to the

Software Upgrade chapter in the CLI Reference.