Brocade Communications Systems A7990A - StorageWorks SAN Director 4/16 Blade Switch Betriebsanweisung

HP B–series Fabric OS 6.3.2e Release NotesHP Part Number: 5697-1816Published: March 2012Edition: 1

• HP 400 Multiprotocol Router (Brocade 7500)• HP Encryption SAN Switch (Brocade BES)• HP DC04 SAN Director (Brocade DCX-4S)• HP DC SAN Backbone Direct

Access Gateway connectivity is supported by the switches listed in this section and also by thefollowing B-series switches:• HP 4/16 SAN Switch (Broca

NOTE: Do not configure zoning through a switch operating with Fabric OS 3.x in a fabric thathas products operating with later versions of Fabric OS.Pr

Table 1 Supported Fabric OS versionsRecommended versionEarliest compatible versionModel3.2.1c1,6,73.2.1cHP MSA SAN Switch 2/8N/ANot supported (support

Table 1 Supported Fabric OS versions (continued)HP 8/80 SAN Switch7.0.16.3.2dHP Encryption SAN Switch7.0.16.3.2dHP 1606 Extension SAN Switch (Brocade

Table 2 4/256 SAN Director blade support matrixNumber of bladesDirector bladeSupported with any mix, with up to eight blades of each type.No intermix

Table 4 Power supplies required for blades in Director chassisDC SAN Backbone Director and DC04SAN Director4/256 SAN DirectorDirector bladeTwo power s

should be downgraded to a version of Fabric OS that does not recognize this new OUI. It is alsoimportant to note that specific minimum requirements fo

DCFM is available in three versions (see the DCFM release notes for full support details):• DCFM Professional—An application bundled with B-series swi

Web Tools compatibility• Fabric OS 6.3 is supported with JRE 1.6.0 Update 13.• If the JRE 1.6.0 version is not Update 13, the DCFM server/client and B

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Table 5 Feature support in interopmodes 2 and 3 (continued)NoNoAdaptive Networking QoSNo*No*Adaptive Networking: Ingress Rate LimitingNo*No*Advanced P

3DPS is supported outbound from Fabric OS-based switches. M-EOS can provide reciprocal loadbalancing using Open Trunking.4SCC policies are supported o

Firmware upgrade instructionsIMPORTANT: HP recommends that you upgrade to Fabric OS 6.3.2e as soon as possible to takeadvantage of the fixes and new f

after the addition or deletion of the circuit. This allows the switch to adjust the internal routesto fully utilize the new bandwidth.• Switching mode

• Both ends of a tunnel must be identically configured for the Compression, FastWrite, and TapePipeline options. If a mismatch exists, the tunnel will

• HP recommends that Spanning Tree Protocol and its variants be disabled on CEE interfacesthat are connected to a server.• The Fabric Provided MAC Add

• When rebooting a DC SAN director or DC04 SAN director with DC SAN 10/24 FCoE blade,Qlogic CNA and LSAN zoning, the switch becomes unresponsive for a

Director or DC04 SAN Director to other switches must come up after 6.0 is running on thoseswitches.• Flow-based QoS is not supported on any 8-Gb Fibre

Integrated routing• To allow HCL on an 8/40 SAN Switch when using Integrated Routing, the edge switchconnected to the 8/40 SAN Switch must be running

FL_Port (loop) support• The 8-Gb 48-port Fibre Channel blade now supports the attachment of loop devices in theDC SAN Backbone Director and DC04 SAN D

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ZoningBeginning with Fabric OS 6.2.0, all WWNs containing uppercase characters are automaticallyconverted to lowercase when associated with a zone ali

When connecting to an extension device that does not support ARB primitives (such as some TDMproducts), the following configuration must be used:• por

• Other scenariosThe portCfgFillWord command has no effect on 1-Gb, 2-Gb, or 4-Gb devices, but themode is persistent. If a device attempts to negotiat

to a version later than 6.3.1c does notaffect the current mode settings.command are persistent, and will thereforeremain at mode 1 after Fabric OS upg

issued. Fabric OS 6.3.1b and later now reclassifies these messages as warnings, rather thancritical errors.• A new command has been introduced in Fabr

6.2.x to 6.3.2. Note that the following procedure is required only under the above-mentionedconditions.1. Before the firmware upgrade, change the Fail

There is no outstanding zoning transaction• Each LUN is uniquely identified by the HP Encryption Switch or HP Encryption Blade usingthe LUN’s ser

crypto operations or commands (except node initialization) being available on the membernodes after the power-cycle. This condition persists until the

• SKM is supported with Multiple Nodes and Dual SKM Key Vaults. Two-way certificate exchangeis supported. See the Encryption Admin Guide for configura

EE Attributes: Link IP Addr : 10.32.50.36 Link GW IP Addr: 10.32.48.1 Link Net Mask : 255.255.240.0

FC FastWrite...28Native connectivity

Documentation UpdatesThis section provides information on last minute additions and corrections to the documentation.The most recent Fabric OS 6.3 doc

Table 6 Fabric OS 6.3.2 closed defectsSolutionClosed defect summaryFixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2.A switch panic occurs during firmwaredownload with termina

Table 6 Fabric OS 6.3.2 closed defects (continued)Workaround prior to upgrade: Use theCLI.Access Control Lists are not getting populated, even though

Table 6 Fabric OS 6.3.2 closed defects (continued)Workaround prior to upgrade: Disablethe E_Port on the encryption switch torecover the switch.Rolling

Table 6 Fabric OS 6.3.2 closed defects (continued)Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2.CALD terminated and logical switch delete failed with reason Could notget p

Table 6 Fabric OS 6.3.2 closed defects (continued)Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2.In an encryption environment, tape devices intermittently show offlinecondi

Table 7 Fabric OS 6.3.2a closed defectsSolutionClosed defect summaryFixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2a.In a fabric containing the encryption switch and/or encr

Table 7 Fabric OS 6.3.2a closed defects (continued)on a primary shared area port after a secondary shared area F_Port goesthough a route recalculation

Table 8 Fabric OS 6.3.2b closed defects (continued)do not match, causing the command to fail and resulting in data corruptionon the tape.Workaround pr

Table 8 Fabric OS 6.3.2b closed defects (continued)Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2b.In an AG fabric, DXFM/FM/SMI proxy switch sends a GAGI request toanother

Version6.3.2eNOTE: This software conforms to the Fibre Channel (FC) standards and accepted engineeringpractices and procedures.DescriptionFabric OS 6.

Table 9 Fabric OS 6.3.2c closed defects (continued)SolutionClosed defect summaryFixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2c.After upgrading a fabric switch from Fabric

Table 9 Fabric OS 6.3.2c closed defects (continued)SolutionClosed defect summaryFixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2c.There previously was no easy way to diagnose

Table 11 Fabric OS 6.3.2e closed defects (continued)SolutionClosed defect summaryFixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2e.Migration failures may occur between server

• Addition of Class 3 frame transmit timeout discard counter support for 4Gb platforms.Previously, 4Gb platforms supported only receive (Rx) timeout c

Prioritization and Ingress Rate Limiting features are the first components of this license andare available on all 8Gb platforms.• Integrated Routing

increased element management functionality and management task aggregation throughoutthe environment. This license is used in conjunction with the DCF

Standards complianceThis software conforms to the FC standards and accepted engineering practices and procedures.In certain cases, HP might add propri