HP 1606 HP B-series Fabric OS 6.4.1b Release Notes (5697-0886, March 2011-incl - Page 6

blade. IPsec is supported on the FCIP tunnels configured on 1GbE and 10GbE ports of the extension blade. • IPv6 support on 1606 Extension SAN Switch and DC SAN Director Switch Multiprotocol Extension blade FCIP ports-Fabric OS 6.4.0 added IPv6 support for 1GbE/10GbE FCIP ports on the DC SAN Director Switch Multiprotocol Extension blade and on the 1GbE ports on the 1606 Extension SAN Switch platform. • VEX support on DC SAN Director Switch Multiprotocol Extension blade-Fabric OS 6.4.0 release added support for the VEX ports on the DC SAN Director Switch Multiprotocol Extension blade in both VF-enabled and VF-disabled modes. • DSCP Marking support on 1606 Extension SAN Switch and DC SAN Director Switch Multiprotocol Extension blade FCIP ports-Fabric OS 6.4.0 enabled DSCP marking support on DC SAN Director Switch Multiprotocol Extension blade and 1606 Extension SAN Switch platform. The Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) is a way of classifying traffic to allow network administrators to determine the per-hop behavior of any given IP packet. • Support for four DC SAN Director Switch Multiprotocol Extension blades per chassis-Fabric OS 6.4.0 increased the support for the maximum number of DC SAN Director Switch Multiprotocol Extension blades supported in a DC SAN Backbone and DC04 SAN Director chassis from 2 to 4. • Troubleshooting enhancements - New tperf diagnostic CLI-Fabric OS 6.4.0 added support for a new FCIP diagnostic CLI tperf used to determine tunnel characteristics, generate High, Medium, Low priority traffic, generate random traffic patterns, enable payload CRC checks, test with different PDU sizes, etc. RAS/Diagnostics/Troubleshooting enhancements • Frame Monitoring-This feature enhances configuration of existing filter based monitors supported by APM (Advanced Performance Monitor) and Fabric Watch monitoring for filter based monitors. It provides a common interface fmConfig for defining frame monitors and configuring thresholds, and alerts for individual frame types. This feature enables you to monitor various types of frames such as SCSI Reservation, Basic Accept, SCSI Read, SCSI Write, etc. Alerting is supported via RASLOGs, SNMP traps and email alerts. • FC Ping Enhancements (Super Ping)-Fabric OS 6.4.0 enhanced the FC ping functionality to run sanity tests (ping) all data paths between a source domain and destination device. • Rolling Reboot Detection-Fabric OS 6.4.0 implemented the ability to detect rolling reboot condition, which is an extremely rare and unexpected condition where a switch reboots continuously. Once Rolling Reboot condition is detected, system stops booting Fabric OS and enables users to login to the switch and gather supportsave information for failure analysis. Security enhancements Fabric OS 6.4.0 added support for FCAP authentication using third-party self signed certificates. Starting with Fabric OS 6.4.0 both Brocade issued certificates and/or third-party self signed certificates can be used for FCAP authentication. Prior to Fabric OS 6.4.0 only Brocade issued certificates were supported. Fabric Watch enhancements • Fabric OS 6.4.0 introduced a new non-menu-driven CLI thConfig to configure thresholds for Fabric, Security, SFP, Filter, and EE classes. The functionality supported by the thConfig CLI is equivalent to fwConfigure CLI except that fwConfigure is menu driven. Users are encouraged to use thConfig CLI as fwConfigure CLI will be deprecated in future releases. • Sysmonitor CLI has been enhanced to support flash and temperature monitoring in Fabric OS 6.4.0. 6