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HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes Part Number: 5697-1105 Second edition: July 2011 - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 2
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asynchronous notifications to chassis management software if the AG configuration is changed from CLI or Web Tools interfaces. Fabric OS 6.3.2a added a new CLI command, as documented in the section titled "Miscellaneous" on page 33 in these release notes. HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 4
6.3.2d. These enhancements are not fully documented in existing administrator guides or other materials, but will be captured in future updates and revisions. A brief summary of these enhancements follow: • Identification of Virtual Channel (VC) stuck or credit lost condition and generation of - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 5
-Allows ports on a DC SAN Backbone Director, DC04 SAN Director, 1606 Extension SAN Switch, HP 8/80 SAN Switch, or HP 8/40 SAN Switch to be configured as EX_Ports, supporting FCR. This eliminates the need to add a B-series Multiprotocol Router Blade or to use the 400 MP Router for FCR purposes, it - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 6
will not support FCoE bridging or FCoE Forwarding (FCF) capabilities. Temporary license support HP now supports temporary licenses or Universal Temporary Licenses. To obtain the Universal Temporary Licenses, select the Software Demo & Evaluation Downloads option at the HP website: www.software.hp - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 7
Task Group of IEEE 802.1 Working Group) • FC-BB-5, FCoE (Rev. 2.0.0, introduced with Fabric OS 6.3.0b) New hardware support No new hardware support is provided in Fabric OS 6.3.2d Supported product models Fabric OS 6.3.2d is supported on the following product models: • HP 4/32 SAN Switch (Brocade - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 8
or later is required. Access Gateway connectivity is supported by the switches listed in this section and also by the following B-series switches: • HP 4/16 SAN Switch (Brocade 200e) • HP 4/32 SAN Switch • HP 4/32B SAN Switch • HP 4/64 SAN Switch • HP 4/256 SAN Director • Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 9
not fully support newer hardware models, and problems may arise when configuring settings through these older products. NOTE: Do not configure zoning through a switch operating with Fabric OS 3.x in a fabric that has products operating with later versions of Fabric OS. HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 10
benefit from the SAN. For a list of retired products, see the HP website: http://www.hp.com IMPORTANT: The Fabric OS versions listed in the Earliest compatible version column in Table 1 are the earliest versions supported by HP for connection to switches running Fabric OS 6.3.2d at the time of that - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 11
modes 3 and 4 only Not supported (support ended September 2009) N/A HP SAN Switch 2/8V HP SAN Switch 2/16V HP SAN Switch 2/32 HP SAN Director 2/128 5.3.2b 5.3.2c HP 4/8 SAN Switch HP 4/16 SAN Switch 6.2.2c 6.2.2e HP 4/256 SAN Director HP 4/64 SAN Switch HP B-series MP Router Blade (FR4-18i - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 12
to any products running Fabric OS 6.3. For information about HP support of interoperable fabrics, see HP Merging Fabrics Based on M-series and B-series Fibre Channel Switches Application Notes, available at http://www.hp.com. 3 HP strongly recommends that M-EOS products operate with the most recent - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 13
Admin Domains, HP recommends upgrading to DCFM 10.4.x because it includes Admin Domain support, although some support is limited. See the Data Center Fabric Manager User Guide for 10.4.x for further details. 10 Fabric Manager is not supported with Fabric OS 6.3.x and later. 11HP B-series SAN Network - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 14
, with a maximum of two blades per director. The DC SAN Director Switch 10/24 FCoE Blade can be installed in the same chassis only with FC8-xx and/or FC10-6 blades. It is not supported in the chassis with any other blades. Power supply requirements for Director blades Table 4 lists power supply - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 15
more FS8-18 blades, (2+2) 220 VAC power supplies are required for redundancy. For one or two FS8-18 blades, only two power supplies are required for redundancy. FCR) scalability support, see the HP SAN Design Reference Guide, available at: http://www.hp.com/go/sandesignguide HP B-series Fabric OS - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 16
of the new OUI will neither be validated nor enforced series switches that is ideally suited for small- and medium-size businesses that need a lightweight management product to manage their smaller fabrics (one physical fabric at a time, up to 1,000 ports). HP Network Advisor Professional supports - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 17
and Support contracts are provided a seamless migration path to HP Network Advisor Enterprise. DCFM compatibility Fabric OS 6.3.2d is fully compatible with DCFM 10.3.x and 10.4.x management software. DCFM is a comprehensive SAN management application that enables end-to-end management of HP B-series - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 18
the earliest versions of software supported in this release, that is, the earliest supported software versions that interoperate. HP recommends using the latest software versions to get the greatest benefit from the SAN. When using the Virtual Fabrics (VF) feature, HP recommends that all switches - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 19
OS Hot Code Load with FCR Yes Yes Zone Activation Support Yes Yes11 Traffic Isolation Zones1 Yes No Frame Redirection (devices Load Sharing (DLS, port-based routing) Yes Yes Virtual Channels (VC RDY) Yes2 Yes2 FICON Management Server N/A HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes 19 - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 20
Fabrics Yes Yes7 Alias Server No No Platform Service No No FCIP (VE_Ports) Yes Yes IPFC Virtual Fabrics Yes Yes Logical Fabric using LISLs (XISLs in base Fabric) No No Port Fencing Yes Yes Bottleneck Detection Yes Yes *The feature is available, but not tested or supported - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 21
Information Processing Standards (FIPS) mode, and has only LDAP authentication support, and is upgraded to Fabric OS 6.3, login will fail. Therefore, if the 6.2 switch is in the FIPS mode, you should configure both LDAP and local authentications before HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes 21 - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 22
on one node at a time before downloading on another node. Firmware upgrade instructions IMPORTANT: HP recommends that you upgrade to Fabric OS 6.3.2d as soon as possible to take advantage of the fixes and new features. Upgrading to Fabric OS 6.3.2d is allowed only from Fabric OS 6.2.x. For more - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 23
across all six GE ports. HP recommends software compression for lowthroughput links and supports throughput up to 2 Gb/s supports only up to four 1-Gb circuits per VE/FCIP tunnel for the 1-Gb interfaces. A VE/FCIP tunnel created over 10-Gb interfaces will HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes 23 - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 24
If a mismatch exists, the tunnel will not be established and the TCP virtual connections will be removed. • Under traffic support autosense functions. • Inserting a 4 Gb SFP in GE ports of an HP 1606 Extension SAN Switch or DC SAN Director Multiprotocol Extension Blade, can occasionally return one - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 25
Director Switch 10/24 FCoE Blade support the configuration of multiple CEE maps, HP recommends that you use only one CEE map on all interfaces connected one of the login groups to satisfy the requirement to keep the login group name unique in the fabric-wide configuration. • Ethernet switch services - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 26
shipped from the factory with 6.3.1a or later installed that is capable of supporting VF will have it enabled by default. • When creating ISLs are supported on the DC SAN Director Switch Multiprotocol Extension Blade. XISLs are not supported. • On an HP 8/40 SAN switch with Virtual Fabrics enabled, - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 27
6.3x that are reset to a default configuration. Use fcrbcast --enable to explicitly enable IPFC over FCR. Broadcast frame forwarding in FCR fabric Broadcast frame forwarding is not supported in an FCR SAN Switch must be running Fabric OS 6.1 or later. HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes 27 - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 28
, I/O will recover and one M-series switch. Fabric OS switches in interopmode 3 (McDATA Open Fabric Mode) do not support configuration of zoning without an M-series switch in the fabric. When migrating from M-series to B-series switches, all B-series or earlier, only manual distribution can be used - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 29
will be broken if the port mirror resources are spread over multiple port groups. • Port Mirroring is not supported on the 1606 Extension SAN Switch. • See the portMirror command in the Command Reference Guide shown that ports in the process of going offline may exhibit bursts of errors. Waiting the - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 30
refer to the latest Fabric OS Administrator Guide. ICLs • If a DC SAN Director will continuously reset. The Adaptive Networking SID/DID Traffic Prioritization QoS feature is not supported on Extended Fabrics E_Ports when IDLE primitives are configured on these ports. In this mode, only data virtual - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 31
and as fill words, which works for 1-Gb, 2-Gb, 4-Gb Reference Manual supporting Fabric fixed at 8-Gb speeds. • Changing the mode after Fabric OS 6.1.2x or later has been installed If you change the mode after installing will default to the new mode setting. • Other scenarios HP B-series Fabric - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 32
or is fixed at 8 Gb, the configured mode will take effect 0c and later (HP did not support 6.1.2c or 6.2. installed in the factory, the default setting for all internal and external ports is mode 0. The setting can be changed by the user on a port-by-port basis and will be persistent. Upgrading to one - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 33
supported with XP storage arrays will not be equal to port number, which may impact servers such as FICON or static PID bind servers that need area equal to port numbers to log in to the fabric successfully. To avoid this issue, customers can bind PIDs using the portaddress --bind HP B-series - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 34
installed. Field upgrade to a later version of Fabric OS will not resolve this situation. For environments in which this will be an issue, the specified workaround will process: If the LUN was previously encrypted by the HP Encryption Switch or HP Encryption Blade, the LUN can be added to the CTC - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 35
one node at a time. 3. After all nodes have been successfully upgraded, using the notes taken in step 1, manually were intermittent management network connectivity problems. A fix for this issue is in the Fabric OS issuing the CLI command cfgtransshow: HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes 35 - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 36
for encryption, HP Encryption Switch only one Ethernet of fresh install run cryptocfg problems. • The HTTP server should be listening to port 9443. SKM is supported only when configured to port 9443. • Configuring a Brocade group on SKM: As described in the Fabric OS Encryption Administrator's Guide - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 37
is supported. See the Encryption Admin Guide for configuration information. If you are using dual SKMs on Encryption SAN Switch/Encryption FC blade Encryption Group, these SKM Appliances must be clustered. Failure to cluster will result in key creation failure. Otherwise, register only one SKM - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 38
supported for Fabric OS 6.3.x. • HCL from Fabric OS 6.2.x to 6.3.2 is supported. Cryptographic operations and I/O will be disrupted but other layer 2 traffic will , use one of the following methods: • Method 1 1. Modify the LUN policy from encrypt to cleartext and commit. The LUN will become disabled - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 39
in the SKM user guide, "Configuring the Key enablement is required, HP strongly recommends that it will not work until both the SKM nodes are available. However, there will not be any issue for retrieving keys or using the existing setup as long as one HP-UX, LUN 0 can appear as 0x0 or - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 40
documents are available on www.hp.com in the "manuals" section for switches that support that version of Fabric OS (the "manuals" section is accessible once : The Fabric OS FCIP Administrator Guide and Fabric OS Command Reference documents are updated to reflect new support and changes in Fabric OS - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 41
the -sfbn option Workaround prior to upgrade: Manually reboot the switch after firmwarerestore. Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2. As a result of firmwaredownload blade to clear the faulty state. Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2. Intermittent network connection problem led to failure of the management interface - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 42
an EX_Port and then configure it back to an F/E_Port to fix the problem port. Execute the following instructions: 1. Disable the F/E_Port. 2. Configure the F/E_Port as an does not recover it. This issue affects only the HP 2408 FCoE switch and 10/24 FCoE blade. Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2. After a - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 43
matrix by issuing the following commands: 1. fcrlsanmatrix -remove -fcr wwn wwn 2. fcrlsanmatrix -apply fcr Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2. WWN PID static binding was setup on the switch the encryption switch to recover the switch. Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2. HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes 43 - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 44
address such as msd, nsd, fabric controller, etc., before the switch route setup is completed. The PLOGIs are held in queue without being ACC'd until the route setup is completed, but the issue is that once the setup is done, only one of the PLOGIs is ACC'd and the rest are dropped. Applies to any - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 45
will have incorrect QoS distributions with large I/O. Occurs when running all three QoW priorities on a circuit that is a multiple of 1 Gb/s and effects the distribution of traffic, which could lead to performance issue. Fixed Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2. HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes 45 - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 46
does not support the Path Down function in IM2 mode. Fabric becomes unstable and segments when one leg of a Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2. TI Zone with Failover Disabled is disrupted. In an encryption environment, tape devices intermittently show offline condition to the host. Observed in setup where - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 47
to recover. Switch had to be reset to recover. Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2. With tape issue with DC04 SAN director or 1606 extension switch. Workaround prior to upgrade: Use VE_Ports 16-31. Fixed Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2a. to timeouts in handling multiple stats calls in parallel. HP B-series - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 48
with 4Gb 48 port blade installed, the CP blade faults recovery during firmware download or when management 4/16, 4Gb switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem or 4Gb switch for HP c-Class Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2a. is detected. Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2a. On 8Gb switches, constant link resets occur when - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 49
by switches in Access Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2a. Gateway mode, leading to memory corruption and switch agdd panic. Formatting of errdump messages resulting from changes made to support virtual fabrics causes some firmware upgrade log messages related to the previously installed version of Fabric OS - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 50
server database, and affects 8Gb FCR only. Workaround prior to upgrade: Remove the device issuing the PLOGI to offline ports from the fabric to avoid the problem. Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2a. Fabric OS 6.3.2b fixes Table 8 lists defects closed in the Fabric OS 6.3.2b firmware release Table 8 Fabric - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 51
Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2b. Customers may be unable to upgrade from Fabric OS 6.2.0x to 6.3.x on an HP 4/256 SAN Director with an HP B-Series switch panic. Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2b. With Virtual Fabrics (VF) enabled and Radius server configured, customers may see RAS-1004 Software 'Verify' errors - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 52
HP SAN Director 48-port 8Gb FC Blade in an HP DC SAN Backbone Director. This may occur after the remote trunk master goes offline and then comes back online. Fixed the device after the proxy Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2c. translation failed in a backbone to edge FCR setup. After upgrading a fabric - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 53
are available through the CLI but Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2c. not through SNMP. After a device performs a LOGO, followed by port offline and online events, the switch route log should leave Bottleneck Detection disabled. Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2c. HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes 53 - HP 4400 | HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2d Release Notes (5697-1105, July 2011) - Page 54
defects Closed defect summary Solution Upon disabling one link of a two-port trunk, the HP DC SAN Backbone Director Switch encountered both CPs panicking within three minutes. Fixed in Fabric OS 6.3.2d. This is a topology and upgrade path specific issue. Hosts may lose access to storage after
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Part Number: 5697-1105
Second edition: July 2011