HP 4400 HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 6.4.0c Release Notes (5697-0703, September 2 - Page 4

Fabric OS Administrator's Guide

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• Bottleneck Detection enhancements • Support for congestion detection on E, EX, and F-ports. This is in addition to the latency bottleneck detection feature introduced in Fabric OS 6.3. • Support for bottleneck detection alerts through SNMP traps and RAS logs • Support for switch-wide enablement of both latency and congestion bottleneck monitoring • Enhanced traffic isolation zones • Support for common devices in multiple TI zones with failover disabled or failover enabled • Allow devices in a failover disabled TI zone to communicate with local devices (devices attached to the same switch) that are not part of the same TI zone • Ensure that Domain Controller connectivity between switches in a fabric are not affected by TI zone policies • Lossless DLS enhancements • Support for Lossless DLS with DPS (Exchange based routing) • Option to specify IOD (In Order Delivery) with port based and exchange based routing policies • Virtual Fabrics enhancements • Dynamic Area Addressing support for the Default Switch in HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone and DC04 SAN Directors • Security enhancements • Support FCAP authentication using third-party self signed certificates • Fabric Watch enhancements • New non-menu-driven CLI Config to configure thresholds for Fabric Watch classes • RAS/Diagnostics/Troubleshooting Enhancements • Frame monitoring: Ability to monitor individual frame types such as SCSI Reservation, Basic Accept, Basic Reject, SCSI READ, SCSI Write, etc. and configure thresholds via fmConfig and thConfig CLIs • Super Ping: Enhancements to the FC ping functionality to provide more coverage of multiple data paths that exist between a source domain and destination device • Rolling Reboot Detection (RRD): Ability to detect unexpected continuous reboot condition of switches NOTE: For switches shipped from the factory with 6.3.1a Fabric OS and later installed, the following default characteristics of the switch were revised: • Virtual fabrics are enabled by default. See the Fabric OS Administrator's Guide for 6.4.0 for in- formation on the configuration of VF. The following switches support virtual fabrics: • DC SAN Backbone director (DCX) • DC04 SAN director (DCX-4S) • 8/40 SAN Switch (5100) • 8/80 SAN Switch (5300) • Increase maximum logins per port to 255 4

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Bottleneck Detection enhancements
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Support for congestion detection on E, EX, and F-ports. This is in addition to the latency bottle-
neck detection feature introduced in Fabric OS 6.3.
•
Support for bottleneck detection alerts through SNMP traps and RAS logs
•
Support for switch-wide enablement of both latency and congestion bottleneck monitoring
•
Enhanced traffic isolation zones
•
Support for common devices in multiple TI zones with failover disabled or failover enabled
•
Allow devices in a failover disabled TI zone to communicate with local devices (devices attached
to the same switch) that are not part of the same TI zone
•
Ensure that Domain Controller connectivity between switches in a fabric are not affected by TI
zone policies
•
Lossless DLS enhancements
•
Support for Lossless DLS with DPS (Exchange based routing)
•
Option to specify IOD (In Order Delivery) with port based and exchange based routing policies
•
Virtual Fabrics enhancements
•
Dynamic Area Addressing support for the Default Switch in HP StorageWorks DC SAN Back-
bone and DC04 SAN Directors
•
Security enhancements
•
Support FCAP authentication using third-party self signed certificates
•
Fabric Watch enhancements
•
New non-menu-driven CLI Config to configure thresholds for Fabric Watch classes
•
RAS/Diagnostics/Troubleshooting Enhancements
•
Frame monitoring
: Ability to monitor individual frame types such as SCSI Reservation, Basic
Accept, Basic Reject, SCSI READ, SCSI Write, etc. and configure thresholds via fmConfig and
thConfig CLIs
•
Super Ping
: Enhancements to the FC ping functionality to provide more coverage of multiple
data paths that exist between a source domain and destination device
•
Rolling Reboot Detection (RRD)
: Ability to detect unexpected continuous reboot condition of
switches
NOTE:
For switches shipped from the factory with 6.3.1a Fabric OS and later installed, the following default
characteristics of the switch were revised:
•
Virtual fabrics are enabled by default. See the
Fabric OS Administrator's Guide
for 6.4.0 for in-
formation on the configuration of VF. The following switches support virtual fabrics:
•
DC SAN Backbone director (DCX)
•
DC04 SAN director (DCX-4S)
•
8/40 SAN Switch (5100)
•
8/80 SAN Switch (5300)
•
Increase maximum logins per port to 255
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