HP 4400 HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 6.4.1 Release Notes (5697-0760, November 201 - Page 7

RAS/Diagnostics/Troubleshooting enhancements, Security enhancements, Fabric Watch enhancements

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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. CEE enhancements Fabric OS 6.4.0 added support for IGMP snooping functionality on 2408 FCoE Converged Network switch and DC SAN Director Switch 10/24 blade. This implementation supports IPv4 version of IGMP v1/v2. IGMP Snooping allows multicast data to be forwarded to only interested member ports of a VLAN. Encryption enhancements The following software enhancements were made to the Encryption platforms (Encryption SAN Switch and DC Switch Encryption FC Blade) in Fabric OS 6.4.0: • Concurrent Disk and Tape Encryption support on the same Encryption Engine-This feature allows users to configure disk and tape containers on the same Encryption Engine (EE). In pre-Fabric OS 6.4.0, users needed to dedicate an Encryption Engine either for disk encryption or tape encryption. This restriction was lifted in Fabric OS 6.4.0. However, users must note that the encryption performance could be lower when both disk and tape encryption are concurrently performed on the same Encryption Engine, when compared to a scenario where an Encryption Engine would be performing either disk or tape encryption exclusively. HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 6.4.1 Release Notes 7

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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.
CEE enhancements
Fabric OS 6.4.0 added support for IGMP snooping functionality on 2408 FCoE Converged Network
switch and DC SAN Director Switch 10/24 blade. This implementation supports IPv4 version of IGMP
v1/v2. IGMP Snooping allows multicast data to be forwarded to only interested member ports of a
VLAN.
Encryption enhancements
The following software enhancements were made to the Encryption platforms (Encryption SAN Switch
and DC Switch Encryption FC Blade) in Fabric OS 6.4.0:
•
Concurrent Disk and Tape Encryption support on the same Encryption Engine
—
This feature allows
users to configure disk and tape containers on the same Encryption Engine (EE). In pre-Fabric OS
6.4.0, users needed to dedicate an Encryption Engine either for disk encryption or tape encryption.
This restriction was lifted in Fabric OS 6.4.0. However, users must note that the encryption per-
formance could be lower when both disk and tape encryption are concurrently performed on the
same Encryption Engine, when compared to a scenario where an Encryption Engine would be
performing either disk or tape encryption exclusively.
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