HP StorageWorks 2/140 FW 05.01.00 and SW 07.02.00 hp StorageWorks HA Fabric Ma - Page 16

Known Issues Port Diagnostics on All Ports is not Available When All Ports of an Edge Switch are not Installed and Enabled The Edge Switch 2/24 and Edge Switch 2/32 basic units have 8- and 16-ports installed, respectively. The remaining ports can be enabled by purchasing additional ports and licenses to enable them, in 8-port increments. If all of the ports are not installed, Port Diagnostics must be run on one port at a time, and the option to run diagnostics on all ports is not available. Open Systems Management Server Under the HAFM Product Manager > Hardware View menus, the Configure > Management Server. . .menu option will result in a pop-up dialog. This dialog states "This feature has not been installed. Please contact your sales representative." This feature is not currently available. Support for Speed Auto-Negotiate Auto-negotiate is supported. However, HP recommends that the port speed for E_Ports (for Interswitch Links, or ISLs) be set to a specific port speed (1Gb/sec or 2Gb/sec, as appropriate for the speed of the directors or edge switches being connected) instead of to Negotiate. Using a specific port speed decreases the time for a fabric build in response to some perturbation event in the fabric. Similarly, setting a specific port speed for N_Ports also decreases fabric build time. However, setting a specific port speed for N_Ports is not required. There are a few older HBA devices that do not always succeed in logging in to a switch port when the port speed is set for auto-negotiate. Workaround If an older HBA is found to have difficulty logging into a switch port that has its port speed configured as Negotiate, configure that port speed to 1Gb/sec or 2Gb/sec according to the operation speed of the HBA connected to that port. 16 HA-Fabric Manager Release Notes