HP StorageWorks 2/128 - SAN Director Switch Manuale di istruzioni

Release Notes

hp StorageWorks

SAN Director 2/128

Fabric OS 4.2.x

Second Edition (April 2004)

Part Number: AV–RVUUB–TE

This document contains last-minute and supplemental information about Fabric OS version

4.2.x firmware for the HP StorageWorks SAN Director 2/128. In the event of conflicting

information between these Release Notes and other documents in this product release, the

Release Notes take precedence.

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the HP Storage web site at:

http://www.hp.com/country/us/eng/prodserv/storage.html

2 SAN Director 2/128 Fabric OS 4.2.x Release Notes

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SAN Director 2/128

Fabric OS 4.2.x Release Notes

Second Edition (April 2004)

Part Number: AV–RVUUB–TE

About This Document

3SAN Director 2/128 Fabric OS 4.2.x Release Notes

About This Document

This section identifies the audience of these Release Notes and provides a

high-level description of the information it contains.

Release Notes Information

These Release Notes cover the following major topics:

■Overview, page 3

■Documentation, page 4

■Standards Compliance, page 5

■Important Notes, page 6

■Commands Modified in v4.2.x, page 20

■Documentation Updates, page 20

■Issues and Workarounds, page 22

Audience

These Release Notes are intended for systems administrators and technicians who

are responsible for installing, operating, and maintaining Fabric OS version 4.2.x.

Overview

HP Fabric OS 4.2.x provides the following enhancements for the

SAN Director 2/128:

■Reduced fabric configuration downtime. Extended Edge PID for mixed

fabrics eliminates host reboot for hosts that statically bind PIDs.

■Improved fabric diagnostics:

—Thepathinfo command displays path information between any two

ports of a fabric.

— The diagnostics monitor compact flash utilization and clean the file

systems during periods of high utilization.

—Thesupportshow command has improved functionality.

— Hardware watchdog failures capture a kernel trace dump prior to reset.

Documentation

4 SAN Director 2/128 Fabric OS 4.2.x Release Notes

Improvements

The following improvements have been made to the Fabric OS software since the

last HP 4.x release:

■Secure Telnet may now be connected with two LAN cards.

■Improvements have been made to the reboot code.

■Problems that caused compaqt flash full have been resolved.

■We have increased the number of HBAs that can be displayed by Web Tools.

■We have improved the reliability of firmware download on an active fabric.

■A firmwaredownload is now successful to a single CP SAN Director

2/128 chassis through Fabric Manager and Web Tools.

■Web Tools events now use adjusted timezone time, rather than coordinated

universal time (UTC).

Supported Switches

Fabric OS v4.2.x supports the HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/8V, 2/16N, 2/16V,

2/32, Core Switch 2/64, and SAN Director 2/128.

Technical Support

Contact Hewlett-Packard support for hardware, firmware, and software support,

including product repairs and part ordering. To assist your support representative

and to expedite your call, have the following information available when you call.

■Technical support contact number, if available

■Switch model

■Switch operating system version

■Error messages received

■Output from supportshow command

■Detailed problem description and specific questions

■Description of any troubleshooting steps already performed and results

Documentation

This section discusses documentation associated with the Fabric OS 4.2.x.

Standards Compliance

5SAN Director 2/128 Fabric OS 4.2.x Release Notes

Other Fabric OS Documentation

Additional documentation, including white papers and best practices documents,

is available at the HP web site:

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/eng/prodserv/storage.html

Note: HP has made every effort to provide you with the most up-to-date Web retrieval

procedures available at time of print. Note, however, that Web page links and pointers

are subject to change.

To access the technical documentation:

1. Locate the networked storage section of the Web page.

2. Under networked storage, locate the by type subsection.

3. Click SAN infrastructure. The SAN infrastructure page displays.

4. Locate the Fibre Channel Switches section.

5. Locate the B-Series Fabric subsection.

6. Click the name of the switch for which you are seeking information. The

switch overview page displays.

7. Locate the product information section.

8. Click technical documents.

9. Select the applicable documents.

For information about Fibre Channel standards, visit the Fibre Channel Industry

Association web site, located at

http://www.fibrechannel.org

Standards Compliance

HP products conform to these standards in a manner consistent with accepted

engineering practices and procedures. In certain cases, HP may add proprietary

supplemental functions to those specified in the standards. We verify conformance

with Fibre Channel Standards by subjecting our switches to SANmark

Conformance Tests developed by the Fibre Channel Industry Association. Our

switches have earned the SANmark logo indicating such conformance. SANmark

is a limited testing program and does not test all standards or all aspects of

standards.

HP Fabric OS 4.2.x conforms to the following Fibre Channel Standards:

Important Notes

6 SAN Director 2/128 Fabric OS 4.2.x Release Notes

■FC-AL ANSI X3.272: 1996

■FC-AL-2 NCIT S 332: 1999

■FC-FLA NCIT S TR-20: 1998

■FC-GS-2 NCIT S 348-2000 Rev 7.01

■FC-FG ANSI X3.289: 1996

■FC-PH ANSI X3.230: 1994

■FC-PH-2 ANSI X3.297 X3.297: 1997

■FC-PH-3 ANSI X3.303: 1998

■FC-PLDA NCIT S TR-19: 1998

■FC-SW-2 Rev 5.3

■FC-VI Rev 1.61

■FC-MI Rev 1.92

■FC-BB Rev 4.7

■FC-FS Rev 1.7

■FC-BB-2 Rev 5.3

■IPFC RFC 2625

■FCP ANSI X3.269: 1996

■FCP-2 Rev 7

Important Notes

This section provides information you should be aware of when running Fabric

OS 4.2.x.

OS Requirements

HP recommends using the latest software release versions to get the greatest

benefit from the SAN.

Important Notes

7SAN Director 2/128 Fabric OS 4.2.x Release Notes

Mixed Fabric Environment with Different Switch Platforms

Fabric OS v2.6.2, v3.1.2, and v4.2.x introduced a new switch PID format:

Extended Edge PID (Format 2). Extended Edge PID is useful if you introduce a

Fabric OS v4.2.x switch into a fabric consisting solely of Fabric OS v2.x/v3.x

switches. Before adding a Fabric OS v4.2.x switch to such a fabric, refer to the

HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 4.2.x Procedures User Guide for information on the

Extended Edge PID format.

Note: Note that in order to use the Extended Edge PID format, Fabric OS v2.6.2,

v3.1.2, and v4.2.x must be deployed together, as applicable, to the switches.

If Extended Edge PID is set (before a downgrade from the current Fabric OS

release to an earlier Fabric OS release that does not support the Extended PID

format), PID needs to be set back to a supported format, such as Core PID (format

1) or native PID (format 0).

Advanced Web Tool Updates

When using a mixed fabric—that is, a fabric that contains v4.x, v3.x, and v2.x

switches—HP recommends that you use the most advanced switches to control

the fabric. For example, use the v4.x switches as the primary Fibre Channel

Switch (FCS), as the location to perform zoning tasks, and as the time server. HP

also recommends that you use the most recently released firmware to control the

fabric.

If you use Advanced Web Tools to change the switch name, the HP StorageWorks

SAN Director 2/128 Telnet console prompt does not update to the new name until

a new Telnet window is opened.

If a dialog box is displayed from the Switch Admin window of Advanced Web

Tools and the user selects another dialog box from Advanced Web Tools, a

window display error occurs.

Workaround: HP recommends JavaTM 1.4.1_03.

Two-Domain and Four-Domain Fabric Licensing

If your fabric includes a switch with a license for a limited number of switches in

the fabric and the fabric exceeds the limit, Advanced Web Tools allows a 45-day

grace period during which you can still monitor the switch. Advanced Web Tools

periodically displays warning messages.

Important Notes

8 SAN Director 2/128 Fabric OS 4.2.x Release Notes

These messages warn you that your fabric size exceeds the supported switch

configuration limit and tells you how long you have before Advanced Web Tools

will be disabled. After the 45-day grace period, you will no longer be able to

launch Advanced Web Tools from the switch if it still exceeds the limit.

Note: Two domain and our domain fabric licensing is applicable only to 2 Gb/sec

switches.

Browser Window Response After Failover

A browser window might stop responding after an HA failover immediately after

a zoning configuration is enabled or disabled. It is likely that the web daemon was

terminated by the HA failover before the HTTP request was returned.

Workaround: If the HA module does not respond, close the window and

relaunch the module. If the module is locked, shut down and relaunch the Web

Tools application.

Switch View Display Issue

If you frequently enable or disable a switch or perform a power cycle, the Switch

View may not display properly. Launching other Web Tools components might

then cause a browser crash.

Workaround: Upgrade your Java Plug-in to 1.4.1_06 or later, if you are

running Windows XP.

Installing Mozilla 1.4 on Solaris 8 and Solaris 9

For instructions to install Mozilla 1.4 on Solaris 8 and Solaris 9, go to the web

site:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.4/mozilla-sparc-sun

-solaris2.8_1.4.readme

Mozilla Browser Support for Switch Admin Module

The Mozilla browser does not support the Switch Admin module properly in

Fabric OS v2.6.x. In Fabric OS v2.6.2, a warning message is displayed. No

warning message is displayed in other 2.6.x versions.

Workaround: Use Netscape 4.7.7 or later.

Important Notes

9SAN Director 2/128 Fabric OS 4.2.x Release Notes

Browser, OS, and Java Plug-in Support

Advanced Web Tools browser, operating system, and Java Plug-in support is

updated for Fabric OS v4.2.x. Table 1 identifies the supported browsers, operating

systems, and Java Plug-ins for this release. Go to the

hp.com

web site for the latest

list of supported operating systems.

Table 1: Browsers, OSs, and Java Plug-ins

Operating System Browser Java Plug-in

HP-UX 11.00 Mozilla 1.4 or later 1.4.2_00 or later (up to but not including 1.5)

HP-UX 11.11

(PA 32-bit & PA 64-bit) Mozilla 1.4 or later 1.4.2_00 or later (up to but not including 1.5)

HP-UX 11.23

(IA 64-Bit) Mozilla 1.4 or later 1.4.2_00 or later (up to but not including 1.5)

HP Tru64 UNIX® 5.1B Mozilla 1.4 1.4.1_02

HP Tru64 UNIX 5.1A Mozilla 1.4 1.4.1_02

HP OpenVMS 7.3-1

(64-bit) Secure Web Browser

(SWB 1.4) 1.4.1_02

HP OpenVMS 7.3-2

(64-bit) Secure Web Browser

(SWB 1.4) 1.4.1_02

HP Open VMS 7.3-x

(Itanium) Secure Web Browser

(SWB 1.4) 1.4.1_02

AIX 5.1 Mozilla 1.4 1.4.1_01

AIX 5.2 Mozilla 1.4 1.4.1_01

AIX 5.3 Mozilla 1.4 1.4.1_01

Red Hat Linux® 7.3 Mozilla 1.4 or later 1.4.2_02 or later (up to but not including 1.5)

Red Hat Linux 8.0 Mozilla 1.4 or later 1.4.2_02 or later (up to but not including 1.5)

Red Hat Enterprise

Linux AS 2.1 (IA32 &

IA64)

Mozilla 1.4 or later 1.4.2_02 or later (up to but not including 1.5)

Red Hat Enterprise

Linux AS 3.0 (IA32 &

IA64)

Mozilla 1.4 or later 1.4.2_02 or later (up to but not including 1.5)

Red Flag Linux (32-bit) Mozilla 1.4 or later 1.4.2_02 or later (up to but not including 1.5)

United Linux 1.0

SUSE 8 (IA32) Mozilla 1.4 or later 1.4.2_02 or later (up to but not including 1.5)

Important Notes

10 SAN Director 2/128 Fabric OS 4.2.x Release Notes

The additional supported browsers, operating systems, and Java Plug-ins

introduce limitations when using mixed OS versions in Advanced Web Tools

v4.2.x. These limitations are described in Table 2.

United Linux 1.0

SUSE 8 (IA64) Mozilla 1.4 or later 1.4.2_02 or later (up to but not including 1.5)

United Linux 2.0 Mozilla 1.4 or later 1.4.2_02 or later (up to but not including 1.5)

Solaris 2.8, 2.9 Mozilla 1.2.1 (recom-

mended)

Netscape 7.0

Netscape

Communicator 4.78

1.4.2

Solaris 7, 8, 9, 10 Mozilla 1.2.1 (recom-

mended)

Netscape 7.0

Netscape

Communicator 4.78

1.4.2

Windows 2000 IE 6.0 SP1 1.3.1_04 or 1.4.1_02 (recommended)

Windows 2003 IE 6.0 SP1 1.3.1_04 or 1.4.1_02 (recommended)

Windows XP IE 6.0 SP1 1.3.1_04 or 1.4.1_02 (recommended)

Table 1: Browsers, OSs, and Java Plug-ins (Continued)

Operating System Browser Java Plug-in

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