HP AA979A - StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/8V Manuale di istruzioni

HP StorageWorks

Fabric OS 4.4.0f release notes

Part number: AA-RW89A-TE

Sixth edition: October 2005

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Fabric OS 4.4.0f release notes

3Fabric OS 4.4.0f 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 overview

These Release Notes cover the following major topics:

•Fabric OS 4.4.0f enhancements, page 4

•Accessing documentation, page 6

•Standards compliance, page 6

•Important notes, page 8

•Closed issues from Fabric OS 4.4.0c, page 38

•Closed issues from Fabric OS 4.4.0d, page 41

•Closed issues from Fabric OS 4.4.0e, page 45

•Closed issues from Fabric OS 4.4.0f, page 48

Audience

These Release Notes are intended for systems administrators and technicians

who are responsible for installing, operating, and maintaining Fabric OS version 4.4.0f.

Accessing future product updates

HP strongly recommends that customers sign up online using the Subscriber's choice web site:

http://www.hp.com/go/e-updates.

•Subscribing to this service provides you with e-mail updates on the latest product enhancements,

newest versions of drivers, and firmware documentation updates as well as instant access to

numerous other product resources.

•After signing up, you can quickly locate your products by selecting Business support and then

Storage under Product Category.

Fabric OS 4.4.0f is a patch release containing fixes to a number of defects. This patch release also

includes the same feature set as the Fabric OS 4.4.0 release.

HP upgrade recommendations

HP strongly urges customers to take the following actions:

•Upgrade Fabric OS 4.1.x or 4.2.x systems to Fabric OS 4.4.0f directly. Do not upgrade those

systems to Fabric OS 4.4.0, Fabric OS 4.4.0e or any firmware version in between.

•Upgrade existing switches running Fabric OS 4.4.0 or Fabric OS 4.4.0a to Fabric OS 4.4.0f as

soon as possible.

Fabric OS 4.4.0f enhancements4

Fabric OS 4.4.0f enhancements

Fabric OS 4.4.0f is a patch release that includes fixes to several defects found since the release of

Fabric OS version 4.4.0c. Fabric OS 4.4.0f integrates the same features as Fabric OS 4.4.0,

including significant enhancements in the areas of Fibre Channel long-distance support, scalability

and manageability.

Major new features of Fabric OS 4.4.x include:

•Support for the HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 4/32 and the HP StorageWorks Multi-protocol

(MP) Router

•Greater than two-fold increase in HP Extended Fabric support:

• SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, and SAN Director 2/128 support distances up to

200 km at 1 Gbit/sec and 100 km at 2 Gbit/sec.

• SAN Switch 4/32 supports distances up to 500 km at 1 Gbit/sec and 100 km at

4Gbit/sec.

•Trunking over Extended Fabrics

• The HP StorageWorks 2 GB switches, Core Switch 2/64,and SAN Director 2/128 switch,

support two links up to 50 km at 2 Gbit/sec and four links of 10 km at 2 Gbit/sec.

• The SAN Switch 4/32 supports three links of up to 250 km at 2 Gbit/sec or 100 km at

4Gbit/sec.

•Increased scalability to 2560 ports and 50 domains

•Ports on Demand (POD) for instant scalability via license keys

•Fabric Watch improvements:

• Improved notification

• Switch health reports

• Standardized messaging: for example, including information such as time stamp, message

number, severity, and switch name for all system messages

• Updated security enhancements:

•SSH

•RADIUS

• DH-CHAP authentication

• Fabric Watch and Web Tools usability enhancements

HP Software release policy is to carry forward all fixes in patches to subsequent maintenance and

feature Fabric OS releases.

5Fabric OS 4.4.0f release notes

Supported switches

Fabric OS v4.4.0f supports the following switches:

•HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/8V

•HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/16V

•HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/16N

•HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/32

•HP StorageWorks Core Switch 2/64

•HP StorageWorks SAN Director 2/128

•HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 4/32

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:

•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

Switch Serial Number

The serial number label location varies with switch model, as follows:

•For the SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V, SAN Switch 2/16N and SAN Switch 2/32

models, the label is on the rear chassis panel.

•For the SAN Switch 4/32, the label is on the switch ID pull-out tab located on the port side, and

on the inside of the chassis, near the Power Supply 1.

•For the Core Switch 2/64 and SAN Director 2/128, the label is on the inside front of the

chassis, on the wall to left of the ports.

World Wide Name (WWN)6

World Wide Name (WWN)

Use the licenseIdShow command to display the license ID.

Accessing documentation

Additional documentation, including white papers and best practices documents, is available at the

HP storage 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 are subject to change.

Documentation, including white papers and best practices documents, is available on the HP

web site:

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

To access current Fabric OS related documents:

1. Locate the IT storage Products section of the web page.

2. Under Networked Storage, click SAN Infrastructure.

3. The SAN Infrastructure web page displays. Locate the SAN Infrastructure products

section. Click Fibre Channel Switches.

4. Locate the B-Series Fabric-Mid-Range section.

5. To access Fabric OS 4.x documents (such as this document), click HP StorageWorks SAN Switch

4/32 & SAN Switch 4/32 power pack.

The switch overview page displays.

6. Go to the Product Information section, located on the right side of the web page.

7. Click Technical documents.

8. Follow the onscreen instructions to download the applicable documents.

For information about Fibre Channel standards, visit the following web site:

http://www.t11.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.

7Fabric OS 4.4.0f release notes

HP Fabric OS 4.4.0b conforms to the following Fibre Channel Standards:

•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: 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 notes8

Important notes

This section provides information you should be aware of when running Fabric OS 4.4.0f.

OS requirements

HP strongly recommends using the latest software release versions to get the greatest benefit from the

SAN. Refer to the following web site for information:

http://www.hp.com

Browser, OS, and Java plug-in support

Advanced Web Tools browser, operating system, and Java Plug-in support is updated for Fabric OS

4.4.0f. Table 1 identifies the supported browsers, operating systems, and Java Plug-ins for this

release. Go to the

http://www.hp.com

web site for the latest list of supported operating systems.

Table 1 Browsers, Operating Systems, 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-UX 11.i +NN7.0 1.4.1_02

HP Tru64 UNIX®5.1B Mozilla 1.4 1.4.1_02

HP Tru64 UNIX 5.1A, 5.1b 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

9Fabric OS 4.4.0f release notes

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) NN7.02 1.4.1_03

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 NN7.02 1.4.1_03

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)

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

(recommended)

Netscape 7.0

Netscape

Communicator 4.78

1.4.2

1.4.1_03

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

mended)

Netscape 7.0

Netscape

Communicator 4.78

1.4.2

Table 1 Browsers, Operating Systems, and Java Plug-ins (continued)

Operating System Browser Java Plug-in

Browser, OS, and Java plug-in support10

Table 2 summarizes the major features incorporated in Fabric OS 4.4.0f.

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

Windows 2000 SP3 IE 6.0 SP1 1.4.1_03

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

Windows XP IE 6.0 SP1 1.4.1_03 (recommended)

Windows Server 2003 (IA32) IE 6.0 1.4.1_03

Windows NT® 4.0 SP6a IE 6.0 SP1 1.4.1_03

Table 1 Browsers, Operating Systems, and Java Plug-ins (continued)

Operating System Browser Java Plug-in

Table 2 New features in Fabric OS 4.4.x

Category Feature

SAN Director 2/128 Mixed blade support:

•Two-domain support

•Mixed Core Switch 2/64 and SAN Director 2/128

SAN Switch 4/32

platform support Ports on demand (16, 24, or 32 ports)

ASIC support:

•1, 2, and 4 Gbit/sec automatic speed negotiation

•4 Gbit/sec trunks

•8-port trunk groups for up to 32 Gbit/sec trunks

•More distance options (see below)

•Dynamic path selection (DPS) with the exchange-based and

device-based policies. The SAN Switch 4/32 uses the frame

information to determine the routing paths dynamically. Port-based

policy is independent of the traffic pattern.

•Network boot using TFTP

Reliability Compact flash capacity monitoring

Manageability Advanced Performance Monitoring – ISL monitoring (CLI only)

Fabric Watch enhancements

Export performance data

FDMI host name support

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