HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.3.0d Release Notes (AA-RWEYH-TE, December 2007)

Topic Description
FC4–16IP iSCSI Blade for
the 4/256 SAN Director
• Do not inser t the Blade until the system is running Fabric OS 5.2.1b or later.
• iSCSI virtual target creation involves adding LUNs to the virtual targets. The
user discovers the LUNs by executing the fclunquery command. Testing has
revealed that some devices do not respond properly to the LUN query. The
user will need to use tools from the array vendor to determine LUN information
required for iSCSI target creation.
• AnyuppercaselettersusedfortheCHAPusernamewillbetransformedinto
lowercase.
• Users may install up to four FC4–16IP iSCSI blades per 4/256 SAN Director
chassis, or any combination of up to four blades (FC4–16IP and B -Series MP
Router blades), not exceeding the individual Blade limit per chassis. Valid
combinations include:
• Three FC4–16IP blades + one B-Series MP Router Blade
• Two FC4–16IP blades + two B-Series MP Router blades
• One FC4–16IP Blade + t wo B-Series MP Router blades
• Two FC4–16IP blades + one B-Series MP Router Blade
Firmware upgrade/
downgrade
• When up
grading from Fabric OS 5.1.0x to 5.2.0x or 5.3.0x, if two or more
inter-fabric links (IFLs) connect to an edge fabric, one IFL will stay online and
the ot
her IFLs will go online and offline. This will cause a temporary traffic
disruption going from multiple IFLs to one IFL and then back to multiple IFLs.
This
is due to the new front domain consolidation feature in Fabric OS 5.2.0,
wher
e the IFLs connected to the same edge share the same front domain.
• When
downgrading from Fabric OS 5.3.0x or 5.2.x, FC trafficwillbe
disrupted if there is front domain consolidation prior to the downgrade, even
in t
he case of a single IFL.
• Up
on firmware download the FC4–16IP Blade does not preserve disabled
GE
_Ports in disabled state. If you want to retain GE_Ports in a disabled state
ac
ross firmware download, you must configure them as persistently di sabled.
Fabric OS—CLI
commands
• Obsolete commands include slotOff and slotOn;useslotPowerOff
and slotPowerOn instead. The portLogPortShow command is also now
obsolete.
• This release does not support underscore (_) as part of the name for dd and
ddset in the iscsicfg command.
• When performing a configdownload, you may receive a message stating
"configDownload not permitted.” This indicates that an invalid parameter was
passed to the switch.
The invalid parameter could be from a switch security policy, such as the
nl
password policy, or the NTP server address. This causes a partial
nl
configuration to be downloaded onto the switch.
For example, when an NTP server address is invalid, configdownload fails
nl
and all data processed prior to the NTP server address data had already been
nl
saved in the switchand cannot be backed out. To fix the problem, correct the
nl
invalid parameter and re-issue the configdownload command.
Distance mode
Distance setting is not persistent. After a configuration uploads and downloads,
distance settings reset and the desired distance is shown as 0.
12