HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.2.3 Release Notes (AA-RWEYD-TE, November 2007)

Access Gateway
IMPORTANT:
Access Gateway is supported only in the following HP products:
• Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p -Class BladeSystem (Brocade 4012 )
• Brocade 4Gb SAN
Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem (Brocade 4024)
Please check h
ttp://www.hp.com for the latest updates.
Access Gateway mode is not supported if any half-high BladeServers (BL3xp) are configured in the
same sleeve within the p-Class enclosure.
Access Gateway allow s a switch to operate in a special agmode that allows simplified connectivit y
betweenlargenumbersofserversandtheSAN.AccessGatewayleveragesNPIV(N_portID
vir tualization) to hide the complexity of the servers (both p hysical and virtual) attached to it while allowing
easy SAN connectivity. The edge fabric switch p rovides all the fabric services while Access Gateway
connects to the edge switch by what appears as a Host Bus Adapter (HBA) connection. This architecture
allows the deployment of many additional servers without requiring a domain and the associated fabric
rebuild traffic that is prevalent when switches are powered on, or added, or removed from a fabric.
Refer to the Brocade Access Gateway Administrator’s G uide available on h
ttp://www.hp.com/go/san
for more information.
Access Gateway support in McData fabrics
In addition to being s uppor ted in Brocade fabrics, Access Gateway is supported for connectivit y in the
following:
• McDATA fabrics running EOS 09.00.xx with B rocade FOS 5.2.1b
• Cisco fabrics running SAN-OS 3.0(2a) with Brocade FOS 5.2.1b
Dynamic Ports on Demand (DPOD)
IMPORTANT:
DPOD is supported only in the following HP product:
• Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP c- Class BladeSystem (Brocade 4024)
Please check h
ttp://www.hp.com for the latest updates.
DPOD is an optional feature on the embedded switches listed above. DPOD takes the expansion
capabilit y of fixed Ports on Dem a nd (PODs) and adds the flexibility of connecting to any available port
as long as a valid license is available. Previously, POD allowed only specific ports to be utilized. With
DPOD, any physically available por t can be made active as long as a valid license is available. This
allows customers the flexibility of automatically changing port assignments where previously the port
assignments were fixed and inflexible.
Reliab
ility, Availability, Serviceability (RAS)
• Audit logging provides logs per user-generated events, such as security violation, zoning, firmware
download, and configuration changes.
• Config
uration management enhancements improve switch availability by allowing Fabric Watch
and SNMP parameter changes to be non-disruptive.
• Firmware upgrade enhancements provide clearer error messages and remove the n e ed to enter
rele
ase.plist in the command line.
• Daemon restart/monitoring restarts management daemons automatically when they fail without
switch reboot:
HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.2.3 release notes
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