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

• Simple N etwork M a nagement Protocol Daem on (SNMPD)
• Web Server Daemon (Webd)
• Common Access Layer Daemon (CALD)
• Remote Procedure Call Daemon (RPCD)
• Event Monitor Daemon (EVMD)
• Asynchronous Response Router D aemon (ARRD) sends management data to hosts when
the switch is accessed via FA API or SMi-S.
• Track Changes Daemon (Trackd)
• Port Mirroring captures traffic between t wo devices for non-disruptive traffic analysis (available on
the SAN Switch 4/32, 4/64 SAN Switch, 4/256 SAN Director, and 400 MP Router).
Management
• Role-Based
Access Control (RBAC) adds support for the new RBAC roles: Operator, Zone
Manager, Fabric Administrator, and Basic Switch Administrator.
• Virtual fabrics through administrative domains (Admin Domains or AD) provides data,
management, and fault isolation through administrative domains.
• DHCP suppo
rt for B-Series switches.
Security
• Device Connection Control ( DCC ) and Switch Connec tion Control (SCC) provide the ability to
manually distribute passwords among par ticipating switches in the base Fabric OS.
• Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) ensures private, secure communications over Internet Protocol (IP)
networks to prevent network-based attacks, which could potentially result in denial of service,
data corruption, data theft, user credential theft, and so on. The IPSec license is available as an
option bundled with the HP StorageWorks FCIP, IPSec license.
Fibre Channel Routing (FCR) enhancements
FCR enhancements for the 400 MP Router and B-Series Router blade in the 4/256 SAN Director include:
• Front domain consolidation, which provides one front domain per chassis projected to edge
fabrics, regardless of the number of EX_ports connected from the FR4–18i blade to the e dg e
fabric in the 4/256 Director.
• McDAT
A interoperability in O pen Fabric modes.
• EX_port trunking, which provides high bandwidth across the router.
• Router port cost providing users flexibility to d etermine the preferred route bet ween two
desti
nationsacrossametaSAN.
Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP) enhancements
• Internet Protocol Security (IPSec); see the description provided above.
• FastWrite reduces the number of round trips required to complete an iSCSI Write I/O, which both
reduces I/O completion latency and increases FCIP ISL bandwidth utilization.
• Tape Pipelining accelerates SCSI Write I/Os between geographically remote initiators and tape
devicesonFibreChannelSANslinkedviaFCIPISLs.
• WAN tool; the ipperf option has been added to the portCmd command to characterize
end-to-end IP path performance factors, such as bandwidth, loss rate, round-trip time, and path
Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) between a pair of FCI P ports.
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