HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.3.0b Release Notes (AA-RWEYF-TE, October 2007)

Faulty SFPs
External port with a faulty SFP will be disabled, then enabled once good SFP is
inserted. However, port will still show as faulty even thou gh it is healthy. To get
the correct "healthy" indication, af ter enabling the port with the good SFP, remove
and re-insert it and the port will then show as healthy.
FC Fast Writ
e
Note the following important i nformation when using FC Fast Write:
• Only World Wide Name (WWN) zone (including normal zone and FC Fast
Write zone) is supported on FC Fast Write enabled port.
• Only single device loop port is supported.
• NPIV (example Access Gateway) port is not supported.
• FCR backbone devices are not supported. That is FC Fast Write should not
be enabled on backbone devices.
• FCR edge to edge support is limited by all the target devices on given edge
fabric tha
t host talks to should be connected to a 400 MP Router or B-Series
MP Router B
lade in FC Fast Write mode. FC Fast Write should not be enabled
on ports w
hen testing the remote mirror application.
• When a ver
yhighvolumeoftraffic is being sent by host, FC Fast Write IOs
may time out and frame may be dropped.
• Within the context of FC Fast Write, L_Port is not supported in Fabric OS 5.3.0.
Web Tools
When the regional language i s set to anything other than English, Brazilian
Portuguese,French,German,Italian,Japanese,Korean,TraditionalChinese,
Simplified Chinese or Spanish, Web Tools may not fi nish loading when
connecting to a switch running FOS 5.3.0, 5.3.0a or 5.3.0b. The Switch Explorer
progress bar hangs while initializing switch details. This problem is overcome by
changing the regional settings for the operating system to English and re-loading
Web Tools.
Additional Fabric OS 5.3.0 enhancements
Additional Fabric OS 5.3.0 enhancements include:
• Provides new Fabric OS commands to rename an alias, a zone a nd a zone configuration.
• Detects and handles a corrupted zone configuration [under /etc/fabos/zone*]gracefully
instead of rebooting. The switch also logs the error in R ASLog.
• Adds a new command that provides both the WWN and serial number of the switch.
• Provides additional information on a faulty port in Fabric Watch to a id in troubleshooting.
• Enables use of passive FTP to download firmw are.
• Enables the customer to specify a quality password policy that prevents the selection of passwords
with consecutive, identical characters.
• Uses multiple NTP servers with the tsclockserver command for redundancy. For example, if
one site NTP server fails (DR scenario) there is a ba ckup that can be reached by the switches.
• Logs a RASLog message when a 2 .x switch joins the fabric.
• HA failover and user notification occurs on the 4/256 SAN Director when there is a failed
Ethernet chip (Oscillator chip).
Additional Web Tools 5.3.0 enhancements
Additional Web Tools 5.3.0 enhancements include:
• P
rovides individual error counters for FC ports from Port admin.
• Provides SFP TX/RX p ower information in DB level from Port admin from Web Tools.
• Provides the Clear Counter feature to reset all counters.
• P
rovides ability to clear 400 MP Router or B-Series MP Router Blade GE port Error counters using
portStatsClear CLI command.
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