HP B-series Fabric OS 6.3.2e Release Notes (5697-1816, March 2012) - includes all 6.3.2x versions

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Contents

Version....................................................................................................................................5

Description..............................................................................................................................5

Update recommendation.......................................................................................................5

Supersedes.........................................................................................................................5

Enhancements..........................................................................................................................5

Bottleneck Detection and Related Fabric Diagnostics enhancements............................................5

Optionally licensed software.................................................................................................6

Included licensed software....................................................................................................7

Temporary license support....................................................................................................8

Previously licensed software now included with base Fabric OS.................................................8

Standards compliance..........................................................................................................9

New hardware support.............................................................................................................9

Supported product models.........................................................................................................9

Unsupported product models....................................................................................................10

Devices supported..................................................................................................................10

Operating systems..................................................................................................................10

Access Gateway support.........................................................................................................10

Access Gateway support in non-Brocade fabrics....................................................................11

Zoning and fabric operations...................................................................................................11

Prerequisites...........................................................................................................................12

4/256 SAN Director blade support..........................................................................................14

DC SAN Backbone and DC04 SAN Director blade support....................................................15

Power supply requirements for Director blades.......................................................................15

Fibre Channel Routing scalability..............................................................................................16

Important notes......................................................................................................................16

New OUI Support on B-series platforms................................................................................16

Overview.....................................................................................................................16

Impact of products with the new OUI to existing fabrics/environments..................................17

HP SAN Network Advisor compatibility................................................................................17

DCFM compatibility...........................................................................................................17

EFCM and FM compatibility................................................................................................18

Fabric OS compatibility......................................................................................................18

Web Tools compatibility.....................................................................................................19

Fabric OS feature compatibility in native connectivity modes........................................................19

Firmware upgrades and downgrades....................................................................................21

Firmware upgrade instructions.........................................................................................22

Scalability.........................................................................................................................22

Important notes and recommendations......................................................................................22

HP Storage Essentials support..............................................................................................22

FCIP, FCIP Trunking and High Bandwidth (1606 Extension SAN Switch and DC SAN Director

Multiprotocol Extension Blade).............................................................................................22

FCoE/CEE (2408 FCoE Converged Network Switch and DC SAN Director Switch 10/24 FCoE

Blade)..............................................................................................................................24

Virtual Fabrics...................................................................................................................26

Licensing behavior.............................................................................................................26

Adaptive Networking/flow-based QoS prioritization...............................................................26

FCR backbone fabric ID changes.........................................................................................27

Traffic Isolation over FCR.....................................................................................................27

IP over Fibre Channel (IPFC)/FCR.........................................................................................27

Broadcast frame forwarding in FCR fabric.............................................................................27

FC Routing with Mi10K.......................................................................................................27

Integrated routing..............................................................................................................28

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