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

Standards compliance
This software conforms to the FC standards and accepted engineering practices and procedures.
In certain cases, HP might add proprietary supplemental functions to those specified in the standards.
For a list of standards conformance, see the HP website: http://www.hp.com.
The 2408 FCoE Converged Network Switch and DC SAN Director Switch 10/24 FCoE Blade
conform to the following Ethernet standards:
• IEEE 802.1D, Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
• IEEE 802.1s, Multiple Spanning Tree
• IEEE 802.1w, Rapid Reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol
• IEEE 802.3ad, Link Aggregation with LACP
• IEEE 802.3ae, 10G Ethernet
• IEEE 802.1Q, VLAN Tagging
• IEEE 802.1p, Class of Service Prioritization and Tagging
• IEEE 802.1v, VLAN Classification by Protocol and Port
• IEEE 802.1AB, Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
• IEEE 802.3x, Flow Control (Pause Frames)
The following draft versions of the CEE and FCoE standards are also supported on the 2408 FCoE
Converged Network Switch and DC SAN Director Switch 10/24 FCoE Blade:
• IEEE 802.1Qbb, Priority-based Flow Control
• IEEE 802.1Qaz, Enhanced Transmission Selection
• IEEE 802.1, DCB Capability Exchange Protocol (Proposed under the DCB Task Group of IEEE
802.1 Working Group)
• FC-BB-5, FCoE (Rev. 2.0.0, introduced with Fabric OS 6.3.0b)
New hardware support
No new hardware support is provided in Fabric OS 6.3.2e.
Supported product models
Fabric OS 6.3.2e is supported on the following product models:
• HP 4/32 SAN Switch (Brocade 4100)
• HP 4/32B SAN Switch (Brocade 5000)
• HP 4/64 SAN Switch (Brocade 4900)
• HP 4/256 SAN Director (Brocade 48000)
• HP 16 Port 4Gb SAN Director Blade (FC4-16)
• HP 32 Port 4Gb SAN Director Blade (FC4-32)
• HP 48 Port 4Gb SAN Director Blade (FC4-48)
• HP Multi-Protocol Router Blade (Brocade FR4-18i)
• HP iSCSI Director Blade (Brocade FC4-16IP), compatible with the 4/256 SAN Director only
(not supported in the DC SAN Backbone Director or DC04 SAN Director)
• HP 8/8 and 8/24 SAN Switches (Brocade 300)
• HP 8/40 SAN Switch (Brocade 5100)
• HP 8/80 SAN Switch (Brocade 5300)
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