HP StorageWorks Multi-protocol Router XPath OS 7.4.1f release notes (5697-0243, January 2010)

DescriptionIssue

The HP StorageWorks MP Router with XPath OS 7.4.0 includes licenses for

the following features:

• Advanced Web Tools

• Advanced Zoning

• FCIP Tunneling

• FC-FC Routing

Different models of the MP Router ship with either 8 or 16 ports enabled. If

you require an upgrade from 8 to 16 ports, contact your sales representative.

Bundled licenses

The MP Router supports only qualified SFP media. Run the sfpSupport

command for a list of the qualified SFPs.

SFP media support

When manually setting domain IDs, avoid duplicates. Under Fabric OS, when

duplicate domain IDs are detected, fabrics are segmented. XPath OS handles

duplicate domain IDs differently, resulting in repeated failed attempts to merge

fabrics. This note does not apply to Fibre Channel Routing Services EX_Ports.

Manually assigned but duplicate EX_Port domain IDs are correctly detected.

Duplicate domain IDs

Fabric OS Web Tools 4.1.1 does not recognize the MP Router. Manage the

MP Router using Advanced Web Tools.

Fabric OS Web Tools 4.1.1

compatibility

The Fabric OS implementation of Web Tools is different from the XPath OS

implementation. The Fabric OS Web Tools application runs entirely on the

Fabric OS switch while presenting an HTML interface to the client browser.

XPath OS Web Tools is implemented with Java objects running as plug-ins on

the client browser. When a user observes switch events on an XPath OS switch

in a different time zone, the events show up in the local client's time zone,

Fabric OS keeps the event time base in the switch's time zone. This is a design

implementation change that is to be updated in upcoming releases of XPath

OS.

Fabric OS Web Tools vs.

XPath OS Web Tools

Perform zoning only from the Fibre Channel switch running the latest version

of firmware if fabric contains only Fibre Channel switches or Fibre Channel

switches and MP Routers (router backbone fabric). Zoning can be performed

from the MP Router in a backbone fabric that contains only an MP Router. If

zoning is performed from the MP Router in a mixed fabric, where chassis-based

systems (Directors) are present, the user does not see the correct slots and ports

for selection.

Zoning through Advanced

Web Tools