Brocade Fabric OS v6.1.0_del1 Release Notes v1.0 September 17, 2008 Document History Document Title Summary of Changes Publication Date Brocade Fabric OS v6.1.0_del1 Release Notes v1.
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Contents Document History......................................................................................................................................................1 Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 New Feature Descriptions..........................................................................................................................................
Overview Brocade Fabric OS v6.1.0_del1 provides support for the Brocade M5424 8Gb Fibre Channel SAN I/O Modules design for the Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade Server systems. Brocade Fabric OS v6.1.0_del1 contains all features associated with v.6.1.0. The following are features that have been added specifically for this release in support of the Brocade M5424 8Gbyte Fibre Channel SAN I/O Modules. New Feature Descriptions The Brocade M5424 SAN I/O modules fully support the functionality of Brocade FOS 6.1.0.
Technical Support Contact your switch supplier for hardware, firmware, and software support, including product repairs and part ordering. To expedite your call, have the following information immediately available: 1.
Supported Products and FOS Interoperability Brocade 2000-series switches Not supported, end of support (December 2007) Brocade 3000, 3200, 3800 v3.2.1c Silkworm 3014, 3016, 3250, 3850 and Brocade 3900, 4100, 24000, 7500, 4012, 200E, 48000 v5.1 and higher Silkworm 12000 v5.0.x Brocade 4900 v5.2.0 and higher Brocade 4012, 4016, 4018, 4020, 4024 v5.2.1 and higher Brocade 5000 v5.2.1 and higher Brocade 4424 v5.3.0_emb and higher Brocade 7600 v5.3.0 and higher Brocade DCX v6.0.
Firmware Upgrades and Downgrades Brocade Fabric OS v6.1.0_del1 should only be loaded onto the Brocade M5424 SAN IO Module. This version of FOS is not supported on any other Brocade switch. Fabric Scalability Fabric OS v6.1.0_del1 supports the same fabric scalability as Fabric OS v5.3.x, that is 2,560 ports with 50 domains. Other Important Notes and Recommendations Adaptive Networking/Flow-Based QoS Prioritization: • When using QoS in a fabric with 4G ports or switches, FOS v6.
Documentation Updates This section provides information on last-minute additions and corrections to the documentation. The most recent Fabric OS v6.1.0 documentation manuals are available on the Brocade Partner Network: http://partner.brocade.com/ Brocade Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide (Publication Number 53-1000598-03) On page 349, replace the NOTE in the middle of the page with the following: NOTE: For TI over FCR, all switches in the backbone fabric and in the edge fabrics must be running Fabric OS v6.
• • • Brocade 5100 Brocade 5300 FC8-16, FC8-32, or FC8-48 port blade in the Brocade DCX platform. On page 368, in the section “License requirements for Fibre Channel routing”, add the following note: NOTE Enabling the Integrated Routing license and capability does not require a switch reboot. In Chapter 1, Getting Started, under the heading Licensed Features, the table ‘License Requirements’ on page 16 has an entry on Integrated Routing.
Brocade Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide (Publication Number 53-1000605-02) Chapter 3, Connecting Devices Using Access Gateway, page 33 Add the following note after the procedure, “Enabling NPIV on the M-EOS switch” Note: You can run the agshow command to display Access Gateway information registered with the fabric. When an Access Gateway is exclusively connected to Non-FOS based switches, it will not show up in the " agshow " output on other Brocade Switches in the fabric.
Open Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.0_ del1 This section lists defects with Critical, High and Medium technical severity that are open in Fabric OS v6.1.0_del1 as of the time of release. While these defects are still formally “open,” they are unlikely to impede Brocade customers in their deployment of the Brocade M5424 and have been deferred for resolution in a later release. None of these defects have the requisite combination of probability and severity to cause significant concern to Brocade customers.
DEFECT000218672 Medium Summary: ipc error and software verify error detected on M5424 running in switch mode when a new Admin Domain is created and an existing cfg is disabled in one of the existing AD Symptom: When a new Admin Domain is added to existing AD database, "error: ipc failed -5" is detected and the new AD does not get added. Customer Impact: Unlikely User Scenario Feature: Embedded Function: FC Service Reported in Release: FOS6.1.
DEFECT000229015 Medium Summary: With M5424, observed “FFDC event occurred - Port 1 chip faulted due to an internal error.” after creating a new zone and deleted an old zone from the active configuration Symptom: The port will go down and will not pass traffic. Customer Impact: Unlikely user scenario Feature: Embedded Function: ASIC Driver Reported in Release: FOS6.1.
