HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.3.0 Release Notes (AA-RWEYD-TE, July 2007)

Refer to the Brocade Access G a teway Administrator’s Guide available on http://www.hp.com/go/san

for more information.

Access Gateway

support in non-Brocade fabrics

In addition to

being supported in Brocade fabrics, Access Gateway is supported for connectivity to the

following:

• McDATA fabrics running EOS 09.00.xx with Brocade FOS 5.2.1b

• McDATA fabrics running EOS 09.02.xx or 09.03.xx with Brocade FOS 5.3.0

• Cisco fabric

s running SAN-OS 3.0(2a) with Brocade FOS 5.2.1b

• Cisco fabrics running SAN-OS 3.1(2a) with Brocade FOS 5.3.0

Dynam ic Ports on Demand (DPOD)

IMPORTANT:

DPOD is supported only in the following HP product:

• Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem (Brocade 4024)

Please check h

ttp://w ww.hp.com for the latest updates.

DPOD is an optional feature on the embedded switch listed above. DPOD takes the expansion capability

of ﬁxed Ports on Demand (PODs) and adds the ﬂexibility of connecting to any available port as long

as a valid license is available. Previously, POD allowed only speciﬁc ports to be utilized. With DPOD,

any physically available port can be made a ctive as long as a valid license is available. This allows

customers the ﬂexibility of automatically changing port assignments where previously the p ort assignments

were ﬁxed and inﬂexible.

Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS)

The RASLog has been modiﬁed to suppor t IPv6. RAS will also obsolete traceftp and savecore CLI and

add its functionality to supportsave and supportftp.

Management

Fabric OS 5.3.0 adds a n ew user role, the secAdmin or Security Administrator . This role has

responsibility for logging, auditing, security administration and user management. The addition of the

secAdmin role allows users to isolate securit y manag em ent from complete Administrator management.

Security

All remaining essential elements of Secure Fabric OS have now been integ rated into the b ase Fabric

OS 5.3.0.

IMPORTANT:

Fabric OS 5.3.0 will be the last major release that is compatible with SFOS.

Fabric OS 5.3.0 integrates the following new features:

• FICON Cascading no longer requires SFOS

• MAC policies have now been replaced by IP ﬁlters, allowing conﬁguration of acceptable IP

addresses and ranges that may gain management access to the switch.

• Protected-Extensible Authentication Protocol (P-EAP with MSCHAP-v2) support for RAdmin

DomainIUS.

• DH-CHAP now suppor ted for authentication of HBAs and end-devices in addition to switches