HP B-series Network Advisor Enterprise, Professional Plus, and Professional 12.1.5 Release Notes

Version
12.1.5
Description
HP Network Advisor is a software management platform that provides users with a consistent user
interface across FC and FCoE / DCB along with custom views and controls based on the users’
areas of specialization. Network Advisor provides users with the utmost flexibility in deployment
and operational models, including traditional SAN deployments (FC) and end-to-end convergence
(FCoE, iSCSI and NAS over DCB). It provides the next evolutionary step from the previous DCFM
software management platform, and is required for management of the new hardware platforms
highlighted below, and any future hardware platforms, as well as for the new Fabric OS 7.1 and
later releases.
HP Network Advisor offers enhancements to flexible SAN performance analysis as well as supporting
updated platform firmware versions.
HP Network Advisor 12.1.5 is a software maintenance release based on HP Network Advisor
12.1.1-12.1.4 that include the same hardware support, features, and fixes supported in Network
Advisor 12.1.1-12.1.4, plus additional fixes important to HP for 12.1.5.
Key feature enhancements introduced in Network Advisor 12.1.1
• Fabric OS 7.2.0a support
• Fabric Vision Enhancements with MAPS and Flow Vision configuration and dashboard support
Key feature enhancements introduced in Network Advisor 12.1.2
Real Time graphing support for Flow Vision.
Key feature enhancements introduced in Network Advisor 12.1.4
• Historical Graph and Historical Report for GIGE ports.
• FEC measures support in Performance Graphs
• Flow Vision: Frame size support
• vCops SMI Enhancements
• SCOM events enhancements
• D-port support
• Pagination support in Zoning dialog
Migration and upgrades
Network Advisor 11.3.0, 12.0.X (12.0.0 - 12.0.3), and 12.1.X (12.1.1-12.1.4) running on the
Linux and Windows operating systems can be upgraded to Network Advisor 12.1.5.
NOTE: Migrations to Network Advisor 12.1.5 from earlier versions, require an earlier version
of Network Advisor to be installed and running. Partial and Network path Migrations to Network
Advisor 12.1.5 are not supported from prior versions. See the "Application Configuration" chapter
in the Brocade Network Advisor SAN User Manual 12.0.0 for the configuration backup procedure
and the "Data Migration" chapter in the Brocade Network Advisor Installation and Migration
Guide 12.0.0 for details about migration.
DCFM 10.4.x running on the Linux and Windows operating systems can be upgraded to Network
Advisor 11.1.x (11.1.0 - 11.1.5) first, and then upgraded to Network Advisor 12.0.0 - 12.0.3
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