HP B-series Fabric OS 7.0.2d Release Notes (5697-2822, August 2013--includes all 7.0.x versions)

active HP DC SAN Director 10/24 FCOE Blade results in the new standby CP not coming

up.

• When operating in Converged Mode, tagged traffic on the native VLAN of the switch interface

is processed normally. The host should be configured not to send VLAN tagged traffic on the

switch’s native VLAN.

• When operating in Converged Mode, tagged frames coming with a VLAN tag equal to the

configured native VLAN are dropped.

• The Converged Network Adapter (CNA) may lose connectivity to the HP 2408 24-10 GbE

w/8-8 Gbps FC Base FCoE Switch/HP DC SAN Director 10/24 FCOE Blade if the CNA

interface is toggled repeatedly over time. This issue is related to the CNA and rebooting the

CNA restores connectivity.

• The HP 2408 24-10 GbE w/8-8 Gbps FC Base FCoE Switch and HP DC SAN Director 10/24

FCOE Blade support only one CEE map on all interfaces connected to CNAs. HP does not

recommend CEE map for use with non-FCoE traffic. HP recommends QoS commands for

interfaces carrying non-FCoE traffic.

• Before upgrading to Fabric OS 7.0.0a or later, if the CEE map default value already exists,

the same default value is preserved after upgrading to Fabric OS 7.0.0a or later. However,

if the CEE map default is not configured before upgrading to Fabric OS 7.0.0a or later, then

after upgrading to 7.0.0a or later, the following CEE map default is created automatically:

◦ cee-map default

◦ priority-group-table 1 weight 40 pfc

◦ priority-group-table 2 weight 60

◦ priority-table 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2

• When upgrading from Fabric OS 6.3.x or 6.4.x to Fabric OS 7.0.0a or later, the CEE start

up configuration dcf.conf file is incompatible with the FCoE provisioning changes

implemented in Fabric OS 7.0.0a or later. Users can save the dcf.conf file as a backup

and apply it once the firmware upgrade is completed to get the HP StorageWorks DC SAN

Backbone Director Switches and HP StorageWorks DC04 SAN Director Switches, to the same

startup configuration as in the older release.

• HP recommends that Spanning Tree Protocol and its variants be disabled on CEE interfaces

that are connected to an FCoE device.

• The Fabric Provided MAC Address (FPMA) and the FC Identifier (FCID) assigned to a VN_Port

cannot be associated with any single front-end CEE port on which the FLOGI was received.

• LLDP neighbor information may be released before the timer expires when DCBX is enabled

on a CEE interface. This occurs only when the CEE interface state changes from active to any

other state. When the DCBX is not enabled, the neighbor information is not released until the

timer expires, irrespective of the interface state.

• The FCoE Login Group Name should be unique in a fabric wide FCoE Login Management

Configuration. The merge logic is designed to modify the Login Group Name during merge

when Login group names in participating configurations conflict with each other. The current

OUI being used by Brocade, while assigning the WWNs to HP 2408 FCoE Switches, HP

StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director Switches and HP StorageWorks DC04 SAN

Director Switches, would make only the last three bytes as different for any two HP 2408

FCoE Switches, HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director Switches or HP StorageWorks

DC04 SAN Director Switches. Considering this assignment method, the merge logic would

rename the login group by including the last three bytes of WWN in the login group name,

so that they are unique in the merged configuration.