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

• For switches having different OUI indices from the eight assigned to Brocade WWNs can

differ in more than three bytes. In this case, after normal merge and a rename according to

the described logic, login group names can be the same for WWNs differing only in OUIs.

The merge logic would drop one of the Login Groups to satisfy the requirement to keep the

• Ethernet switch services must be explicitly enabled using the command fosconfig –enable

ethsw before powering on an HP DC SAN Director 10/24 FCOE Blade. Failure to do so

causes the blade to be faulted (fault 9). Users can enable ethsw after upgrading firmware

without FC traffic interruption.

• The HP 2408 24-10 GbE w/8-8 Gbps FC Base FCoE Switch does not support non-disruptive

hot code loads (HCL). Upgrading the HP 2408 24-10 GbE w/8-8 Gbps FC Base FCoE Switch

to Fabric OS 7.0.1 or later or downgrading from Fabric OS 7.0.1 or later is disruptive to the

I/O through the switch.

• Upgrading firmware on an HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director Switch or HP

StorageWorks DC04 SAN Director Switch with one or more HP DC SAN Director 10/24

FCOE Blades from Fabric OS 6.3.x and 6.4.x to Fabric OS 7.0.0a or later is disruptive to

any traffic through the HP DC SAN Director 10/24 FCOE Blades.

• Connecting HP 2408 24-10 GbE w/8-8 Gbps FC Base FCoE Switch to an FCR-capable switch

with fcrbcast config enabled causes a storm of broadcast traffic resulting in termination of

iswitchd.

• When rebooting an HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director Switch or HP StorageWorks

DC04 SAN Director Switch with an HP DC SAN Director 10/24 FCOE Blade, Qlogic CNA

and LSAN zoning, the switch becomes very unresponsive for a period of time. This is due to

the CNA sending excessive MS queries to the switch.

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

FCOE Blade can handle 169 small FCoE frames in bursts. If you are using the HP 2408 24-10

GbE w/8-8 Gbps FC Base FCoE Switch or HP DC SAN Director 10/24 FCOE Blade, and

you delete a large number of V_Ports with HCM, some of the V_Ports may not appear to be

deleted. To correct this, disable and re-enable FCoE with the following CLI commands:

◦ switch:admin>fcoe –disable slot/port

◦ switch:admin>fcoe --enable slot/port

• When an HP DC SAN Director 10/24 FCOE Blade is powered off during configuration

replay, the interface specific configuration does not get applied. Later when the HP DC SAN

Director 10/24 FCOE Blade is powered on, all physical interfaces come up with default

configurations. The user can execute the copy startup-config running-config

command to apply the new configuration after powering on the HP DC SAN Director 10/24

FCOE Blade.

• When IGMP Snooping is disabled on a VLAN, all configured IGMP groups are removed from

that VLAN. You must reconfigure the IGMP groups after enabling the IGMP snooping on that

VLAN.

IMPORTANT: When upgrading from Fabric OS 6.3.x or 6.4.x to 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 and later releases. Users can save the dcf.conf file as a backup and apply

it once the firmware upgrade is completed to get the DCX/DCX-4S to the same startup configuration

as in the older release.

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