BROCADE 10 Gbps Fibre Channel over Ethernet PCIe Converged Network Adapter and 8 Gbps & 4 Gbps Fibre Channel PCIe Host Bus Adapter Release Notes - Software Release 2.3.0.3 (March 2011)

Brocade Adapter v2.3.0.3 Release Notes Page 12 of 19
Windows:
1. Use Windows 2008 R2 drivers for Windows7 x64 OS and Windows 2008 SP2 x86
drivers for Windows 7 x86 OS.
2. On Windows 2003 with boot from SAN setup, if the target containing the boot LUN
is lost for more than 90 seconds, the system might fail. Reboot the server to
recover.
3. Windows selects the first port visible during normal boot (and this can be different
from the port that was selected for booting under HBA BIOS configuration). If
multiple paths are configured to the same boot LUN, and if the path on which
Windows has discovered the boot LUN goes down, then Windows might
experience a failure.
4. In Windows, the driver installation will fail if the HBA or CNA ports don't show up
under Device Manager. This can happen on a freshly-built OS, if the driver
package is installed and uninstalled without a reboot. Rescan the hardware
devices using Device Manager to work around the issue.
5. In a Windows environment, stop the HCM agent prior to disabling the driver using
Device Manager.
6. In Windows, the Brocade Adapter Installer checks for minimally-required
Microsoft STORPort hotfixes and reports an error if required or a newer hotfix is
not installed.
Windows Server 2008:
o Recommended: KB968675.
Windows Server 2003 SP2:
o Recommended: KB943545.
o Required: KB932755
7. On Windows system installed with CNA, in rare case, Ethernet device number in
the Network Manager i.e. “Local Area Connection##” may not match the
adapter/port order. This is Microsoft Windows limitation as detailed in the KB
article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823206. The workaround is to rename the
“Local Area Connection##” to match the adapter/port order (right click on the
Local Area Connection and click rename).
8. In Windows 2008 R2 x64 deployment with iSCSI service enabled, apply hotfix
KB979711 to avoid system failure while running storage traffic. KB979711:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979711/en-us
9. In Windows 2008, in rare cases user might see system failure when multiple
VLANs are created on the port. To avoid the failure, create Pass-through-VLAN
on each port where VLANs are created. There is no need to create Pass-
through-VLAN in case of VLAN on team.