HP B-series Network Advisor Enterprise, Professional Plus, and Professional 11.1.5 Release Notes (5697-2464, January 2013)

Version
11.1.5
Description
HP Network Advisor 11.1.5 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 7.0.0a and later releases.
Hardware platforms
There is now support for the following 16 Gbps hardware platforms:
• HP SN3000B 16Gb FC Switch with up to 24 ports running 4/8/16 Gbps for open systems
• HP SN8000B 8Gb 32-port Enhanced Fibre Channel Blade and HP SN8000B 8Gb 48-port
Enhanced Fibre Channel Blade
• HP SN6000B 16Gb FC Switch with up to 48 ports running 4/8/10/16 Gbps FC for both
open systems and FICON environments.
• HP SN8000B 8-Slot SAN Backbone Director Switch and the HP SN8000B 4-Slot SAN Director
Switch. Both director switches are highly available, modular, and scalable platforms.
• New 16 Gbps Core Blades for the 16 Gbps director switches, enabling twice the slot
bandwidth available in previous generation directors.
• HP SN8000B 16Gb 32-port Fibre Channel Blade and HP SN8000B 16Gb 48-port Fibre
Channel Blade
New software features
SAN Management Feature Enhancements:
• DCB switch support Network Advisor allows users to discover and manage DCB Switches
from the SAN tabs.
• Host views are supported on the SAN Tabs and allow users to discover hosts using a Virtual
Machine Manager (VMM) such as vCenter Server.
• Virtualization now allows users to discover VMs directly from the vCenter.
• Unified ACL management allows users to consistently define and deploy ACLs across different
types of devices.
• Host Connectivity Manager Network Advisor 11.1.3 and later includes HCM 3.0.3 version
for Adapter management.
• ICL Support Support for up to nine SN8000B SAN Director chassis full mesh topology and
up to ten SN8000B SAN Director chassis in a core-edge topology using optical ICLs, beginning
with this release.
NOTE: Certain documents may state a maximum of eight SN8000B chassis for core-edge
topology due to their finalization and release prior to completion of testing that supports the
newer ten chassis maximum.
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