6 Gbps Fibre Channel and 10 Gbps Ethernet PCIe Fabric Adapter 10 Gbps Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) PCIe Converged Network Adapter (CNA) 8 Gbps & 4 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) PCIe Host Bus Adapter (HBA) Software Release v3.0.0.0 Update 3 October 2011 Brocade Adapter v3.0.0.
Document History Document Title Summary of Changes Publication Date Brocade Adapters v3.0.0.0 Release Notes Software Release 3.0.0.0 August 5, 2011 Brocade Adapters v3.0.0.0 Release Notes Update 1 Added VMware ESX 4.1 and VMware ESXi 5.0 support in Software Release 3.0.0.0 August 31, 2011 Brocade Adapters v3.0.0.0 Release Notes Update 2 Added VMware ESX 4.0 support September 1, 2011 in Software Release 3.0.0.0 Brocade Adapters v3.0.0.0 Release Notes Update 3 Added RHEL 5.
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Brocade Adapters These release notes provide information regarding the product’s use and any known issues at the time of publication. Please refer to the OEM release notes for OEM specific data. For up-to-date information on Brocade and OEM adapter products, visit the Brocade website at www.brocade.com/adapters.
DUDs (provided in ISO and zip format) are required to install the drivers during an OS installation to LUNs attached to the SAN. LiveCD The LiveCD can be used to boot up the diskless or OS-less servers. The Brocade Command Utility (BCU) can then be used to update the boot code. Agent The management agent is automatically installed as part of the driver installation process and can be started manually or automatically.
Supported Operating Systems (OS): Brocade software components, including drivers, the agent, APIs, and management tools, are supported on leading operating systems including Microsoft Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2/Windows7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5/6, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10/11, Oracle Solaris 10, and VMware 4/5. HCM is supported on Windows 7, Windows XP, and Windows Vista in addition to the existing OS drivers above.
• Brocade AnyIO technology on 1860 Adapters – Ability to run native Fibre Channel and Ethernet on the same adapter and to dynamically change a port’s mode between Fibre Channel and Ethernet Operating System Updates: • Novell SLES10.4 • Red Hat RHEL 4.9 • Red Hat RHEL 6.1 • VMware ESXi 5.0 • Windows SBS 2011 • Oracle Unbreakable Linux 5.6, 6.
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Important Notes General: 1. Brocade HBAs support a direct-attach configuration to storage in Point-to-Point (P2P) mode only (not in Arbitrated Loop mode). 2. In a configuration with HBAs and CNAs in the same server, the latest revision of boot code should be updated on all the adapters after upgrading to the latest drivers. The boot image can be updated on all the adapters using the command “bcu boot –update -a” to update the boot firmware. LiveCD can also be used to update the boot code.
10. Use the following procedure to successfully downgrade HCM as its configuration is not persisted automatically during a downgrade using the “Brocade Adapter Software Installer”. a. Backup • Uninstall the existing (higher) version of HCM using “Brocade HBA Software Installer”. • On the message box prompting the user to backup the data directory, click “Backup” to continue. • Get User Input screen displays the default backup directory location. A different location for backup can also be selected.
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).
• Same discovery mechanism (i.e., First LUN/Auto/Flash under "Boot Device Settings" in BIOS config menu or bcu CLI) should be used for all HBA port instances for which the boot LUN is exposed. • If multiple storage ports (having unique PWWNs) are configured to access the same boot LUN in the storage array and all PWWNs are zoned to a specific HBA port instance, then all such PWWNs must be listed under “Boot Device Settings” in BIOS config menu or BCU.
Linux: 1. When Network Manager is enabled, network traffic may not pass through multiple CNA network interfaces. The workaround is to disable Network Manager or set up Network Manager to use the appropriate NIC interface. 2. Always use KMP binary RPMs for SLES11.x and avoid using NOARCH RPMs. If a non-KMP RPM of driver is installed over this, any YaST2-based install will revert back to the inbox version of the driver.
9. Linux BASI installer creates a second backup copy of the initrd file. There is no functional impact of having two copies. 10. On Linux systems, Brocade Adapter Software Installer doesn't check to see if /boot is full and fails silently when updating initrd. Re-try installation after adding or freeing up disk space in the /boot partition. 11. RHEL6.1 and SLES10 SP4 include 2.3.2.x based Inbox drivers.
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