HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 6.0.0b release notes (5697-7345, April 2008)

Topic Description

FC4-48 port blade for the

4/256 SAN Director

• The configure command only gives a maximum login per port setting. The

command allows over 127, where ports for the FC4- 48 blade will honor that

valueaslongasitsshareareasvaluesare127orless.

• Before replacing a FC4-32 blade with an FC4-48 blade, restore ports 16–31

of the FC4-32 blade if these ports are used for port swapping. Failure to

do so will fault the FC4-48 blade. The only way to restore back to original

settings is to add the F C4-32 blade back into the slot and port–swap the

ports back to the port’s default setting.

• FC4-48 ports should not belong to the zone or in an administrative domain in

which FICON devices are present.

• FC4-48 blade does not support loop. Private L_Ports will be shown on these

ports in switchShow, but will not participate in the fabric.

• The porttest and spinfab commands on any platform will not work on

E_Ports connected to a FC4-48 por t.

• In a core-edge design, making an edge 384-port 4/256 SAN Director the

principal switch causes high CPU utilization and may cause panics. SAN

design best practice recommends moving the reduction of fabric stress and

ease of management.

• The FC4-48 Director blade is not supported to connect to the System z

environments via FICON channels or via FCP zLinux on Sy stem z. To use the

4/256 SAN Director to a ttach to the System z environment, use the FC4-16 or

FC4-32 Director blades

FC4-

16 I P

Upon ﬁrmware download, the FC4-16IP blade does not preserve disabled GE

ports in a disabled state. If you wish to retain GE ports in a disabled state across

ﬁrmware download, you must conﬁgure them as persistently d isabled.

Fabric OS—CLI

commands

• This release does not support underscore (_) as part of the name for the dd

and ddset parameters used with the iscsicfg command.

• The slotOff and slotOn commands are now obsolete; use slotPowerOff

and slotPowerOn instead. The portLogPortShow command is also now

obsolete.

• When performing a configdownload, you may receive a message stating

configDownload not permitted.

An invalid parameter was passed to the switch. The invalid parameter could

be from a switch security policy, such as the password policy, or the NTP server

address. This causes a partial conﬁguration to be downloaded onto the switch.

Forexample,whenanNTPserveraddressisinvalid,configdownload fails,

and all data processed prior to the NTP server address data had already been

savedintheswitchandcannotbebackedout.Toﬁx the problem, correct the

invalid parameter and reissue the configdownload command.

HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 6.0.0b release notes