FibrChanl-03 (fcoc) B.11.31.1203 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v3 Release Notes

• rx2800 i2 System Firmware s26.21 or higher

• C7000 OA Firmware 3.20 or higher

• VCSU FW 1.6.0 or higher

• VC-Enet FW Version 3.15 or higher (for profile migration, 3.17 or higher is required)

• NC551m Firmware version 2.104.356.3 or higher

• NC553m Firmware version 3.104.356.3 or higher

• CN1100E Firmware version 3.104.356.3 or higher

• HP-UX 11i v3 OS Fusion version B.11.31.1103 or higher

• HP-UX CommonIO 11.31.1103 (B.11.31.1109) or higher

For current recommended firmware versions, see the HP-UX Fibre Channel (fcd, fclp) and FlexFabric

FCoE (fcoc) Host Bus Adapter Support Matrix at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs, by

clicking onHP Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters.

NOTE: The FC-COMMON.FC-SNIA fileset is part of the CommonIO bundle. If

FC-COMMON.FC-SNIA (1103 or later) is not present on a system, swinstall of the FC-FCOC

product will display errors. If you ignore the errors and proceed with the swinstall, the

FC-FCOC.FC-FCOC-RUN fileset will not be installed.

After installation, the HBA firmware version as viewed from HP-UX will differ slightly from the

firmware versions specified above. When viewed from HP-UX, the firmware version is defined as

shown below:

For FW version x.y04.356.3:

x is:

BE2 chip (NC551m)2

BE3 chip (NC553m, CN1100E)3

y is:

NIC/iSCSI mode (not currently supported)1

NIC/FCoE mode7

Driver versions

The following table lists all the driver versions of the fcoc driver on HP-UX 11i v3 with their associated

release names and dates.

Table 7 Table of Driver Versions

Release DateDriver VersionRelease Name

November 2010B.11.31.1011Web Release 1011

March 2011B.11.31.1103Application Release 1103

March 2011B.11.31.1103.01Web Release 1103

September 2011B.11.31.1109.01Application Release 1109

August 2011B.11.31.1109.02Web Release 1108 (supersedes

AR1109)

March 2012B.11.31.1203Application Release 1203