HP Emulex Adapters Release Notes Abstract This document contains supplemental information for the Emulex Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs) and Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) for ProLiant and Integrity servers.
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Additional resources HP maintains the SPOCK website as the primary source of detailed information about HP storage product configurations, including operating system, software, and firmware version support. For the latest information about storage array support, see the HP SPOCK website at http:// www.hp.com/storage/spock. It is essential to sign up for HP Passport to enable access. Some HBA/CNA download kits include a readme.
Table 2 (page 4) describes the HBAs and mezzanine cards supported on servers running Windows, Linux, VMware,or Citrix operating systems.
Table 3 (page 5) describes the Legacy HBAs and mezzanine cards supported on servers running Windows, Linux, VMware, or Citrix operating systems. NOTE: The HBAs and mezzanine cards listed in Table 3 (page 5) are supported; however, they are no longer available for purchase.
Update prerequisites Before performing CNA or HBA updates, do the following: • Ensure the system is running one of the operating system versions listed in HBA Software Support Matrices, available at the SPOCK website http://www.hp.com/storage/spock. It is essential to sign up for HP Passport to enable access. • See the HP server PCI slot specifications to determine if the server is compatible with the CNA or HBA.
NOTE: Newer versions of the HBA driver use Emulex OneCommand software for HBA management and older versions of the driver use Emulex HBAnyware software. To determine the HBA management software needs for your configuration, see HBA Software Support Matrix available on the HP SPOCK website at http://www.hp.com/storage/spock. It is essential to sign up for HP Passport to enable access. Windows support This section describes CNA/HBA support for Windows.
NOTE: HP does not support HP Emulex Fibre Channel or CNA FCoE products on Citrix XenServer 5.6 FP1. HP Emulex CNAs only support NIC functionality of Citrix XenServer 5.6 FP1. For more information, see the Citrix Knowledge Center article at: http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX127573 For Fibre Channel and FCoE support, upgrade to Citrix XenServer 5.6 SP2 or later. Important notes and workarounds This section describes restrictions, notes, and issue workarounds for Emulex CNA/HBA adapters.
Ethernet Jumbo Packet The CN1000E maximum supported Ethernet Jumbo Packet frame size is 8192 bytes. Optical cable length The CN1000E maximum supported optical cable length is 40 meters. C-series Converged Network Switch requirement When using a C-series Converged Network Switch (HP Nexus 5000) with the HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric 10-Gb/24-port module, NPIV must be enabled on the C-series switch. Boot from SAN DL16x and DL18x Servers require extra time to boot from SAN.
For example, when 554FLB and NC553i adapters are present in a server blade that is in a HP 6125XLG Blade Switch based Blade Chassis, link failure occurs on secondary-adapters port, FIP fails and might time out. This issue will be resolved in future release. HP Emulex 8Gb and 16GB HBA Support for HP Proliant DL580 Gen8 Server HP Emulex 8Gb and 16Gb HBAs are supported on the HP Proliant DL580 Gen8 server with UEFI Boot, Legacy Boot, and Secure Boot.
SCSI reset status incorrectly reported in /var/log/messages An SLES 11 SP1 x64 system with an lpfc driver 8.5.3.44 can incorrectly report SCSI resets status in /var/log/messages similar to the following: Aug 9 12:01:12 xyz kernel: [ 6783.419080] lpfc 0000:a1:00.0: 4:(0):0714 SCSI layer issued Bus Reset Data: x0 This message can be ignored.. SLES 10 SP3 CNA firmware download Firmware download in SLES 10 SP3 can cause the system to hang.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html XP LUNs XP LUNs presented to Linux hosts must start with LUN 0. BFS zone targets A maximum of 10 targets are supported in a BFS zone. Call trace on sx2000 On an sx2000 system with the default logging level, a call trace may appear in the /var/log/messages file during failover events.
Channel target (such as adding a new storage array) to a SAN, is also not supported. The ability to present the new target to a Fibre Channel HBA, and then prompt the operating system to do an online scan (such as using the hp_rescan utility that comes with fibreutils) is not supported with the Emulex failover driver (MultiPulse). If adding a new Fibre Channel target to a host server, rebooting that server is necessary.
On Microsoft Windows 2003 and Microsoft Windows 2008, the link is not re-established when a Cisco Nexus 5000 switch is rebooted. The workaround is to use the Nexus Shutdown and No Shutdown CLI commands to bring the port back online. STORport miniport driver installation restrictions If you are upgrading to the STORport miniport driver, consider the following: • The STORport miniport driver is supported on Microsoft Windows 2003 SP1 and later.
• In BFS configurations where there are more than two Emulex HBAs in the same zone as the boot HBA, a crash-dump may not be generated due to a timeout condition when the boot HBA interacts with the non-boot HBAs. A workaround is to reconfigure the zoning such that the boot instance (for each path) is in its own zone separate from the other non-boot HBAs. In some cases, this also results in faster boot-up times.
