Brocade Fabric OS v7.2.1a Release Notes v1.0

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Defect ID:
DEFECT000476595
Technical Severity:
High
Probability:
Low
Product:
FOS
Technology:
Security
Reported In Release:
FOS7.0.2
Technology Area:
Encryption
Closed In Release(s):
FOS7.2.1(Fixed)
Symptom:
In a heavy I/O environment, tape mounts are rejected for LTO drives on encryption blade.
Condition:
In encryption environment (BES/FS8-18), while heavy tape I/Os or rekey is running through an
Encryption Engine, host may experience failure in doing I/O to the tape drive LUNs configured in
that Encryption Engine or lose access to the encrypted Disk LUNs.
Defect ID:
DEFECT000477188
Technical Severity:
Medium
Probability:
Low
Product:
FOS
Technology:
Management
Reported In Release:
FOS7.1.1
Technology Area:
Platform Services
Closed In Release(s):
FOS7.2.1(Fixed)
Symptom:
During hafailover operation, switch reinitializes a port blade due to a false indication of a power (low
voltage) issue.
Condition:
An i2c contention during an i2c read/write operation on FC8-48 or FC8-32 port blade, immediately
following an hafailover, forces an i2c reset for the corresponding blade.
Recovery:
No further recovery is necessary, data path re-route is already initiated and the FRU re-initialized to
remedy the situation.
Defect ID:
DEFECT000477596
Technical Severity:
Medium
Probability:
Low
Product:
FOS
Technology:
Management
Reported In Release:
FOS7.0.2
Technology Area:
Web Tools
Closed In Release(s):
FOS7.2.1(Fixed)
Symptom:
Weblinker terminated and restarted but could not service the HTTP requests. All requests getting a
response "Chassis is not ready for management".
Condition:
On very rare occasions, the issue is seen on switches managed by BNA.
Recovery:
Use hafailover or reboot CLI.
Defect ID:
DEFECT000477854
Technical Severity:
High
Probability:
Low
Product:
FOS
Technology:
Traffic Management
Reported In Release:
FOS7.0.2
Technology Area:
ICLs - Inter-chassis Links
Closed In Release(s):
FOS7.2.1(Fixed)
Symptom:
CRC with good EOF errors will be reported on multiple ICL ports in DCX
Condition:
This issue is seen rarely on DCX platforms
Defect ID:
DEFECT000477917
Technical Severity:
High
Probability:
Medium
Product:
FOS
Technology:
Traffic Management
Reported In Release:
FOS6.4.3
Technology Area:
Routing
Closed In Release(s):
FOS7.2.1(Fixed)
Symptom:
Spinfab fails across TI Zone when link cost is higher than that of normal E-ports.
Condition:
Testing ports bounced after link cost was changed to a higher than normal traffic E-ports between the
same two domains.
Workaround:
Change the link cost without bouncing the port.
Recovery:
Set the link cost of testing port to the same as other online E-ports during spinfab test.