HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 6.0.1a release notes (AA-RWFMA-TE, June 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
value as long as its share areas values are 127 or less.
• 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 b ack to original
settings is to add the FC4-32 blade back i nto the slot and port–swap the
ports back to the por t’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-por t 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 D irector bla de is not supp orted to connect to the System z
environments via FICON channels or via FCP zLinux on System z. To use the
4/256 SAN Director to attach to the System z environment, use the FC4-16 or
FC4-32 Director blades
FC10-6
In rare instances POST/System verification failures h ave been observed on the
FC10-6.
FC4-16IP
Upon firmware download, the FC4-16IP blade does not preserve disabled GE
ports in a disabled state. If you wish t o retain GE ports in a disabled state across
firmware download, you must configure them as persistently disabled.
Fabric OS—CLI
commands
• This release does not support u nderscore (_) 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 N TP server
address. This causes a partial configuration to be download ed onto th e switch.
Forexample,whenanNTPserveraddressisinvalid,configdownload fails,
and all data processed prior to the NTP server address data had a lready been
saved in the switch and cannot be backed out. To fixtheproblem,correctthe
invalid parameter and reissue the configdownload command.
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