HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.3.0a release notes (AA-RWEYE-TE, September 2007)

and virtual) attached to it while allowing easy SAN connectivity. The edge fabric switch provides all
the fabric services while Access Gateway connects to the edge switch by what appears as a Host Bus
Adapter (HBA) connection. This architecture allows the deployment of many additional servers without
requiring a domain and the associated fabric rebuild traffic that is prevalent when switches are powered
on, or added, or removed from a fabric.
Refer to the Brocade Access Gateway Administrator’s Guide available on h
ttp://www.hp.com/go/san
for m ore information.
Access Gateway support in non-Brocade fabrics
In addition to being supported in Brocade fabrics, Access Gateway is supported for connectivity to the
following:
• McDATA fabr
ics running EOS 09.00.xx with Brocade FOS 5.2.1b
• McDATA fabrics running EOS 09.02.xx or 09.03.xx with Brocade FOS 5.3.0 or 5.3.0a
• Cisco fabrics running SAN-OS 3.0(2a) with Brocade FOS 5.2.1b
• Cisco fabr
ics running SAN-OS versions 3.1(2a), 3.1(3), 3.1(3a) with Brocade FOS 5.3.0 or 5.3.0a
Dynamic Ports on Dem and (DPOD)
IMPORTANT:
DPOD is supported only in the following HP product:
• Brocade 4G b SAN Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem (Brocade 4024)
Please check h
ttp://www.hp.com for the latest updates.
DPOD is an optional feature on the embedded switch listed above. DPOD takes the expansion capability
of fixed Ports on Demand (PODs) and adds the flexibility of connecting to any available port as long
as a valid license is available. Previously, POD allowed only specific ports to be utilized. With D POD,
any physically available port can be made active as long as a valid license is available. This allows
customers the flexibility of automatically changing port assignments where previously the port assignments
were fixed and inflexible.
Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS)
The RASLog has been modified to support IPv6. RAS will a lso obsolete traceftp and savecore CLI and
add its functionality to supportsave and supportftp.
Management
Fabric OS 5.3.0 added a new user role, the secAdmin or Security Administrator. This role has
responsibility for logging, auditing, security administration and user mana gement. The addition of the
secAdmin role allows users to isolate security management from complete Administrator management.
Security
All remaining essential elements of Secure Fabric OS have now been integrated into the base Fabric
OS 5.3.0.
IMPORTANT:
Fabric OS 5.3.0 will be the last major release that is compatible with SFOS.
Fabric OS 5.3.0 integrated the following new features:
• FICON Cascading no longer requires SFOS
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