HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 6.0.1a release notes (AA-RWFMA-TE, June 2008)

Topic Description
Fabric Merge
Do not try to merge fabrics with conflicting domain IDs ov er a VE_Port. Before
mergingtwofabricsoverFC-IPwithVE_Portsateachend,itisrecommendedthat
all domain ID and zoning conflicts are resolved.
Scalability
• Support for De
fault Zoning policies have been added to Fabric OS 5.1.0.
Typically, when you issue the cfgDisable command in a large fabric with
thousands of
devices, the name server ind icates to all hosts that they can
communicate
with each other .
To ensure tha
t all devices in a fabric do not see each other during a
cfgDisable operation, you can activate a Default Zone with policy set to “no
access”. If Default zoning policies are enabled, all cfgEnable/Disable
commands a
nd zoning changes must be run from a switch in the fabric
running Fa
bric OS 5.1.x or later.
• In large fa
brics with more than 1,000 ports, it is recommended that the MS
Platform D atabase is disabled. It is also required that the Platform DB be
disabled before downgrading to previous versions of Fabric OS. This can be
done using the msPLMgmtDeactivate command.
System boot
Not all Fabric OS services are available when the prompt becomes available
during boot up. Wait for all the services to come up before using the switch
or performing zoning actions
Pe r formance Monitoring
If the user tries to save more than 512 monitors using the perfCfgSave
command, some of the monitors may be lost.
Manage
ment—proxy
switc
hes
If you a
reusingaFabricOS4.xswitchasanAPIorSMI-Sproxytomanagea
switch
running v5.1.0 or above, you must be running Fabric OS 4.4.0d, as a
minim
um requirement.
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