16N Fabric OS V4.2.X Release Notes

Overview

4 SAN Switch 2/8V, 2/16V, 2/16N Fabric OS 4.2.x Release Notes

Overview

HP Fabric OS 4.2.x provides the following enhancements for the

SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch 2/16V and SAN Switch 2/16N models:

■ Reduced fabric configuration downtime. Extended Edge PID for mixed

fabrics eliminates host reboot for hosts that statically bind PIDs.

■ Improved fabric diagnostics:

—The pathinfo command displays path information between any two

ports of a fabric.

— The diagnostics monitor compact flash utilization and clean the file

systems during periods of high utilization.

—The supportshow command has improved functionality.

— Hardware watchdog failures capture a kernel trace dump prior to reset.

Improvements

The following improvements have been made to the Fabric OS software since the

last HP 4.x release:

■ Secure Telnet may now be connected with two LAN cards.

■ Improvements have been made to the reboot code.

■ Problems that caused compaqt flash full have been resolved.

■ We have increased the number of HBAs that can be displayed by Web Tools.

■ Web Tools events now use adjusted time zone time, rather than UTC time.

Supported Switches

Fabric OS v4.2.x supports the HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/8V, SAN Switch

2/16V, SAN Switch 2/16N, SAN Switch 2/32, Core Switch 2/64, and SAN

Director 2/128.