HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.3.
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Version 5.3.2 Effective date January 2009 Description Fabric OS 5.3.2 is a firmware release that contains fixes since the release of Fabric OS 5.3.1b. There is no new device support added with this release for HP StorageWorks platforms. Update recommendations HP supports Fabric OS 5.3.2 on the SAN Switch 2/8v, SAN Switch 2/16V, SAN Switch 2/32, and SAN Switch 2/128 switches only. This release is not supported on 4–GB or 8–GB switches. NOTE: If upgrading from Fabric OS 5.1.x with switches running 2.6.
Unsupported product models Any switch not listed in the “Supported product models” on page 3 is not supported with Fabric OS 5.3.2. Devices supported For a list of supported devices, see the HP website: http://www.hp.com/go/san Operating systems For a list of operating systems, see the HP website: http://www.hp.
New features in Fabric OS 5.3.0 This section lists Fabric OS 5.3.0 added features and improvements: NOTE: The Fabric OS 5.3.2 firmware release contains the same features introduced in Fabric OS 5.3.0. However, given that 5.3.2 is only supported on 2–GB switches, many of these listed 5.3.0 features, are not applicable to those switches.
• FCIP MIB • IPv6 trap destination • IPv6 SNMP ACL entries Reliability, Availability, Serviceability (RAS) The RASLog is modified to support IPv6. RAS will also 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 maintains security administration, including logging and auditing.
New Web Tools features in Fabric OS 5.3.0 Web Tools updates include: NOTE: Some Web Tools features listed are not applicable in this firmware release, as Fabric OS 5.3.2 is only supported on 2Gb switch models. • Usability enhancements • Web-started GUI • Revamped Switch Explorer • Single-signed application • Common GUI components with new search and export capabilities • “Advanced” vs.
Table 1 Current supported Fabric OS versions Model Earliest compatible version Recommended version HP StorageWorks 1 Gb Switch Not supported; end of support (December 2007) HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/8 EL, HPStorageWorks SAN Switch 2/16, MSA SAN Switch 2/8 3.2.1b 3.2.1c HP StorageWorks Core Switch 2/64, HP StorageWorks SAN Director 2/128 in Chassis Config modes 3 and 4 only. 5.0.5d 5.0.5f HP HP HP HP 5.1.1b 5.3.2 5.1.1b 6.1.
HP StorageWorks B-series Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise Software 10.0.2 10.0.2 NOTE: The B-Series MP Router Blade (for use with the 4/256 Director only) must run Fabric OS 5.1.0d or later. The Core Switch 2/64 does not support the B-Series MP Router Blade. Firmware upgrade instructions To access the latest Fabric OS 5.3.2 firmware, configuration files, and MIB files, see the following HP website: http://www.hp.com/support/downloads and follow these steps. 1.
CAUTION: If the 4/256 SAN Director integrates the FC4-48 Blade or any new software features in Fabric OS 5.2.0a, such as FCR trunking, you cannot downgrade below Fabric OS 5.2.0a. If you want to do so, you must (a) remove these features, (b) physically remove the Blade, and then (c) downgrade the firmware. • For any other new software features or increased scalability limits supported by Fabric OS 5.3.x, downgrade will be disruptive and require a cold reboot. • A Fabric OS 5.3.
Important notes Table 2 provides information relevant to the release. Table 2 Important release information Topic Description Starting with Fabric OS version 5.3.0, you can use the ipfilter command to block unauthorized Telnet access. The option to disable Telnet using the configure command is no longer available.
Topic Firmware upgrade/downgrade Description • When upgrading from Fabric OS 5.1.x to 5.2.x or 5.3.x, if two or more interfabric links (IFLs) connect to an edge fabric, one IFL will stay online and the other IFLs will go online and offline. This causes a temporary traffic disruption going from multiple IFLs to one IFL and then back to multiple IFLs. This is due to the new front domain consolidation feature in Fabric OS 5.2.0, where the IFLs connected to the same edge fabric share the same front domain.
Topic Description • All offline diagnostics commands should be used only when the switch is disabled. • Installing new SFPs during POST may cause POST to fail. Install SFPs only when the switch is online or if the switch is powered off. Diagnostics • When you use the diagnostic commands systemVerification and diagSetBurnin, the switch or Blade faults when the burn-in error log is full. Clear the burn-in log before running systemVerification or diagSetBurnin.
Topic Description • Frame drops observed on FCIP slow links: • The frame drops occur when the FCIP tunnel bandwidth is set to 10 BaseT (10Mbps), E1 (1.048Mbps), or T1 (1.544Mbps). • With E1 or T1, frames drop even without an impaired link. • With 10 Base-T, frame drops may be observed when a low impairment is put to the link. FCIP • The portperfshow command indicated incorrect (smaller) bidirectional throughput on the FCIP tunnel when Fastwrite/Tape Pipelining is enabled.
Topic Description Web Tools When the regional language is set to anything other than English, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese or Spanish, Web Tools may not finish loading when connecting to a switch running FOS 5.3.0, 5.3.0a or 5.3.0b. The Switch Explorer progress bar hangs while initializing switch details.
Additional Fabric OS 5.3.0 enhancements Additional Fabric OS 5.3.0 enhancements include: • Provides new Fabric OS commands to rename an alias, a zone, and a zone configuration. Zone –copy copies the zone object to a new zone object. Zoneobjectrename renames the zone object. • Detects and handles a corrupted zone configuration [under /etc/fabos/zone*] gracefully instead of rebooting. The switch also logs the error in RASLog. • Adds a new command that provides both the WWN and serial number of the switch.
Fabric OS 5.3.1 fixes Table 3 lists defects closed in the Fabric OS 5.3.1 firmware release. Table 3 Fabric OS 5.3.1 closed defects Closed defect summary Solution Management Server Daemon (MSD) panic occurs on switch during fabric initialization. When fabric has not initialized its database during fabric initialization, MSD gets ipaddress of switches in fabric which could lead to memory corruption and cause MSD to panic. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.
Intermittent supportsave failure messages seen during supportsave loop. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.1 Traffic stops during FCIP testing with tape pipelining enabled, when host floods the switch with Name Server query. This occurs because the query response is not passed back to the host on the backbone switch through the FCR router. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.1 When executing fastwrite with tape pipelining with a slow responding tape device, the switch sent improper frame causing tape job to fail.
Fabric OS 5.3.1a fixes Table 4 lists defects closed in the Fabric OS 5.3.1a firmware release. Table 4 Fabric OS 5.3.1a closed defects Closed defect summary Solution F_Port link initialization failure caused by the switch not responding to NOS with OLS (continues to send idles). Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.1a When downgrading from 6.0.0x to Fabric OS 5.3.0c, then 5.2.1b, then 5.0.5a, the switch can get into an endless reboot causing file system errors to be reported. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.
Fabric OS 5.3.1b fixes Table 5 lists defects closed in this Fabric OS 5.3.1b firmware release. Table 5 Fabric OS 5.3.1b closed defects Closed defect summary Solution An ipfilter --transabort command running in one Telnet session can be aborted from another Telnet session. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.1b Problems within an IP network could cause a switch running Fabric OS 5.3.x to panic.
User cannot access switch through network. If the contents of the /etc/inetd.conf file are modified, the file may be deleted the next time the switch software is upgraded. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.2 Switch hit a rolling reboot due to RTE DB inconsistency triggered by PCI scan failure on a failure blade during hafailover. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.2 User may be unable to connect to HP StorageWorks 4/32 SAN Switch from SMI Agent and see error related to limit of RPC handles open.
Port Peak Data Rate read from the SMI interface shows incorrect values that exceed the speed of the switch. Invalid Tx/Rx rate can be computed if a polling cycle takes place when a domain name has not been assigned. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.2 CALD memory leak seen when querying EnumerateAssociatedInstanceKeys on Phantom_switch to PhantomPort. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.2 The value of sfpshow no longer updates after hafailover. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.2 Too many FW-5002 messages causes a FFDC to be generated.
