HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.1.1b Release Notes (AA-RWEEG-TE, April 2007)

integration with the HP StorageWorks family. The 400 MP Router offers the standard

Fabric OS features and new and improved LSAN routing and FC-IP capabilities.

Both the B-Series M P Router blade and the 400 MP Router share the same hardware and

have exa ctly the same feature set, that is, 18 physic al ports:

• Sixteen FC ports, which can be configured as routing ports or have layer-2,

4-Gbit/sec FC capabilities.

• Two GbE ports, which are labeled “GE0” and “GE1,” can have up to eight virtual

tunnels each with VE_Port or VEX_Port capabilities. Since they are IP ports and

have different capabilities, there are noticeable differences, summ a rized next.

CAUTION:

When the first generation HP StorageWorks MP Router is present in the metaSAN,

you must deactivate the Platform Database on all other switches in the SAN using

msPLMgmtDeactivate.

Port types

The B-Series MP Router blade an d the 400 MP Router suppor t the following port types:

• FC ports—F_Port, FL_Port, E_Port, and EX_Port

• GbE ports—VE_Port and VEX_Port (virtual E_Port and EX_Port)

F_Por ts, FL_Ports, E_Ports

There are sixteen regular 4-Gbit/sec F_Ports, FL_Por ts, and E_Ports, with the same level

of suppor t as in previous releases:

• Frame-level trunking (not supported for EX_Ports in Fabric OS 5.1.0, D PS will be

automatically used for load balancing)

• Speed settings (1 Gbit/sec, 2 Gbit/sec, 4 Gbit/sec, and Auto)

• Long distance ( VC_RDY)

• L_Port lockd own

• G_Por t lockdown

• ISL R_RDY mode

EX_Ports

EX_Por ts connect a Router to an edge fabric. If you consider a switch in an edge fabric,

an EX_Port is virtually indistinguishable from an E_Port and follows FC standards as do

all other HP E_Ports. However, the Router terminates EX_Por ts rather than allowing

different fabri cs to merge as would happen on a switch with regular E_Ports. Each

EX_Por t presents a set of translation phantom domains representing remote fabrics, each

phantom domain with “attached” proxy devices representing d evices on those fabrics.

Fabric OS 5.1.1b