HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.2.0b Release Notes (AA-RWEYB-TE, February 2007)

• Port Mirroring—captures traffic between two devices for non-disruptive traffic

analysis (available on the SAN Switch 4/32, 4/64 SAN Switch, 4/256 SAN

Director, and 400 MP Router).

Management

• Role-Based Ac cess Control (RBAC)—adds support for the new RBAC roles:

Operator, Zone M

anager, Fabric Administrator, and Basic Switch Administrator.

• Virtual fabrics through administrative domains (Admin Domains or AD)—provides

data, management, and fault isolation through administrative domains.

• DHCP—support for standalone switches.

Security

• Device Conn ection Control (DCC), Switch Connec tion Control (SCC)—provides the

ability to manually distribute passwords among participating switches in the

base Fabric OS.

• Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)—ensures private, secure communications over

Internet Protocol (IP) networks to prevent network-based attacks, which could

potentially result in denial of service, data corruption, data theft, user credential

theft, and so on. The IPSec license is available as an op tional license for the 400

MP Router and B-Series MP Router blade in the 4/256 SAN Director.

FCR enhan cements

FCR enhan

cements for the 400 MP Router and B-Series MP Router blade in the 4/256

SAN Director:

• Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) , see description provided above.

• FastWri

te reduces the number of round-trips required to complete a SCSI Write

IO, which both reduces IO completion latency and increases FCIP ISL bandwidth

utilization.

• Tape Pi

pelining a ccelerates SCSI Write IOs between geog raphically remote

initiators and Tape Devices on Fibre Channel SA N s linked via FCIP ISLs.

• WAN tool, the ipperf option has been added to the portCmd command to

chara

cterize end-to-end IP path performance factors, such as bandwidth, loss

rate, roundtrip time, and path Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) between

apairofFCIPports.

• tstim

ezone command provides flexibility via an interactive way to support a

new Daylight Saving Time based on the country and region.

• Thenumberofuseraccountsisincreasedfrom15to256.

• Zoni

ng database size increased from 256 KB to 1 MB.