HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.3.
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Version 5.3.2c Effective date October 2009 Description Fabric OS 5.3.2c is a firmware release that contains fixes since the release of Fabric OS 5.3.2b. There is no new device support added with this release for HP StorageWorks platforms. Update recommendations HP supports Fabric OS 5.3.2c 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 by HP on 4–GB or 8–GB switches. NOTE: If you are upgrading from Fabric OS 5.1.
Operating systems For a list of operating systems, see the HP website: http://www.hp.com/go/san. New features in Fabric OS 5.3.0 This section lists Fabric OS 5.3.0 added features and improvements: NOTE: The Fabric OS 5.3.2c firmware release contains the same features introduced in Fabric OS 5.3.0. However, given that 5.3.2c is supported only on 2–Gb switches, many of these listed 5.3.0 features, are not applicable to those switches.
• New Fast Write feature • New SNMP features: • SNMP AD/RBAC support • 3DES and AES privacy protocol support • 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: secAdmin or Security Administrator.
New WebTools features in Fabric OS 5.3.0 This section describes the new WebTools features. NOTE: Some of the WebTools features are not applicable to this firmware release. Fabric OS 5.3.2c is supported on 2–Gb switch models only.
Table 1 Supported Fabric OS versions Model Earliest compatible version HP StorageWorks 1–Gb Switch Not supported; end of support December 2007 Recommended version HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/8 EL HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/16 3.2.1c 3.2.1c 5.0.5e 5.0.5f 5.3.2 5.3.2c 6.1.0f 6.2.1b 6.1.0f 6.2.1b HP StorageWorks 48 Port 4Gb Blade (FC4-48) 6.1.0f 6.2.1b HP StorageWorks B-series iSCSI Director Blade (FC4-16IP) 6.1.0f 6.2.1b HP StorageWorks 4/32B SAN Switch 6.1.0f 6.2.
HP StorageWorks SAN Director 48 Port 8Gb FC Blade (FC8-48) 6.1.0f 6.2.1b HP StorageWorks SAN Director 6 Port 10Gb ISL Blade (FC10-6) 6.1.0f 6.2.1b HP StorageWorks Fabric Manager Software 5.2.0a 5.5 HP StorageWorks B-series Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise Software 10.0.2 10.3.1 NOTE: The B-series MP Router Blade (for use with the 4/256 SAN 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.
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 to a Fabric OS version earlier than Fabric OS 5.2.0a. If you want to do so, you must (a) remove these features, (b) physically remove the FC4–48 Blade, and then (c) downgrade the firmware. • For any other new software features or increased scalability limits supported by Fabric OS 5.3.x, the downgrade will be disruptive and will require a cold reboot.
Backport tests may be run only in the following configurations: Diagnostics backport test • A pure SAN Director 2/128 (only CP2 and FC-16 blades) • A SAN Director 2/128 with no FC4-16 blades installed, using Option 5 Do not run backport tests in any configuration other than the two listed above; use the minicycle test instead.
If an HP StorageWorks MP Router is present in the backbone fabric, the command fcrDisable may take up to 8 minutes to complete. If the MP Router is replaced by a B-series MP Router Blade (FR4-18i) or an HP StorageWorks 400 MP Router, the command completes immediately. EX_Port trunking is not enabled by default. FC Routing FCR switch does not support an edge fabric with one McDATA switch set to never principal. The EX_Port connected to that edge fabric will not come up.
Performance monitoring If the user tries to save more than 512 monitors using the perfCfgSave command, some of the monitors may be lost. Management — Proxy switches If you using a Fabric OS 4.x switch as an API or SMI-S proxy to manage a 5.1.0 switch, you must be running Fabric OS 4.4.0d. Frame drops observed on FCIP slow links: • The frame drops occur when the FCIP tunnel bandwidth is set to 10 Base-T (10 Mb/s), E1 (1.048 Mb/s), or T1 (1.544 Mb/s).
WebTools When the regional language is set to anything other than English, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese or Spanish, WebTools 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. This problem is overcome by changing the regional settings for the operating system to English and reloading WebTools or by upgrading to 5.3.
Backbone to edge traffic across FCIP links and ISLs may not be evenly distributed across all possible routes (edge to backbone and backbone to edge). Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.1. When disabling an NPIV switch which has an Access Gateway connected to it, the F_Ports that failover to the other NPIV switch show as No device found when running nszonemember for these F_Ports. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.1.
When FICON host sends PLOGI directly to a device immediately after registering with the Management Server, PLOGI may be rejected because the routing tables have not been established. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.1. Incorrect GID FT response from Name Server caused host with multiple HBAs to log errors during HBA IOP reset. When host does its GID FT request, it gets a response for the other HBA though that HBA didn’t register for FC4 type.
Only 1 FL port FLOGI is successful and second FL port FLOGI is disabled in a time interval. Even though FL port will be re-enabled after the short time interval, 3rd party failover application may fail. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.1a. When the proxy device projected to the backbone had a translate domain of greater than 0x20, router is not translating the ACC for a REC properly. Customer observes traffic interrupted and tape device fail. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.1a.
Fabric OS 5.3.2 fixes Table 6 lists defects closed in the Fabric OS 5.3.2 firmware release. Table 6 Fabric OS 5.3.2 closed defects Closed defect summary Solution Zone transaction unable to commit and is rejected in a stable fabric. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.2. Switch panic can occur when the standby CP takes over and performs a cold recovery. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.2. Switch panic due to Out Of Memory kill caused by msd memory leak. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.2. User cannot access switch through network.
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.
Fabric OS 5.3.2b fixes Table 8 lists the defects in this Fabric OS 5.3.2b firmware release. Table 8 Fabric OS 5.3.2b closed defects Closed defect summary Solution The agshow command output not consistent across switches in the same fabric. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.2b. A switch panic can occur due to stack overflow on HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/32. Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.2b SNMP does not return correct index values for the switch.
