Brocade Fabric OS v7.2.1 Release Notes v1.0

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Defect ID:
DEFECT000475035
Technical Severity:
Medium
Probability:
Medium
Product:
FOS
Technology:
Security
Reported In Release:
FOS7.0.2
Technology Area:
Encryption
Closed In Release(s):
FOS7.2.1(Fixed)
Symptom:
BES becomes non-responsive and host paths are lost after BES replacement.
Condition:
Issue will be seen only in BES/FS8-18 after execution of “cryptocfg –replace” command on the group
leader.
Defect ID:
DEFECT000476212
Technical Severity:
High
Probability:
Low
Product:
FOS
Technology:
Security
Reported In Release:
FOS7.0.1
Technology Area:
Encryption
Closed In Release(s):
FOS7.2.1(Fixed)
Symptom:
Restore from encrypted tape may fail with I/O errors.
Condition:
With more than one initiator configured in a tape container and tape pipelining enabled for the LUN,
a new login from a different host to virtual target may cause the on-going tape restore operation (with
another host) to fail.
Workaround:
Disable tape pipelining for tape LUNs corresponding to targets/CTC where more than one host is
configured.
Defect ID:
DEFECT000476595
Technical Severity:
High
Probability:
Low
Product:
FOS
Technology:
Security
Reported In Release:
FOS7.0.2
Technology Area:
Encryption
Closed In Release(s):
FOS7.2.1(Fixed)
Symptom:
In a heavy I/O environment, tape mounts are rejected for LTO drives on encryption blade.
Condition:
In encryption environment (BES/FS8-18), while heavy tape I/Os or rekey is running through an
Encryption Engine, host may experience failure in doing I/O to the tape drive LUNs configured in
that Encryption Engine or lose access to the encrypted Disk LUNs.
Defect ID:
DEFECT000477188
Technical Severity:
Medium
Probability:
Low
Product:
FOS
Technology:
Management
Reported In Release:
FOS7.1.1
Technology Area:
Platform Services
Closed In Release(s):
FOS7.2.1(Fixed)
Symptom:
During hafailover operation, switch reinitializes a port blade due to a false indication of a power (low
voltage) issue.
Condition:
An i2c contention during an i2c read/write operation on FC8-48 or FC8-32 port blade, immediately
following an hafailover, forces an i2c reset for the corresponding blade.
Recovery:
No further recovery is necessary, data path re-route is already initiated and the FRU re-initialized to
remedy the situation.
Defect ID:
DEFECT000477596
Technical Severity:
Medium
Probability:
Low
Product:
FOS
Technology:
Management
Reported In Release:
FOS7.0.2
Technology Area:
Web Tools
Closed In Release(s):
FOS7.2.1(Fixed)
Symptom:
Weblinker terminated and restarted but could not service the HTTP requests. All requests getting a
response "Chassis is not ready for management".
Condition:
On very rare occasions, the issue is seen on switches managed by BNA.
Recovery:
Use hafailover or reboot CLI.