HP Virtual Connect Version 3.30 Release Notes

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New features
The VC 3.30 release includes the following new features:
• Command Line Interface Telemetry—Provides improved reporting and metrics from the VC domain and
individual VC-Enet modules.
New metrics include CPU load, memory utilization, discover information, port statistics, L2 MAC
address table, IGMP groups, link aggregation information, VC networks information, interfaces
information, throughput information, and module hostname control.
• Network Access Groups for profile—Allows a VC network administrator to define specific subsets of
domain networks. Network subsets are then associated with each profile, which limits the network
connections to those subsets.
• Simultaneous tunneled and mapped VLAN connections—In earlier versions, these modes were mutually
exclusive within a VC domain
• Increased mapped VLAN capacity—The number of VLANs supported in a shared uplink set is increased
from 128 to 1000. The number of connections on a server downlink has been increased from 28 to
162. Additional CL and GUI commands have been added to support management of multiple networks
with a single command.
• Enhanced port status—Provides additional status and information on link status
• Simplified iSCSI boot setup—Automatically retrieves parameters from HP 4000 SAN solutions and
attaches them to server profiles. This feature significantly reduces required manual entries.
• GUI Profile Wizard support (Ethernet, iSCSI, FC, FCoE)
• New CLI commands—New CLI commands to support save and restore configurations, copy
profiles, and the show config command that generates a CLI script that can be used to restore the
current VC domain configuration
• Native IE8 browser support—Running in IE7 emulation is no longer required
• Loop avoidance—Specific detection of Cisco PVST BPDUs emerging from servers are added, and when
found, result in disabling of the server-facing physical port generating them and an administrative alert
being sent.
• IGMPv3 snooping support (no support for Source-specific multicast)
• TACACS+/RADIUS role based security—User authentication, Command Authorization, and
Command logging
• Updated SNMP MIBs—Severity level added to all traps (alerts) to improve notification
• Support for user-defined login screen notice (typically a security message)
• Support—Log File Compression has been added, which provides the ability to capture more support
information
• Notification of unsupported cables—The HP VC FlexFabric 10Gb/24-Port module does not support
DAC cables longer than 5m for uplink ports X1–X4. Starting with this release, a port status of
"unsupported" is displayed if an unsupported DAC cable is attached to any of the uplink ports X1–X4.