HP Virtual Connect Version 3.61 Release Notes

Prerequisites 9
Issue
If a profile that is currently assigned to a server is modified so that Network connections or FCoE connections
are added or removed, VC might change the protocol (Ethernet or FCoE) for a particular Flex-10 interface
without properly reinitializing it. This can result in unexpected behavior.
Workaround
Unassign the profile, and then reassign the profile.
Prerequisites
• There is a known issue with Virtual Connect data not appearing correctly in Insight Control for VMware
vCenter Server version 6.2. HP recommends that customers using Insight Control for VMware vCenter
Server upgrade to version 6.3 when using Virtual Connect firmware version 3.30 or higher.
• The Virtual Connect GUI requires a minimum of 512 MB of available memory to operate efficiently.
• Disable Network Loop Protection if you are using HP 1/10Gb-F Virtual Connect Ethernet Modules or HP
1/10Gb Virtual Connect Ethernet Modules. New VC 3.61 domains have NLP disabled by default.
• Immediately review OA Customer Advisory c02639172 on the HP website
(http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c
02639172) to see if any recent changes made to the enclosure configuration are at risk of not being
preserved persistently. If you made changes using a non-Administrator user account, before the next
OA firmware upgrade or reset, execute the workaround documented in Customer Advisory
c02639172 to ensure that the enclosure configuration changes are being preserved persistently. The
issue described in Customer Advisory c02639172 was resolved with OA 3.21 and later.
• To operate with HP VC 8Gb 20-Port FC modules, all HP Emulex LPe 1205 8Gb FC HBAs that are
revision A (identified by label EDC A-4904) must perform a CFL region 19 flash update. For download
and installation instructions, see the LPe1205 product page on the HP website (http://www.hp.com).
• Although the GUI enables the selection of SNMP v2 traps, the VC 4Gb FC Module and the VC 8Gb
20-Port FC Module default to v1 traps.
• Configuring more than one FC trap destination with the same IP trap destination address results in only
one entry, with the community string being the latter of the duplicated trap entries. The other community
strings in the duplicate traps are not used to send traps.
• Changes in the server RBSU can override Virtual Connect server profile settings for PXE (enabled or
disabled). If you make a change in RBSU, that change is not reflected in Virtual Connect Manager. If
you set PXE through RBSU, HP recommends using the "Use-BIOS" setting.
• For proper server functionality in a Virtual Connect environment, enable the RBSU option by selecting
System Options > Embedded NIC Boot Options > Network Boot. If you disable the RBSU option with
RBSU, HP ProLiant G7 servers may not accept Virtual Connect configuration information correctly,
which causes the server to malfunction.
• New GUI components
The VCM GUI introduces a new visual component in 3.0x. Data grids enable users to access available
operations through a right-click context menu. To add, delete, or edit a row (such as a connection or a
profile), select the row and then right-click the row to access the context menu.