HP Virtual Connect Version 3.18 Release Notes

Hardware and firmware requirements 6
For more information on required firmware versions and to download firmware upgrades, see the HP
website (http://www.hp.com/go/bladesystemupdates).
Versions 3.15 and higher of HP Virtual Connect Manager check the server ROM image version and display
an incompatible state only for server blades that have a VC Server Profile assigned and are using
incompatible server ROM versions. Version checking of mezzanine card firmware is not available, so be
sure to verify that the mezzanine card firmware is up-to-date.
Server blades and mezzanine cards that do not meet the required firmware versions do not accept Virtual
Connect-assigned parameters such as MACs and WWNs properly, and therefore maintain factory defaults.
However, these server blades do have the Ethernet network and Fibre Channel fabric connectivity specified
in their Virtual Connect server profiles. This connectivity enables you to use network-based firmware update
tools for server blade and mezzanine firmware updates.
Important notes
• HP recommends that users with greater than 55 networks defined in their domain update to version
3.18 at their earliest convenience, as identified in Customer Advisory c0278623 on the HP website
(http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c
02786232). This version is optional for users with fewer than 55 networks defined in their domain.
• 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
persistently preserved. 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 persistently preserved. The
issue described in Customer Advisory c02639172 was resolved with OA 3.21 and later.
• If downgrading from a VC domain with VC firmware version 3.10 or higher, the Domain Configuration
file cannot be read by lower versions of VC firmware, and the configuration file will be deleted. The user
must recreate the Domain Configuration file or restore with a previously saved Domain Configuration
file associated with the version of the downgraded firmware.
• QLogic QMH2562 8Gb FC HBA and HP Emulex LPe 1205 8Gb FC HBA are supported with Integrity
server blades and ProLiant BL G6 server blades or later only.
• 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, ProLiant G7 servers may not accept Virtual Connect configuration information correctly, which
causes the server to malfunction.