Mellanox MLNX-OS™ Release Notes for SX1018HP Ethernet Managed Blade Switch Software Ver. 3.3.1000 www.mellanox.
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Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Chapter 2 Supported Platforms, Firmware and Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Supported Switch Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Supported CPU Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Supported Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1 Introduction These are the Mellanox MLNX-OS™ Release Notes for HP 689638-B21. 2 Supported Platforms, Firmware and Cables 2.1 Supported Switch Systems Table 1 - Supported Switch Systems Part Number SX1018HP 2.2 2.4 34-Port 40Gb/s Ethernet Blade Switch System Supported CPU Architecture • 2.3 Description PPC 460 CPU families Supported Firmware • SwitchX® firmware version 9.1.9280 • ConnectX®-3 firmware version 2.11.0960 and higher • ConnectX®-2 firmware version 2.9.
3 Changes and New Features Table 2 - SX1018HP Changes and New Features Category Description Release 3.3.1000 U-Boot Updated U-Boot - memory access optimization WebUI Added VLAN configuration page to the WebUI Release 3.2.1302 SNMP Added support for SNMPv3 notifications General Bug fixes Release 3.2.0660 General Bug fixes Release 3.2.0594 General Quality enhancements to link initialization Release 3.2.
4 Known Issues For any possible errata due to hardware issues, please refer to the switch support product page. The following table describes MLNX-OS™ known issues in this software release and possible workarounds. 4.1 General Known Issues Table 3 - General Known Issues (Sheet 1 of 2) Index Category Description Possible Workaround 1. Management Interfaces Host name may not include the “.” character. 2.
Table 3 - General Known Issues (Sheet 2 of 2) 4.2 Index Category Description Possible Workaround 8. Configuration Management After loading a new configuration file, please reboot the system. Otherwise, configuration might not be properly applied. 9. Configuration Management The command configuration revert factory is removed. 10. Logging “DROPPED MSG” errors may appear during reload (shutdown phase). These errors can be safely ignored. 11.
Index Category Description Possible Workaround 4. LAG The remote LACP admin-key #1 cannot be established with some third party vendors. Use a different admin-key number. 5. LAG Traffic running over LAG may not be evenly distributed when testing small number of SMACs. 6. LAG A port-channel stops forwarding traffic after disabling some Ethernet ports in the same port-channel group. Disable and enable the LAG. 7.
5 Bug Fixes The following table describes MLNX-OS™ bug fixes in this software release. Table 5 - Bug Fixes (Sheet 1 of 2) Index Category Description 1. Ethernet Interfaces When trying to give a description to a port after it has been split, the command fails. 2. Ethernet Interfaces After reload, port flow control might appear enabled when it is actually disabled. 3. Ethernet Interfaces On rare occasions the internal links does not come up in 40GbE. 4.
Table 5 - Bug Fixes (Sheet 2 of 2) Index Category Description 23. ACL When splitting an Ethernet interface with an ACL rule, the interface remains bound by the ACL. 24. ACL MAC packets are discarded when the IPv4 ACL deny rule is defined. 25. Logging SDKd process errors may appear during reload (shutdown phase) or switching system profile.
