Brocade Communications Systems StorageWorks 4/32B - SAN Switch Service Manual

HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 5.3.0crelease notesPart number: AA-RWEYG-TESeventh edition: November 2007

FICON supportWith release 5.2.0 and later, the Switch Connection Control high integrityrequirement for cascading FICON is available in the standard ba

FC4–48 port Blade forthe 4/256 SAN Director• The HP StorageWorks 4/48 SAN Director Blade requires a minimum of FabricOS 5.2.0a. Do not insert the FC4–

Firmware upgrade/downgrade• When upgrading from Fabric OS 5.1.0x to 5.2.0x or 5.3.0x, if two or moreinter-fabric links (IFLs) connect to an edge fabri

HAIf there is an already segmented port and backbone devices are exported toan edge fabric, a build fabric/fabric reconfiguration can occur after runni

FCIP• Frame drops observed on FCIP slow links:• The frame drops occur when the FCI P tunnel bandwidth is set to 10 Base-T(10Mbp s) , E1 (1.048M bps )

Zoning considerationswith FC4–48 BladeB-Series switches running pre-5.2.0 firmware do not accept zone databases withDomain, Port Index, references to p

Faulty SFPsExternal port with a faulty SFP will be disabled, then enabled once good SFP isinserted. However, port will still show as fault y even thou

• Provides ability to clear 400 MP Router or B -Series MP Router Blade GE por t Error counters usingportStatsClear CLI command.Fabric OS 5.3.0 fixesTab

User was able to configure isns client via isnsccfg to communicatewith isns server through a port on FR4-18i, but this will not work (norshould it).Fix

Process login drop due to devices in different edge fabrics with samenode WWN. Applies to 4/256 with FCR-18i Blade, and 400 MPRouter. Routers may not

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Web Tools incorrectly returns “Directory change failed” errormessage rather than “file path provided is not valid” error messagewhen config upload fail

Error messages from ACL configuration through SMI are too genericand don’t contain sufficient information to debug the problem.Fixed per Fabric OS 5.3.0

During stress testing, a signifi cant delay in trafficcomingbackfrom a Fibre Channel Router (FCR) failure in fully redundant SANconfiguration was seen, a

Vulnerabilities reported about open SSL VU#386964 & VU#547300.For VU#547300:OpenSSL SSL_get_shared_ciphers() vulnerable tobuffer overflow. For VU#3

During iSCSI 1024 session stress testing, one port lost multiplesessions. Even though switchshow –iscsi showed less than 64sessions, iSCSI initiator w

Fabric OS 5.3.0bfixesTable 5 lists defects closed in the Fabric OS 5.3.0b firmware release.Table 5 Fabric OS 5.3.0b closed defectsClosed defect summar y

When FRU in a 4/256 Director is inserted/removed afruHistoryTrap should be generated, but is not.Fixed in Fabric OS 5.3.0c. Notethat fruStatusChangeTr

Version5.3.0cEffective dateNovember 2007DescriptionFabric OS 5.3.0c is a patch release that contains fixes since the release of Fabric OS 5.3.0b. There

Support for embedded switch modelsThe B-Series embedded switches have transitioned from supporting the Fabric OS 5.0.5 stream only, tooperating withFa

• Access Gateway mode support on the H P StorageWorks 4 /16 SAN Switch (not supported on the4/8 SAN Switch)• Access Gateway enhancements:• Web Tools s

requiring a domain and the associated fabric rebuild traffic that is prevalent when switches are poweredon, or added, or removed from a fabric.Refer to

• DH-CHAP now supported for authentication of HBAs and end-devices in addition to switches• Additional password security options• LockoutofAdminuserst

Table 1 Current supported Fabric OS versionsModel Earliest compatible versionRecommended versionHP StorageWorks 1 Gb Switch2.6.2c2.6.2d1HP StorageWork

CAUTION:Install port blades like the HP StorageWorks 4/48 SAN Director Blade (FC4–48) only after upgradingto Fabric OS 5.2 . 0a or later.HP does not s