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HP S tor age W or ks Ed g e Swi t ch re l e a s e n o t e s Par t nu m be r: A A– RTD Z H– TE / 9 58 –0 0028 4– 0 08 Ei ghth edition: (A ugust 2005).
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About this doc ument Thes e release note s contain late breaking and supplemental infor mation for the E dge S wi tch 2/12 , Edge S w itch 2/2 4, and E dge S wit ch 2/3 2 .
F or mor e infor mation on upgr ading fi rm ware versions, ref er to t he ap propriat e HP Stor age W orks edg e sw itch serv ice manual. The featur es of this fi rmware ve rs ion are detailed in the follow ing manuals.
• HP Stor age W orks Edge S wit ch r elease notes , AA-RTDZ G-TE/9 5 8–000 2 8 4–00 7 CD-RO M dir ectory structur e The HP Stor age W orks edge sw itch doc umentation and fi rmw are C D con tai ns t he fo llow ing items: • Manuals.
• Fi rm wa re • HPQ_MSF_v07.01.02-4.bin —H P Storage W orks M -Se ries fi rmware • firmwareupdate.txt —Instructi ons for updating fi rmware • Ac robat • RP505ENU.
Cable requirements NO TE: Opti cal cab les f or t h eE d g eS w i t c h2 / 1 2 ,E d g eS w i t c h2 / 1 2 ,a n dE d g eS w i t c h2 / 3 2 mu st be or der ed se para tel y . F or cables measuring up to 500 meters (1 Gbps) or 300 meter s (2 Gbps) , use multi-mod e F ibr e Channel cables.
Z ones ets contai ning domain/port number z ones w hile in Open F abr ic int er op mode no longer cause z oning to han g When dir ectors an d edge sw itc hes in a fabr ic w er e con fi gured for Open F abr ic 1.
T able 1 sho ws HP ter mino logy and McD A T A Corpor ation equi valents used in the McD A T A doc uments. T able 1 HP and McD A T A terminolog y HP term McDA T A term HP Stor age Wor ks Edge S w itch.
HAFM and fi rmware com patibility Ta b l e 2 lists the mi nimum v ersion of HAFM that can run with the var ious v ersi ons of fi rmw a re fo r t h e d i re c t o rs a n d e d g e swi t c h e s. T able 2 HAF M and fi rmware compa tib ility Firmw are version HAFM version (min im um) 01.
Pr erequisites f or i nstalling and usi ng fi rmware 0 7 .01 .0 2 If you ar e using H AF M, fi rmw ar e 0 7 . 01. 0 2 req uir es HAFM 0 7 .0 1.00 o r later (c heck w ith HP Cus tomer Suppo rt for the lates t shipping ver sion of HAFM) . HAFM should be at the minimum le vel be f or e installing the new fi rm ware.
If you get one of the se messages during the upgr ade , the fi rmw are upgr ade failed, but the unit continues wor king with the e x isting fi rm war e withou t an interruption in serv ice . The upgr ade pr ocess chec ks f or suf fi ci ent memor y befor e acti vating the ne w fi rmware image .
Bef ore do wngr ading belo w 0 7 .01. 0 2-4 , there can onl y be one user as signed access ri ghts as Administr ator and one user assigned as Oper ator for Embedded W eb Server and CLI. If additi onal users w er e cr eated, y ou hav e to delete them bef ore do wngr ading .
Do wngrades dir ectl y to 05 . 03 . 01 fr om 06.xx .xx is not concur rent w hen the second-generati on E dge Sw itch 2/2 4 is con fi gured in Open Fabric oper ating mode. In other wor ds, do wngrades in Open Fabric m o d ec a n n o tb ed o n ew i t ht h e second-generati on Edge S w itc h 2/2 4 online with out disrupting port operati ons.
If y ou are u sing the 1U rac k-mount HAFM appliance to manage the dir ector or edge s witc h, the minim um HAFM versi on req uired is 0 7 .0 2 .00-9 , whic h is the minimum ver sion installed . This HAFM softwar e is contai ned on the HP Stor age W orks ha-fa bri c manager documen tation and softw are CD (P art Number 516-00002 4-7 20).
T h eZ o n eF l e x P a rf e a t u r ei sa v a i l a b l ei nb o t hO p e n F a b r i c1 . 0a n dH o m o g e n e o u s F abri c 1. 0 Inter op modes , as well as in e nv ir onments w ith loop-attached de v ices.
• Enhanced Maintenance P or t Security —This allo ws us ers to enable enhanced author i z ation on the maint enance port, w hich i s the sw itc h or dir ector R S-2 3 2 connecti on.
Embedded Audit Log The A udit log is a new log a vailable thr ough CLI and EW S . This is not the s ame Audit Lo g a va i l ab l e t h ro u g h H A F M . Th e lo g re c o rd s a l l c o n fi guration c hanges to the s witc h to pro v ide data f or analyzing pr oblems caused b y con fi gurati on changes.
19 2 .168. 0. 0 thr ough 19 2 .16 8.0 .2 5 5—T his subnet is us ed inter nally t o the HAFM appliance . Using an IP address in this r ange caus es the call-home featur e to funct ion incorr ectly . Har d z oni ng Hard z oning is a secur ity enhancement intro duced in fi rm war e 05 .
SNMP r equests can be rece iv ed in either 3 . 0 or 3 .1 of the F ibr e Alliance (F A) M IB, and the sw itc h re sponds in the same ver sion . The sw itc h can also be con fi gure d to use a spec i fi c versi on for tr aps gener ated b y the sw itc h.
F or customers who want to ad d a second -ge neration sw itch to their existing S AN, b ut ar e not read y to upgr ade their S AN fr om 5 .x to 06. 0 2 .00, there is a dow ngrade fi rm war e ve rsion f or each of thes e edge sw itc hes whi ch pr ov ides compatib ility with a S AN running 05 .
The featur e con fi gures a s witc h or dir ector so that no frame data is stor ed after a pow er off . Without F ull V olatilit y , if the sw itc h or director e xperi ences a fault conditi on, a dump of the embedded memory space is captured into non v olatile memor y .
BB_Credit A llocati on for ports Wit h fi rmware 0 7 .00 .00 and later , this suppor ts the ability to allocate a spec i fi cn u m b e r of buffer c redits per port . This f eature pr ov ides bene fi t prim a ri ly i n t h e Edg e Swi tch 2 / 1 2 and 2/2 4 s w itches , wher e a single pool of buffers is shar ed among all ports.
NO TE: This l imit is disabl ed when the s wit ch par amet er Suppress Z oning RSCNs on Zone set activations c heck box is ena bled. F ull-fabr ic capab ilit y for E dge S wi tch 2/12 Unlike other edge s w itch and dir ector pr oducts, a pr oduct featur e enablement (PFE) k ey , contr ols E dge Sw itc h 2/12 E_P ort-to-E_P ort connecti ons.
Wo r k a r o u n d None . HS G80 tr ansparent mode not r ecommended with contr oller in SC SI-3 mode w ith HP-UX operating s ys tems Due to an issue w ith nonex istent dupli cate L UNs being display e.
Wo r k a r o u n d If an older HB A has dif fi c u l t yl o g g i n gi n t oas w i t c hp o r tt h a th a si t sp o r ts p e e d con fi gur ed as Negotiat e ,c o n fi gur e that por t speed to 1Gb/sec or 2Gb/sec according to the operati on speed of the HBA connected to that port.
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