HP StorageWorks 1606 - Extension SAN Switch Instruction Manual

HP StorageWorks

B-series Data Center Fabric Manager

Enterprise, Professional Plus, and

Professional

10.4.5a Release Notes

Part Number: 5697-0973

Tenth edition: June 2011

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Version

10.4.5a

Description

HP StorageWorks B-series Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) 10.4.5a is a patch release, which

provides a number of fixes since the DCFM 10.4.5 release. All of the features and functionality of

DCFM 10.4.0, 10.4.1, 10.4.2, and 10.4.5 are brought forward with this release, including:

•Support for new hardware

•Feature enhancements across multiple platforms

•Integrated SMI

DCFM 10.4 added support for the new HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director 64-port 8Gb Fibre

Channel Blade, which enables server and fabric consolidation. DCFM 10.4 continues to simplify

management of key data center solutions, such as security, virtualization, and converged IP/SAN

networks. The following sections provide a summary of the main feature enhancements of the DCFM

10.4 release.

New hardware platforms

DCFM 10.4.0 introduced support for the following new hardware platforms, which carries forward

with this release:

•HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director 64-port 8Gb Fibre Channel Blade

•Brocade 804 8Gb FC HBA for HP BladeSystem c-Class

New software features

DCFM 10.4.0 introduced support for the following new software features, which carries forward with

this release:

•Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter 4.0. Plug-in is invoked from vSphere client on selection

of a tab, displaying the following information from DCFM:

•VM connectivity information

•Statistics information

•Event information

•Integrated SMI Agent (Professional Plus and Enterprise editions only):

•Provides the ability to manage both Fabric Operating System (Fabric OS) and M-EOS hardware

•Integrated into DCFM; includes SMI-only installation option

•FCoE: Support for HP StorageWorks 2408 FCoE Converged Network Switch in Access Gateway

mode

B-series Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise, Professional Plus, and Professional 3

Enhancements

B-series OUI support enhancement

In the first half of 2010, a new Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI) began phasing into B-series

platforms. DCFM 10.3.4 initially added support for this OUI. DCFM 10.4.0 and later continues this

support. For more information, see New OUI support on B-series platforms on page 11.

FCoE and CEE Management

Support for Startup, running configurations as follows:

•Save configuration to repository saves both running and startup configurations

•Copy running configuration to startup configuration within the switch

•Restore to startup configuration (and reboot option)

•Replicate to startup configuration

Encryption enhancements

•Support for hosting disk and tape containers on same encryption engine

•Support for Access Gateway mode in Encryption SAN Switch

•Usability enhancements:

•Disk LUN View

•Edit Smart Card dialog box

•BP (Blade Processor) Link Configuration

•Display BP Link Status

•Dynamic view update on Encryption Center and LUN dialog box

•Provide commit state on target container

•Show all rekey sessions for LUN on view

•Export Certificate support

FCIP enhancements

•Support for IPSec for the HP StorageWorks 1606 Extension SAN Switch and the HP StorageWorks

DC SAN Director Multiprotocol Extension Blade

•Support for IPv6 on 1G and 10G ports

•VEX support on 1G and 10G ports

•Support for VLAN tagging introduced in Fabric OS 6.3.1

•Additional Enhancements:

•Disable Min/Max bandwidth text fields for unsupported platforms

•Suggest button displays appropriate message when selected for unsupported platforms

•Refresh the information in DCFM immediately upon successful FCIP configuration

Virtualization

•Support for vSphere 4.0 (ESX 4.0 hypervisors) for monitoring

•Virtual Machine (VM) icon change in the device tree and topology

•Port icon and Host enclosure used for source and destination columns in the End-to-End monitor

and Top Talkers dialog box

•VM Path discovery for File System of type VMFS (Virtual Machine File System)

HBA Management

Updates to Property Sheets, including Remote Port (for example, Speed, Bind Type, Target ID, Vendor),

add NWWN property in HBA port properties.

Other enhancements

•Accept changes summary dialog box added

•Event Policies dialog box is enhanced to pass event parameters to script in Launch script action

•Call Home changes:

•HP Modem call home centers removed

•HP LAN port number may now be customized

•SMTP over SSL is introduced for email-based call home centers

•Export option in the Port Mapping dialog box

•Overall security enhancements to application

•Support for authenticated SMTP over SSL

•Display of SNMP/ Syslog/ Internal FTP port status display

•Ability to export the topology as an image

•Incremental support for Traffic Isolation Zoning

•Limited support for Admin Domains:

•Physical Fabric (AD 255 context) Discovery

•Asset & Fabric (Nameserver, Topology) information collected in Physical Fabric context

•Defined and Active Zone configuration is collected in AD 0 context

•Switch Configuration, Firmware Management, Performance Monitoring, Basic Switch Config-

uration operations (switch enable/disable, port enable/disable)

•Implemented the following end user Requests For Enhancements (RFEs):

•Switch SS folder name change as <Switch name> <Switch IP> <Switch WWN>

•Copying switch/host support saves to another ftp server through the View Repository dialog

box

•Port group reordering

•Server/client memory restriction in Options dialog box

•ASM bit changes for PDCM

•List zone member‘s enhancement

•Offline zone db activations

•Filter ICL ports in Zoning dialog box

•Zone member rendering in Zoning dialog box

•Delete button in VF dialog box

•Inheriting the fabric properties

•Port unbind

•Unassigned port address

•Addressing mode changes in VF dialog box

•Support for new Fabric OS features :

B-series Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise, Professional Plus, and Professional 5

•Enhanced TI zones support

•Exchange based routing for lossless DLS

•HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director Switch Multiprotocol Extension Blade support in VF dialog

box

Supported switches and firmware

Table 1 lists switches and firmware families supported with version 10.4.5a. This does not imply that

all firmware versions listed in the left column are still supported by HP, but rather that those are the

firmware streams on which the corresponding switches are, or were, supported. It also does not imply

that all the firmware listed in streams are supported on each of the corresponding switches. HP

recommends using the latest software versions to get the greatest benefit from the SAN.

Table 1 Supported switches and firmware

Switch/DirectorSwitch firmware

HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/32 (Brocade 3900)

HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/8V (Brocade 3250)

HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/16V (Brocade 3850)

HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 4/32 (Brocade 4100)

HP StorageWorks 400 Multi-Protocol Router (Brocade 7500)1

HP StorageWorks 4/8, 4/16 SAN Switch (Brocade 200E)

HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 4/64 (Brocade 4900)2

HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 4/32B (Brocade 5000)3

HP StorageWorks 8/8, 8/24 SAN Switch (Brocade 300)4

HP StorageWorks 8/40 SAN Switch (Brocade 5100)4

HP StorageWorks 8/80 SAN Switch (Brocade 5300)4

HP StorageWorks Core Switch 2/64 (Brocade 12000)

HP StorageWorks SAN Director 2/128 (Brocade 24000)

HP StorageWorks 4/256 SAN Director (Brocade 48000)

•HP StorageWorks 4/256 SAN Director 16 Port 4Gb Blade (FC4-16)

•HP StorageWorks 4/256 SAN Director 32 Port 4Gb Blade (FC4-32)

•HP StorageWorks 4/256 SAN Director 48 Port 4Gb Blade (FC4-48)2

•HP StorageWorks iSCSI Director Blade (FC4-16IP)2

•HP StorageWorks Multi-Protocol Router Blade (FR4-18i)1

•HP StorageWorks SAN Director 6 Port 10Gb FC ISL Blade (FC10-6)5

HP StorageWorks DC SAN Backbone Director (Brocade DCX)6

•HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director 16 Port 8Gb FC Blade (FC8-16)

•HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director 32 Port 8Gb FC Blade (FC8-32)

•HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director 48 Port 8Gb FC Blade (FC8-48)

•HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director 64-port 8Gb FC Blade (FC8-64)7

•HP StorageWorks Multi-Protocol Router Blade (FR4-18i)

•HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director 6 Port 10Gb FC ISL Blade (FC10-6)

•HP DC Switch Encryption FC Blade (FS8-18)8

•HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director Multiprotocol Extension Blade (Brocade FX8-

24)9

•HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director Switch 10/24 FCoE Blade (Brocade FCOE10-

24)9

Fabric OS 5.0.x,

5.1.x, 5.2.x, 5.3.x,

6.0.x, 6.1.x, 6.2.x,

6.3.x, and 6.4.x

B-series Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise, Professional Plus, and Professional 7

Switch/DirectorSwitch firmware

HP StorageWorks Encryption SAN Switch8

HP StorageWorks DC04 SAN Director (Brocade DCX-4S) 10

•HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director 16 Port 8Gb FC Blade (FC8-16)

•HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director 32 Port 8Gb FC Blade (FC8-32)

•HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director 48 Port 8Gb FC Blade (FC8-48)

•HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director 64-port 8Gb FC Blade (FC8-64)7

•HP StorageWorks Multi-Protocol Router Blade (FR4-18i)

•HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director 6 Port 10Gb FC ISL Blade (FC10-6)

•HP DC Switch Encryption FC Blade (FS8–18)8

•HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director Multiprotocol Extension Blade (Brocade FX8-

24)9

•HP StorageWorks DC SAN Director Switch 10/24 FCoE Blade (Brocade FCOE10-

24)9

HP StorageWorks 2408 FCoE Converged Network Switch (Brocade 8000)11

HP StorageWorks 1606 Extension SAN Switch (Brocade 7800)9

Fabric OS 5.0.x,

5.1.x, 5.2.x, 5.3.x,

6.0.x, 6.1.x, 6.2.x,

6.3.x, and 6.4.x

Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP c-Class BladeSystem (Brocade 4024)12

Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch for HP p-Class BladeSystem (Brocade 4012)

HP StorageWorks EVA4400 Embedded Switch Module (Brocade 5410)13

Brocade 8Gb SAN Switch for HP BladeSystem c-Class (Brocade 5480)14

Fabric OS 5.2.x,

5.3.x, 6.0.x, 6.1.x,

6.2.x, 6.3.x, and

6.4.x

HP StorageWorks Director 2/64, 2/140 (Brocade M6064 and M6140)

HP StorageWorks Edge Switch 2/16 (Sphereon 3216)

HP StorageWorks Edge Switch 2/32 (Sphereon 3232)

HP StorageWorks Edge Switch 2/12 (Sphereon 4300)

HP StorageWorks Edge Switch 2/24 (Sphereon 4500)

Sphereon 4400 (Brocade 4400)

Sphereon 4700 (Brocade 4700)

M-EOSc 9.6.x,

9.7.x, 9.8.x, and

9.9.x

Intrepid 10000 Director (Brocade Mi10K)M-EOSn 9.6.x,

9.7.x, 9.8.x, and

9.9

1Requires Fabric OS 5.1.0 or later.

2Requires Fabric OS 5.2.0 or later.

3Requires Fabric OS 5.2.1b or later.

4Requires Fabric OS 6.1.0a or later.

5Requires Fabric OS 5.3.0 or later.

6Requires Fabric OS 6.0.0b or later.

7Requires Fabric OS 6.4.0a or later.

8Requires Fabric OS 6.2.0b or later.

9Requires Fabric OS 6.3.0 or later.

10Requires Fabric OS 6.2.0a or later.

11Requires Fabric OS 6.1.2_cee1 or later. Support for this switch in DCFM 10.1.x is for discovery only.

12Requires Fabric OS 5.3.1 or later.

13Requires Fabric OS 6.1.0_8e or later.

14Requires Fabric OS 6.1.0_8e1 or later.

Supported operating systems

Table 2 lists the operating systems that support DCFM 10.4.5a.

Table 2 Supported operating systems

VersionsOperating system

•XP Professional SP3 (x86 32-bit)

•2003 Server SP2 (x86 32-bit)

•Vista Business Edition SP1 (x86 32-bit)

•2008 Server (x86 32-bit)

•Windows 7 Professional Edition

Windows

10 (SPARC platform)Solaris

•Red Hat AS 4.0 (x86 32-bit)

•Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced (x86 32-bit)

•SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 (x86 32-bit)

Linux

•VMware ESX 3.5 with Guest VMs of:

•Windows Server 2003 Std SP2 (x86 32-bit)

•Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Adv (x86 32-bit)

•SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 (x86 32-bit)

•Windows XP Pro SP3 (x86 32-bit)

•Windows Vista Business Edition SP1(x86 32-bit)

•Windows 2008 Std (x86 32-bit)

•RedHat AS 4.0 (x86 32-bit)

•VMware ESX 4.0 with Guest VMs of:

•Windows Server 2003 Std SP2 (x86 32-bit)

•Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Adv (x86 32-bit)

•SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 (x86 32-bit)

•Windows XP Pro SP3 (x86 32-bit)

•Windows Vista Business Edition SP1(x86 32-bit)

•Windows 2008 Std (x86 32-bit)

•Windows 7 Professional edition

•RedHat AS 4.0 (x86 32-bit)

VMware

Supported feature summary for DCFM

Table 3 lists the DCFM supported features.

Table 3 Supported DCFM features

DCFM EnterpriseDCFM Professional PlusDCFM ProfessionalFeature

2441Number of fabrics

M-EOS, Fabric OS,

Mixed

M-EOS, Fabric OS, MixedFabric OSType of fabric supported

B-series Data Center Fabric Manager Enterprise, Professional Plus, and Professional 9

DCFM EnterpriseDCFM Professional PlusDCFM ProfessionalFeature

9,000 (Fabric OS);

5,000 (M-EOS/Mixed)

2,5601,000Number of ports

YesYesYes4-Gb and 8-Gb Switches

YesYesYesDC SAN Director 10/24

FCoE Blade/2408 FCoE

Converged Network

Switch

YesYesYes1606 Extension SAN

Switch

YesYesYes4/256 SAN Director

YesYesYesDC04 SAN Director

Switch

YesYesYesHBA Management (HCM)

YesYesYesVirtualization support

YesYesYesEncryption SAN

Switch/Encryption Blade

YesYesYesDC Director Switch MP

Extension Blade

YesYesYes

Real time stats1

YesYesNo

Historical stats2

YesYesNoDBMS (ODBC & JDBC)

YesYesNoPartner software

integration

YesYesNoRole Based Access

Control (RBAC)

YesNoNoFICON

YesNoNoDC SAN Backbone

Director

1Real-time stats for GE ports. FC ports, E-E Monitors, and TopTalkers

2Historical stats for FC ports and E-E Monitors

Important notes

This section provides information that you should consider before using DCFM 10.4.x. See the Data

Center Fabric Manager Enterprise, Professional Plus, or Professional User Manual for details on the

following notes. These documents can be downloaded from the following HP website:

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/dc_fabricmgr/index.html

Under Support, click HP Support & Documents, and then click Manuals. Under User guide, select the

appropriate edition.

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