Switch Are Not Installed And Open Systems Management; Support For Speed Auto-Negotiate; Enabled; Server - HP 316095-B21 - StorageWorks Edge Switch 2/24 Release Note

Known Issues
Port Diagnostics on All Ports is not Available When All Ports of an Edge
Switch are not Installed and Enabled
The Edge Switch 2/24 and Edge Switch 2/32 basic units have 8- and 16-ports
installed, respectively. The remaining ports can be enabled by purchasing
additional ports and licenses to enable them, in 8-port increments. If all of the
ports are not installed, Port Diagnostics must be run on one port at a time, and the
option to run diagnostics on all ports is not available.
Open Systems Management Server
Under the HAFM Product Manager > Hardware View menus, the Configure >
Management Server. . .menu option will result in a pop-up dialog. This dialog
states "This feature has not been installed. Please
contact your sales representative." This feature is not currently
available.

Support for Speed Auto-Negotiate

Auto-negotiate is supported. However, HP recommends that the port speed for
E_Ports (for Interswitch Links, or ISLs) be set to a specific port speed (1Gb/sec or
2Gb/sec, as appropriate for the speed of the directors or edge switches being
connected) instead of to Negotiate. Using a specific port speed decreases the time
for a fabric build in response to some perturbation event in the fabric. Similarly,
setting a specific port speed for N_Ports also decreases fabric build time.
However, setting a specific port speed for N_Ports is not required.
There are a few older HBA devices that do not always succeed in logging in to a
switch port when the port speed is set for auto-negotiate.
Workaround
If an older HBA is found to have difficulty logging into a switch port that has its
port speed configured as Negotiate, configure that port speed to 1Gb/sec or
2Gb/sec according to the operation speed of the HBA connected to that port.
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