HP A7533A - Brocade 4Gb SAN Switch Base Release Note page 10

• McDATA fabrics running EOS 09.06.xx with Brocade Fabric OS 5.3.1, 5.3.1a, 6.0.0b and
6.0.1a
• Cisco MDS 9506, 9509, 9216 and 9216a Multilayer Director switches
• Cisco fabrics running SAN-OS 3.0(2a) with Brocade Fabric OS 5.2.1b
• Cisco fabrics running SAN-OS versions 3.1(2a), 3.1(3), 3.1(3a) with Brocade Fabric OS
5.3.0, 5.3.0a, 5.3.0b, 5.3.0c, 5.3.0d
• Cisco fabrics running SAN-OS versions 3.0(2a) with Brocade Fabric OS 5.3.1, 5.3.1a, 6.0.0b
and 6.0.1a
Secure Fabric OS (SFOS) feature not compatible with Fabric
OS 6.x and later
The last Fabric OS version compatible with SFOS is Fabric OS 5.3.x. However, all of the security
features of SFOS have been fully integrated into the base Fabric OS, beginning with Fabric OS 5.3.x
and later.
Fabric Manager compatibility
Fabric OS 6.1.0h is compatible with Fabric Manager version 5.5.0. HP recommends upgrading to
Fabric Manager 5.5.0 before upgrading to Fabric OS 6.1.0h as down-level Fabric Manager software
is not supported with Fabric OS 6.1.0h.
Prerequisites
Table 1 summarizes current Fabric OS firmware versions. However, HP recommends using the latest
supported firmware release versions to get the greatest benefit from the SAN.
For a list of retired products, see the HP website:
http://www.hp.com
IMPORTANT:
The Fabric OS versions listed in the Earliest compatible version column below are the earliest versions
supported by HP at the time Fabric OS 6.1.0h released.
Table 1 Current supported Fabric OS versions
Model
HP StorageWorks 1-Gb Switch
HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/8 EL
HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/16
MSA SAN Switch 2/8
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Earliest compatible ver-
sion
Not supported, end of sup-
port (December 2007)
3.2.1b
Recommended version
3.2.1c