Port Mirroring - HP StorageWorks 8/8 - SAN Switch Release Note

LDAP
When using LDAP, downgrades from Fabric OS 6.2.x to earlier releases requires user intervention.
Authentication must be set to local and back to LDAP in order to continue using LDAP authentication.
FCAP
Due to limitations with the certificates, FCAP authentication cannot be supported on user-defined
logical switches. FCAP will continue to function with existing certificates for non-VF and the default
logical switch of VF enabled switches. Note that authutil is not restricted from other logical
switches at this time, so it can still be enabled on unsupported LS.
The pkicert(1.06) utility may cause evm errors, so each new switch should be isolated from the
fabric in non-VF mode to install new certificates.
For FIPS mode, certificates must be installed before FIPS activation.
FICON
For the DC SAN Backbone Director, FICON CUP is not allowed with a 48-port blade in the Default
Logical Switch. All ports on a 48–port blade must be assigned to a user-defined Logical Switch
to use them in a FICON CUP enabled switch.
PDCM changes configured via Web Tools must be activated via the edit window if Active=Saved
mode is enabled.
When RSCNs are sent out on behalf of the CUP for switchname changes in interopmode 2, the
mainframe channels interpret the RSCNs as though paths may have gone down. This forces the
channels into a form of recovery, whereby they send TINs to the CUP to verify the logical paths
that are still established to the CUP. This results in mainframe console messages indicating that
this type of recovery has occurred.
FL_Port (Loop) Support
The FC8-48 blade now supports the attachment of loop devices in the HP StorageWorks DC SAN
Director and HP StorageWorks DC04 SAN Director.
Virtual Fabrics must be enabled on the chassis and loop devices may only be attached to ports
on a 48-port blade assigned to a non-Default Logical Switch operating with the default 10-bit
addressing mode (they may not be in the default Logical Switch).
A maximum of 144 ports may be used for connectivity to loop devices in a single Logical Switch
within a chassis.
Loop devices continue to be supported when attached to ports on the FC8-16, FC8-32, FC4-16
and FC4-32 blades with no new restrictions.

Port Mirroring

On the 8/80 SAN Switch, the Port Mirroring feature has a limitation where all port mirror resources
must remain in the same ASIC port group. The resources are the configure mirror port, Source
Device, and Destination Device or ISL, if the Destination Device is located on another switch. The
ASIC port groups are 0-15, 16-31, 32-47, 48-63, and 64-79. The routes will be broken if the
port mirror resources are spread across multiple port groups.
Port Mirroring is not supported on a switch with the VF feature enabled.
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