Encryption Platform Enhancements - Brocade Communications Systems Brocade 300 Release Notes

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Frame Viewer (Class 3 Discard Log) Enhancements
In FOS v7.1 Frame Viewer has been enhanced to display class 3 discard log messages associated with the
backend ports (internal ports) of a chassis.
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Backend Link Monitoring Enhancements
FOS v7.1 introduces three different options/policies to fault the core blade/edge blade when the link reset
threshold of a Back End (BE) port is exceeded. Please see the bottleneckmon command description for
additional details.
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LR_IN and LR_OUT in fabriclog
FOS v7.1 has been enhanced to indicate whether a Link Reset (LR) was initiated by the local or remote
switch.
LR_IN will be set if the remote device initiates the link reset and LR_OUT will be set if it was initiated by the
local switch. The LR_IN or LR_OUT indication will be displayed in the fabriclog output along with existing
fabric logs.
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CLI to Read Real-time Error Status Block of an F_Port
FOS v7.1 implements a new command, "fcpRlsProbe", with option –-start to read the error status block of
an F_Port. This command sends an RLS (Read Link Status) ELS to the device and caches information such
as the number of loss-of-signal, loss-of-sync, CRC errors, and protocol errors encountered on the specified
device port. The cached data is displayed through the fcpRlsProbe --show command.
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Timestamp for portStatsClear, statsClear and slotStatsClear Operations
FOS v7.1 has been enhanced to display the time when port statistics were last cleared.
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Updating enc_out, bad_os and pcs_err Counters after Port Online
FOS v7.1 has been enhanced to update enc_out, bad_os, and pcs_err counters only after a port has come
online. This ensures that users are not misled by the values these counters may have had before a port is
fully online.

Encryption Platform Enhancements

FOS v7.1 implements the following enhancements for the BES/FS8-18 platforms:
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Thin Provisioning Support
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A new feature that enables BES/FS8-18 to support Thin Provisioning of the disk LUNs. Thin
Provision support is only available on storage arrays that have been tested by Brocade.
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Encrypted Data Throughput Performance Monitoring
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A new feature in BES/FS8-18 to monitor the throughput of the redirected I/O flow to the
Encryption engine. A new FOS command has been added to display the performance data.
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Increased Path Commit Limit for CTC Configuration
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Increasing the number of transactions to 512 for disk LUN operation for virtualized
environments. This enhancement is applicable only through Brocade Network Advisor.
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Expanded Device Decommissioning Support
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Expanding support for the Device Decommissioning of disk LUNs for all the supported
keyvaults types, i.e. RSA DPM, NetApp LKM/SafeNet KeySecure in SSKM mode, HP ESKM,
Thales EKA, IBM TKLM and KMIP (using SafeNet KeySecure).
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KMIP-compliant Key Management Client
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A new feature in BES/FS8-18 platform that enables the FOS native KMIP client support for
Safenet KeySecure key vault server when running in KMIP mode.
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RD Zone Creation Failure without L2 Zones
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Prevent creation of redirection zones if regular zones for the corresponding host/target are
not present in the effective configuration for cryptoConfig commit operations.
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