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Brocade Fabric OS v7.0.1
Release Notes v1.0
December 15, 2011
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Brocade Fabric OS v7.0.1 Release Notes v1.0
Fabric OS v7.0.1 Release Notes v1.0
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  • Page 1 Brocade Fabric OS v7.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 December 15, 2011 Document History Document Title Summary of Changes Publication Date Brocade Fabric OS v7.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Initial Release December 15, 2011 Fabric OS v7.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Page 1 of 67...
  • Page 2 © 2011 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Brocade, the B-wing symbol, DCX, Fabric OS, and SAN Health are registered trademarks, and Brocade Assurance, Brocade NET Health, Brocade One, CloudPlex, MLX, VCS, VDX, and When the Mission Is Critical, the Network Is Brocade are trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., in the United States and/or in other countries.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Overview ..............................5 New Feature Descriptions .......................... 6 Enhanced Optical ICL Topology Support for DCX8510 ..................6 Support for Dynamic Fabric Provisioning: Fabric Assigned World Wide Name ............ 6 VCS/VDX6730 to FC SAN Connectivity ........................6 FCIP Enhancements ..............................6 Optionally Licensed Software ........................
  • Page 4 Port Mirroring ................................. 29 Port Statistics ................................. 29 Virtual Fabrics ................................ 29 Zoning ..................................29 Miscellaneous ................................ 30 Defects ............................... 31 Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1......................... 31 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.1 ..................... 36 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0c ....................51 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0b - August 24, 2011 ..............

  • Page 5: Overview

    Overview FOS v7.0.1 introduces support for the following new 16G FC hardware platforms: Brocade 6505 entry level 16G FC switch Supports 12-24 16 Gbps FC ports Ports are capable of operating at 2/4/8/16 Gbps FC for open systems Supports D-port and Forward Error Correction (FEC) with 16G SFP+ Supports Access Gateway mode Supports Condor3 ASIC enabled VC level credit recovery Supports Advanced Performance Monitoring E-port Top Talkers...

  • Page 6: New Feature Descriptions

    New Feature Descriptions Enhanced Optical ICL Topology Support for DCX8510 FOS v7.0.1 supports the following enhanced topologies using optical ICLs: Support for up to nine DCX8510 chassis in full mesh configuration using optical ICLs Support for ICL connectivity with up to eight DCX8510 chassis in core-edge topology This increased support delivers massive scalability, significantly reduces cabling complexity, and also makes more ports available for device connectivity.

  • Page 7: Optionally Licensed Software

    This license is not supported on the Brocade 8000. Integrated Routing— This license allows any port in a DCX8510-8, DCX8510-4, Brocade 6510, DCX-4S, DCX, 5300, 5100, 7800, or Brocade Encryption Switch to be configured as an EX_Port or VEX_Port (on some platforms) supporting Fibre Channel Routing.
  • Page 8 10GbE FCIP/10G Fibre Channel – This license enables the two 10GbE ports on the FX8-24 or the 10G FC capability on FC16-xx blade ports. On the Brocade 6510, this license enables 10G FC ports. This license is available on the DCX/DCX-4S/DCX8510-8/DCX8510-4 on an individual slot basis.

  • Page 9: Temporary License Support

    to 10 DCX8510 chassis per fabric. This license is required to be installed on every DCX8510 chassis with ICLs in a fabric when an ICL based topology exceeds the four chassis limit. This license is only recognized/displayed when operating with FOS v7.0.1 and later. Temporary License Support The following licenses are available in FOS v7.0.1 as Universal Temporary or regular temporary licenses: Fabric (E_Port) license...

  • Page 10: Technical Support

    IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree IEEE 802.1w Rapid reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation with LACP IEEE 802.3ae 10G Ethernet IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging IEEE 802.1p Class of Service Prioritization and Tagging IEEE 802.1v VLAN Classification by Protocol and Port IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) IEEE 802.3x...
  • Page 11 Brocade Encryption Switch, VA-40FC, 300, 5100, 5300, 6510, 6505 — On the switch ID pull-out tab located on the bottom of the port side of the switch Brocade 7800 — On the pull-out tab on the front left side of the chassis underneath the serial console and Ethernet connection and on the bottom of the switch in a well on the left side underneath (looking from front) Brocade 8000 —...

  • Page 12: Fos Migration Considerations

    FOS Migration Considerations This section contains important details to consider before migrating to or from this FOS release. TSBs - Critical Issues to Consider Prior to Installing This FOS Release Technical Support Bulletins (TSBs) are produced to provide detailed information about high priority defects or issues present in FOS releases.

  • Page 13: Fos Upgrade And Downgrade Special Considerations

    FOS Upgrade and Downgrade Special Considerations The DCX/DCX-4S units running any FOS v6.4.x can be non-disruptively upgraded to FOS v7.0.1. This upgrade is non-disruptive to FC traffic only. When loading FOS v7.0.1 to a DCX chassis with FCOE10-24 blades with Brocade Network Advisor v11.1.1/11.1.1a, there is no warning flagging FCoE traffic disruption.

  • Page 14: Important Notes

    Important Notes This section contains information that you should consider before you use this Fabric OS release. Brocade Network Advisor Compatibility Brocade® Network Advisor provides the industry’s first unified network management solution for data, storage, and converged networks. It supports Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) networks, Layer 2/3 IP switching and routing networks, wireless networks, application delivery networks, and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks.

  • Page 15: Smi Compatibility

    Brocade DCX/DCX-4S with FA4-18 blade(s) DCX requires v6.0.x or later , DCX-4S requires 6.2.x or later Brocade DCX8510-8/DCX8510-4 FOS v7.0 or later Brocade 6510 FOS v7.0 or later Brocade 6505 FOS v7.0.1 or later 48000 with FA4-18 blade(s), Brocade 7600 V6.2.2 or later Fabric OS v7.0.1 Release Notes v1.0...
  • Page 16 Supported Products and FOS Interoperability Secure Fabric OS (on any model) Not Supported Mi10k, M6140, ED-6064, ES-3232, ES-4300, ES-4400, ES-4500, ES- Direct E_Port connections are not 4700 (McDATA Fabric Mode and Open Fabric Mode) supported – must use FCR. M-EOS v9.9.5 or later McDATA ED-5000 32-port FC director Not Supported Multi-Protocol Router Interoperability...
  • Page 17 Zoning Compatibility Note: Users are recommended to upgrade to the following versions of firmware when interoperating with a switch running FOS v7.0 or later in the same layer 2 fabric to overcome some of the zoning operations restrictions that otherwise exist: Patch code levels with full zoning Main code level compatibility...

  • Page 18: Blade Support

    Blade Support Fabric OS v7.0.1 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the DCX/DCX-4S noted in the following table DCX/DCX-4S Blade Support Matrix 16-, 32-, 48- and 64-port 8Gbit port blades (FC8-16, Supported with FOS v6.0 and above (FC8-64 requires FC8-32, FC8-48, FC8-64) and the 6-port 10G FC blade FOS v6.4) with any mix and up to 8/4 of each.
  • Page 19 Fabric OS v7.0.1 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the DCX8510-8 and DCX8510-4 noted in the table below. DCX8510-8/DCX8510-4 Blade Support Matrix FC16-32, FC16-48 16G FC blades Supported starting with FOS v7.0 FC8-64 64 port 8Gbit port blade With any mix and up to 8/4 of each.
  • Page 20 Power Supply Requirements for Blades in DCX/DCX-4S DCX/DCX-4S DCX/DCX-4S @110 VAC @200-240 VAC Blades Type of Blade Comments (Redundant (Redundant configurations) configurations) FC10-6, FC8- Port Blade 2 Power 2 Power Supplies 16, FC8-32, Supplies Distribute the Power Supplies FC 8-48, FC8- evenly to 2 different AC connections for redundancy.
  • Page 21 Typical Power Supply Requirements Guidelines for Blades in DCX 8510-8 (For specific calculation of power draw with different blade combinations, please refer to Appendix A: Power Specifications in the 8510-8 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual) DCX 8510-8 DCX 8510-8 @110 @200-240 VAC Number of Ports Blades Type of Blade...

  • Page 22: Scalability

    6.2.2 is running on those switches. Access Gateway AG cascading is not supported on Brocade 6510, Brocade 6505 in FOS v7.0.1. Users who want to utilize Access Gateway’s Device-based mapping feature in the ESX environments are encouraged to refer to the SAN TechNote GA-TN-276-00 for best implementation practices.

  • Page 23: Brocade Hba/Adapter Compatibility

    Brocade HBA/Adapter Compatibility Brocade HBA/Adapter should be using driver version 2.3.0.2 or later when attached to 16G ports on Brocade switches. D-Port FOS v7.0.0a and later support the execution of D-Port tests concurrently on up to eight ports on the switch.
  • Page 24 MACE, FSS Error: fcsw0-vs: MISMATCH: component., svc.c, line: 2462, comp:FSSK_TH, ltime:2010/11/08-04:54:35:485484 Adding of 3PAR Session/Enclosure LUNs to CTCs is now supported. Session/Enclosure LUNs (LUN 0xFE) used by 3PAR InServ arrays must be added to CryptoTarget (CTC) containers with LUN state set to ―cleartext‖, encryption policy set to ―cleartext‖.

  • Page 25: Fcip (Fr4-18I, Brocade 7800 And Fx8-24)

    Hot Code Load from FOS v6.4.1a to FOS v7.0 or later is supported. Cryptographic operations and I/O will be disrupted but other layer 2 FC traffic will not be disrupted. When disk and tape CTCs are hosted on the same encryption engine, re-keying cannot be done while tape backup or restore operations are running.

  • Page 26: Fcoe/Dcb/Cee (Brocade 8000 And Fcoe10-24)

    Shared GE among Logical Switches Auto-mode compression option VE as XISL 10GigE lossless failover Modified QoS percentages 10GigE ARL IP Configuration where multiple GigEs have same subnet values For a tunnel configuration on 1GE ports that has more than 4 circuits Teradata emulation enabled Circuits configured explicitly to be listeners or an initiators FCoE/DCB/CEE (Brocade 8000 and FCOE10-24)
  • Page 27 v6.4.1_fcoe/v6.4.1_fcoe1/v7.0.0 or later, the following CEE map ―default‖ will be created automatically: cee-map default priority-group-table 1 weight 40 pfc priority-group-table 2 weight 60 priority-table 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 When upgrading from FOS v6.3.x or v6.4.x to FOS v6.4.1_fcoe/v6.4.1_fcoe1/v7.0.0 or later, the CEE start up configuration dcf.conf file will be incompatible with the FCoE provisioning changes implemented in v6.4.1_fcoe and later releases.

  • Page 28: Fcr And Integrated Routing

    Environments section for details and notes on deployment in FICON environments. (This appendix is only included for releases that have completed FICON qualification). FL_Port (Loop) Support FL_Port is not supported on FC16-32, FC16-48, FC8-32E, FC8-48E, Brocade 6510, and Brocade 6505. The FC8-48 and FC8-64 blade support attachment of loop devices.

  • Page 29: Native Connectivity (M-Eos Interoperability)

    If ICL ports are disabled on only one side of an ICL link, the enabled side may see enc_out errors Native Connectivity (M-EOS interoperability) A switch running FOS v7.0 or later cannot form E-port connectivity with any M-EOS platform. A switch running FOS v7.0 or later can only operate in Brocade native mode (interopmode 0).

  • Page 30: Miscellaneous

    WWN in lower case characters, the merge will fail, since the switches do not recognize these zoning configurations as being the same. For additional details and workaround solutions, please refer to the latest FOS Admin Guide updates or contact Brocade Customer Support. Miscellaneous Using a Windows anonymous FTP server for supportsave collection When using anonymous ftp, to avoid long delays or failure of simultaneous supportsave...

  • Page 31: Defects

    Defects Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 This section lists defects with High or Medium Technical Severity open in Fabric OS v7.0.1 as of December 15, 2011. While these defects are still formally ―open,‖ they are unlikely to impede Brocade customers in their deployment of Fabric OS v7.0.1 and have been deferred to a later release.
  • Page 32 Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000342944 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: WebTools dialog does not include FID in the error message resulting from Config Download failure on DCX with multiple logical switches. Symptom: If configdownload fails for a particular fid while being performed through WebTools , the displayed error message does not include the logical switch FID.
  • Page 33 Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000369286 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Inconsistency in handling of unsupported port speed configuration after replacing an FC16- xx blade with an FC8-xxE blade. Symptom: After replacing an FC16-xx blade with an FC8-xxE blade, ports previously configured to fixed 10G speed will be reset to auto speed negotiation while ports previously configured to fixed 16G will be persistently disabled.
  • Page 34 Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000375412 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Sending Test Email from Web Tools does not work if DNS has not been properly configured. Symptom: Sending Test Email from Web Tools does not work. Workaround: DNS configuration needs to be in place and accurate for e-mail functionality to work correctly.
  • Page 35 Open Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000381334 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Mode 1 portloopbacktest fails on FC16 blades in either slot 7 or 8 of 8510-4 Symptom: User sees failure message when running portloopbacktest BLADE ID 0x60 in slot 7 reset, mode:5 condor3_fpl_lli_ns_status[3518]: slot 7 chip 0 asic port 24 has LOS peerSlot -1 (null) asicChip 0 asicPort 0 FAILED to set speed 16 G BLADE ID 0x60 in slot 7 reset, mode:5...

  • Page 36: Closed With Code Change In Fabric Os V7.0.1

    Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.1 This section lists the defects with Critical, High and Medium Technical Severity closed with a code change as of December 15, 2011 in Fabric OS v7.0.1. Defect ID: DEFECT000326023 Technical Severity: High Summary: HA-Failover of switch seen when running IP over FC with multi-frame sequences.
  • Page 37 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000345301 Technical Severity: High Summary: In FCR configurations with Speed Tags, if LSAN Binding is added, binding is not being properly enforced. Symptom: If LSAN Binding is added to an FCR configuration with Speed Tags already defined, binding may not be properly enforced and devices may not get properly imported/exported.
  • Page 38 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000350457 Technical Severity: High Summary: Access Gateway N-port stuck in G-port after firmware upgrade with QoS enabled on attached Fabric switch Symptom: AG N_Port could be stuck in G_Port after firmware upgrade. Workaround: If this issue is encountered, disable QoS on the Fabric switch for the impacted link Feature: Field Escalation Function: Access Gateway...
  • Page 39 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000353445 Technical Severity: High Summary: Out of band bulk requests (SMI) can cause Name Server to panic in frame redirection environments. Symptom: Multiple name server panics observed in conjunction with applications which performs GXX_ID (such as GCS_ID) queries via out of band.
  • Page 40 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000359518 Technical Severity: High Summary: Cannot remove configured Admin Domain if defzone is configured as "allaccess" Symptom: Customer unable to remove admin domains when defzone --allaccess is set (which is an invalid configuration, involving an unlikely "loophole"...
  • Page 41 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000364945 Technical Severity: High Summary: Unable create 4th tunnel with crossport circuits in chassis with multiple FX8-24 blades. Symptom: Unable create more than three tunnels with crossport circuit configuration in a chassis with multiple FX8-24 blades.
  • Page 42 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000369610 Technical Severity: High Summary: Emulated FICON Tape Read Channel Program can grow too large, resulting in FICON Protocol timeouts and aborts Symptom: FICON Abort during tape read emulation Feature: FCIP Function: FCIP I/O Probability: High...
  • Page 43 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000317392 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: systemverification failing on 7800. Symptom: systemverfication test fails Feature: Diagnostics Function: Other Probability: Low Found in Release: FOS6.3.1 Where Else Fixed: FOS7.0.0 GA Defect ID: DEFECT000319548 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: ceeportloopbacktest and ceeportledtest does not properly process all parameters on the Brocade 8000...
  • Page 44 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000339701 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Even after removing the device from the LSAN zoning, nsinfo.html for switch is not updated with removed devices. Symptom: nsinfo.html may not be updated with devices that have been removed from an LSAN zone. Feature: 8G FCR Function: FCR Daemon Probability: Medium...
  • Page 45 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000346554 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: When devices send LOGO and then FLOGI, without a port toggle, the route is not set up, causing PLOGIs to peer device to be dropped. Symptom: Devices unable to communicate with peer devices after logout/login sequence.
  • Page 46 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000350157 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: pdmd memory increase seen on the standby CP of a DCX 8510-8 with max LS creation and fully populated EX-Ports after a long period of time with I/O running Symptom: pdmd memory usage may increase on the standby CP of 8510-8 with max LS creation and fully populated EX-Ports after a long period of I/O running..
  • Page 47 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000358533 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Cold recovery observed when devices are not LSAN zoned but are exchanging ELS frames. Symptom: Cold recovery after a CP Failover or during Firmware Download. This is observed under rare conditions, in FCR fabrics.
  • Page 48 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000362362 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: FC16-32 blade fails POST (FAULTY-51) Symptom: After power cycling an 8510, FC16-32 port blade is set to Faulty-51. Workaround: Power cycle the blade or the chassis Feature: Diagnostics Function: Post Diags Probability: Low...
  • Page 49 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000367452 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Using "switchcfgpersistentdisable/enable" can result is subsequent issues with zoning distribution. Symptom: Zone DB distribution fails to reach all domains in the fabric. Feature: Field Escalation Function: Management Embedded Probability: Low Found in Release: FOS6.4.1...
  • Page 50 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v7.0.1 Defect ID: DEFECT000371485 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Switch Ethernet port sends frame with invalid MAC address on Brocade 300E, 5100, 6510 and 7800 Symptom: Switch Ethernet port sometimes sends frames with invalid Ethernet MAC address. There is no functional impact due to TCP/IP retransmit frame successfully;...

  • Page 51: Closed With Code Change In Fabric Os V7.0.0C

    Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0c This section lists the defects with Critical, High and Medium Technical Severity closed with a code change as of November 18, 2011 in Fabric OS v7.0.0c Defect ID: DEFECT000354348 Technical Severity: High Summary: Not receiving the RAS log Cx-5021 message for front port partial credit loss on an EX-Port Symptom: Customer will be unaware if EX_Ports are leaking credit.
  • Page 52 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0c Defect ID: DEFECT000365069 Technical Severity: High Summary: ICL Ports on 8510 directors show "Mod_Val" on 1 out of 4 ports on a QSFP. Symptom: Event log indicates bad QSFP requiring reseat or replacement. Workaround: Reseating QSFP may correct the issue.
  • Page 53 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0c Defect ID: DEFECT000369430 Technical Severity: High Summary: Host Discovery issue from edge to edge with VE in BB fabric if EX_Ports are on port 0-3 of an FX8-24 blade in slot 7 of a DCX-4S. Symptom: Hosts will not be able to discover targets across the backbone fabric.

  • Page 54: Closed With Code Change In Fabric Os V7.0.0B - August 24, 2011

    Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0b - August 24, 2011 This section lists the defects with Critical, High and Medium Technical Severity closed with a code change as of August 24, 2011 in Fabric OS v7.0.0b. Defect ID: DEFECT000300506 Technical Severity: High Summary: Observed routing problem after switch running in fmsmode (FICON) changed FID assignment...
  • Page 55 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0b Defect ID: DEFECT000352764 Technical Severity: High Summary: Remote data replication application fails with multiple paths (multiple port pairs between arrays) when FastWrite is enabled on the FCIP tunnel. Symptom: With FastWrite enabled on an FCIP tunnel, and two data replication port pairs, the application commands to move data between the arrays will fail.
  • Page 56 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0b Defect ID: DEFECT000356351 Technical Severity: High Summary: Frame drops are observed after changing the FCR backbone domain ID. Symptom: Hosts lost access to storage after changing FCR backbone domain ID on a DCX/DCX-4S Backbone with FC8-64 and FC8-48 blades.
  • Page 57 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0b Defect ID: DEFECT000357943 Technical Severity: High Summary: Trackchanges is not generating TRK-1003 for SSH logout. Symptom: With a Trackchanges setting of 1,1, the track changes feature is not generating the TRCK- 1003 message when a SSH session is logged out. Feature: FOS Security Function: Authentication Probability: High...
  • Page 58 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0b Defect ID: DEFECT000349465 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: TopTalker Monitor fails if user changes the monitor from Egress to Ingress Symptom: User will be unable to create Top Talkers in Ingress mode Feature: Mgmt Embedded - HTTP Function: Other Probability: High Found in Release: FOS7.0.0...
  • Page 59 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0b Defect ID: DEFECT000354560 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Failed tape jobs encountered with tape pipelining enabled when utilizing a FICON to ESCON converter Symptom: Tape jobs intermittently fail with tape pipelining enabled when utilizing a FICON to ESCON converter.
  • Page 60 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0b Defect ID: DEFECT000356559 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Need more detailed error message for blocking firmware upgrade from FOS 6.4.0c to FOS 7.0 due to a deprecated feature. Symptom: Firmware upgrade from v6.4 to v7.0 is blocked, and user does not get sufficient information from the error message.
  • Page 61 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0b Defect ID: DEFECT000359160 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Not able to enable NPIV on FCoE ports. Symptom: If NPIV had been disabled on FCoE ports prior to upgrading to v7.0, NPIV cannot be enabled on those FCoE ports.
  • Page 62 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0b Defect ID: DEFECT000361822 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: FastWrite is clearing the F_CTL priority bit resulting in CS_CTL values not being maintained/used Symptom: Configured CS_CTL values are no longer valid on write data frames (F_CTL priority bit disabled) once frames are carried over FCIP links with FastWrite enabled.

  • Page 63: Closed With Code Change In Fabric Os V7.0.0A - Ga June 2, 2011

    Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0a – GA June 2, 2011 This section lists the defects with Critical, High and Medium Technical Severity closed with a code change as of June 2, 2011 in Fabric OS v7.0.0a. Defect ID: DEFECT000321855 Technical Severity: High Summary: CRC and/or CDR-5021 errors seen on DCX, DCX-4S, or 5100 switch platforms Symptom: CRC or other errors as described below: 1.
  • Page 64 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0a Defect ID: DEFECT000349012 Technical Severity: High Summary: FICON: Active config is out of synch with FOS indicating a port is blocked after HA failover Symptom: Active configuration indicates port is not blocked. FOS indicates port is blocked. Feature: FICON Function: Ficud Probability: Low...
  • Page 65 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0a Defect ID: DEFECT000350463 Technical Severity: High Summary: Unable to configure ports as extended distance using CLI on 6510 10G ports without extended fabric license Symptom: The intention is that you should be able to configure any non-default Extended Fabric mode on a licensed 10G FC port without requiring the Extended Fabric license –...
  • Page 66 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0a Defect ID: DEFECT000342412 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: TPERF session may not be able to be restarted until all user disabled GE ports on the test tunnel are re-enabled. Symptom: If a user disables GE ports on a TPERF test tunnel while a TPERF session is in progress and the TPERF session is terminated, TPERF may not be able to be restarted until the disabled GE ports are re-enabled.
  • Page 67 Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.0.0a Defect ID: DEFECT000349010 Technical Severity: Medium Summary: Component (ms) dropping HA data update during logical switch delete and moving of ports Symptom: FICON Database out of Sync between CP's HA failure Feature: FICON Function: MS-FICON Probability: Medium Found in Release: FOS7.0.0...

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