HP B-series Fabric OS 7.1.0c Release Notes (5697-2892, October 2013 - includes all 7.1.0x versions)

Other licensing changes
The capabilities associated with the Adaptive Networking and Server Application Optimization
licenses are included by default on the HP StoreFabric SN6500B 16Gb FC Switch. These license
are not required on HP StoreFabric SN6500B 16Gb FC Switch platform.
Standards compliance
This software conforms to the FC standards and accepted engineering practices and procedures.
In certain cases, HP might add proprietary supplemental functions to those specified in the standards.
For a list of standards conformance, see the HP website: http://www.hp.com.
The 2408 FCoE Converged Network Switch and DC SAN Director Switch 10/24 FCoE Blade
conform to the following Ethernet standards:
• IEEE 802.1D, Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
• 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, 10 Gb 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, Flow Control (Pause Frames)
The following draft versions of the CEE and FCoE standards are also supported on the 2408 FCoE
Converged Network Switch and DC SAN Director Switch 10/24 FCoE Blade:
• IEEE 802.1Qbb, Priority-based Flow Control
• IEEE 802.1Qaz, Enhanced Transmission Selection
• IEEE 802.1, DCB Capability Exchange Protocol (Proposed under the DCB Task Group of IEEE
802.1 Working Group)
• FC-BB-5, FCoE (Rev. 2.0.0)
Supported product models
Fabric OS 7.1.0c is supported on the following product models:
• HP SN8000B 8-Slot SAN Backbone Director Switch (DCX8510-8)
• HP SN8000B 4-Slot SAN Director Switch (DCX8510-4)
• HP SN8000B 16 Gb 32-port FC Blade (FC16-32)
• HP SN8000B 16 Gb 48-port FC Blade (FC16-48)
• HP SN8000B 8 Gb 32-port Enhanced Fibre Channel Blade (Brocade FC8-32E)
• HP SN8000B 8 Gb 48-port Enhanced Fibre Channel Blade (Brocade FC8-48E)
• HP StoreFabric SN6500B 16Gb FC Switch (Brocade 6520)
• HP SN6000B 16 Gb FC Switch (Brocade 6510)
• HP SN3000B 16 Gb FC Switch (Brocade 6505)
• HP 8/8 and 8/24 SAN Switches (Brocade 300)
• HP 8/40 SAN Switch (Brocade 5100)
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