Brocade Adapter Release Notes - Software Release v3.0.0.0 Update 3 (October 2011)

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Windows:
1. Use Windows 2008 R2 drivers for Windows7 x64 OS and Windows 2008 SP2 x86
drivers for Windows 7 x86 OS.
2. On Windows 2003 with boot from SAN setup, if the target containing the boot LUN
is lost for more than 90 seconds, the system might fail. Reboot the server to
recover.
3. Windows selects the first port visible during normal boot (and this can be different
from the port that was selected for booting under HBA BIOS configuration). If
multiple paths are configured to the same boot LUN, and if the path on which
Windows has discovered the boot LUN goes down, then Windows might
experience a failure.
4. In Windows, the driver installation will fail if the HBA or CNA ports don't show up
under Device Manager. This can happen on a freshly-built OS if the driver package
is installed and uninstalled without a reboot. Rescan the hardware devices using
Device Manager to work around the issue.
5. In a Windows environment, stop the HCM agent prior to using Device Manager to
disable the driver.
6. In Windows, the Brocade Adapter Installer checks for minimally-required Microsoft
hotfixes and reports an error if a required hotfix (or a later version) is not installed.
• Windows Server 2008:
o Recommended: KB968675, KB958015
• Windows Server 2003 SP2:
o Required: KB932755
• Windows Server 2008 R2:
o Recommended: KB977977, KB2490742
7. In rare cases, on Windows systems with a CNA installed the Ethernet device
number in the Network Manager (i.e. “Local Area Connection##”) may not match
the adapter/port order. This is Microsoft Windows limitation as detailed in the KB
article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823206. The workaround is to rename the
“Local Area Connection##” to match the adapter/port order (right click on the
Local Area Connection and click “rename”).
8. In Windows 2008 R2 x64 deployment with iSCSI service enabled, apply hotfix
KB979711 to avoid system failure while running storage traffic. KB979711:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979711/en-us
9. Windows Crashdump Configuration. On a system that is configured with Boot
from SAN on a Brocade HBA, the following steps should be followed:
• BIOS must be enabled on all HBA port instances that can see the boot LUN.