HP StorageWorks Director and Edge Switch release notes (5697-8176, April 2009)

NOTE:
For more information about planning the fabric, see the HP StorageWorks SAN design reference
guide , available on the following HP website: http://www.hp.com/go/SANdesignguide.
Cable requirements
Consider the following switch cable requirements:
• For cables measuring up to 500 meters (1 Gb/s) or 300 meters (2 Gb/s), use multimode Fibre
Channel cables. For longer cables, use single-mode Fibre Channel cables.
• Multimode optical cables are connected to short-wave optical transceiver modules in a switch.
Single-mode optical cables are connected to long-wave optical transceiver modules in a switch.
Multimode cables should use 50/125 optical fibers, and single-mode cables typically use 9/125
optical fibers for distances up to 10 km.
• Verify that connectors interfacing with the Director or Edge Switch products use LC duplex connectors
with a PC finish. In addition, the connector at the opposite end of the cable must be of either LC
or SC type, depending on the requirements of the connected device.
Operating systems
For a list of supported operating systems, see the HP StorageWorks SAN design reference guide,
available on the following HP website: http://www.hp.com/go/SANdesignguide.
Languages
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Fixes
Table 2 lists issues that have been fixed since the release of firmware 09.09.00.
Table 2 Fixes in this release
Affected mod-
els
Description
AllA switch was blocking PLOGI accept on remote end because near end did not send
SW_RSCN before PLOGI. This resulted in slow server bootup.
AllWhen Frame Redirection (FR) was used in a mixed M-series and B-series fabric, and there
were Virtual Targets (VT) that were either NPIV or loop devices connected to the same
physical port, and a host port was a member of two different FR zonesthat each include a
Virtual Target (VT1 and VT2) on the same physical port, if the connection between the host
and VT1 was interrupted, then the connection between that host and VT2 may also be inter-
rupted.
Director 2/140If a port received a frame with an invalid source ID (SID), the port would not appear as a
logged-in port, even though traffic was not disrupted. The Director was reporting an incorrect
port status.
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