HP StorageWorks Fabric OS 6.3.1c Release Notes (5697-0509 September 2010 - includes all 6.3.1x versions)

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, 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, 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, introduced with Fabric OS 6.3.0b)
New hardware support
Fabric OS 6.3.0 introduced support for the following new hardware platforms. This support continues
in Fabric OS 6.3.1c:
• DC SAN Director Multiprotocol Extension Blade—Next-generation distance extension blade for the
DC SAN Backbone Director and DC04 SAN Director. Supports 12 FC ports operating at 1, 2,
4, and 8 Gb/s, 10 1-GbE ports and 2 10-GbE ports. GbE ports require 4-Gb B-series SFPs, and
10-GbE ports require 10-GbE B-series SFPs.
• 1606 Extension SAN Switch—Next-generation distance extension platform for FCIP applications.
Supports 16 FC ports at 1, 2, 4, and 8 Gb/s, and 6 1-GbE optical ports. (The user can select
either a copper or optical interface on two ports.) GbE ports require 4-Gb B-series SFPs, and 10-
GbE ports require 10-GbE B-series SFPs.
• DC SAN Director Switch 10/24 FCoE Blade (FCoE/CEE blade for the DC SAN Backbone Director
and DC04 SAN Director)—Supports 24 10-GbE CEE ports.
• 2408 FCoE Converged Network Switch—Supports 24 10-GbE CEE ports and eight 1, 2, 4, or 8
Gb/s FC ports. Initially supported in Fabric OS 6.1.2_cee1, the 2408 FCoE Converged Network
Switch is now supported in Fabric OS 6.3.0 and later.
Supported product models
Fabric OS 6.3.1c is supported on the following product models:
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