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1. m aee FICON Management Server Cascading Yes No i ISL Trunking frame level Yes Yes FICON MIHPTO Yes No Full Scalability to maximum M EOS fabric limits Yes Yes FOS Features supported in interopmode 0 FOS v6 2 1 IM Interopmode M2 M3 indicates the feature is available but not officially tested or supported 1 Requires M EOS 9 7 or later for redirection between devices attached to FOS switches M EOS 9 8 for redirection between devices attached to M EOS switches M EOS 9 9 for use in McDATA Open Fabric Mode Supported M EOS platforms include M4400 M4700 M6140 and Mil0k 2 Only allowed between FOS based switches DPS is supported outbound from FOS based switches M EOS can provide reciprocal load balancing using OpenTrunking SCC policies only supported in conjunction with L2 Fabric Binding support Not supported in FOS 6 0 or later Mode 3 only qualified with M EOS switches Not on FCR Only supported locally within the FOS switch All routers EX_Ports must reside in a backbone fabric running in interopmode 0 only Only edge fabrics with devices imported to the backbone fabric or other edge fabrics may be operating in IM2 or IM3 10 To support Frame Redirection to an edge M EOS fabric there must be at least one FOS switch in the edge fabric to configure Frame Redirection Zones 11 Only Frame Redirection Zones may be configured on FOS platforms and sent to fabrics operating in McDATA Open Fabric
2. Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Russia Saudi Arabia Scotland Singapore gt x lt South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Turkey United Arab Emirates United Kingdom Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 34 of 72 Ireland United States X Venezuela X Yugoslavia X Brocade DCX 4S Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1001191 01 The entry for step 8 on page 65 should be deleted When you pull the WWN card out by the pull tab step 7 it unplugs directly from the backplane The entry for step 2 on page 66 should read as follows 2 Hold the card by the pull tab and plug the card into the backplane Use the Philips screwdriver and the captive screw to attach the WWN card to the chassis Brocade 5100 Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1000854 02 Table 1 on page 19 describes LED operation for the power supply Following is an addition to this table LED Name LED Color Status of Hardware Recommended Action Power Supply Status Flashing green Power supply failure Replace power supply Brocade 7500 Extension Switches Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1000026 04 Table 4 on page 25 describes LED operation for the Fibre Channel ports Following is an addition to this table that describes operation of the two GbE por
3. cc cece ceccsscesesseeeeesneeeeseneeeessneeeeeeseeeessneeeens 32 Access Gateway Administrator s Guide Publication Number 53 1001189 01 eee eesceceseeeneeceeeeeeneeeeneeeeee 32 Brocade Encryption Administrator s Guide Publication Number 53 1001201 02 oo eee eee eee eseereeneeenees 32 Generating and exporting the master Key manisin aria e e ai aa E a RE E 33 Brocade DCX Backbone Hardware Reference Manual Publication Numbers 53 1000685 01 through 05 33 Brocade DCX 4S Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1001191 01 ssssssssssssessssssssssssesssee 35 Brocade 5100 Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1000854 02 ssssssssssssesrsssesesssrsssssresssee 35 Brocade 7500 Extension Switches Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1000026 04 35 Brocade 48000 Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 0000645 05 ccssccccssseeeessteeessteeeees 36 Brocade SilkWorm 200E Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 0000633 03 cee eeeeeeeeeeeee 36 Brocade SilkWorm Multiprotocol Router Model AP7420 Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 10001790P vos isevcres tek cctacte e scasa node nceaacaetade dua N E Cae fubestn dean cclbes sane beaen saad seatodaecaatencnieated 37 Brocade Mil0K Director Installation and Service Manual Publication Number 53 1000711 01 eee 38 Brocade Fabric OS Message Reference Publication Number 53 100
4. Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 57 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000242555 Technical Severity High Summary Missing FICON interrupt on DCX 4S Symptom CUP did not respond in time before channel timed out Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 T Defect ID DEFECT000242951 Technical Severity High Summary Command fddcfg fabwideset and other security commands fails with RCS transaction error Symptom May see error message like Security Application returned Transaction Error 0x1500000b Feature FC Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 E Defect ID DEFECT000243059 Technical Severity High Summary When performing firmwareupgrade from FOS v6 1 x to v6 2 0 and reverting back by firmwarerestore from v6 2 0 to v6 1 x does not succeed and leaves CP with unrecoverable passwords Symptom Firmwarerestore will fail and leave the CP in inconsistent state and user may not be able to login Workaround Once passwords are blocked booting into single user mode is required with reset of the system passwords Function Firmware Download Probability Medium Risk of Fix High Found in Release FOS620 iy Defect ID DEFECT000243349 Technical Severity High Summary Disconneting reconnecting the ISL on Brocade Encryption Switch while rekey in progress may result in new key creation failure Symptom Disconnecting reconnecting the ISL while rekey operations
5. Summary In an HA cluster environment Re key operations can t be started on vendor storage LUNSs Symptom In an HA cluster environment Re key operations can t be started on vendor storage LUNs Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Service Request ID 358551 Defect ID DEFECT000238428 Technical Severity High Summary WWN card FRU replacement procedure not sending async reports to FICON host Symptom Customers won t know when a WWN card has been removed Feature FICON Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Ss Defect ID DEFECT000239126 Technical Severity High Summary ASIC Interrupt handling fix single defect to address issues found while attempting to respond to ASIC generated interrupts Symptom Customer may experice high CPU load and unexpected blade errors Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 es ell Defect ID DEFECT000239668 Technical Severity High Summary Unable to configure port s using configdownload Symptom Unable to configure ports using configdownload if the ports are not not physically present in the switch Function Config Download Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 hee Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 66 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000240443 Technical Severity High Summary After a fosco
6. Brocade 7500 and FR4 181 blade v5 1 0 and higher McDATA SANRouters 1620 and 2640 M EOSi v5 1 2 or v5 3 0 7 Table Notes Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 9 of 72 All zoning and fabric operations performed in a fabric with products running older versions of FOS should be done via interfaces to products running the latest version of FOS This is particularly important for Brocade 3XXX series switches that do not support zoning configuration for newer products Other M EOS models may participate in a fabric with FOS v6 2 1 but may not be directly attached via E_port to any products running FOS v6 2 1 The McDATA ED 5000 director may not participate in a mixed M EOS FOS fabric It is highly recommended that M EOS products operate with the most recent version of M EOS released and supported for interoperability M EOS 9 7 2 is the minimum version of firmware that is fully qualified to interoperate with FOS 6 2 0 or later For support of frame redirection in McDATA Fabric Mode interopmode 2 M series products must use M EOS v9 8 or later For support of frame redirection in McDATA Open Fabric Mode interopmode 3 M series products must use M EOS v9 9 or later Only the ES 4400 ES 4700 M6140 and Mil0k may have devices directly attached that are having data encrypted or unencrypted When routing to an M EOS edge fabric using frame redirection the M EOS fabric must have a FOS based product in order to
7. Fabric Watch failed to initialize on fully populated DCX Symptom During HA recovery management application reports switch health status as Marginal Down Traffic is not impacted but DCFM call home will not be initiated Feature Field Escalation Function Management Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000241933 Technical Severity High Summary SNMP v3 user configuration reverts back to defaults after HAfailover Symptom When configuring SMNP v3 user configuration on any one of the user defined USM configuration sets and during HAfailover the SNMP configuration reverts back to default Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 367427 Defect ID DEFECT000242132 Technical Severity High Summary Detected termination of 0 weblinker fcg on DCX 4S Symptom May see messages like KSWD 1002 5766 SLOT 4 FFDC CHASSIS WARNING Brocade_DCXA4S Detected termination of process 0 weblinker fcg 4837 on the console Feature FICON Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Boorse Defect ID DEFECT000242139 Technical Severity High Summary Ports were found disabled after enabling Virtual Fabric VF through DCFM on Brocade 5100 Symptom Some ports may be disabled after enabling VF through DCFM Feature FICON Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 a
8. type the following and press Enter system ip address xxx xxXx XXX XXX yyy yyy yyy yyy ZZZ ZZZ ZZL 1ZL The IP address is xxx xxx xxx xxx the subnet mask is yyy yyy yyy yyy and the gateway address iS ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ where the octets xxx yyy and zzz are decimals from zero through 255 If an address is to remain unchanged type the current address in the respective field Brocade Fabric OS Message Reference Publication Number 53 1001157 01 On page 515 in Chapter 86 the TRCK 1004 raslog messages are not logged in v6 2 1 due to feature deprecation Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 38 of 72 Defects Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v6 2 1 This section lists defects closed in Fabric OS v6 2 1 Note that when a workaround to an issue is available it is provided Defect ID DEFECT000225799 Technical Severity High Summary Sshd allows admin login to execute root level Linux commands but not admin CLI commands Symptom Admin CLI commands executed using login admin via ssh through the FOS sshd daemon fail with error rbash lt admin level command gt command not found Workaround A workaround to facilitate execution of admin level CLI commands using ssh is to use syntax similar to ssh l admin 192 168 1 12 rbash login c switchshow Or if a command is needed that works on both older correctly operating FOS and the newer affected FOS ssh 1 admin 192 168 1 12 switchshow Il rbash login c swit
9. 0 ag Defect ID DEFECT000244987 Technical Severity High Summary With tape pipelining active the switch may return a good status without sending data Symptom Tape I O may fail with errors Feature FCIP Function FCIP I O Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 371297 Defect ID DEFECT000245277 Technical Severity High Summary Host detecting IFCCs errors to CUP Port Symptom FCC errors Feature FICON Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000246162 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade Encryption Switch went Faulty when starting traffic Symptom Loss of LUNs to the Host Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Fl Defect ID DEFECT000246423 Technical Severity High Summary Taking the RKM down while rekeys are in progress causes one of the LUN gets stuck at state Not ready Key creation Symptom Taking the RKM down while rekeys are in progress causes one of the LUN gets stuck at state Not ready Key creation Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000226734 Technical Severity Medium Summary When attempting to swap ports from the GUI the operation may fail due to HTTP 500 error Symptom Port Swap failing due to HTTP 500 error Workaround No Fea
10. 03 Table 3 2 System Status LED Patterns During Normal Operation has the incorrect behavior listed in row three Instead of reading Slow flashing green it should read Flashing amber green Under Regulatory Compliance in Product Specifications Appendix A add the following statement Power Cords Japan Denan Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 36 of 72 tE ARORA Pe Owe Hale IEH LZR US OR a BISA Cee LA EAHA S t eAWMe UC Sh CORED HEB SIVTWAbEOCST MU TWO ETHET IEH LRTI ES KRORBOIRA amp 72 DEANE ET Attention Never use the power cord packed with your equipment for other products Brocade SilkWorm Multiprotocol Router Model AP7420 Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 1000179 01 Under Regulatory Compliance in Specifications and Regulatory Compliance Appendix A add the following statement Power Cords Japan Denan TE ARY ORR A FEADR EHR EHH LU Zev Sty OAR BISA L HEAT S TK LeAMe UCRHSH TORREN SENTOJ HOTI MU TWO ETHET IEH LZRVY CS ES KEOCRBO IRA amp Ze DMNA HYOET Attention Never use the power cord packed with your equipment for other products Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 37 of 72 Brocade Mil0K Director Installation and Service Manual Publication Number 53 1000711 01 Step 10 on page 2 13 should be the following Change the IP address subnet mask and gateway address as directed by the customer To change the addresses
11. 11 The module is invalid On page 781 add the following values to the fruClass object e 10 coreblade 10 e I1 applicationblade 11 Access Gateway Administrator s Guide Publication Number 53 1001189 01 The entry for the brocade 5100 in Table 11 Access Gateway Default F_Port to N_Port Mapping on page 55 should read as follows F_Ports are ports 0 31 and N_Ports are ports 32 39 Brocade Encryption Administrator s Guide Publication Number 53 1001201 02 In Chapter 2 Encryption configuration using the management application e On page 77 under the topic Master Keys the opening sentence should read When an RSA or SKM key vault is used e On page 78 the three bulleted items should include SKM as follows o Backup master key which is enabled any time a master key exists when using an RSA or SKM key vault o Restore master key which is enabled when using an RSA or SKM key vault and either no master key exists or the previous master key has been backed up o Create new master key which is enabled when using an RSA or SKM key vault and either no master key exists or the previous master key has been backed up In Chapter 3 Encryption configuration using the CLI e On page 95 the following lines should be removed from the Help command output setEE lt slotnumber gt routing lt shared partitioned gt Set encryption routing policy e On page 119 Step 2 Set the R
12. 72 Defect ID DEFECT000236299 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port state mismatch on internal copper ports on Embedded platforms between switchshow and portcfgshow s PersistentDisable flag Symptom Portcfgshow disable persistent disable state while port is enabled Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 0 Service Request ID 346445 Defect ID DEFECT000236682 Technical Severity Medium Summary In non VF mode on Brocade DCX after removing other filters EE and F_Port TT and enabling Fabric mode TopTalkers the flow values are not reliable Symptom Switching from EE or F_Port TT to Fabric mode TT will show inaccurate flow values Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Advanced Performance Monitor Probability Low Risk of Fix High Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000236991 Technical Severity Medium Summary If TI zone operations are performed simultaneously on different switches active CP may failover due to termination of Name server module Symptom User may notice the message Detected termination of nsd 4248 1 on console and the Active CP will failover Feature FC Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 Coo Defect ID DEFECT000234512 Technical Severity Medium Summary Bad SFP triggered i2c access cause issues on port slot display and cpu load on Brocade 48000 Symptom Customers may
13. FM v5 4 and higher customers are provided an easy migration path to DCFM Enterprise EFCM Compatibility EFCM v9 7 4 is the minimum version of Brocade management software that should be used to manage Brocade switches deployed with FOS v6 2 1 EFCM v9 7 4 cannot manage the DCX 4S or platforms with the Virtual Fabrics feature enabled For more information on migrating from previous versions of EFCM to EFCM v9 7 4 refer to the EFCM v9 7 4 Release Notes documentation Fabric OS Compatibility The following table lists the earliest versions of Brocade software supported in this release that is the earliest supported software versions that interoperate Brocade recommends using the latest software versions to get the greatest benefit from the SAN When using the new Virtual Fabrics feature it is highly recommended that all switches participating in a fabric with a logical switch use the latest firmware available for those switches All switches must be operating at minimum firmware levels noted in the FOS Interoperability table below When using any of Brocade s encryption platforms Brocade Encryption Switch or Brocade FS8 18 blade in a DCX or DCX 4S it is required that switches attached to hosts and targets or those that are part of the encryption flow be operating with minimum specified levels e 2Gb 4Gb platforms must operate with FOS v5 3 1b or later Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 8 of 72 e 4Gb 8Gb platforms must opera
14. Fabric OS v6 2 1 allows Extended Fabrics E_ports to operate in VC_RDY mode using either ARB or IDLE primitives as fill words This allows frame based Trunking to be supported on Extended Fabrics E ports even when IDLE primitives are configured for these ports when operating in native VC_RDY mode Prior to this change frame based Trunking was supported only when ARB primitives were used in VC_RDY mode With Fabric OS v6 2 frame based Trunking is supported on Extended Fabrics E_ports regardless of whether IDLE or ARB primitives are used when operating in native VC_RDY mode Implementation The portcfglongdistance CLI parameter VC Translation Link Init is now overloaded to specify if the long distance link should use IDLE or ARB primitives By default vc_init is enabled If vc_init is enabled the long distance link will use ARB primitives If vc_init is disabled the link will use IDLE primitives Note Buffer to Buffer Credit Recovery feature is not supported on Extended Fabrics E_port when it is configured to use IDLE primitives The user must disable buffer to buffer credit recovery feature using the command portcfgcreditrecovery and specifying the disable option otherwise the link will continuously reset The Adaptive Networking SID DID Traffic Prioritization QoS feature is not supported on Extended Fabrics E_ports when IDLE primitives are configured on these ports This is because in this mode only data Virtual Channels are available
15. Mode interopmode 3 M EOS 9 9 is required to support FR Zones in McDATA Open Fabric Mode 12 Supported via FC Routing only All routers in the backbone must be running FOS v6 2 0 ca SOHO Oy Se Note FICON Cascaded CUP with M EOS and FOS qualified only on select platforms Firmware Upgrades and Downgrades Upgrading to Fabric OS v6 2 1 is only allowed from Fabric OS v6 1 0 or later This policy to support only one level migration which began with FOS v6 0 0 provides more reliable and robust migrations for customers By having fewer major changes in internal databases configurations and subsystems the system is able to perform the upgrade more efficiently taking less time and ensuring a truly seamless and non disruptive process for the fabric The one release migration policy also reduces the large number of upgrade downgrade permutations that must be tested allowing Brocade to spend more effort ensuring the supported migration paths are thoroughly and completely verified All products supported by Fabric OS v6 1 0 or v6 1 1 can be upgraded to Fabric OS v6 2 1 The following is a list of products that can be upgraded to Fabric OS v6 2 1 e 300 4012 4016 4018 4020 4024 4424 5424 5410 5480 4100 4900 5000 5100 5300 7500 7600 200E 48000 BES and DCX The DCX 4S may not be downgraded below FOS v6 2 0 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 14 of 72 All downgrades from FOS v6 2 1 to FOS v6 1 x require a restart and are d
16. Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Technical Severity High Function F SPF Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 68 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000225796 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade switch is sending RSCN event Qualifier as 0x20 for FOS 6 1 x and 0x08 FOS v6 1 0g and FOS v6 2 0 Symptom Some OS HBA combinations take down FC link when N_port generated RSCN are delivered by switch with 0x08 or 0x20 as event qualifier Revert back to FOS v6 0 way of sending as 0x0 Feature FOS Software Function Fabric Services Risk of Fix Medium Probability High Reported In Release FOS 6 1 0_8e Service Request ID 332317 Defect ID DEFECT000237341 Technical Severity Medium Summary When upgrading a switch with an FC10 6 blade from FOS v6 1 to v6 2 the standby CP may go into a rolling reboot Feature 8G Platform Services Function Routing Risk of Fix Low Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238215 Technical Severity Medium Summary In routed environment after upgrading to v6 2 0 command ferfabricshow displays ex port as 0 Feature 8G FCR Function FCR CLI Risk of Fix Low Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000230294 Technical Severity High Summary Out of Memory condition on switch occurred due to memory leak in nsd process Symptom Mixed fabric running in Interopmode switch hafailover hareboot occurs due to out of memory occurrence Feat
17. are in progress causes the rekey to hang LUN state shows Rekey ACK timeout Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 370041 Defect ID DEFECT000243880 Technical Severity High Summary CP panic with FICUd crash occurred during supportsave operation Symptom FICUd crash and CP reboot Workaround This can be avoided by doing one of the following after enabling FMSMODE for the first time switchdisable switchenable hafailover hareboot reboot Feature FICON Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 feet O O O Defect ID DEFECT000243959 Technical Severity High Summary During rekey operations continuously disconnect reconnect the ISL links between 2 cluster nodes causes one of the LUN to hang at LUN discovery state Symptom LUN may hang at LUN discovery state if ISL is continuously disconnected reconnected Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 371035 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 58 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000244009 Technical Severity High Summary All LUNs in a container are showing target offline Symptom Host will no longer have access to their LUNs through the crypto target containers Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2
18. configure the frame redirection zone information in the edge fabric When directly attached to a Host or Target that is part of an encryption flow Products operating with FOS versions less than v5 3 1b or v6 1 0e may not participate in a logical fabric that is using XISLs in the base fabric For Multi Protocol router interop FOS based switches deployed in M EOS fabrics should not be directly connected via ISLs to the M1620 M2640 products but rather attached to other M EOSc n switches and directors M6140s 4700s Mil0ks etc running in McDATA Fabric Mode Interopmode 2 McDATA Open Fabric Mode Interopmode 3 is supported only with M EOSi v5 3 SMcDATA SANRouters 1620 and 2640 should not be used with XPath or FOS based routing FCR for connections to the same edge fabric These platforms may not be directly attached to hosts or targets for encryption flows M series SANRouters 1620 2640 may not participate in a fabric that has encryption services from a Brocade Encryption Switch or FS8 18 Encryption blade Fabric OS v6 2 1 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the 48000 platform noted in the following table 48000 Blade Support Matrix Port blade 16 32 and 48 port 4Gbit blades FC4 16 FC4 32 FC4 48 16 32 and 48 port 8Gbit blade FC8 16 FC8 32 FC8 48 and the 6 port 10G FC blade FC10 6 Supported with any mix and up to 8 of each No restrictions around intermix The 48000 m
19. levels for production Fabric administrators should check the Link Incident Report LIR Port x FF for any failed component incidents in switches directors as these are not reported to z OS through the CUP Node descriptor information is obtained through the Element Manager instead of the fabric wide node descriptor list when using DCFM to manage M EOS switches When DCFM 10 1 3 is used for managing TI zones zone propagations may experience a timeout This issue will be resolved in later FOS releases Brocade recommends using 50 micron multimode fiber optic cabling rated at 2000 MHz km OM3 fiber for connecting to 8 Gb sec short wavelength SX small form factor pluggable optics SFPs Other 50 micron and 62 5 micron multimode fiber may be used as an alternative but distance limitations may exist If a port card is removed from a system with Virtual Fabrics enabled and replaced by a port card with fewer ports the missing ports will not be able to be removed which results in configuration change problems To prevent this the ports should be removed from the Logical Switch they are assigned to prior to the card being removed Performance of optical links depends upon the cleanliness of the cables and connectors especially at 8 Gb sec or higher speeds Consult with your switch and cable vendors for proper cable maintenance Enable Lossless DLS when activating Traffic Isolation TI Zones to avoid any traffic disruption Beginning with
20. see messages no system control access to slot when performing slotshow Mod_val during sfpshow or they may see i2c access message as EM 1029 7240 WARNING SilkWorm48000 Slot 4 a problem occurred accessing a device on the I2C bus 4 Operational status 10 not changed Feature Field Escalation Function EM Hil Sysctl Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS5 3 0 Defect ID DEFECT000238321 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch restart causes random ICL E Ports to come up segmented Symptom After a chassis restart power cycle or reboot of both CPs one or more ICL E Ports will be segmented Workaround Toggle port when it becomes segmented Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 so O UUE Defect ID DEFECT000238591 Technical Severity Medium Summary CP experienced a kernel panic Oops kernel access of bad area sig 11 1 Symptom Port reset at the same time as an end to end plogi is being processed or during a plogi storm This can lead to a kernel panic Oops kernel access of bad area sig 11 1 and sometimes cold recovery Feature Field Escalation Function FC Layer 2 Routing Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 361517 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 43 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000240658 Technical Severity Medium Summary HA Failover on Brocade DCX caused Need to
21. shared memory and many of the CLI commands do not run and return with message shmInit shmget failed No space left on device Workaround Run hafailover Feature Field Escalation Function OS Infrastructure Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0b Service Request ID 369837 Defect ID DEFECT000246020 Technical Severity High Summary Nameserver database counts do not match for FOS and EOSc switches in same fabric Symptom In Interopmode2 and mixed fabric with over 500 devices nameserver counts do not match for FOS and EOSc switches in the same fabric EOSn count matches FOS nameserver count Feature FC Services Function FDMI Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 b Ci Defect ID DEFECT000247148 Technical Severity High Summary AG Fport may get disabled due to failed FLOGI if back to back FLOGIs are received from the host Symptom Toggling the N Port a few times in AG mode causes the crypto LUN to be stuck in Not ready LUN re discovery state Workaround Switchdisable switchenable the Brocade Encryption Switch BES Feature Access Gateway Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 aa E Defect ID DEFECT000247158 Technical Severity High Summary Unlikely zone configuration entry can trigger lost of zone configuration after firmware upgrading or switch panic after cfgenable Symptom A switch that has a zone object with extra or p flag
22. slot it is in and remove it first DCX 4S is not supported by the target firmware Please try to download another firmware Brocade Fabric Watch Administrator s Guide Publication Number 53 1001188 01 In Chapter 7 Fabric Watch default settings a number of default setting high thresholds were changed as follows e On page 45 Port Class Default Settings the link failure count high setting was changed from 1000 to 500 The loss of synchronization count high was changed from 1000 to 500 e On page 47 E_Port Class Default Settings the link failure count high setting was changed from 5 to 500 The loss of synchronization count high was changed from 1000 to 500 e On page 49 F FL_Port Class Default Settings the link failure count high setting was changed from 1000 to 500 The loss of synchronization count was changed from 1000 to 500 In Chapter 8 on page 58 the example in step 3 is missing the Link Reset class The new menu is as follows Link loss Sync loss Signal loss Protocol error Invalid words Invalid CRCs RXPerformance TXPerformance State Changes Link Reset return to previous page PrRFOWDWOANA UO BPWN EF RO Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 31 of 72 Fabric OS MIB Reference Publication Number 53 1001156 01 On page 605 add the following values to the swFCPortPhyState object e validating 10 The module is being validated e invalidModule
23. state Symptom When running a test case that periodically downs the link to the key vault the LUN go to Not ready Get key from archive state when Ethernet connection to primary key vault is broken Feature Data Security Function Key Vault Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 eee Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v6 2 0f This section lists defects closed in Fabric OS v6 2 0f Note that when a workaround to an issue is available it is provided Defect ID DEFECT000227048 Technical Severity High Summary Detected unexpected termination of Remote Procedure Call RPC daemon Symptom RPC Daemon application will crash then will non disruptively restart The following error messages may be observed KSWD 1003 kSWD Detected unexpected termination of 13 rpcd 0 RAS 1001 First failure data capture FFDC event occurred SYSC 1004 Daemon rpcd restart successful Feature Field Escalation Function Management Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS5 3 0 Service Request ID 333775 Defect ID DEFECT000248707 Technical Severity High Summary UNIX based host with FCFW enabled has problems with port disable enable of HBA ports Symptom Server hangs after Brocade 7500 reboot Feature 4G ASIC Driver Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS62 0 fe Defect ID DEFECT000244126 Technical Severity Medium Summary If configdownload
24. the FOS 6 0 2e release Traffic Isolation TI Zoning with FICON now supports enabling or disabling of the failover option Assistance from service support should be sought before attempting to enable this feature Virtual Fabrics VF is supported in FICON environments beginning with FOS 6 2 0e Execute fosconfig show to check if VF is enabled Using DCFM to disable VF can result in empty message boxes resulting in confusion Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 72 of 72
25. the mode on The portCfgFillWord command will change the configuration parameter and the fly after v6 2 0c has automatically disable enable the port for which the command invoked been installed Subsequent link initializations will use ARB FF Other scenarios The command has no effect on 1Gb 2Gb 4Gb devices but the mode is persistent If in the future a device attempts to negotiate or is fixed to 8G the configured mode will take effect The persistent configuration is on a port by port basis i e if an 8Gb device was connected to a 2Gb or 4Gb optic and that optic was replaced with an 8Gb optic then the current behavior of the mode is activated Updated command message When executing the Iscfg create command via the following syntax switch_128 FID128 admin gt Iscfg create 1 About to create switch with fid 1 Please wait Logical Switch with FID 1 has been successfully created User should expect to see this revised message Logical Switch has been created with default configurations Please configure the Logical Switch with appropriate switch and protocol settings before activating the Logical Switch Documentation Updates This section provides information on last minute additions and corrections to the documentation The most recent Fabric OS v6 2 0 documentation manuals are available on the Brocade Partner Network hittp partner brocade com Brocade Fabric OS Administrator s Guide Publication Number
26. v5 3 x leaves the switch in an unusable state Symptom Customer was upgrading Brocade 3016 from FOS v5 0 x to v5 3 x and some units would not boot up afterword After login limited commands are available and switch fails cold recovery Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOSS 3 1 Eo Defect ID DEFECT000238430 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch panic when supportsave read invalid data on GE ports without FC Fastwrite enabled Symptom Unexpected switch panic Feature Field Escalation Function FCIP Flipper ASIC Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 361287 Defect ID DEFECT000239422 Technical Severity Medium Summary FICON XRC times out on Brocade 7500 to DCX Symptom Specific third party drives not coming on line Feature FCIP Function FCIP I O Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Service Request ID 361531 Defect ID DEFECT000240677 Technical Severity Medium Summary Enabled minimum FOS support for DWDM SFP port media Symptom No visible symptom Enabled new SFP support Feature Pluto Platform Services Function SysCtrl EM Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000241032 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch did not indicate a warning when a PS FAN FRU was removed Symptom Brocade 5100 did not indicate the warning in spite of PS FAN FRU remova
27. while QoS related virtual channels are not available When connecting to an extension device that does not support ARB primitives such as some TDM products the following configuration must be used portcfgqos disable lt port gt portcfgcreditrecovery disable lt port gt portCfgLongDistance lt port gt lt LDILD gt 0 lt distance gt The fabric parameter fabric ops mode longdistance is now deprecated and should not be used 8G Link Initialization amp Fill Words Background The FC PI Fibre Channel standard has defined the requirements for physical layer it considers all aspects of transmit receive and cable plant performance requirements for optical and electrical links The FC PI standard has been modified to support new physical layer variants that operate at higher data rates than those specified in FC PI 2 The standard enables interoperability of transmitter devices receiver devices interconnects and components among different manufacturers New variants include support for an 800 MB s data rate The previous implementation by Brocade was to use Idle s for link initialization and Idles as fill words This works for 1Gb 2Gb 4Gb and most 8Gb devices However some new 8Gb devices have problems with the use of Idle Idle sequence at 8Gb 8Gb switches HBAs and smaller mid range 8Gb storage devices have been out for nearly a year and have been using the Idle Idle sequences without issue We have found that some new 8G
28. 1157 O1 oo cee eeeeeeseeeeseeeeneeeeseeeeneeeeneeeeee 38 DI eo K sees tees E Nacetctdvadetaacdetunteccacctascunsesiaucadataesstuunasdaautacaueduuaedisdutacsosteassadauubadsuadesanadadnbatoucdeksnudavubandunce 39 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v6 2 1 sesssesssesseesssssssssssrsssessrrssresersseesstesseestesstesstessressesseesseesset 39 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 3 of 72 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS V6 2 08 o e ee eeceeeceseeeeesecesecesecesecssesseeceesseeeaesnaesnsecsseeeeeeenaees 49 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS V6 2 0f 00 0 0 ce eecescesecseesseeseeeseceseceseseeeseeeseeeseceaesnaeeseeeseeteenaees 52 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v6 2 0e cece eeceeecesecseeseeeseeeecesecssesseesseesseceaeceseseseseeeeeeeenaees 53 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS V6 2 0d o cece ee eeccessesceeseeeseceseeeseceseseeecseeeaeeeseceaesesesseeeseeeneenaees 56 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS V6 2 00 eceeeeceeseesecsseeseeeseeeseeesecsseseneceecseeeaecnaeseseeeesseeeeennees 62 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS V6 2 0D cece eeceecesecseeseceseceseceseceseceeeceecaeeeaeceaeseseeseeeseeeeenaees 66 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS V6 2 08 o eceeeeceeseesecseesceeseceseeesecssesseesseeeaecnaeceaeenseeseeeseeesenaees 68 Appendix Additional Considerations for FICON Environments 0 cccccsseeseeeeeeeeeeesseeeeeeeeeeeee
29. 2 Service Request ID 377701 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 46 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000253027 Technical Severity Medium Summary Unable to get F Ports Trunk Ports data Symptom From management application can t get F Port Trunk data CLI works Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fee ee Defect ID DEFECT000253060 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switches bouncing between reachable unreachable in edge fabric after change EX port trunk into E port trunk Symptom Fabric becomes unstable after customer change EX trunk ports into E port Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 381303 Defect ID DEFECT000253356 Technical Severity Medium Summary FOS v6 2 Radius Calling station ID 31 implementation is used for both device called by and workstation called from hostname IP address Symptom FOS v6 2 Radius Calling station ID 31 implementation is used for both device called by and workstation called from hostname IP address The radius calling station ID 31 should be used only for the hostname Ip address from where the requested is mad Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security RADIUS LDAP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 381133 Defect ID DEFECT000257346 Technical Severity Medium Summary Class 2 ACK
30. 3 BROCADE Brocade Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 August 7 2009 Document History Document Title Summary of Changes Publication Date Brocade Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Initial release August 7 2009 Copyright 2001 2009 Brocade Communications Systems Inc All Rights Reserved Brocade Fabric OS File Lifecycle Manager MyView and StorageX are registered trademarks and the Brocade B wing symbol DCX and SAN Health are trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems Inc in the United States and or in other countries All other brands products or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of and are used to identify products or services of their respective owners Notice The information in this document is provided AS IS without warranty of any kind including without limitation any implied warranty of merchantability noninfringement or fitness for a particular purpose Disclosure of information in this material in no way grants a recipient any rights under Brocade s patents copyrights trade secrets or other intellectual property rights Brocade reserves the right to make changes to this document at any time without notice and assumes no responsibility for its use The authors and Brocade Communications Systems Inc shall have no liability or responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss cost liability or damages arising from the inf
31. 4 10 5480 5424 4100 4900 5000 5100 5300 7500 7600 48000 Brocade Encryption Switch BES and DCX DCX 4S All supported products are qualified for Native Connectivity in interopmodes 2 and 3 for deployment in M EOS fabrics with the exception of the Brocade 4100 Access Gateway is also supported by Fabric OS v6 2 1 and is supported on the following switches the Brocade 200E 300 5100 4012 4016 4018 4020 4024 4424 5480 and 5424 Standards Compliance This software conforms to the Fibre Channel Standards in a manner consistent with accepted engineering practices and procedures In certain cases Brocade might add proprietary supplemental functions to those specified in the standards For a list of standards conformance visit the following Brocade Web site http www brocade com sanstandards Technical Support Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 6 of 72 Contact your switch supplier for hardware firmware and software support including product repairs and part ordering To expedite your call have the following information immediately available 1 4 General Information e Technical Support contract number if applicable e Switch model e Switch operating system version e Error numbers and messages received e supportSave command output e Detailed description of the problem including the switch or fabric behavior immediately following the problem and specific questions e Description of any troubleshooti
32. 5 seconds each in an alternating pattern The beaconing mode continues until you turn it off Beaconing mode is useful if you are trying to locate a specific port Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 5 of 72 Beaconing mode takes over the port LEDs The normal flashing LED pattern associated with an active faulty or disabled port is suppressed and only the beaconing pattern is shown Other commands are still executable and functional However if diagnostic frame based tests such as portLoopbackTest etc are executed the diagnostic LED pattern is interleaved with the port beaconing pattern OPERANDS mode enable turns beaconing mode ON disable urns beaconing mode OFF EXAMPLES To turn beaconing mode ON switch admin gt portbeacon enable 1 0 To turn beaconing mode OFF switch admin gt portbeacon disable 2 1 Diagnostics Restrictions The following command restrictions now apply for porttest and spinfab diagnostics The porttest and spinfab commands are not supported on the following ports in FOS v6 2 1 and prior releases Ports connected to shared area ports port 16 to port 47 on 48 port blades Ports connected to ports with area swapped Inter chassis Links ICLs Slave ports in trunk groups Long Distance ports If Virtual Fabrics is enabled ports connected to a Logical Switch and Base Switch v6 2 x only Supported Switches Fabric OS v6 2 1 supports the Brocade 200E 300 4012 4016 4018 4020 4024 4424 5
33. 53 1001185 01 On page 9 in Chapter 1 under the heading Setting the static addresses for the Ethernet network interface remove the following example from step 3 Example of setting logical switch sw0 s IPv6 address on an enterprise class platform ecp admin gt ipaddrset ipv6 sw 0 add 1080 8 800 200C 417B 64 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 24 of 72 IP address is being changed Done In chapter 2 Managing User Accounts on page 70 under the heading RADIUS configuration with Admin Domains or Virtual Fabrics replace the bullets e HomeContext is the designated home Virtual Fabric for the account The valid values are between 1 to 128 and chassis context The first valid HomeContext key value pair is accepted by the switch Additional HomeContext key value pairs are ignored e ContextRoleList is a comma separated list of Virtual Fabric ID numbers to which this account is a member Valid numbers range from 1 128 inclusive A dash between two numbers specifies a range Multiple VFlist key value pairs within the same or across the different Vendor Type codes are concatenated Multiple occurrences of the same VF ID number are ignored e HomeLF is the designated home Virtual Fabric for the account The valid values are between to 128 and chassis context The first valid HomeLF key value pair is accepted by the switch additional HomeLF key value pairs are ignored e LFRoleList is a comma separated list o
34. 6IP blade is not qualified for the DCX DCX 4S Secure Fabric OS Secure Fabric OS SFOS is not compatible with FOS v6 2 1 Customers that wish to use the security features available in SFOS should upgrade to FOS v5 3 or later version which includes all SFOS features as part of the base FOS For environments with SFOS installed on switches that cannot be upgraded to FOS v5 3 or later version FC routing can be used to interoperate with FOS v6 2 1 FOS Feature Compatibility in Native Connectivity Modes Some FOS features are not fully supported when operating in the native connectivity modes for deployment with M EOS based products All Brocade models that are supported by Fabric OS v6 2 1 support both intermodal 2 and 3 with the exception of the Brocade 4100 The following table specifies the support of various FOS features when operating in either interopmode 2 McDATA Fabric Mode or interopmode 3 Open Fabric Mode with Fabric OS v6 2 1 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 12 of 72 FOS Features supported in interopmode 0 FOS v6 2 1 IM Interopmode M2 IM3 L2 FOS Hot Code Load Yes Yes L2 Fabric Binding Yes No DCC policies No No SCC policies Yes No E Ex_Port Authentication Yes Yes Dynamic Load Sharing DLS port based routing Yes Yes i Oom Dynamic Path Selection DPS exchange based routing Yes Yes i Virtual Channels VC RDY Yes Yes its Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 13 of 72
35. 9 Technical Severity High Summary Port Fencing E port Class Link Resets are not fencing Symptom RASLOG message will be presented indicating link resets are above threshold but the port will not have been fenced as expected Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Fabric Watch Probability Medium e a of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000246519 Technical Severity High Summary User entered FRU number via CLI is not being modified Symptom RNID data reporting same serial for two different logical switches Feature FICON Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 a Defect ID DEFECT000246775 Technical Severity High Summary Detected termination of process fabricd 4120 followed by software verify errors Symptom Brocade DCX is unresponsive Feature 8G Platform Services Function PID management Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000246908 Technical Severity High Summary Partitioned Brocade DCX 4S panic d after reset allegiance issued by multiple hosts Symptom FICUD terminates and switch reboots Feature FICON Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 aS Defect ID DEFECT000246916 Technical Severity High Summary SNMPd core file filled up the root file system on Brocade DCX 4S Symptom User will observe snmpd process being killed and error message Detected termination of process snmpd 4636 hasm
36. EFECT000240056 Technical Severity High Summary Channel receiving RSCN with missing ports in payload after HPF key on or off Symptom RSCN transmitted by the switch does not transmit all the port IDs in the payload Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 11 po OOS Defect ID DEFECT000240927 Technical Severity High Summary Data encryption backup jobs failing due to Brocade DCX crash and reboot when Top Talkers are enabled with Frame Redirection Symptom Encrypted tape backup job fails when Brocade DCX reboots Workaround Do not enable Top Talkers concurrently with functionality that is using frame redirection Feature FC Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 aa OOO O O O Defect ID DEFECT000240955 Technical Severity High Summary Discovered that a stable working encryption group had split after a successful I O test run Symptom After successful DP test run may observe comm error on the group leader Feature Data Security Probability Medium _ eeo of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT00024 1236 Technical Severity High Summary While doing first time encryption to a LUN with more than 1 initiator active at the same time rekey operations slowed signficantly Symptom Host applications can experience delays in the completion of their I O requests Workaround 1 Disable the target ports 2 Remove one initiator from the c
37. If n option is used the firmware versions may get out of synchronization and can cause rolling kernel panics and switch is unrecoverable The switch will have to be RMAed SAS Version Requirements for FA4 18 and Brocade 7600 SAS v3 3 1 is the supported SAS version for FOS v6 2 1 e When upgrading from FOS v6 1 to v6 2 1 and SAS 3 2 0 to SAS 3 3 1 first upgrade FOS v6 1 to v6 2 1 and then upgrade SAS from 3 2 0 to 3 3 1 e When downgrading from FOS v6 2 1 to v6 1 and SAS 3 3 1 to SAS 3 2 0 first downgrade SAS from 3 3 1 to 3 2 0 and then downgrade FOS from v6 2 1 to v6 1 Scalability All scalability limits are subject to change Limits may be increased once further testing has been completed even after the release of Fabric OS For current scalability limits for Fabric OS refer to the Brocade Scalability Guidelines document available under the Technology and Architecture Resources section at http www brocade com compatibility Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 15 of 72 FICON Support The DCX 4S is not supported for FICON Cascading in interopmode 2 or 3 for use in mixed fabrics with M EOS platforms Other Important Notes and Recommendations Virtual Fabrics On Virtual Fabrics capable platforms the Virtual Fabrics feature must be enabled after upgrading to FOSv6 2 1 in order to utilize the related capabilities including Logical Switches and Logical Fabrics On units that ship with FOS v6 2 1 or later installed the Virt
38. KM key vault type should read Set the SKM key vault type Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 32 of 72 e On page 119 Step 3a the cryptocfg command example should have the KACcsr option rather than KACCert e g cryptocfg export scp KACcsr e On page 122 step 14 is extraneous and should be removed e On page 125 the following topic should be added Generating and exporting the master key You must generate a master key on the group leader and export it to a backup location 1 Generate the master key on the group leader SecurityAdmin switch gt cryptocfg genmasterkey 2 Export the master key to the key vault SecurityAdmin switch gt cryptocfg exportmasterkey This command prompts for a pass phrase Enter the passphrase 3 Enter the pass phrase when prompted The pass phrase is used for the master key encryption A pass phrase must be between 8 and 40 characters in length and can contain any character combination Make a note of the key ID and the pass phrase You will need the key ID and pass phrase if you should need to restore the master key from backup 4 Export the master key to an SCP capable external host SecurityAdmin switch cryptocfg xport scp currentMK lt host IP gt lt host user gt lt host file path gt Brocade DCX Backbone Hardware Reference Manual Publication Numbers 53 1000685 01 through 05 All references to the FC4 16IP blade iSCSI blade should be ignored The DCX Backbone
39. Key Synchronization methods e When the tape key expires in the middle of write operation on the tape the key is used to append the data on the tape media When the backup application rewinds the media and starts writing to Block O again and if the key is expired then a new key is created and used henceforth The expired key thereafter is marked as read only and used only for restore of data from previously encrypted tapes e For dual LKM configuration on the Brocade Encryption Switch BES or a DCX DCX 4S with FS8 18 blades as the primary and secondary key vaults these LKM appliances must NOT be clustered linked e The RKM Appliance A1 6 SW v2 2 is supported The procedure for setting up the RKM Appliance with BES or a DCX DCX 4S with FS8 18 blades is located in the Encryption Admin Guide e With Windows and Veritas Volume Manager Veritas Dynamic Multipathing when LUN sizes less than 400MB are presented to BES for encryption a host panic may occur and this configuration is not supported for 6 2 1 release e HCL from FOS v6 1 1_enc to v6 2 1 is supported Cryptographic operations and I O will be disrupted but other layer 2 traffic will not e Relative to the BES and a DCX with FS8 18 all nodes in the Encryption Group must be at the same firmware level of FOS v6 2 1 before starting a rekey or First Time Encryption operation Make sure that existing rekey or First Time Encryption operations complete before upgrading any of the encrypti
40. OS6 2 0 Service Request ID 380429 Defect ID DEFECT000253986 Technical Severity High Summary I O can not resume when Jamming the status frame with IDLE with QoS enable Symptom If F port is in QoS mode link reset did not load the buffers correctly and I O can be disrupted Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function PORT Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe ee Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 41 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000254085 Technical Severity High Summary Internal timing failure within HA failover can bring a port down Symptom Internal timing race condition that can cause 1 or more F or E ports to be brought down causing frame discards The port will immediately be brought back online automatically at the end of the HA or firmware upgrade operation Feature System Controls EM Function PCI I2C Probability High Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee O Defect ID DEFECT000254779 Technical Severity High Summary Common Area Loader daemon CALD memory leak led to switch panic fabric disruption Symptom While running management applications using SMI interface switch experienced Out Of Memory condition resulting in switch panic and restart Feature Field Escalation Function Panic OOM Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 376973 Defect ID DEFECT000228809 Technical Severity Medium Summary Backport code to address various SNMP r
41. _swd c line 168 comp insmod Itime 2009 03 08 20 20 07 011335 The panic will generate the core file that takes away space on the root file system Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 373285 Defect ID DEFECT000247176 Technical Severity High Summary Node descriptors are missing for Brocade DCX and DCX 4S Symptom Missing Node descriptors FICON RNID data Feature Pluto Platform Services Function Platform Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fhe eee Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 54 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000247409 Technical Severity High Summary Tapepipelining code begins to randomly send only data frames in an exchange to tape drive Symptom Tape job fails Feature FCIP Function FCIP Performance Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 375305 Defect ID DEFECT000247757 Technical Severity High Summary Portswap not working for ports 32 47 on 48 port blade Symptom Portswap will not work on port 32 47 on 48 port blade from GUI Found in Release FOS62 0 Defect ID DEFECT000248534 Technical Severity High Summary RLIR s with LOL is being generated on 8G channels during CEC IML Symptom During CEC IML of 8G channels RLIR s are being generated by switch Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function PORT Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Rel
42. ackbone fabric ID e With routing and dual backbone fabrics the backbone fabric ID must be changed to keep the IDs unique Traffic Isolation over FCR e All switches and Fibre Channel Routers both in edge and backbone fabrics must be running FOS v6 1 0 or later in order to support this feature e Jn order for Traffic Isolation over FCR to function properly the associated TI zones in each fabric edge and backbone need to have failover ENABLED Integrated Routing Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 19 of 72 To allow Hot Code Load on a Brocade 5100 when using Integrated Routing the edge switch connected to the 5100 must be running Fabric OS v6 1 or later code Integrated Routing EX_Ports are only supported in the base switch on a switch with VF enabled Integrated Routing and TopTalkers are not concurrently supported in FOS v6 2 To use Integrated Routing be sure to first disable TopTalkers prior to configuring EX_Ports Access Gateway When in Access Gateway mode the Automatic Port Configuration policy may not work when attached to M EOS switches M EOS ports should be set to G_port to prevent problems with port type discovery FCS Automatic Distribution FIPS LDAP FCAP FICON When using the FCS Automatic Distribution feature in Fabric OS v6 0 or later all switches in the fabric must be running FOS v6 0 or later If any switches are running FOS v5 x or earlier only manual distribution can be used FOS v6 0 o
43. ad problems Symptom This defect address several configdownload related problems With VF enabled configdownload choose all option ends with a core dump Configdownload a file from FOS v6 1 x configuration also ends up core dump Local WWN for FCIP was overrode by conf Function Config Download Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee Defect ID DEFECT000246007 Technical Severity Medium Summary Detected termination of 0 weblinker fcg 1315 Symptom Switch panic hafailover due weblinker cfg panic These panics were observed during overnight slot command script test when modify distribute ACL database and during RNID response processing Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS62 0 a O O O l Defect ID DEFECT000246527 Technical Severity Medium Summary Blade fault observed with a Brocade 48000 chassis fully loaded with fully loaded 8G 48 port blades Symptom The 8G 48 port blade running in either slots 1 or 10 of a fully loaded Brocade 48000 chassis was faulted Fault only observed when all port blades are 8G 48 port blades Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 E es Defect ID DEFECT000247054 Technical Severity Medium Summary Supportsave may show parity errors on disabled ports Symptom Supportsave starting with FOS v6 1 2 has been updated to collect more data As data is r
44. ade Fabric OS Command Reference Publication Number 53 1001186 01 The following text should be added to the bpPortloopbackTest page 55 and the bpTurboramTest commands page 57 and the associated man pages on the switch e A slot slotnumber operand should be added to the syntax This operand specifies the slotnumber and is required on bladed systems e The following text should be added to both commands Before running this diagnostic you must disable the chassis and clear all logs using the following command sequence 1 chassisdisable slotstatsclear diagclearerror all burninerrclear cryptocfg disableEE if the encryption engine is in enabled state A a ad Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 29 of 72 This procedure disables the chassis the encryption engine and clears all logs Failure to run this procedure will cause the diagnostic to abort with failure status On page 89 efgDefault command and associated man page The new chassis parameter introduced in this release is currently unavailable When you execute configdefault chassis in the root or admin role a permission denied message is displayed Use the all parameter instead On page 543 portCfg command and associated man page the following should be changed e Under the ipf parameter the sentence The IP network connection between two 7500 routers or two FC4 18i blades is configured should read The IP network connection betwe
45. all traceback messages End of printout has Software Verify errors Feature Pluto Platform Services Function Platform Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000239664 Technical Severity Medium Summary Even with Lossless DLS feature enabled there may be a few frame drops when a trunk port comes online Symptom Even with Lossless DLS feature enabled there may be a few frame drops when a trunk port comes online Feature 8G ASIC Driver Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ge Defect ID DEFECT000239822 Technical Severity Medium Summary supportsave USB interactive mode stores all files illegally in switch root directory instead of the USB device Symptom When using supportsave in interactive mode with a USB stick selected for storage the supportsave files are stored in the switch root directory and not the USB device This can also result in compact flash storage overflow Feature RAS Function FFDC Supportsave Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v6 2 0a This section lists defects closed in Fabric OS v6 2 0a Note that when a workaround to an issue is available it is provided Defect ID DEFECT000238444 Summary In B2E routed environment when user executes Pathinfo command in BB querying for xlate domain the switch may panic Feature FC Services Risk of Fix Low
46. ations Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000246901 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade Encryption Switch BES shows Encryption Engine busy when continuously and repeatedly disable enable IO sync ports of the BES Symptom BES and Encryption Engine are not available for crypto operations Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Coo Defect ID DEFECT000248165 Technical Severity High Summary During stress test overnight run of rekey and ISL disable enable the test tool exited on write failure to encrypted LUNs Symptom During a stress test run of rekey ISL disable enable the test tool running on a host in the fabric due to write failure to three drives A second host writing to the same targets did not encounter this issue Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Ee Defect ID DEFECT000248947 Technical Severity High Summary While rekey operations are in progress disrupting the IO sync link causes rekey operations to hang Symptom Affected re key operations will hang and not make progress Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 a UOUS Defect ID DEFECT000248948 Technical Severity High Summary Rekey operation ha
47. b devices require the ARB FF ARB FF sequence to have successful link initialization For this Brocade has developed an implementation of ARB FF ARB FF for initialization and fill words A new command has been created to configure the ARB ARB implementation Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 22 of 72 New Command portCfgFillWord Synopsis Description Notes Operands Examples See Also Behavior Configures the fill word for a single 8G FC port portcfgfillword slotnumber portnumber mode Use this command to configure the fill word of an 8G FC port This command is not applicable to non 8G FC port This command disables and re enables the port and the port comes online with the new fill word setting The configuration is stored in nonvolatile memory and is persistent across switch reboots or power cycle This configuration can not be set on VE_Ports or VEX_Ports Use the portCfgShow command to display user configured fill word settings The execution of this command is subject to Admin Domain or Virtual Fabric restrictions that may be in place This command has the following operands slotnumber For bladed systems only specifies the slot number of the port to be configured followed by a slash portnumber Specifies the number of the port to be configured relative to its slot for bladed systems Use switchShow for a listing of valid ports mode Specifies the fill word for portnumber This op
48. bility Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe Defect ID DEFECT000243717 Technical Severity Medium Summary Node descriptors are not shown for M EOS switch in DCFM when using FOS switch as the seed switch Symptom The node descriptors are not shown for the Mil0k in DCFM when using FOS switch as the seed switch Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Probability High Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS62 0 a Defect ID DEFECT000243749 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 300 not responding to Link Reset primitives correctly Symptom Devices may send an OLS and or link reset Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function C2 ASIC driver Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000244738 Technical Severity Medium Summary Re keys are getting stuck Symptom Re key progress halts Feature Data Security Function Re key Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 a AY Defect ID DEFECT000245047 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switchname mismatch between fabricinfo html and switchname command from CLI Symptom User sees a name difference between DCFM and Webtools Beacuse the Switch name is not updated properly at fabricinfo html Feature 8G Platform Services Function PID management Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 61 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000245846 Technical Severity M
49. c that needs to be protected switch admin gt ipsecconfig add policy ips selector t SELECTOR OUT d out 1 10 33 74 13 r 10 33 69 132 transform TRANSFORM01 switch admin gt ipsecconfig add policy ips selector t SELECTOR IN d in 1 10 33 69 132 r 10 33 74 13 transform TRANSFORMO1 9 Verify the IPSec SAs created with IKE using the ipsecConfig show manual sa a command 10 Perform the equivalent steps on the remote peer to complete the IPsec configuration Refer to your server administration guide for instructions On page 150 in Table 41 the row for IPSec applies to FCIP IPSec For IPSec Ethernet only MDS is blocked in FIPS mode DH group 1 is FIPS compliant and is not blocked In Chapter 8 Installing and Maintaining Firmware on page 220 the following paragraph should be added to the caution statement If you perform a firmware downgrade from Fabric OS v6 2 1 to v6 1 x on enterprise class platforms do not select the auto reboot option when prompted the default is no auto reboot Both of the CPs must be downgraded first and then rebooted at the same time to avoid 6 1 6 2 synchronization issues On page 290 in Chapter 10 in Table 69 for the FS8 18 blade change the support under the Brocade 48000 CP4 heading to unsupported On page 351 in the section Limitations and restrictions of Traffic Isolation add the following items e Two N_Ports that have the same
50. chshow Feature Field Escalation Probability Medium Risk of Fix High Found in Release FOS5 3 1 Service Request ID 327181 Defect ID DEFECT000236028 Technical Severity High Summary In some rare scenarios when HA Failover performed prior to Name Server being in sync RSCNs were delivered Symptom Extra RSCN is transmitted Feature FC Services Function Name Server Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe Defect ID DEFECT000239038 Technical Severity High Summary Software was not enforcing a mandatory switch disable before configuring the backbone Fabric ID Symptom Software was not enforcing a mandatory switch disable before configuring the backbone Fabric ID Feature Field Escalation Function FCR Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 a Defect ID DEFECT000240241 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade Encryption Switch BES goes to faulty state after upgrading from FOS v6 2 0 to FOS v6 2 0b Symptom After firmwaredownload from FOS v6 2 0 to v6 2 0b BES switch may go faulty Function Firmware Download Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 364969 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 39 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000243882 Technical Severity High Summary High CPU load occurs and no commands can be run after Common Area Loader daemon CALD allocated shared memory is not released Symptom Switch runs out of
51. does NOT support the FC4 16IP The Power Cords table of Appendix A Specifications should read as follows Power cords The types of power cords provided with the Brocade DCX are specific to the country where it is installed For each of these types of power cords Table 5 the end that connects to the Brocade DCX has an IEC 60320 C19 cable connector The AC power receptacles on each power supply are equipped with IEC 60320 C20 power connectors To order a power cord contact your Brocade DCX supplier Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 33 of 72 Country Plug style NEMA L6 20 USA Canada Mexico other North American locations CEE 7 7 Schuko Continental Europe Ireland BS 1363A United Kingdom Hong Kong AS 3112 Australia New Zealand IEC 60309 32A 6h 230 V 0 ze Argentina Australia Austria Bahrain Belgium Brazil Chile China People s Rep Czech Rep of Denmark Egypt England Finland gt lt gt lt gt lt gt lt gt lt France Germany Greece Hong Kong gt lt gt lt gt lt gt lt Hungary India Indonesia Ireland North Ireland South Israel Italy X Japan X Korea South X Malaysia Alternate Recommended Mexico Monaco X Netherlands New Zealand Norway gt x lt
52. e This can be extended under special circumstances but must be approved by Brocade s Product Team Up to 8 FR4 18i blades can be installed in a DCX if they are used only for FC Fastwrite or FCIP without routing Virtualization Application Blade FA4 18 Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type Encryption Blade FS8 18 Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type Note the iSCSI FC4 16IP blade is not qualified for the DCX DCX 4S Power Supply Requirements for Blades in 48k and DCX DCX 4S Chassis Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 11 of 72 Blades Type of 48K DCX DCX 4S DCX DCX 4S Comments Blade 200 240 VAC 110VAC 200 240 VAC Redundant Redundant Redundant configurations configurations configurations FC 4 16 FC Port Blade R Power Supplies R Power Supplies 2 Power Supplies Distribute the Power Supplies evenly to 2 different AC connections for redundancy FC10 6 FC Port Blade 4 Power Not Supported 2 Power Supplies 8 48 Supplies FR4 183 4 Power Not Supported 2 Power Supplies FC4 16IP Supplies DCX 2 or 4 Power For DCX with three or Supplies more FS8 18 Blades 2 2 220VAC Power Supplies are required for DCX 4S 2 Power redundancy Suppli mppires For DCX with one or two FS8 18 Blades 2 220VAC Power Supplies are required for redundancy For DCX 4S 2 220VAC Power Supplies provide redundant configuration with any number of FS8 18 Blades Note the iSCSI FC4 1
53. e switch as Admin and enable IPsec switch admin gt ipsecconfig enable 2 Create an IPsec SA policy named AHO1 which uses AH protection with MDS switch admin gt ipsecconfig add policy ips sa t AH01 p ah auth hmac_md5 3 Create an IPsec proposal IPSEC AH to use AHO1 as SA switch admin gt ipsecconfig add policy ips sa proposal t IPSEC AH sa AHO1 4 Configure the SA proposal s lifetime in time units switch admin gt ipsecconfig add policy ips sa proposal t IPSEC AH lttime 280000 sa AHO1 5 Import the pre shared key file for example ipseckey psk using the secCertUtil command 6 Configure an IKE policy for the remote peer switch admin gt ipsecconfig add policy ike t IKEO1 remote 10 33 69 132 id 10 33 74 13 remoteid 10 33 69 132 enc 3des_cbc hash hmac_md5 prf hmac_md5 auth psk dh modp1024 psk ipseckey psk Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 26 of 72 NOTE IKE version v option needs to be set to 1 IKEv1 if remote peer is Windows XP 2K Host Windows XP 2K does not support IKEv2 7 Create an IPsec transform named TRANSFORMO to use transport mode to protect traffic identified for IPsec protection and use IKEO1 as key management policy switch admin gt ipsecconfig add policy ips transform t TRANSFORMO1 mode transport sa proposal IPSEC AH action protect ike IKE01 8 Create traffic selectors to select the outbound and inbound traffi
54. ead from disabled ports a parity error may be logged from those disabled and unused ports A switch that has been upgraded from a lower code level and never cold booted Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 7 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 45 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000247244 Technical Severity Medium Summary FR zones cannot be created when defzone is set to allaccess Symptom Redirect zone add will fail of defzone is set to allaccess Workaround Set defzone to noaccess Feature FC Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 beets Defect ID DEFECT000248723 Technical Severity Medium Summary When running security stress test there appears to be a memory leak in SECd Symptom During security script testing monitor memory goes low Feature FOS Security Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 eee e l Defect ID DEFECT000248891 Technical Severity Medium Summary In routed fabric Plogi in acceleration path did not program cam entry properly Symptom Backbone hosts cannot see edge fabric target Feature 8G FCR Function ASIC Driver Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 E Defect ID DEFECT000250015 Technical Severity Medium Summary FCIP tunnel wouldn t come up when there is optical to copper converters in between caused by timing issue Symptom FCIP tu
55. ease FOS6 2 0 pe Defect ID DEFECT000248901 Technical Severity High Summary Tapepipelining code on PI side does not close exchange upon a ELS RJT response to REC invalid oxid rxid combo Symptom Writing to tape would fail at random points along the write sequences device would stop getting write data Reading from tape would be unaffected Feature FCIP Function FCIP Performance Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000236136 Technical Severity Medium Summary FC Fastwrite corrupts buffer pool upon TWB allocation failure on Proxy Initiator Symptom T O fails Feature Field Escalation Function FCIP Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 11 ee Defect ID DEFECT000244615 Technical Severity Medium Summary Web Tools shows high CPU usage 80 when port configuration operation is performed in DCX Symptom CPU usage in Web Tools is showing high 70 80 when port configuration operation is performed on a large system Feature WebMgmt Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee ed Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 55 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000247054 Technical Severity Medium Summary Supportsave may show parity errors on disabled ports Symptom Supportsave starting with FOS v6 1 2 has been updated to collect more data As data is read from disabled ports a parity error may be logged from those disabled and un
56. ecdstvescsurusdeceuaspedasuruncvuudesveadssesadoesunnuedasensaesuudaeveadssusaiewatoquudasesaacvaadbutuadtsauacedetouiadare 8 DEEM Compatibility acre ea sess Se asthe A E AR A A recs peas ee E E seen dees ete ences 8 EFCM Compatibility siseste ieni ni RE EE EEA EE E E EE EE REE 8 Fabric OS Compatibility 404k sien aig E eh ee ee a I A Re eas 8 Firmware Upgrades and Downgrades a a a saseaeqastnadevecnsadendsuandecepesegreess 14 SAS Version Requirements for FA4 18 and Brocade 7600 eee eeceeecessceeceseesceeseeeseeeseeeaeessesseesseeeseenaeenseees 15 Scalability sissien eai wages seandenassaeveuabetadevedl KE RE EERE ovkeed Essay exaveaversbetodaie Se evans tpauy ebay EEA NR k 15 FICON Suppotts 23 05 2 60 eek E AL Re ade E ode Ae Ee AU ae i 16 Other Important Notes and Recommendations 0 0 0 0 eceecesceeseeesecesesecececeesecesecesecaecseeeseeeseeesecsaesssesseesseeeaeseaeenaeees 16 Documentation BI ai E KEE E A A TS 24 Brocade Fabric OS Administrator s Guide Publication Number 53 1001185 01 cee ccescceesesseeeeesteeeessteeeess 24 Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference Publication Number 53 1001186 01 ccccssccesesseeeeesneeeessseeeess 29 Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide Publication Number 53 1001187 01 oo eee 30 Brocade Fabric Watch Administrator s Guide Publication Number 53 1001188 01 ccc ecessceeessteeeseneeeees 31 Fabric OS MIB Reference Publication Number 53 1001156 01
57. econnecting the ISL links between Brocade Encryption Switch in HA cluster may cause data corruption Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 368785 Defect ID DEFECT000242784 Technical Severity High Summary Calculation of TX port and Filter number can incorrectly corrupt the Filter Redirect RAM Symptom An internal recovery scheme can attempt to correct a valid Frame Redirection RAM Filter This will cause one existing filter to be corrupted potentially leading to misrouted frames This is a very rare failure but if encountered one of the filter entries will be corrupted Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function C2 ASIC driver Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 el Symptom Observed Kernel panic after configdefault on Brocade 48000 Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 el Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 64 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000243 152 Technical Severity High Summary Encryption group can t automatically recover after it is split into 2 different islands Symptom Encryption group won t automatically recover after it is split into 2 different islands Feature Data Security Function HA Cluster Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 302186 Defect ID DEFECT000237198 Technical Severity Medium Summary FOS upgrade on Brocade 3016 to FOS
58. edium Summary FICON fcip block count mismatch on read emulation Symptom Tape repositioning may be incorrect when split status responses received to backspace block commands Feature FCIP Function FCIP I O Probability High eev a of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000245865 Technical Severity Medium Summary A LUN gets stuck in the Internal EE LUN State Read Only Internal metadata key is in RO state Symptom LUN will not be available for Host until the DiscoverLUN is issued Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000245891 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port Movement from DCFM should be All or nothing behavior Symptom When attempting to move ports from DCFM some of the ports may be moved and others fail Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 oe EO Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v6 2 0c This section lists defects closed in Fabric OS v6 2 0c Note that when a workaround to an issue is available it is provided Defect ID DEFECT000236118 Technical Severity Critical Summary 8Gb storage device failed to detect 8Gb speed when port was locked as a G_port Symptom Certain 8Gb storage arrays are connecting to Brocade 8Gb switches as 4Gb devices when the switch port is locked as a G_port Workaround Instead of relying on auto neg
59. efault threshold level is always ignored to account for expected link transition errors The port is only disabled upon detection of a second set of errors i e the next time the user set threshold level or default threshold level is reached This prevents a port from being disabled due to normal link transition behaviors When using the Port Fencing feature you must first run the fwalarmsfilterset command This command enables the port and allows you to receive Port Fencing messages Port Fencing can be inadvertently disabled from Web Tools This happens when you do the following 1 Open the Fabric Watch configuration window 2 Check the SNMP Trap checkbox in the Above row This change in WebTools disables Port Fencing If this happens you must re enable the Port Fencing bit from the command line interface Extended Fabrics and R_RDY Flow Control Beginning with Fabric OS v5 1 Brocade supported the Extended Fabrics feature in conjunction with R_RDY flow control R_RDY flow control mode can be enabled via portCfgISLMode command R_RDY flow control mode that uses IDLE primitives does not support Brocade frame based Trunking for devices such as Time Division Multiplexor TDM In order to overcome this limitation and provide support for frame based Trunking with Extended Fabrics Fabric OS v6 2 1 has been enhanced to support interoperability with these distance extension devices Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 21 of 72
60. elated issues Symptom a The cpLastEvent Value will be shown incorrectly in the browser b The cpStatusChange trap is not sent to the trap recipients c There is incompatibility with client using older mibs pre FOS6 2 0 mib d swEndDeviceInvalidWrod mid returns bad words e SNMP displays incorrect index value for atTable ipTable and ipNetTodefia Table of MIB 2 f Mib fails to compile on 3rd party SAN Management Software swPmgrEventType Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability High Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS62 0 _ o l Defect ID DEFECT000228996 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade 200E and embedded switch with 256M compact flash reports disk usage is too high with FOS v6 2 Symptom Fabric watch marks switch as unhealthy and provides warning message about compact flash is 90 full after upgrade to FOS v6 2 Function Firmware Download Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 20 Eo Defect ID DEFECT000234512 Technical Severity Medium Summary Bad SFP triggered i2c access cause issues on port slot display and cpu load on Brocade 48k Symptom no system control access to slot when perform slotshow Mod_val during sfpshow or may see i2c access message as EM 1029 7240 WARNING SilkWorm48000 Slot 4 a problem occurred accessing a device on the I2C bus 4 Operational status 10 not c Found in Release FOS5 3 0 S A O Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 42 of
61. en two 7500 routers or two FR4 18i blades is configured On page 787 systemVerification command and associated man page the following should be changed e Test target all switches in a system Should read a switch or a chassis e The fru type parameter is invalid and should not be used e The first note in the Notes section should read The switch must be offline for this command to run If Virtual Fabrics are enabled on the switch run chassisDisable to take all Logical Switches offline e The third note in the Notes section should read On platforms that include a security processor you must disable the security processor by running cryptocfg disableEE slot before running systemVerification You must re enable the security processor with the cryptocfg enablEE slot command once system verification is complete e The following note should be added to the Notes section Do not perform any configuration changes such as configUpload or configDownload while the systemVerification test is in progress On page 853 The permission table in the command availability chapter Appendix A for the aptpolicy command incorrectly states that the command requires chassis permissions This is not the case as this command is executed on a per logical switch basis The context value for aptpolicy should read VF and the switch type is All The following error should be corrected in the man page for the configu
62. erand is required Valid values are one of the following 0 IDLE in Link Init and IDLE as fill word default 1 ARB ff in Link Init and ARB ff as fill word To set the fill word of a port to ARBFF ARBFF switch admin gt portcfgfillword 2 3 1 portCfgShow Default mode The only mode of operation in FOS 6 1 up to this time had been the Idle implementation With the introduction of FOS v6 1 2 there will be the introduction of the new command to facilitate a change to the ARB implementation FOS 6 2 0specifically v6 2 0 v6 2 0a amp v6 2 0b had defaulted to ARB ARB for 8Gb devices With the introduction of v6 2 0c the new command will default to mode 0 Idle and provide the user the ability to configure the ARB configuration Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 23 of 72 Existing Product For product in the field this change has no effect on current configurations The mode is currently 0 and during a firmware upgrade the mode will remain 0 and no devices will be impacted Should a new device be added to the configuration that requires the ARB sequence those ports can be configured at such time Loading 6 2 0c will not automatically change the mode In current configurations the mode will have to be changed manually This change does not affect 1Gb 2Gb or 4Gb devices Any of the settings of 0 or have no affect on these devices It only affects devices that negotiate or are fixed to 8Gb speeds Changing
63. erspective Therefore the following configuration is supported DCX ICL DCX ISL DCX ICL DCX When configuring this way care should be taken with other ISL connections to avoid multi hop conditions System architects can treat a pair of DCX directors connected via ICLs as a single entity Note Multiple 10 Gb sec ISLs and FCIP links can load share between cascaded FICON directors switches but do not load balance in a FICON configuration Area Comments When changing from an existing synchronization method using IDLEs to run FICON at 8 Gb sec Brocade recommends using ARBff fill words Information on this configuration can be found in the Important Notes section of this document under 8G Link Initialization amp Fill Words This is a disruptive change IBM FICON channels and devices configured for 8Gb sec Links 8Gb sec should set the switch director to ARBff using command portcfgfillword It is recommended to stop I O traffic that is going through fixed port switches 4100 4900 5100 5300 7500 prior to Firmware downloading firmware in a fabric running FOS version less than 6 2 0g since this may cause the ports to be reset resulting Downloads in generation of IFCCs This is resolved in fabrics running 6 2 0g or later Firmware Replacement of a CP card in the Brocade 48000 may cause disruption of I O traffic Brocade recommends that the CP be Downloads replaced during a scheduled downtime to prevent disruptio
64. f Virtual Fabric ID numbers to which this account is a member Valid numbers range from 1 128 inclusive A dash between two numbers specifies a range Multiple Virtual Fabric list key value pairs within the same or across the different Vendor Type codes are concatenated Multiple occurrences of the same Virtual Fabric ID number are ignored The paragraph following the bullets should read RADIUS authentication requires that the account have a valid role through the attribute type Brocade Auth Role The additional attribute values ADList HomeAD HomeLF and LFRoleList are optional If they are unspecified the account can log in with ADO as its member list and home Admin Domain or VF128 as its member list and home Virtual Fabric If there is an error in the ADlist HomeAD LFRoleList or HomeLF specification the account cannot log in until the AD list or Virtual Fabric list is corrected an error message is displayed At the top of page 71 the paragraph should read as follows In the next example on a Linux FreeRadius Server the user takes the zoneAdmin role with VFlist 2 4 5 6 7 8 10 11 12 13 15 17 19 22 23 24 25 29 31 and HomeLF 1 user300 Auth Type Local User Password password Brocade Auth Role zoneadmin Brocade AVPairs1l HomeLF 1 LFRoleList securityadmin 2 4 8 10 Brocade AVPairs2 LFRoleList admin 11 13 15 17 19 user 22 25 29 31 On page 77 LDAP configuration and Microsoft Act
65. fg command shows incorrect data Symptom Lfcfg on different switches shows different result due to lfcfg does not discard invalid LS node Feature Logical Fabric Function Fabric Other Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 eee Defect ID DEFECT000245663 Technical Severity Medium Summary Devices attached to Brocade Access Gateway are not considered as Virtual Symptom Brocade DCFM weblinker report NPIV device as physical device Feature FC Services Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Sa O S I Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 44 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000245810 Technical Severity Medium Summary Processor rebooted Software Fault ASSERT when frame size received is too big Symptom Switch reboot hafailover with kernel assert in FCPH module Feature Field Escalation Function FCR Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 1 Service Request ID 373071 Defect ID DEFECT000245986 Technical Severity Medium Summary Ina Fibre Channel Routing environment switch runs out of memory when connected with M EOSn switches Symptom M EOSn switch sending continuously RRQ due to FOS switch did not handle RRQ with either accept reject Feature Field Escalation Function Panic OOM Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 373769 Defect ID DEFECT000245999 Technical Severity Medium Summary Address configdownlo
66. fier associated with a physical switch or director backbone chassis This License Identifier is required as part of the ordering process for new FOS licenses Use the licenseIdShow command to display the License Identifier Important Notes This section contains information that you should consider before you use this Fabric OS release DCFM Compatibility FOS v6 2 1 is fully compatible with Brocade s Data Center Fabric Manager DCFM v10 1 x management software DCFM is a comprehensive SAN management application that enables end to end management of Brocade Data Center Fabrics It is the next generation product and the successor to existing Brocade management products including Brocade Fabric Manager FM and Brocade Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager EFCM DCFM is available in two versions DCFM Professional an application bundled with Brocade switches that is ideally suited for small and medium size businesses that need a light weight management product to manage their smaller fabrics one physical fabric at a time up to 1 000 ports and DCFM Enterprise that is designed for enterprise class customers and showcases unparalleled performance and scalability 24 physical fabrics up to 9 000 switch ports DCFM Enterprise configures and manages Brocade DCX Backbones along with Brocade directors routers switches and HBAs It also supports Brocade fabric based encryption capabilities for data at rest Existing EFCM v9 6 and higher and
67. g rekey operations on LUN s Frame Redirection The following restriction is removed in FOS v6 2 1 In FOS v6 2 0 Frame Redirection zoning is not allowed with Default Zoning all access in IMO and default zone in IM2 This was allowed in prior releases There is no SW enforcement to block the upgrade Adaptive Networking Flow Based QoS Prioritization When using QoS in a fabric with 4G ports or switches FOS v6 0 or later must be installed on all products in order to pass QoS info E_Ports from the DCX to other switches must come up AFTER 6 0 is running on those switches Flow based QoS is NOT supported on FC8 blades in the Brocade 48000 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 18 of 72 e Any products that are not capable of operating with FOS 6 0 may NOT exist in a fabric with Flow based QoS Major problems will occur if previous generation 2G products exist in the fabric e For the Brocade 4100 and 5000 if all of the ports are E_Ports and the switch is upgraded to Fabric OS v6 2 1 the buffers on the E_Ports are changed to utilize the QoS model If the switch is rebooted 28 of 32 ports will come up in QoS mode the last four ports will come up in buffer limited mode Workarounds include disabling long distance configuration for these ports or explicitly disabling QoS on other ports freeing up buffers for the last four ports e The fix for the defect 250438 included in this release changes the default behavior of the Adapt
68. h the signature ASSERT Failed expression area sw gt sw_pt port gt full_fmt_area file vobs projects springboard build swbd62 fabos src sys dev switch switch_recov_ha c line 1747 kernel mode Feature 8G Platform Services Function FOS Kernel Drivers Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v6 2 0e This section lists defects closed in Fabric OS v6 2 0e Note that when a workaround to an issue is available it is provided Defect ID DEFECT000236477 Technical Severity High Summary Connectivity issues related to tape pipelining when dealing with FCR fames Symptom Frames can be dropped by the switch if a specific connectivity issue exists as a result of losing the original source ID in the REC command Supportsave may panic occasionally when FC fastwrite is not enabled on the GE port Feature Field Escalation Function FCIP Probability Low Risk of Fix High Found in Release FOS6 0 0 Service Request ID 353979 Defect ID DEFECT000243085 Technical Severity High Summary VEX port received bad SFID and frame cannot be routed to translate domain Symptom Continuous RTWR retries are seen on switch from BB fabric where fabricshow is missing IP address Feature FCR Function Integrated Routing Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 2 Ee oO Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 53 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT00024614
69. hname Symptom TheOnboard Administrator will not display the switchname Workaround Switch name can be displayed from FOS CLI command switchname Feature Embedded Platform Services Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe OOS Defect ID DEFECT000237918 Technical Severity Medium Summary Beta regression switchdisable amp switchenable on Base switch with active E2E I O all frames dropped one one direction of bi directional I O afterwards and never recovered itself monitorred sts_tx_timeout counter keep increased on E EX port Symptom Edge to Edge data frames not recovered after switchdisable amp switchenable on a Base switch Workaround stop I O and restart I O may help to recover Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function C2 ASIC driver Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 na Defect ID DEFECT000238392 Technical Severity Medium Summary EVA4400 controllers crashing when servers with qlogic hba s have access to encrypted luns are rebooted Symptom EVA4400 controllers crashing when servers with vendor HBAs have access to encrypted luns are rebooted Feature FC Services Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS62 0 sss Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 67 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000238526 Technical Severity Medium Summary Unexpected software call traceback error messages are being displayed on the console Symptom Console occasionally displays c
70. is not forwarded from F_Port to N_Port in Access Gateway Symptom When the host transmits a PLOGI to the Name Server NS the NS responds with an ACK and then an ACC The AG forwards the ACC to the host which then responds with an ACK The ACK is never forwarded back to the NS which causes the NS to ABTS the exchange Defect ID DEFECT000258583 Technical Severity Medium Summary OVMS init command is not correctly supported Symptom Customer will see that OVMS init command cannot complete and OVMS cannot mount filesystem when it is encrypted Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 1 Fal Defect ID DEFECT000259610 Technical Severity Medium Summary IFCC s doing Brocade 48000 HCL from FOS6 2 to FOS6 3 port recovery fails due to inconsistency between legacy and new RTE Symptom Frame loss triggered IFCC s on links that have active TI zones configured This only apply to FOS v6 2 to FOS v6 3 upgrade Feature 4G Platform Services Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 w ae Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 47 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000259723 Technical Severity Medium Summary Port fence disabled ports that are running diagtest and triggered blade fault during blade POST Symptom During blade insertion or switch power up Blade did not come on line with RASLOG from fabric watch FW 1510 620821 483341 SLOT 7 FID 128 INFO FOP P
71. is performed via DCFM switch authentication failure may be seen Symptom Authentication failure for clients using HTTP service Workaround Execute hafailover or hareboot Feature Mgmt Embedded HTTP Function User Admin Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fi ee Defect ID DEFECT000244915 Technical Severity Medium Summary Pathinfo command failure occurs when run on FOS 6 1 if the path traverses through FOS 6 2 x Symptom Pathinfo from 6 1 to 6 2 x fails with Destination Domain Unreachable Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Mgmt Server Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 poe eee Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 52 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000245609 Technical Severity Medium Summary Supportshow cli command output should complete without having to hit CR several times Symptom Supportshow output requires user intervention during output Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security authentication Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Symptom Console is not accessible on embedded switch Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 es Se Summary Observed ASSERT on standby CP if ICL ports are in disabled state and moved to a different Logical Switch and hafailover is performed without enabling those ports Symptom ASSERT may be observed on the standby cp soon to be active cp when hafailover is issued wit
72. isruptive to traffic Platforms supporting Virtual Fabrics must have the feature disabled prior to downgrading below v6 2 0 To ensure non disruptive Hot Code Load HCL neighbor switches should be operating with FOS v6 2 x prior to loading FOS v6 2 1 on the following platforms 4012 4016 4018 4020 4024 4100 200E When upgrading to FOS v6 2 1 from FOS v6 1 0g or earlier the CPs do not fully synchronize until both the new active and new standby CPs are running v6 2 1 This is normal behavior and the firmware upgrade is still not disruptive FOS does not support concurrent FC Routing EX_Ports and TopTalkers features Upgrading to FOS v6 2 1 requires that one of these features be disabled first The Brocade Encryption Switch and DCX with one or more FS8 18 blades may not be downgraded below FOS v6 1 1_enc The Brocade Encryption Switch and DCX with one or more FS8 18 blades may not be downgraded below FOS v6 2 1 if HP SKM Key Vault is configured Doing so will result in loss of encryption services in HP SKM environments When Tape Encryption is configured on BES or DCX DCX 4S with FS8 18 blade downgrading to v6 1 1_enc will result in loss of Tape Encryption Services If there are multiple node EGs encryption groups in a fabric please complete firmwaredownload on one node at a time before downloading on another node On the Brocade 300 M5424 5470 and 5480 do not use n option for downgrading from FOS v6 2 1 to prior versions
73. ive Directory the following bullets should be added e You can use the User Principal Name and not the Common Name for AD LDAP authentication To provide backward compatibility support authentication based on the Common Name is still supported Common Name based authentication is not recommended for new installations e A user can belong to multiple groups as long as one of the groups has the same name as the Brocade role name Among those groups one group name must match with either the Brocade role or mapped to a switch role in the Brocade switch Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 25 of 72 e A user can be part of any Organizational Unit OU On page 79 the example is to add Virtual Fabrics Example for adding Admin Domains should be Example for adding Virtual Fabrics In Chapter 4 Configuring Advanced Security on page 120 the following HBA models should be added to the list of supported HBAs e Brocade Fibre Channel HBA models 415 425 815 825 In chapter 4 Configuring Advanced Security on page 146 under the heading Example of an End to End Transport Tunnel mode replace the word BRCD7500 with Remote Host and replace steps 1 through 9 with the following Secure traffic between two systems using AH protection with MDS and configure IKE with pre shared keys The two systems are a switch BROCADE300 IPv4 address 10 33 74 13 and an external host 10 33 69 132 1 On the system console log in to th
74. ive Networking QoS feature as follows upon firmware upgrade e The default QoS behavior is changed to be disabled on 4G platforms e The default QoS behavior is changed to be disabled on the Extended Fabrics E ports on both 4G and 8G platforms This fix solves the following unexpected behaviors that occurred when Adaptive Networking QoS feature was enabled by default in the previous FOS releases e Splitting of a single trunk group into multiple trunk groups upon port toggle since the toggled ports come online with QoS enabled while the remaining ports in the trunk group have QoS disabled e Fewer buffer credits being made available to normal E ports after a port toggle even when QoS is not being utilized e Unexpected change to fill word configuration on an Extended Fabrics E port after a port toggle o If an Extended Fabrics E port is originally using IDLE primitives as fill words and if that port toggles the fill word configuration will be changed to use ARB primitives Note After upgrading to this firmware release if users want to enable Adaptive Networking QoS feature on 4G platforms and on Extended Fabrics E ports on both 4G and 8G platforms they must do so explicitly through the available user interfaces FCR e All FCR switches need to be running FOS v6 2 1 in order to support M EOS 239 Domain Mode on the i10K FCR Backbone Fabric ID changes e With FC8 blades the switch must be disabled to change the b
75. ized SERDES setting for Brocade 5480 Symptom No visible symptom Found in Release FO5620 OOOO Defect ID DEFECT000242319 Technical Severity Medium Summary Need to add two more values for SNMP port state that includes validating 10 module is being validated and invalidModule 11 module is invalid Symptom SNMP object swFCPortPhyState is getting invalid value 11 Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOSG 20 Eoo Defect ID DEFECT000242961 Technical Severity Medium Summary WWN mapping for certain storage systems is incorrect Symptom With FOS v6 2 x Web Tools reports a device incorrectly Feature WebMgmt Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 369495 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 60 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000243244 Technical Severity Medium Summary As DCFM polling LUNs the memory usage for weblinker is increased Symptom Memory consumption goes high Feature Data Security Function Infrastructure Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 er Summary With VF deleting a FID while in the FID leads to undesirable conditions The user is stuck in the FID and all commands run generate an error message Symptom In VF mode after deleting a FID system may get into undesirable state and commands run generate an error Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security login Proba
76. l Feature WebMgmt Function Fabric Watch Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 363745 Defect ID DEFECT000241777 Technical Severity Medium Summary Reporting high temperature alarms on Brocade FS8 18 blades when the ambient temperature is 39C Symptom Customer may see high temperature alerts Feature System Controls EM Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 367201 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 65 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000242074 Technical Severity Medium Summary Optimized SERDES setting for Brocade 5480 Symptom No visible symptom Feature 8G ASIC Driver Function GE2 ASIC ports Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 SS ees Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v6 2 0b This section lists defects closed in Fabric OS v6 2 0b Note that when a workaround to an issue is available it is provided Defect ID DEFECT000235578 Technical Severity High Summary CUP Port present CU Busy on one path and never sending CU End to clear busy Symptom CUP can fail to send CUE when SAK is expecting it A Logical Path will quit sending chains if it does not receive a CUE when expecting it The CUP is still responsive but the host is waiting for the CUE Feature FICON Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS62 0 a uO O Defect ID DEFECT000237437 Technical Severity High
77. n in FICON environments Brocade recommends using DCFM for managing the following environments pure FOS based fabrics mixed FOS and M EOS fabrics where the FOS switch director is the seed switch EFCM is the recommended management software for Manageability M EOS only fabrics when a FOS switch or director can not be used as the seed switch In a mixed fabric environment an M EOS switch must be principal switch if the fabric_is in Interopmode 2 McDATA Manageability Fabric Mode Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 71 of 72 Manageability Manageability Manageability Manageability Manageability Manageability Manageability Optics Serviceability Serviceability Traffic Isolation Zones Traffic Isolation Zones Virtual Fabrics FOS 6 2 0e and later support Port Fencing configuration for switches through the Command Line Interface CLI Assistance from service support should be enlisted to enable this feature With DCFM 10 1 x Port Fencing can be done through DCFM menu It is suggested that default parameters for Port Fencing be used to avoid taking ports down for normal fabric events Firmware download is executed sequentially if ECFM is used for downloading code to FOS switches As a Best Practice for deploying FOS switches directors into a FICON environment verify the FOS version shipped with the most current FOS recommendation It is recommended to update all FOS switch directors to the same FOS
78. nfig enable vf followed by a fosconfig disable vf customer is unable to log in via telnet or serial port to the Brocade DCX All accounts receive the error Cannot assign valid AD at the login session Symptom After running fosconfig enable vf and letting the switch reboot logged back in stepped through the configure command to validate the new options against the documentation nothing was changed Then ran fosconfig disable vf and let the switch reboot When attempting to log back into the switch received the error Cannot assign valid AD at the login session and was disconnected Workaround Don t change VF mode until dual CP chassis is in sync Function VF infrastructure Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 365207 Defect ID DEFECT000237 196 Technical Severity Medium Summary Unable to activate a new PDCM Matrix with Webtools Symptom When activating saved PDCM Matrix from Activate CUP Port Connectivity Configuration dialog in WebTools with Active Save Mode checked WebTools displays error Workaround Activate the same PDCM Matrix from WebTools with Active Save Mode checked from Edit CUP Port Connectivity Configuration window Feature FICON Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe Defect ID DEFECT000237675 Technical Severity Medium Summary Onboard Administrator used to manage Brocade 5480 is not able to read the switc
79. ng steps already performed and the results e Serial console and Telnet session logs e Syslog message logs Switch Serial Number The switch serial number is provided on the serial number label as shown here AOYAMA FTO0X0054E9 The serial number label is located as follows e Brocade 200E On the nonport side of the chassis e Brocade 4100 4900 and 7500 7500E On the switch ID pull out tab located inside the chassis on the port side on the left e Brocade Encryption Switch 300 5000 5100 and 5300 On the switch ID pull out tab located on the bottom of the port side of the switch e Brocade 7600 On the bottom of the chassis e Brocade 48000 Inside the chassis next to the power supply bays e Brocade DCX Bottom right of the port side e Brocade DCX 4S Back upper left under the power supply World Wide Name WWN When the Virtual Fabric feature is enabled on a switch each logical switch has a unique switch WWN Use the wwn command to display the switch WWN If you cannot use the wwn command because the switch is inoperable you can get the primary WWN from the same place as the serial number except for the Brocade DCX DCX 4S For the Brocade DCX access the numbers on the WWN cards by removing the Brocade logo plate at the top of the non port side The WWN is printed on the LED side of both cards License Identifier License ID Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 7 of 72 There is only one License Identi
80. ngs as a result of failing over to the path that no longer has access to the physical target Symptom Rekey operation does not complete Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 oe ee Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 50 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000250753 Technical Severity High Summary As a result of I O and crypto operations three LUNs are in Key ID Unvailable state and one LUN indicates that inquiry failed Symptom Three LUNs on container showing Key ID Unavailable and one LUN showing inquiry failed These LUNs are fully functional with no issues on all other containers Workaround Reboot the Encryption Engine EE Feature Data Security Probability Medium _ _ _rse of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000253 164 Technical Severity High Summary Mixing FibreChannel FastWrite FCFW and Non FCFW flows can cause deam entries to not be set correctly Symptom When attempting to run a FCFW flow to a device port that already has Non FCFW flows running to it the FCFW flow appears to fail without seeing any kind of port filter counters incrementing indicating that FCFW frames were seen Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Pe Defect ID DEFECT000237521 Technical Severity Medium Summary Rekey operation is restarted but hung after all the Encr
81. nnel wouldn t come up when there is optical to copper converters in between caused by timing issue Feature FCIP Function FCIP Port Probability High Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOSG Z0 EE Defect ID DEFECT000250270 Technical Severity Medium Summary Removing QoS license on fabric switch side causes traffic to stop for the high and low priority flows Medium priority flow is not affected Symptom Ina cascaded Brocade Access Gateway AG configuration of 3 switches Both AGs are in Port Group mode devices connect to edge on one end other devices connect to a switch in fabric on the other end Everything comes up fine and traffic flows Remove QoS license from fabric switch switchdisable enable traffic stops to flow for high and low priorities switchdisable enable in all 3 switches does not recover Put back QoS license everything recovers Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 ee 8 Defect ID DEFECT00025 1322 Technical Severity Medium Summary When a trunk master port is disabled fabric watch incorrectly sets the new trunk master s health to offline and remote side to faulty even though port is online Symptom Webtool display problem without real functionality impact Port is on line and passes traffic fine Workaround Run hafailover to recover Feature Field Escalation Function Management Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1
82. nt causes the BES to go into faulty state Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 372889 Defect ID DEFECT000245868 Technical Severity High Summary Encrypted LUN gets into internal Encryption Engine EE LUN State Disabled key not in sync as a result of rekeying and High Availability Cluster HAC Data Encryption Key DEK cluster failover and failback Symptom Encrypted LUN is not available for crypto operations Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 a TS Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 49 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000245996 Technical Severity High Summary Brocade Encryption Switch BES goes faulty as a result of alternately rebooting the two BES that have all the physical connectivities to the targets and initiators Symptom Faulty BES will not be available for crypto operations Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000246377 Technical Severity High Summary After rebooting one Brocade Encryption Switch BES of a High Availability Cluster HAC that has connectivity to the physical targets and initiators all the crypto targets are lost in the HAC cluster Symptom LUNs that were part of the lost crypto target containers are not available for crypto oper
83. of zone create does not error check for alphanumeric character can trigger unexpected event Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 3 0 fe et Defect ID DEFECT000248685 Technical Severity High Summary FDMI Database information not showing proper information after disabling the port in AG that is connected to HBA Symptom Brocade_Software Identity instance for remaining node is missing in Brocade SMIA Feature FC Services Function FDMI Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fees O O O O O Defect ID DEFECT000249086 Technical Severity High Summary Under stress test with switchdisable switchenable all switches in fabric observed verify and sometimes switch panic in RTE module Symptom Observed VERIFY Failed expression cmd_rval status RTE_STAT_DPS_ FULL Found in Release FOS6 3 0 0 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 40 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000249647 Technical Severity High Summary Small timing window exists where devices might send PLOGI earlier than route is setup and cause PLOGI drop in single switch fabric Symptom Host cannot talk to target Feature 8G Platform Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 376065 Defect ID DEFECT00025 1984 Technical Severity High Summary Authentication failed after 15 min if we configured external authentication like LDAP or Radius server Symptom If exte
84. on products in the Encryption Group Also make sure that the upgrade of all nodes in the Encryption Group to FOS v6 2 1 completes before starting a rekey or First Time Encryption operation e To cleanup the stale rekey information for the LUN follow one of the following two methods Method 1 e First modify the LUN policy from encrypt to cleartext and commit The LUN will become disabled e Enable the LUN using cryptocfg enable LUN Modify the LUN policy from clear text to encrypt with enable_encexistingdata to enable the first time encryption and do commit This will clear the stale rekey metadata on the LUN and the LUN can be used again for encryption Method 2 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 17 of 72 1 Remove the LUN from Crypto Target Container and commit 2 Add the LUN back to the Crypto Target Container with LUN State clear text policy encrypt and enable_encexistingdata set for enabling the First Time Encryption and commit This will clear the stale rekey metadata on the LUN and the LUN can be used again for encryption A new LUN state is being introduced Disabled Key not in sync This new state indicates re keying was started on a remote EE but the local EE is not capable of starting re key because it does not have the KeyID which was used by the remote EE in re keying i e newest key returned from key vault does not match with the KeyID used by remo
85. ontainer 3 Start the rekey 4 Add the initiator back Feature Data Security Function Re key Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 ee Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 63 of 72 Symptom Software verify errors and IFCCs seen during supportsave Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 TE Defect ID DEFECT000242065 Technical Severity High Summary FOS v6 2 0 does not provide Chassisinfo with sampv1 without adding and configuring an snmpv3 user Symptom The first 6 objects in the system MIB are missing this corresponds to the error no such object entries in the Hi Track system table Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 365711 Defect ID DEFECT000242682 Technical Severity High Summary VTs VIs disappear when rebooting the Brocde Encryption Switch that has all the physical connections to targets and initiators Symptom VIs VTs may disappear when rebooting the Brocde Encryption Switch Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 368783 Defect ID DEFECT000242683 Technical Severity High Summary Repeatedly disconnect reconnecting the ISL links between the Brocade Encryption Switch in the HA cluster environment while rekey operations are in progress may cause data miscompare Symptom Disconnect r
86. ormation contained in this book or the computer programs that accompany it Notice The product described by this document may contain open source software covered by the GNU General Public License or other open source license agreements To find out which open source software is included in Brocade products view the licensing terms applicable to the open source software and obtain a copy of the programming source code please visit http www brocade conVsupport oscd Export of technical data contained in this document may require an export license from the United States Government Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 2 of 72 Contents DOME nt HAStOry EEE EE EAE T EA veusice Se aceh nash caves A E E N 1 OV OLR VIC Waris siiteecoctantiasastcutied A A 5 Resolution of Important Defects ccccccsscesseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeseeeeeeeeeeessaeseeeeeeseeeeggseseeeeaeseeeesseeseeeeeeseessnenesees 5 Other Important Changes ra araa a apaa Aaaa Sa araar arae aare A aAa ea Ea a Oa AEA peri EEA Sarra EAr aaa TERASSA 5 Supported SEE S er e ra arae r r aaa raaa aa Ea er a a a re a ee e a Ee er Ee Eea AE Eare rarae Sasa 6 Standards Compliance scceseeeccccceseccceneneeeeeeneeeseneneeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeggeeeeeeeeeseeeegageceeeeeeseeeggaseeeeeeeeseegsaeseeeeeeeesenaeesens 6 Pechinical Support A daveiaansaueasedsavesaadeaacusiddavsiaaddadaveuddavasaadecaueseddavedasadaanvesddavasacodaauesesdavdeadcacanee 6 Important Notes ot ccecssviscusveeccc
87. ort 11 12 Invalid Words threshold exceeded Port 108 disabled thresh_agent c line 2394 Same message may continue to be reported on already faulted blades Feature Field Escalation Function Management Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000260194 Technical Severity Medium Summary Brocade DCX High temperature and bad sensor reported on two DCXs Symptom Temperature sensor reporting spurious solitary readings which leads to the CRITICAL HIL 1502 message without having first gone through the HIL 1501 warning Workaround Ignore isolated spurious High Temperature CRITICAL errors when not preceded by warnings Feature Field Escalation Function EM Hil Sysctrl Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Service Request ID 384655 Defect ID DEFECT000260383 Technical Severity Medium Summary HIL 1610 WARNING appeared on Brocade 5120 units after power cycle Symptom Running power cycles several times and confirmed the error message below The error message is as follows HIL 1610 27 WARNING Brocade5100 Fan PS unit not supplying power fan speeds not available Please ensure that the unit has power and the sw Workaround Ignore the warning it is innocuous when seen right at boot up time It results from a solitary spurious sensor reading that is below minimum Feature Field Escalation Function EM Hil Sysctrl Probability Low Risk of Fix L
88. otiation lock the switch port at 8Gb Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 354645 Defect ID DEFECT000226808 Technical Severity High Summary Occasionally during the firmware upgrade process the 1250 processor is still rebooting when the FCR routes are being processed resulting in missing FCR routes and an inability to route traffic across VEX ports Symptom I O running through VEX ports or devices imported exported via VEX ports will be dropped after firmware upgrade Feature Field Escalation Function FCIP Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 0 0 eee Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 62 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000232995 Technical Severity High Summary VI to PT routes are deleted following portdisable enable on a Brocade FC4 48 blade Symptom VI is not able to login to Target following creation of FR zone and portdisable enable for the host port Feature Field Escalation Function FC Layer 2 Routing Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 0 1 Defect ID DEFECT000239682 Technical Severity High Summary Passwords were reset to default on Brocade DCX upgrade from FOS v6 1 1_enc2 to v6 2 0 Symptom User unable to login Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security login Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 363533 Defect ID D
89. ow Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Service Request ID 390231 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 48 of 72 Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v6 2 0g This section lists defects closed in Fabric OS v6 2 0g Note that when a workaround to an issue is available it is provided Defect ID DEFECT000236764 Technical Severity Critical Summary Brocade Encryption Switch BES goes to faulty state after test cycle that alternately reboots each BES in the configuration every 5 minutes Symptom BES goes to faulty state after the weekend run that alternately reboots each BES in the configuration every 5 minutes Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Service Request ID 356483 Defect ID DEFECT000237921 Technical Severity High Summary Test tool reports data corruption during an overnight run Symptom The test continuously disables enables the ISL links to force failover failback between members of an HA cluster Feature Data Security Function Disk Encryption Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Service Request ID 359931 Defect ID DEFECT000245 146 Technical Severity High Summary Continuously disconnect reconnecting the ISLs in the HA environment causes one of the Brocade Encryption Switches BES to go into faulty state Symptom While IOs and rekey are in progress continously disconnect reconnecting the ISLs in the HA environme
90. port different media types within a common DCX DCX A4S chassis When using Brocade Native Mode in LKM installations manual rekey is highly recommended If auto rekey is desired the key expiry date should be configured only when the LUN is created Never modify the expiry date after configuring a LUN If you modify the expiry time after configuring the LUN the expiration date will not update properly SKM is supported with Multiple Nodes and Dual SKM Key Vaults Two way certificate exchange is supported Please refer to the Encryption Admin Guide for configuration information Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 16 of 72 e The Brocade Encryption Switch and FS8 18 blade support registration of only one HPSKM Key Vault for FOS v6 2 1 Multiple HPSKMs Key Vaults can be clustered at the SKM server level Registering of a second SKM key vault is not blocked When the registered key vault connection goes down or the registered key vault is down users are expected to either correct the connection with Key Vault or replace the failed SKM and re register deregister failed SKM entry and register the new SKM entry on the Brocade Encryption Switch or FS8 18 blade Users are expected to make sure that the replaced new SKM key vault is in sync with the rest of the SKM units in Cluster in terms of Keys Database user manually syncs the Key Database from existing SKM Key Vault in Cluster to new or replacing SKM Key Vault using SKM Admin Guide Provided
91. r later will only allow FCS automatic distribution when in strict mode requiring only switches with FOS v6 0 or later FIPS mode should not be enabled on the Brocade 200E If FIPS is enabled the 200E will not boot When using LDAP downgrades from FOS v6 2 1 to prior releases requires user intervention Authentication must be set to local and back to LDAP in order to continue using LDAP authentication Due to limitations with the certificates FCAP authentication cannot be supported on user defined logical switches FCAP will continue to function with existing certificates for non VF and the default logical switch of VF enabled switches Note authutil is not restricted from other logical switches at this time so this can still be enabled on unsupported LS pkicert 1 06 utility may cause evm errors so each new switch should be isolated from fabric in non vf mode to install new certificates For FIPS mode certificates need to be installed prior to FIPS activation For the DCX FICON CUP is not allowed with a 48 port blade in the Default Logical Switch All ports on a 48 port blade must be assigned to a user defined Logical Switch to use them in a FICON CUP enabled switch FL_Port Loop Support The FC8 48 blade now supports attachment of loop devices in the DCX and DCX 4S Virtual Fabrics must be enabled on the chassis and loop devices may only be attached to ports on a 48 port blade assigned to a non Default Logical Switch ope
92. rating with the default 10 bit addressing mode they may not be in the default Logical Switch Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 20 of 72 A maximum of 144 ports may be used for connectivity to loop devices in a single Logical Switch within a chassis Loop devices continue to be supported when attached to ports on the FC8 16 FC8 32 FC4 16 and FC4 32 blades with no new restrictions Port Mirroring On the Brocade 5300 the port mirroring feature has a limitation where all port mirror resources must stay within the same ASIC port group The resources are the configure mirror port Source Device and Destination Device or ISL if the Destination Device is located on another switch The ASIC port groups are 0 15 16 31 32 47 48 63 and 64 79 The routes will be broken if the port mirror resources are spread across multiple port groups Port Mirroring is not supported on a switch with the Virtual Fabrics feature enabled 10G Interoperability 10G interop between FC10 6 and McDATA blades is not supported due to a HW limitation however the FC10 6 is supported in a chassis running in Interopmode 2 or 3 FC10 6 to FC10 6 connections only An FC10 6 blade will not synchronize with a McDATA 10G blade but will not negatively impact the system Port Fencing When the port fencing feature is enabled for ITW or CRC errors the first set of errors detected on an active link that meet the custom high threshold level set by the user or the d
93. re command e The man page currently states about the Allow XISL use parameter On the Brocade 5100 or 5300 default switch the feature is disabled by default default value yes e The description should be corrected to read On the Brocade 5100 or 5300 default switch the feature is disabled by default default value no e Note that the corresponding description in the Command Reference page 107 is correct Fabric OS Troubleshooting and Diagnostics Guide Publication Number 53 1001187 01 On page 47 in the Preinstallation Messages section append the first paragraph and following courier text with the following additional information Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 30 of 72 The blocking cases except the new cases specific to Fabric OS v6 2 1 can be removed The blocking cases are not accumulative from version to version Downgrade is not allowed because VF is enabled Please run lscfg config and lscfg delete commands to remove the non default LS first then run fosconfig disable vf to disable VF before proceeding Downgrade is not allowed because AG is enabled Please run ag modedisable command to disable AG mode before proceeding Non disruptive firmwaredownload is not supported when downgrading to 6 1 Please use firmwaredownload s to download the 6 1 firmware The FS8 18 type 43 blade is not supported by the target firmware Please use slotshow to find out which
94. reboot the system for recovery reason System bring up timed out Symptom Switch reboots Workaround Need to manually block unblock a E port to rebuild fabric Feature FC Services Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 bee OOOO OO O O O O O O O Defect ID DEFECT000241092 Technical Severity Medium Summary Due to race condition daemons may panic during FID deletion and creating without significant time delay in between Symptom Switch become unresponsive and daemon starts to panic such as Detect termination of msd 4811 during FID deletion and creating Feature 8G Platform Services Function Partition Management Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Defect ID DEFECT000243885 Technical Severity Medium Summary Switch panic in Ficon environment when blocking unblocking E Port due to RNID data count is incorrect Symptom Observed msd panic during RNID processing Feature FICON Function MS FICON Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 fe l Defect ID DEFECT000244394 Technical Severity Medium Summary DWDM link unable to sync up before port is enabled at correct speed Symptom Concurrent DCX reboots of both ends of a DWDM link cause the link to fail to come up Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Eo lM Defect ID DEFECT000245170 Technical Severity Medium Summary Lfc
95. rnal authentication mechanism like LDAP or RADIUS server was configured in the switch After 15 20 user is not able to login using WT or webpage It reports invalid password CLI works fine Feature Fabric Infrastructure Function Security login Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 i Defect ID DEFECT000252179 Technical Severity High Summary Persistent IU pacing feature in 3rd party device trigger issues with tape emulation Symptom I O timeouts reported on 3rd party system with tape emulation Workaround Reset switches blade to recovery FICON connectivity after Tunnel failure Feature FCIP Function FCIP I O Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 _ ee Defect ID DEFECT000252471 Technical Severity High Summary Firmwarecommit failed on Active CP with missing etc fabos skm IngrianNAE properties Symptom This problem is specific to Brocade Encryption Switch and the Brocade FS8 18 while upgrade to FOSv6 2 0c or later patches missing etc fabos skm IngrianNAE properties Firmware commit operation failed on active CP Primary filesystem is inconsistent Run firmwarerestore to restore the or Workaround Execute the following commands on both Active and Standby CPs after the problem has occurred cp etc fabos skm IngrianNAE properties template etc fabos skm IngrianN AE properties firmwarecommit Function Firmware Download Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release F
96. shared area cannot be configured in different TI zones This limitation does not apply to E_Ports that use the same shared area e Ports that are in different TI zones cannot communicate with each other if failover is disabled even if they are in the same regular zone Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 27 of 72 For example the following figure shows two hosts and three targets in two TI zones Assume that Host 1 Host 2 Target 1 Target 2 and Target 3 are also included in a regular zone Zone A Even though the hosts and targets are all in the same zone if failover is disabled on the TI zones traffic from Host 1 is isolated to the dashed line and Host 1 cannot communicate with Target 2 Likewise traffic from Host 2 is isolated to the dotted line and Host 2 cannot communicate with Target 1 Host 1 can communicate with Target 3 however because even though N_Port 3 is ina different TI zone than Host 1 Host 1 and Target 3 are connected to the same switch with no E_Ports between In chapter 16 Using the FC FC Routing Service under the section Supported Configurations on page 428 add the following note after the last paragraph In configurations with two backbones connected to the same edge fabric routing is not supported between edge fabrics that are not directly attached to the same backbone Routing over multiple backbones is a multi hop topology and is not allowed In chapter 20 Configuring and Monitoring FCIP E
97. sneeeseceeeeeeeens 71 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 4 of 72 Overview Fabric OS FOS v6 2 1 is a maintenance release based on FOS v6 2 0 All hardware platforms and features supported in FOS v6 2 0 are also supported in v6 2 1 This release also contains fixes for many defects including those from the following list of patch releases FOS v5 3 2b FOS v6 0 1a FOS v6 1 1d FOS v6 1 2a FOS v6 2 0g Resolution of Important Defects FOS v6 2 1 also includes fixes for the following important defects 254779 Common Access Layer Daemon CALD memory leak leads to panic fabric disruption 254085 Internal timing failure within HA failover can bring a port down 228996 Brocade 200E and embedded switch with 256M compact flash reports disk usage is too high with FOSv6 2 228809 Backport code to address various SNMP related issues Other Important Changes The following minor enhancements and changes are included in FOS v6 2 1 Port Beaconing Support A new CLI command has been added that allows individual ports to be identified by enabling a special LED illumination behavior NAME portBeacon Sets port beaconing mode on or off SYNOPSIS portbeacon mode slot port DESCRIPTION Use this command enable or disable port beaconing mode on a specified port This command works on 4G and above FC ports excludes the Brocade FC10 6 blade When beaconing mode is enabled on a port the port LED flashes amber and green for 2
98. te EE User needs to use cryptocfg discoverLUN lt Container Name gt interface to re enable the LUN only after the keys are synced between two key vaults properly Both VMware and clustering technologies utilize SCSI reservations to control host IO access to LUNs When BES FS8 18 is performing a rekeying operation first time encryption or otherwise it accommodates the use of this methodology In deployments which have multiple physical initiators accessing a target LUN from an EE FOS 6 2 1 does not have the ability to failover FTE rekey operations within the EE Therefore during FTE Rekey operations in these environments only one physical initiator can be allowed to access the target LUN combination this for all EEs exposing the LUN If only one initiator has access to a Target LUN on a particular EE then no configuration modification is required during FTE Rekey operations Direct FICON device connectivity is not supported for the Brocade Encryption Switch BES or the FS8 18 for front end User Ports Also FICON devices as part of Encryption or Clear Text flows are not supported which means FICON devices cannot be configured as Crypto Target Containers on BES or FS8 18 Ensure that all encryption engines in the HA cluster HAC Data Encryption Key DEK cluster or encryption group are online before invoking or starting rekey operations on LUN s Also ensure that all target paths for a LUN are online before invoking or startin
99. te with FOS v6 1 0e v6 1 1 or later 4Gb platforms may use v5 3 1b but are recommended to use the v6 x versions e M EOS platforms must operate with M EOS v9 8 0 or later for McDATA Fabric Mode interopmode 2 or M EOS 9 9 0 or later for Open Fabric Mode environments interopmode 3 For a list of the effective end of life dates for all versions of Fabric OS visit the following Brocade Web site http www brocade com support end_of_life jsp Supported Products and FOS Interoperability Brocade 2000 series switches Not supported end of support December 2007 Brocade 3000 3200 3800 v3 2 1c 1 Silkworm 3014 3016 3250 3850 and Brocade 3900 4100 4900 24000 7500 7500E 7600 5000 200E 48000 v5 3 1b 2G and 4G platforms and v6 1 0e and later 4G platforms only Silkworm 12000 v5 0 x Brocade 4012 4016 4018 4020 4024 4424 v5 3 1b v6 1 0e and later Brocade 5410 5480 5424 v6 2 0 Brocade DCX 300 5100 5300 v6 1 0e and later f Brocade DCX 4S v6 2 0 Brocade DCX with FS8 18 blade s Brocade Encryption Switch v6 1 1_enc Secure Fabric OS on any model Not Supported Mil0k M6140 ED 6064 ES 3232 ES 4300 ES 4400 ES 4500 ES 4700 McDATA Fabric Mode and Open Fabric Mode 4 M EOS v9 7 2 or later McDATA ED 5000 32 port FC director Not Supported Multi Protocol Router interop Brocade 7420 XPath v7 4 1
100. tep 2 with the following Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 28 of 72 2 Enter the zoneCreate command The format varies depending on whether you want high or low priority traffic e For high priority traffic use the following syntax zonecreate QOSHid_zonename member member e For low priority use the following syntax zonecreate QOSLid_zonename member member where id A flow identifier that indicates a specific virtual channel to which the traffic is assigned This value is from 1 5 for high priority traffic and from 1 2 for low priority traffic zonename The user defined part of the name of the zone to be created member A member or list of members to be added to the zone A zone member must be specified using WWN only In Section II Licensed Features the chapter numbering is wrong The correct chapter numbers should be Chapter 16 Optimizing Fabric Behavior Chapter 17 Using the FC FC Routing Service Chapter 18 Administering Advanced Performance Monitoring Chapter 19 Administering Extended Fabrics Chapter 20 Administering ISL Trunking Chapter 21 Configuring and Monitoring FCIP Extension Services Chapter 22 FICON Fabrics Chapter 23 Configuring and Monitoring FICON Extension Services The chapter numbers referred to in the Documentation Updates section of this release note refer to the original chapter numbers Broc
101. ts LED Name LED Color Status of Hardware Recommended Action Port Status No light No signal or light carrier media or cable detected Verify the unit power LED is on and check the SFP and cable Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 35 of 72 LED Name LED Color Status of Hardware Recommended Action No SFP installed or Install or replace SFP faulty SFP Steady green An SFP is installed and No action required functioning and the link is up Flashing green Activity on port No action required Steady amber SFP is installed but not No action required connected or the link is not up Brocade 48000 Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 0000645 05 A fully populated Brocade 48000 with eight FC8 32 or eight FC8 16 port blades does not have enough power with only one power supply It is recommended that the 48000 be configured with four power supplies in this scenario The blades will not power down or fail to power up unless three power supplies fail A fully populated 48000 will continue to operate properly with two power supplies The Hardware Components section on page 2 should include the following sub bullet beneath the Modular hot swappable field replaceable units FRUs bullet e Two power supplies are required at all times in a fully populated 48000 chassis Brocade SilkWorm 200E Hardware Reference Manual Publication Number 53 0000633
102. ture Mgmt Embedded HTTP Function Ports Admin Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 _ U OOOSOSSyS Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 59 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000232767 Technical Severity Medium Summary SNMP changes required to better support snmp mib Symptom Default snmpv3 sets different default values between FOS releases mibcapability option of snmpconfig cannot control ficon mib Workaround No Feature Field Escalation Function SNMP Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1 e Defect ID DEFECT000236582 Technical Severity Medium Summary If second FDISC comes in before the switch responds to the first FDISC between the same pair of devices the Access Gateway daemon panics Symptom Access Gateway daemon panic triggers switch reboot Feature Field Escalation Function Access Gateway Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 0 Service Request ID 354129 Defect ID DEFECT000238433 Technical Severity Medium Summary Applications cannot distinguish between FA4 18 and Core blades on DCX using SNMP Need to add two new FRU classes coreblade and applicationblade class Symptom Applications cannot distinguish between FA4 18 and Core blades using SNMP Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Function Switch Admin Probability High Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Defect ID DEFECT000242074 echnical Severity Medium Summary Optim
103. ual Fabrics feature is enabled by default on capable platforms When creating Logical Fabrics that include switches that are not Virtual Fabrics capable it is possible to have two Logical Switches with different FIDs in the same fabric Extra caution should be used to verify the FIDs match for all switches in the same Logical Fabric The aptpolicy can be configured per logical switch The Admin Guide indicates it is a chassis level setting In order to support non disruptive Hot Code Load on a Brocade 5100 with VF enabled the total zoning DB size for the entire chassis should not exceed 1MB A switch with Virtual Fabrics enabled may not use Port Mirroring or participate in a fabric that is using IP Filter or Password Database distribution or Administrative Domains The Virtual Fabrics feature must be disabled prior to deploying in a fabric using these features Licensing Behavior When operating a switch with Fabric OS v6 2 1 some licenses may display as Unknown This is due to changes in licensing requirements for some features that no longer require a license key that may still be installed on a switch Encryption Behavior Brocade encryption devices can be configured for either disk or tape operation The ability to configure multiple Crypto Target Containers defining different media types on a single encryption engine Brocade Encryption Switch or FS8 18 Blade is not supported FS8 18 Encryption Blades can be configured to sup
104. ure FC Services Function Name Server Risk of Fix Low Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 69 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000239111 Technical Severity High Summary Switches leaking memory slowly over extended period while being managed by DCFM Feature Mgmt Embedded SNMP Function Switch Admin Risk of Fix Low Reported In Release FOS6 2 0 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 70 of 72 Appendix Additional Considerations for FICON Environments This appendix includes supplemental information for users deploying FOS based platforms in FICON environments FICON Configurations Cascading of directors and switches is limited to one hop for a FICON environment with the following exceptions e Up to three hops are supported for FCIP with a pair of Brocade 7500 switches used for FCIP extension The following FCIP configuration is supported for DCX DCX ICL DCX 7500 7500 DCX ICL DCX e The DCX Backbone with Inter Chassis Links ICLs consists of two cascading domains These ICLs should be considered the same as very high speed ISL trunks The fabric security attributes must be configured and 2 byte link addressing must be used whenever a channel connected to one chassis needs to reach a control unit connected to a port on the other chassis The ICLs provide ample bandwidth in a controlled environment which allows the hop to be disregarded from a service p
105. used ports A switch that has been upgraded from a lower code level and never cold booted may show this problem No errors will be caused on enabled ports or after a disabled port is enabled Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 eee ee Defect ID DEFECT000247602 Technical Severity Medium Summary Blades are not shown in when a slot is hot plugged in to a DCX DCX 4s Symptom When a slot is hot plugged its information will not appear on the GUI Feature Mgmt Embedded CAL Function Ports Admin Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 a Defect ID DEFECT000247663 Technical Severity Medium Summary Observed frame drops and IFCCs with lossless feature Symptom Lossless DLS failed with dropped frame causing IFCC in presence of ICLs Feature 8G Platform Services Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 aaa Closed with Code Change Defects in Fabric OS v6 2 0d This section lists defects closed in Fabric OS v6 2 0d Note that when a workaround to an issue is available it is provided Defect ID DEFECT000235613 Technical Severity High Summary Memory leak found during E port processing Symptom An E_port constantly going on and off due to other conditions can lead to an out of memory condition Feature Field Escalation Function Panic OOM Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Ser
106. ust run Fabric OS v6 0 or later to support the FC8 16 port blade and Fabric OS v6 1 or later to support the FC8 32 and FC8 48 port blades Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 10 of 72 48000 Blade Support Matrix Intelligent blade Up to a total of 4 Intelligent blades includes iSCSI FCIP FCR and Application blade FC4 16IP FR4 18i and FA4 18 respectively See below for intermix limitations exceptions and a max of each blade iSCSI blade FC4 16IP Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type FC IP FC Router blade FR4 18i Up to a maximum of 2 blades of this type This can be extended under special circumstances but must be approved by Brocade s Product Team Up to 8 FR4 18i blades can be installed if they are used only for FC Fastwrite or FCIP without routing Virtualization Application Blade FA4 18 Up to a maximum of 2 blades of this type Fabric OS v6 2 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 and 48 port 8Gbit port blades FC8 16 Supported with FOS v6 0 and above with any mix FC8 32 FC8 48 and the 6 port 10G FC blade and up to 8 4 of each No restrictions around FC10 6 intermix Intelligent blade Up to a total of 8 4 intelligent blades See below for maximum supported limits of each blade FC IP FC Router blade FR4 18i Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this typ
107. vice Request ID 346457 Defect ID DEFECT000236118 Technical Severity High Summary 8Gb storage device failed to detect 8Gb speed when port was locked as a G_port Symptom Certain 8Gb storage arrays are connecting to Brocade 8Gb switches as 4Gb devices when the switch port is locked as a G_port Workaround Instead of relying on auto negotiation lock the switch port at 8Gb Feature Field Escalation Function ASIC Driver Probability High Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 0 Service Request ID 354645 Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 56 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000237420 Technical Severity High Summary Memory leak when querying connUnitPortFCId in Access Gateway AG mode and also when querying FeFeModuleName Symptom Switch panic due to out of memory trigger during hafailover hareboot Workaround Avoid querying FeFeModuleName or connUnitPortFCId in AG mode MIB to avoid memory leak Feature Field Escalation Function Panic OOM Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS5 3 1 Service Request ID 348199 Defect ID DEFECT000237701 Technical Severity High Summary Observed kernel panic on a DCX in RTE module Symptom DCX will panic and hafailover during supportsave in rare occasions Feature Field Escalation Function FC Layer 2 Routing Probability Low Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 1 1 Service Request ID SR359167 Defect ID DEFECT000237868 Technical Severity High Summary
108. xtension Services under the heading Constraints for FC Fastwrite on page 540 the following bullet should be added to the list of bullets e Connecting E_Ports to ports already configured for FC Fastwrite is not supported On page 420 in the section QoS zones replace the last paragraph on the page the paragraph starting with A QoS zone has a special name with the following A QoS zone has a special name to differentiate it from a regular zone The format of the QoS zone name is as follows For high priority QOSHid_xxxxx For low priority QOSLid_xxxxx Where id is a flow identifier that designates a specific virtual channel for the traffic flow and xxxxx is the user defined portion of the name For example the following are valid QoS zone names QOSH3_HighPriorityTraffic QOSL1_LowPriorityZone The switch automatically sets the priority for the host target pairs specified in the zones based on the priority level H or L in the zone name The flow id allows you to have control over the VC assignment and control over balancing the flows throughout the fabric The id is from 1 5 for high priority traffic which corresponds to VCs 10 14 For low priority traffic the id is from 1 2 which corresponds to VCs 8 and 9 The id is optional if it is not specified the virtual channels are allocated using a round robin scheme On page 424 in the section Setting traffic prioritization replace s
109. yption Engines EEs in the encryption group are rebooted Symptom Rekey operation hangs after all EEs are rebooted Feature Data Security Function Re key Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 1 1_enc Service Request ID 358763 Defect ID DEFECT000244112 Technical Severity Medium Summary Rekeyed LUNs are in Not Ready Getting key from archive state when the key vault goes down and does not recover Symptom LUNs are stuck in the Not Ready Get key from archieve even after the key vault is brought back online LUNs can t be recovered even after removing and re adding them from to the target container Feature Data Security Function Key Vault Probability Low Risk of Fix Medium Found in Release FOS6 2 0 Service Request ID 371327 Defect ID DEFECT000245009 Technical Severity Medium Summary Persistently disabled GE port on a Brocade FR4 18i blade becomes disabled after hafailover Symptom A GE port on a Brocade FR4 18i blade is persistently disabled After that hafailover is initiated Once the system comes up after failover the persistenly disabled GE port is in disabled state and not disabled persistent state Feature FCIP Function FCIP HA Probability Medium Risk of Fix Low Found in Release FOS6 2 0 foe OO O Fabric OS v6 2 1 Release Notes v1 0 Page 51 of 72 Defect ID DEFECT000250477 Technical Severity Medium Summary Passive path LUN gets stuck in not ready Get key from archive

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