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Contents

ContentsContents

Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 5

Resolution of Important Defects ............................................................................................................................. 5

This release contains the following important fixes. ............................................................................................. 5

Additional Hardware Platform Support ................................................................................................................... 5

New Features & Support ......................................................................................................................................... 5

Optionally Licensed Software .................................................................................................................... 6

Temporary License Support ...................................................................................................................... 9

Supported Switches .................................................................................................................................. 10

Standards Compliance ............................................................................................................................. 10

Technical Support ..................................................................................................................................... 10

FOS Migration Considerations ................................................................................................................ 12

FOS Upgrade and Downgrade Special Considerations........................................................................................ 12

Recommended Migration Paths to FOS v7.2.1e ................................................................................................. 12

Important Notes ......................................................................................................................................... 13

Brocade Network Advisor Compatibility ............................................................................................................... 13

WebTools Compatibility ......................................................................................................................................... 13

SMI Compatibility ................................................................................................................................................... 14

Fabric OS Compatibility ......................................................................................................................................... 14

SNMP Support ....................................................................................................................................................... 16

Blade Support ........................................................................................................................................ 1617

Scalability................................................................................................................................................... 22

Other Important Notes and Recommendations ..................................................................................... 22

Adaptive Networking/Flow-Based QoS Prioritization ........................................................................................... 22

Access Gateway ..................................................................................................................................................... 23

Brocade HBA/Adapter Compatibility .................................................................................................................... 23

D_Port ..................................................................................................................................................................... 23

Encryption Behavior for the Brocade Encryption Switch (BES) and FS8-18 ...................................................... 24

FCIP (Brocade 7800 and FX8-24)......................................................................................................................... 25

FCoE/DCB/CEE (FCOE10-24) ............................................................................................................................... 26

FCR and Integrated Routing .................................................................................................................................. 27

Forward Error Correction (FEC) ............................................................................................................................. 27

FICON ...................................................................................................................................................................... 27

FL_Port (Loop) Support.......................................................................................................................................... 27

Flow Vision ............................................................................................................................................................. 28

ICLs on DCX/DCX-4S ............................................................................................................................................. 28

Native Connectivity (M-EOS interoperability) ........................................................................................................ 28

Port Initialization .................................................................................................................................................... 28

Port Mirroring ......................................................................................................................................................... 29

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Port Statistics ......................................................................................................................................................... 29

Virtual Fabrics ........................................................................................................................................................ 29

WebTools ................................................................................................................................................................ 29

Zoning ..................................................................................................................................................................... 30

Miscellaneous ........................................................................................................................................................ 30

Defects ....................................................................................................................................................... 32

Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.2.1e .................................................................................... 32

Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.2.1d .................................................................................... 39

Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.2.1c .................................................................................... 45

Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.2.1b .................................................................................... 48

Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.2.1a .................................................................................... 59

Closed with Code Change in Fabric OS v7.2.1 ...................................................................................... 65

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Overview

Fabric OS (FOS) v7.2.1e is a patch release based on FOS v7.2.1d. All hardware platforms and features supported in FOS v7.2.1 are also supported in FOS v7.2.1e. This release contains fixes for many defects. This release also merge in the support for long distance 16G optical cable QSFP that extends the ICL connectivity up to two kilometers (km).

Resolution of Important Defects

This release contains the following important fixes.

• DEFECT000527506 - I2C access failures leading to various symptoms such as:

1. slotshow command output may flag some components with an "*", indicating no i2c access to that component.

2. switchshow command output may indicate “Speed Mismatch / Incompatible SFP”

3. tempshow command output may display "unknown"

4. Console log (dmesg) may include: pcf954x_select_mux: Failed to select the I2C mux (addr=76, val=08, err=-1 id=0)!

• DEFECT000547921 - In an AG fabric or NPIV environment, device is not found or HBA detects SCSI command timeout and fabric switch stops routing AG switch/NPIV device traffic.

• DEFECT000547765 - Link reset events encountered on internal backend BE port trunks while there are no link errors or credits lost.

• DEFECT000548721 - E-port is fenced even after port fencing has been disabled..

Additional Hardware Platform Support

Brocade Fabric OS v7.2.1 supports all platforms supported with FOS v7.2.0 plus the following:

•

5432 (embedded switch)

•

6548 (embedded switch)

New Features & Support

In addition to fixes for defects, FOS v7.2.1 also includes:

• Support for FIPS-140 level 2 certification for FOS v7.2.1 release stream

o Support for NIST SP800-131A compliant cryptographic algorithms and key length

• Support for Clearlink Diagnostic Port (D-port) capability with 8G Long Wave Length (LWL) and Extended Long Wave Length (ELWL) SFPs

o Support is not available with shortwave 8G SFPs, o Supported on Brocade 16G Gen5 platforms only o The 8G LWL/ELWL SFPs do not support electrical loopback or optical loopback tests. Support

is limited to:

 Link traffic tests across the 8G LWL/ELWL SFPs and  Link distance measurements for links that are longer than 100 meter.

• Support for Forward Error Correction (FEC) counters for admin users through CLI and SNMP

o Supported on Brocade 16G Gen5 platforms only

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Optionally Licensed Software

Fabric OS v7.2 includes all basic switch and fabric support software, as well as optionally licensed software that is enabled via license keys.

Optionally licensed features include:

Brocade Ports on Demand

Brocade Ports on Demand—Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning additional ports via

Brocade Ports on DemandBrocade Ports on Demand license key upgrade. (Applies to select models of switches).

Brocade Extended Fabrics

Brocade Extended Fabrics—Provides greater than 10km of switched fabric connectivity at full bandwidth over

Brocade Extended FabricsBrocade Extended Fabrics long distances (depending on platform this can be up to 3000km).

Note:

Note:Note: If a port on 16G FC blades or a 16G switch is configured to operate at 10G speed, Extended fabrics license is not needed to enable long distance connectivity on that port.

Brocade ISL Trunking

Brocade ISL Trunking— Provides the ability to aggregate multiple physical links into one logical link for

Brocade ISL TrunkingBrocade ISL Trunking enhanced network performance and fault tolerance. Also includes Access Gateway ISL Trunking on those products that support Access Gateway deployment.

Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring

Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring—Enables performance monitoring of networked storage resources.

Brocade Advanced Performance MonitoringBrocade Advanced Performance Monitoring This license includes the Top Talkers feature.

Brocade Fabric Watch

Brocade Fabric Watch — Monitors mission-critical switch operations. Fabric Watch includes Port Fencing

Brocade Fabric WatchBrocade Fabric Watch capabilities.

Brocade Fabric Vision

Brocade Fabric Vision –––– Enables MAPS (Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite), Flow Vision, and D_Port to non-

Brocade Fabric Vision Brocade Fabric Vision Brocade devices. MAPS enables rules based monitoring and alerting capabilities, provides comprehensive dashboards to quickly troubleshoot problems in Brocade SAN environments. Flow Vision enables host to LUN flow monitoring, application flow mirroring for offline capture and deeper analysis, and test traffic flow generation function for SAN infrastructure validation. D_Port to non-Brocade devices allows extensive diagnostic testing of links to devices other than Brocade switches and adapters. (Functionality requires support by attached device, availability TBD).

Fabric Vision license also enables Fabric Watch and Advanced Performance Monitoring functionalities without requiring Brocade Fabric Watch or Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring license (with FOS v7.2 and later only).

Note:

Note:Note:

If installed on a switch operating with FOS v7.1.x, the Fabric Vision license will be displayed as “Fabric Insight”. If installed on a switch operating with FOS v7.0.x or earlier, the Fabric Vision license will be displayed as “Unknown”. Fabric Vision features are not supported under FOS v7.1.x or earlier.

FICON Management Server

FICON Management Server— Also known as “CUP” (Control Unit Port), enables host-control of switches in

FICON Management ServerFICON Management Server Mainframe environments.

Enhanced Group Management

Enhanced Group Management ———— This license enables full management of devices in a data center fabric with

Enhanced Group Management Enhanced Group Management deeper element management functionality and greater management task aggregation throughout the environment. This license is used in conjunction with Brocade Network Advisor application software and is applicable to all FC platforms supported by FOS v7.0 or later.

Note:

Note: This capability is enabled by default on all Gen 5 65XX model switches and DCX 8510 platforms,

Note: Note: and on DCX and DCX-4S platforms that are running Fabric OS v7.0.0 or later. Gen 5 embedded switches receive this capability by default with FOS v7.2.1 and later. Individual upgrade is required when upgrading directly to FOS v7.2.1 on Gen 5 embedded switches. Subsequent group operations on Gen 5 embedded switches including group upgrade are supported..

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Adaptive Networking with QoS

Adaptive Networking with QoS—Adaptive Networking provides a rich framework of capability allowing a user to

Adaptive Networking with QoSAdaptive Networking with QoS ensure high priority connections obtain the bandwidth necessary for optimum performance, even in congested environments. The QoS SID/DID Prioritization and Ingress Rate Limiting features are the first components of this license option, and are fully available on all 8Gb and 16Gb platforms.

Note :

Note :Note :

With FOS v7.2, the Adaptive Networking license has become part of the base FOS firmware, and features under this license no longer require the license to be installed. Customers that wish to have these capabilities without purchasing the license are required to upgrade to FOS v7.2 or later.

Brocade 6520 does not require the Adaptive Networking with QoS license to enable the capabilities associated with this license. These capabilities are included by default on the Brocade 6520.

Server Application Optimization

Server Application Optimization — When deployed with Brocade Server Adapters, this license optimizes overall

Server Application OptimizationServer Application Optimization application performance for physical servers and virtual machines by extending virtual channels to the server infrastructure. Application specific traffic flows can be configured, prioritized, and optimized throughout the entire data center infrastructure. This license is not supported on the Brocade 8000.

Note :

Note :Note :

With FOS v7.2, Server Application Optimization license has become part of the base FOS firmware, and features under this license no longer require the license to be installed. Customers that wish to have these capabilities without purchasing the license are required to upgrade to FOS v7.2 or later.

Brocade 6520 does not require the SAO license to enable the capabilities associated with this license. These capabilities are included by default on the Brocade 6520.

Integrated Routing

Integrated Routing— This license allows any port in a DCX 8510-8, DCX 8510-4, Brocade 6510, Brocade 6520,

Integrated RoutingIntegrated Routing DCX-4S, DCX, 5300, 5100, 7800, or Brocade Encryption Switch to be configured as an Ex_port or VEx_port (on some platforms) supporting Fibre Channel Routing. This eliminates the need to add an FR4-18i blade or use the 7500 for FCR purposes, and also provides double or quadruple the bandwidth for each FCR connection (when connected to another 8Gb or 16Gb-capable port). .

Encryption Performance Upgrade

Encryption Performance Upgrade — This license provides additional encryption processing power. For the

Encryption Performance Upgrade Encryption Performance Upgrade Brocade Encryption Switch or a DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4, the Encryption Performance License can be installed to enable full encryption processing power on the BES or on all FS8-18 blades installed in a DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 chassis.

DataFort Compatibility

DataFort Compatibility — This license is required on the Brocade Encryption Switch or DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510-

DataFort CompatibilityDataFort Compatibility 8/DCX 8510-4 with FS8-18 blade(s) to read and decrypt NetApp DataFort-encrypted disk and tape LUNs. DataFort Compatibility License is also required on the Brocade Encryption Switch or DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 85108/DCX 8510-4 Backbone with FS8-18 Encryption Blade(s) installed to write and encrypt the disk and tape LUNs in NetApp DataFort Mode (Metadata and Encryption Algorithm) so that DataFort can read and decrypt these LUNs. DataFort Mode tape encryption and compression is supported beginning with the FOS v6.2.0 release on DCX platforms. Availability of the DataFort Compatibility license is limited; contact your vendor for details.

Advanced Extension

Advanced Extension – This license enables two advanced extension features: FCIP Trunking and Adaptive Rate

Advanced Extension Advanced Extension Limiting. The FCIP Trunking feature allows multiple IP source and destination address pairs (defined as FCIP Circuits) via multiple 1GbE or 10GbE interfaces to provide a high bandwidth FCIP tunnel and failover resiliency. In addition, each FCIP circuit supports four QoS classes (Class-F, High, Medium and Low Priority), each as a TCP connection. The Adaptive Rate Limiting feature provides a minimum bandwidth guarantee for each tunnel with full utilization of the available network bandwidth without impacting throughput performance under high traffic load. This license is available on the 7800 and the DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 for the FX824 on an individual slot basis.

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10GbE FCIP/

10GbE FCIP/10

10GbE FCIP/10GbE FCIP/ capability on FC16-xx blade ports supported on DCX 8510 platforms. On the Brocade 6510, Brocade 6520 this license enables 10G FC ports.

This license is available on the DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 on an individual slot basis.

Advanced FICON Acceleration

Advanced FICON Acceleration – This licensed feature uses specialized data management techniques and

Advanced FICON AccelerationAdvanced FICON Acceleration automated intelligence to accelerate FICON tape read and write and IBM Global Mirror data replication operations over distance, while maintaining the integrity of command and acknowledgement sequences. This license is available on the 7800 and the DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 for the FX8-24 on an individual slot basis.

7800

7800 Port

7800 7800 ports) and six GbE ports (instead of the base two ports). This license is also required to enable additional FCIP tunnels and also for advanced capabilities like tape read/write pipelining.

10G

G Fibre Channel

Fibre Channel – This license enables the two 10GbE ports on the FX8-24 and/or the 10G FC

1010

G G

Fibre ChannelFibre Channel

On FX8

On FX8----24:

On FX8On FX8

With this license installed and assigned to a slot with an FX8-24 blade, two additional operating modes (in addition to 10 1GbE ports mode) can be selected:

On FC

On FC16

On FCOn FC

On Brocade 6510

On Brocade 6510, Brocade 6520

On Brocade 6510On Brocade 6510

Port Upgrade

Port Port

24:

24:24:

• 10 1GbE ports and 1 10GbE port, or

• 2 10GbE ports

16----xx

xx::::

1616

xxxx

• Enables 10G FC capability on an FC16-xx blade in a slot that has this license , Brocade 6520::::

, Brocade 6520, Brocade 6520

• Enables 10G FC capability on Brocade 6510, Brocade 6520.

Upgrade – This license allows a Brocade 7800 to enable 16 FC ports (instead of the base four

Upgrade Upgrade

ICL 16

ICL 16----link, or Inter Chassis Links

link, or Inter Chassis Links -- This license provides dedicated high-bandwidth links between two Brocade

ICL 16ICL 16

link, or Inter Chassis Linkslink, or Inter Chassis Links DCX chassis, without consuming valuable front-end 8Gb ports. Each chassis must have the 16-link ICL license installed in order to enable the full 16-link ICL connections. (Available on the DCX only.)

ICL 8

ICL 8----Link

Link – This license activates all eight links on ICL ports on a DCX-4S chassis or half of the ICL bandwidth

ICL 8ICL 8

LinkLink for each ICL port on the DCX platform by enabling only eight links out of the sixteen links available. This allows users to purchase half the bandwidth of DCX ICL ports initially and upgrade with an additional 8-link license to utilize the full ICL bandwidth at a later time. This license is also useful for environments that wish to create ICL connections between a DCX and a DCX-4S, the latter of which cannot support more than 8 links on an ICL port. Available on the DCX-4S and DCX platforms only.

ICL POD License

ICL POD License –––– This license activates ICL ports on core blades of DCX 8510 platforms. An ICL 1st POD

ICL POD License ICL POD License license only enables half of the ICL ports on CR16-8 core blades of DCX 8510-8 or all of the ICL ports on CR16-4 core blades on DCX 8510-4. An ICL 2nd POD license enables all ICL ports on CR16-8 core blades on a DCX 8510-8 platform. (The ICL 2nd POD license does not apply to the DCX 8510-4.)

Enterprise ICL (EICL) Lice

Enterprise ICL (EICL) License

Enterprise ICL (EICL) LiceEnterprise ICL (EICL) Lice is connected to four or more Brocade DCX 8510 chassis via ICLs either as ISLs or IFLs.

Note that this license requirement does not depend upon the total number of DCX 8510 chassis that exist in a fabric, but only on the number of other chassis connected to a DCX 8510 via ICLs. This license is recognized/displayed when operating with FOS v7.0.1 but enforced with FOS v7.1.0 or later.

Note:

Note: The EICL license supports a maximum of nine DCX 8510 chassis connected in a full mesh

Note: Note: topology or up to ten DCX 8510 chassis connected in a core-edge topology. Refer to the Brocade SAN Scalability Guidelines document for additional information.

nse –––– The EICL license is required on a Brocade DCX 8510 chassis when that chassis

nse nse

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Temporary License Support

The following licenses are available in FOS v7.2 as Universal Temporary or regular temporary licenses:

• Fabric (E_Port) license

• Extended Fabric license

• Trunking license

• High Performance Extension license

• Advanced Performance Monitoring license

• Fabric Watch license

• Integrated Routing license

• Advanced Extension license

• Advanced FICON Acceleration license

• 10GbE FCIP/10GFibre Channel license

• FICON Management Server (CUP)

• Enterprise ICL license

• Fabric Vision license

Note

Note: Temporary Licenses for features available on a per slot basis enable the feature for any and all slots in

NoteNote

the chassis.

Temporary and Universal Temporary licenses have durations and expiration dates established in the licenses themselves. FOS will accept up to two temporary licenses and a single Universal license on a unit. Universal Temporary license keys can only be installed once on a particular switch, but can be applied to as many switches as desired. Temporary use duration (the length of time the feature will be enabled on a switch) is provided with the license key. All Universal Temporary license keys have an expiration date upon which the license can no longer be installed on any unit.

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Supported Switches

FOS v7.2.1 supports the following existing platforms:

• 300, 5100, 5300, 7800, VA-40FC, Brocade Encryption Switch, DCX, DCX-4S

• 6505, 6510, 6520, DCX 8510-8, DCX 8510-4

• FC16-32, FC16-48, FC8-32E, FC8-48E, FC8-64, FX8-24, FS8-18 on DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4

• FC8-16, FC8-32, FC8-48, FC8-64, FX8-24, FS8-18, FCOE10-24 on DCX/DCX-4S

• 5410, M5424, 5430, 5450, 5480, 5470, 5460, NC-5480

• Support merged to FOS v7.2.1: 5431, 5432, 6547, 6548, M6505

Access Gateway mode is also supported by Fabric OS v7.2, and is supported on the following switches: the Brocade 300, 5100, VA-40FC, 5410, 5450, 5430, 5431, 5432, 5460, 5470, 5480, NC-5480, M5424, 6547, 6548, M6505,

The Brocade 8000 is not supported with FOS v7.2.0 and later.

, 6510, 6505.

, ,

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 FC standards conformance, visit the following Brocade Web site: http://www.brocade.com/sanstandards

The FCOE10-24 blade conform to the following Ethernet standards:

• IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol

• IEEE 802.1s Multiple Spanning Tree

• IEEE 802.1w Rapid reconfiguration of Spanning Tree Protocol

• IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation with LACP

• IEEE 802.3ae 10G Ethernet

• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN Tagging

• IEEE 802.1p Class of Service Prioritization and Tagging

• IEEE 802.1v VLAN Classification by Protocol and Port

• IEEE 802.1AB Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)

• IEEE 802.3x Flow Control (Pause Frames)

The following draft versions of the Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Standards are also supported on the FCOE10-24 blade:

• IEEE 802.1Qbb Priority-based Flow Control

• IEEE 802.1Qaz Enhanced Transmission Selection

• IEEE 802.1 DCB Capability Exchange Protocol (Proposed under the DCB Task Group of IEEE

802.1 Working Group)

• FC-BB-5 FCoE (Rev 2.0)

Technical Support

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. General Information

General Information

1.1.

General InformationGeneral Information

• Technical Support contract number, if applicable

• Switch model

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• Switch operating system version

• Error numbers and messages received

• supportSave

supportSave command output and associated files

supportSave supportSave o For dual CP platforms running FOS v6.2 and above, the supportsave command gathers

information from both CPs and any AP blades installed in the chassis

• Detailed description of the problem, including the switch or fabric behavior immediately following the problem, and specific questions

• Description of any troubleshooting steps already performed and the results

• Serial console and Telnet session logs

• Syslog message logs

2. Switch Serial Number

Switch Serial Number

2.2.

Switch Serial NumberSwitch Serial Number

The switch serial number is provided on the serial number label, examples of which are shown here:

FT00X0054E9

The serial number label is located as follows:

• Brocade Encryption Switch, VA-40FC, 300, 5100, 5300, 6510, 6505, 6520 — On the switch ID pull-out tab located on the bottom of the port side of the switch

• Brocade 7800 — On the pull-out tab on the front left side of the chassis underneath the serial console and Ethernet connection and on the bottom of the switch in a well on the left side underneath (looking from front)

• Brocade DCX, DCX 8510-8 — Bottom right of the port side

• Brocade DCX-4S, DCX 8510-4 — Back, upper left under the power supply

3. World Wi

World Wide Name (WWN)

3.3.

World WiWorld Wi

When the Virtual Fabric feature is enabled on a switch, each logical switch has a unique switch WWN. Use the wwn

If you cannot use the wwn primary WWN from the same place as the serial number, except for the Brocade DCX/DCX-4S and DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4. For the Brocade DCX/DCX-4S and DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 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.

1. License Identifier (License ID)

License Identifier (License ID)

1.1.

License Identifier (License ID) License Identifier (License ID)

There is only one License Identifier 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 licenseId

de Name (WWN)

de Name (WWN)de Name (WWN)

wwn command to display the switch WWN.

wwnwwn

wwn command because the switch is inoperable, you can get the

wwnwwn

licenseIdShow

licenseIdlicenseId

Show command to display the License Identifier.

ShowShow

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FOS Migration Considerations

This section contains important details to consider before migrating to or from this FOS release.

FOS Upgrade and Downgrade Special Considerations

DCX/DCX-4S units running any FOS v7.1.x or FOS v7.2.0x can be non-disruptively upgraded to FOS v7.2.1e. This upgrade is non-disruptive to both FC and FCoE traffic (when using FCOE10-24 blades).

Any firmware activation on Brocade 7800, or DCX, DCX-4S, DCX 8510-8, DCX 8510-4 with FX8-24 will disrupt I/O traffic on the FCIP links.

For FCIP, the best practice is to always operate the switch or blade at both ends of the tunnel with the same level of Fabric OS, down to the maintenance release. Fabric OS upgrades should be done on both ends of the FCIP tunnel concurrently.

Note:

Note:Note:

To achieve non-disruptive firmware upgrade on 5431, 6547 and M6505 embedded switches to FOS v7.2.1e please follow the instructions given below:

5431

5431:

54315431 Upgrade 5431 from FOS v7.0.1_hut to FOS v7.0.1_hut1 before non-disruptively upgrading it to FOS v7.2.1e.

6547

6547:

65476547 Upgrade 6547 from FOS v7.0.0_pha3 to FOS v7.0.0_pha4 before non-disruptively upgrading it to FOS v7.2.1e.

M6505

M6505:

M6505M6505 Upgrade M6505 from FOS v7.0.1_ sh to FOS v7.0.1_sh1 before non-disruptively upgrading it to FOS v7.2.1e.

Disruptive

Disruptive upgrades to Fabric OS v7.2.1e are allowed and supported from FOS v7.0.x (up to a two-level

DisruptiveDisruptive migration) using the optional “-s” parameter with the firmwaredownload command.

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.

Recommended Migration Paths to FOS v7.2.1e

Migrating from FOS v7.

Migrating from FOS v7.1111

Migrating from FOS v7.Migrating from FOS v7.

Any 8G or 16G platform running any FOS v7.1. firmware can be non-disruptively upgraded to FOS v7.2.1e.

Migrating

Migrating from FOS v

Migrating Migrating

Any 8G or 16G platform operating at FOS v7.0.x must be upgraded to FOS v7.1.x before non-disruptively upgrading to FOS v7.2.1e.

Disruptive upgrade to FOS v7.2.1e from FOS v7.0 is supported.

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from FOS v7.0

from FOS vfrom FOS v

7.0

7.07.0

Important Notes

This section contains information that you should consider before you use this Fabric OS release.

Brocade Network Advisor Compatibility

Brocade Network Advisor greatly simplifies the steps involved in daily operations while improving the performance and reliability of the overall SAN and IP networking environment. Brocade Network Advisor unifies, under a single platform, network management for SAN, LAN and converged networks. Brocade Network Advisor provides a consistent user experience, across the entire Brocade portfolio of switches, routers and adapters.

Brocade Network Advisor provide health and performance dashboards, with an easy-to-use graphical user interface and comprehensive features that automate repetitive tasks. With Brocade Network Advisor, storage and network administrators can proactively manage their SAN environments to support non-stop networking, address issues before they impact operations, and minimize manual tasks.

Brocade Network Advisor is available with flexible packaging and licensing options for a wide range of network deployments and for future network expansion. Brocade Network Advisor 12.1.4 is available in

• SAN-only edition

• IP-only edition

• SAN+IP edition.

For SAN Management, Network Advisor 12.1.4 is available in three editions:

•

Network Advisor Professional

Network Advisor Professional: a fabric management application that is ideally suited for small-size

Network Advisor ProfessionalNetwork Advisor Professional

businesses that need a lightweight management product to manage their smaller fabrics. It manages one FOS fabric at a time and up to 1,000 switch ports. It provides support for Brocade FC switches, Brocade HBAs / CNAs, and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switches.

• Network Advisor Professional Plus

Network Advisor Professional Plus: a SAN management application designed for medium-size

Network Advisor Professional PlusNetwork Advisor Professional Plus

businesses or departmental SANs for managing up to thirty-six physical or virtual fabrics (FOS) and up to 2,560 switch ports. It supports Brocade backbone and director products (DCX 8510-4/DCX-4S, 48Ks, etc.), FC switches, Fibre Channel Over IP (FCIP) switches, Fibre Channel Routing (FCR) switches/ Integrated Routing (IR) capabilities, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) / DCB switches, and Brocade HBAs / CNAs.

• Network Advisor Enterprise

Network Advisor Enterprise:::: a management application designed for enterprise-class SANs for

Network Advisor EnterpriseNetwork Advisor Enterprise

managing up to thirty-six physical or virtual fabrics and up to 9,000 switch ports. Network Advisor SAN Enterprise supports all the hardware platforms and features that Network Advisor Professional Plus supports, and adds support for the Brocade DCX Backbone (DCX 8510-8/DCX) and Fiber Connectivity (FICON) capabilities.

More details about Network Advisor’s new enhancements can be found in the Network Advisor 12.1.4 Release Notes, Network Advisor 12.1.4 User Guide, and Network Advisor 12.1.4 Installation, Migration, & Transition Guides.

Note:

Note:Note:

Brocade Network Advisor 12.1.4 or later is required to manage switches running FOS 7.2.1 or later.

The Brocade Network Advisor seed switch should always have the highest FOS version used in the fabric.

WebTools Compatibility

FOS v7.2.1e is qualified and supported with Oracle Java version 7 update 76 and Java version 8 update

40. Launching WebTools with Oracle JRE 1.7u45 through Brocade Network Advisor is supported on 12.1.5.

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Brocade Network Advisor 12.1.6 supports launching WebTools with JRE 1.7u45, JRE 1.7u51[Windows], and JRE 1.7u67 [Linux].

SMI Compatibility

• It is important to note that host SMI-S agents cannot be used to manage switches running FOS v7.2.

If users want to manage a switch running FOS v7.2 using SMI-S interface, they must use Brocade Network Advisor’s integrated SMI agent.

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.

To ensure that a configuration is fully supported, always check the appropriate SAN, storage or blade server product support page to verify support of specific code levels on specific switch platforms prior to installing on your switch. Use only FOS versions that are supported by the provider.

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

Supported Products and FOS InteroperabilitySupported Products and FOS Interoperability

4100, 4900, 7500, 7500e, 5000, 200E, 48K

v6.2.2 or later

Brocade 4012, 4016, 4018, 4020, 4024, 4424

Brocade 5410, 5480, 5424,

, 5450, 5460, 5470, NC-5480 v6.2.0 or later

, ,

Brocade 6548, 5432 V7.2.1 of later10

Brocade DCX, 300, 5100, 5300 v6.1.0e and later

VA-40FC v6.2.1_vfc 6, v6.2.2 or later

Brocade DCX-4S v6.2.0 or later

Brocade DCX with FS8-18 blade(s), Brocade Encryption Switch v6.1.1_enc or later

Brocade 7800, DCX and DCX-4S with FCOE10-24 or FX8-24 blades V6.3.0 or later

Brocade 80009 V6.1.2_CEE1 or later

Brocade DCX/DCX-4S with FA4-18 blade(s) DCX requires v6.0.x or later 6, DCX-4S

requires 6.2.x or later

Brocade DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 FOS v7.0 or later

Brocade 6510 FOS v7.0 or later

6 8

2 6 8

5 6

Brocade 6505 FOS v7.0.1 or later

Brocade 6520 FOS v7.1 or later

5430 FOS v7.1 or later10

5431, 6547, M6505 FOS v7.2 or later10

48000 with FA4-18 blade(s), Brocade 7600 V6.2.2 or later

Mi10k, M6140 (McDATA Fabric Mode and Open Fabric Mode) 1 Not Supported

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Multi

Multi----Protocol Router

Protocol Router IIIInterop

MultiMulti

Protocol Router Protocol Router

nteroperability

erability

nteropnterop

erabilityerability

Brocade 7500 and FR4-18i blade V6.2.2 and higher

4 6 8

McDATA SANRouters 1620 and 2640 Not Supported

NOS (VDX Platform) I

NOS (VDX Platform) Interop

NOS (VDX Platform) INOS (VDX Platform) I

Brocade VDX6710, VDX6720, VDX6730 NOS v2.1.1 or later

nteroperability

nteropnterop

erability

erabilityerability

Brocade VDX8770 NOS 3.0 or later

Table Notes:

When routing to an M-EOS edge fabric using frame redirection, the M-EOS fabric must have a FOS-based product in order to 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.

These platforms may not be directly attached to hosts or targets for encryption flows.

McDATA 1620 and 2640 SANRouters should not be used with FOS-based routing (FCR) for connections to the same edge fabric.

FA4-18 is not supported in a DCX/DCX-4S that is running FOS v7.0 or later

If operating with FOS v6.2.2e

platform. Otherwise, ISL will segment.

Connectivity to FC SAN is established via VDX6730 connected to FCR running FOS v7.0.1 or later. FCR platforms

supported include 5100, VA-40FC, 5300, 7800, DCX, DCX-4S, DCX 8510-8, DCX 8510-4, 6510, 6520 (requires FOS v7.1 or later). For higher FCR backbone scalability (refer to separate “Brocade SAN Scalability Guidelines” documentation for details), please use 5300, 6520, DCX, DCX-4S, DCX 8510-8, DCX 8510-4.

FR4-18i and FC10-6 are not supported on DCX/DCX-4S on FOS v7.1 or later.

Brocade 8000 is not supported with FOS v7.2 or later.

Represents the earliest major FOS version. These embedded platforms running respective dedicated FOS versions

can also interoperate with FOS v7.2.

FOS v6.2.2e or earlier

FOS v6.2.2eFOS v6.2.2e

or earlier, Adaptive Networking QoS must be disabled when connecting to 16G FC

or earlieror earlier

Zoning Compatibility

Zoning Compatibility Note

Zoning Compatibility Zoning Compatibility

Note:

NoteNote

Users are recommended to upgrade to the following versions of firmware when interoperating with a switch running FOS v7.0 or later in the same layer 2 fabric to overcome some of the zoning operations restrictions that otherwise exist:

Patch code levels with full zoning

Main code level

Main code levelMain code level

Patch code levels with full zoning Patch code levels with full zoning

compatibility

compatibilitycompatibility

FOS v6.2 FOS v6.2.2d or later FOS v6.3 FOS v6.3.2a or later FOS v6.4 FOS v6.4.1 or later

If there are switches running FOS versions lower than the above listed patch levels in the same fabric as a switch with FOS v7.0 or later, then cfgsave and cfgenable operations initiated

initiated from these switches will fail if

initiatedinitiated the zoning database is greater than 128KB. In such scenarios zoning operations such as cfgsave/cfgenable can still be performed successfully if initiated from a switch running FOS v7.0 or later.

Fabric OS v7.2.1e Release Notes v1.0 Page 15 of 82

SNMP Support

MIB Object

MIB ObjectMIB Object

MIB Object

Description

DescriptionDescription

Description

swConnUnitFECCorrectedCounter

Indicates Forward Error Correction

(FEC)

corrected

locks count.

swConnUnitFECUnCorrectedCounter

Indicates

FEC u

n-c

orrected

locks count.

MIB Object

MIB ObjectMIB Object

MIB Object

Description

DescriptionDescription

Description

swConnUnitPortFECMode

Represents the port

FEC m

ode.

Represents the FEC state of a port. If both SFPs connected in a link are

Starting with FOS v7.2.0, the Fabric OS MIB Reference document is not updated. You can obtain the latest MIBs from the downloads area of MyBrocade site after logging in.

For information about SNMP support in Fabric Operating System (FOS) and how to use MIBs, see the Fabric

OS Administrator’s Guide.

Obtaining the MIBs

Obtaining the MIBsObtaining the MIBs

You can download the MIB files required for this release from the downloads area of the MyBrocade site.

To download the Brocade-specific MIBs from the Brocade Technical Support website, you must have a user name and password.

1. On your web browser, go to http://my.brocade.com.

2. Login with your user name and password.

3. Click the downloads tab.

4. On the downloads tab, under Product Downloads, select All Operating Systems from the Download by list.

5. Select Fabric Operating System (FOS), and then navigate to the release.

6. Navigate to the link for the MIBs package and either open the file or save it to disk.

NOTE:

NOTE: Distribution of standard MIBs has been stopped. Download the required standard MIBs from the

NOTE:NOTE:

http://www.oidview.com/ or http://www.mibdepot.com/ website.

Changes in MIBs and objects

Changes in MIBs and objectsChanges in MIBs and objects

This release introduces the following changes in MIBs and objects:

New MIBs

New MIBsNew MIBs

There are no new MIBs introduced in this release.

Updated MIBs

Updated MIBsUpdated MIBs

• SW.mib

SW.mib

SW.mibSW.mib The SwConnUnitPortStatEntry

SwConnUnitPortStatEntry table is updated to include the following objects.

SwConnUnitPortStatEntrySwConnUnitPortStatEntry

• faext.mib

faext.mib

faext.mibfaext.mib The SwConnUnitPortEntry

SwConnUnitPortEntry table is updated to include the following objects.

SwConnUnitPortEntrySwConnUnitPortEntry

swConnUnitPortFECState

of Brocade vendor type, the state will be active. Otherwise, it will be inactive.

Blade Support

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Fabric OS v7.2 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the DCX/DCX-4S noted in the following

16-, 32-, 48-

and 64

port 8Gbit port blades (FC8

16,

Supported with FOS v6.0 and above (FC8

64 requires

FC10

-6

Not supported on FOS v7.1

or later

Intelligent blade

Up to a total of 8/4 intelligent blades. See below for

Virtualization/Application Blade (FA4

18) Not supported on FOS v7.0 or later

FCIP/FC Router blade (FR4

18i)

Not supported on FOS v7.

1 or later

Encryption Blade (FS8

18) Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type.

Generation Distance Extension Blade (FX8

24) Up to a max of 4 blades of this type.

FCoE/L2 CEE blade

FCOE10-24 Up to a max of

4 blades of this type.

Not supported in

Not supported in Not supported in

Not supported in

FC16

32,

FC16

48, FC8

32E, FC8

48E Not supported

table

DCX/DCX

DCX/DCX----4S Blade Support Matrix

DCX/DCXDCX/DCX

4S Blade Support Matrix

4S Blade Support Matrix 4S Blade Support Matrix

FC8-32, FC8-48, FC8-64)

Table

Table 1111 Blade Support Matrix for DCX and DCX

Table Table

Note: The iSCSI FC4-16IP blade is not qualified for the DCX/DCX-4S.

Blade Support Matrix for DCX and DCX----4444SSSS with FOS v7.

Blade Support Matrix for DCX and DCXBlade Support Matrix for DCX and DCX

FOS v6.4) with any mix and up to 8/4 of each. No restrictions around intermix.

maximum supported limits of each blade.

the same chassis with other intelligent blades or the

the same chassis with other intelligent blades or the the same chassis with other intelligent blades or the FC8

FC8----64 port blade.

64 port blade.

FC8FC8

64 port blade.64 port blade.

with FOS v7.2222

with FOS v7.with FOS v7.

Fabric OS v7.2.1e Release Notes v1.0 Page 17 of 82

FC16

32, FC16

48 16G FC blades

FOS v7.0 or later.

FC8-64 64

port 8Gbit port blade

With any mix and up to 8/4 of each. No restrictions

FC8-32E, FC8

48E FOS v7.0.1 or later.

Intelligent blade

Up to a total of 8/4 intelligent blades. See below

for

FCIP/FC Router blade (FR4

18i) Not supported

Virtualization/Application Blade (FA4

18) Not Supported

Encryption Blade (FS8

18) Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type.

Next Generation Distance Extension

Blade (FX8

24) Up to a max of 4 blades of this type.

FCoE/L2 CEE blade

FCOE10-24

Not supported on DCX

Not supported on DCX Not supported on DCX

Not supported on DCX

8510 in FOS v7.x

8510 in FOS v7.x8510 in FOS v7.x

8510 in FOS v7.x

Fabric OS v7.2 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the DCX 8510-8 and DCX 8510-4 noted in the table below.

DCX 8510

DCX 8510----8/DCX 8510

DCX 8510DCX 8510

8/DCX 8510----4 Blade Support Matrix

8/DCX 85108/DCX 8510

4 Blade Support Matrix

4 Blade Support Matrix 4 Blade Support Matrix

around intermix.

Note:

Note: FC8-16, FC8-32, FC8-48 blades are not

Note:Note:

not

notnot

supported on DCX 8510 platforms.

maximum supported limits of each blade.

Table

Table 2222 Blade Support Matrix for

Table Table

Blade Support Matrix for DCX 8510

Blade Support Matrix for Blade Support Matrix for

DCX 8510----8 and

DCX 8510DCX 8510

8 and DCX 8510

DCX 8510----4 with FOS v7.

8 and 8 and

DCX 8510DCX 8510

4 with FOS v7.2222

4 with FOS v7.4 with FOS v7.

Note: The iSCSI FC4-16IP blade is not qualified for the DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4.

1. Note that 16G SFP+ is not supported in FC8-32E and FC8-48E blades

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Power Supply Requirements for Blades in DCX/DCX

Power Supply Requirements for Blades in DCX/DCX----4S

Power Supply Requirements for Blades in DCX/DCXPower Supply Requirements for Blades in DCX/DCX

DCX/DCX

DCX/DCX----4S

DCX/DCXDCX/DCX

4S4S

DCX/DCX

DCX/DCX----4S

DCX/DCXDCX/DCX

4S4S

Blades

Blades Type of Blade

BladesBlades

FC10-61, FC8-

Type of Blade

Type of BladeType of Blade

Port Blade 2 Power 16, FC8-32, FC 8-48, FC864

FR4-18i1 Intelligent

Blade

FS8-18, FX8-24,

Intelligent Blade

FCOE10-24

@110 VAC

(Redundant

configurations)

@200-240 VAC

(Redundant

configurations)

2 Power Supplies

Supplies

Not Supported 2 Power Supplies

Not Supported DCX: 2 or 4 Power

Supplies

DCX-4S: 2 Power Supplies

Comments

CommentsComments

• Distribute the Power Supplies evenly to 2 different AC connections for redundancy.

• For DCX with three or more FS8-18 Blades, (2+2) 220VAC Power Supplies are required for redundancy.

• 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 supported number of FS8-18 Blades.

• For both DCX and DCX-4S with FX8-24 blades, (1+1) 220VAC Power Supplies are required for redundancy.

Table

Table 3333 Power Supply Requirements for DCX and DCX

Table Table

Power Supply Requirements for DCX and DCX----4S

Power Supply Requirements for DCX and DCXPower Supply Requirements for DCX and DCX

4S 4S

1. Note that FC10-6 and FR4-18i are not supported with FOS v7.1 or later

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Typical

Typical Power Supply

Power Supply Requirements

Typical Typical

Power Supply Power Supply

(For specific calculation of power draw with different blade combinations, please refer to Appendix A: Power Specifications

(For specific calculation of power draw with different blade combinations, please refer to Appendix A: Power Specifications (For specific calculation of power draw with different blade combinations, please refer to Appendix A: Power Specifications

Configured

ConfiguredConfigured

Number of Ports

Number of PortsNumber of Ports

in the 8510

in the 8510----8 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)

in the 8510in the 8510

Blad

Blades

es Type of Blade

BladBlad

eses

Requirements Guidelines

RequirementsRequirements

8 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)

8 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)8 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)

Type of Blade

Type of BladeType of Blade

Guidelines for Blades

GuidelinesGuidelines

DCX 8510

DCX 8510----8

DCX 8510DCX 8510

(Redundant

(Redundant (Redundant

configurations)

configurations)configurations)

for Blades iiiin DCX 8510

for Blades for Blades

@110 VAC

@110 VAC @110 VAC

8 8

n DCX 8510----8888

n DCX 8510n DCX 8510

DCX 8510

DCX 8510----8

DCX 8510DCX 8510

@200

@200----240

@200@200

VAC

VAC (Redundant

(Redundant

VACVAC

(Redundant (Redundant

configurations)

configurations)configurations)

240

240 240

8 8

Comments

CommentsComments

Any combination of 8Gb or 16Gb ports with QSFP ICLs

256 16Gb ports + QSFP ICLs

256 8Gb ports + QSFP ICLs

192 16Gb Ports & max 2 intelligent blades (FX8-24 /FS818/combination) with QSFP ICLs

192 8Gb Ports & max 2 intelligent blades (FX8-24 /FS8-18/ combination) with QSFP ICLs

336 16Gb ports + QSFP ICLs

336 8Gb ports + QSFP ICLs

FC8-64, FC16-32, FC8-32E

FC16-32, FC16-48 (Maximum of fully populated FC16-32 blades)

FC8-32E, FC8-48E (Maximum of fully populated FC8-32E blades)

FC16-32, FC16-48, FX8-24, FS8-18

FC8-32E, FC8-48E, FX8-24, FS8-18

FC16-48

(Maximum of seven FC16-48 blades, with one empty port blade slot)

FC8-48E

(Maximum of seven FC8-48E blades, with one empty port blade slot)

Port Blade 4 Power Supplies 2 Power

Supplies

Port Blade 4 Power Supplies 2 Power

Supplies

Port Blade 4 Power Supplies 2 Power

Supplies

Port / Intelligent

4 Power Supplies 2 Power

Supplies

Blade

Port / Intelligent

4 Power Supplies 2 Power

Supplies

Blade

Port Blade

4 Power Supplies 2 Power

Supplies

Port Blade

4 Power Supplies 2 Power

Supplies

200-240VAC: 1+1 Power Supplies

110VAC: 2+21 Power Supplies

200-240VAC: 1+1 Power Supplies

110VAC: 2+2

Power Supplies Max 8 FC16-32 port

blades

200-240VAC: 1+1 Power Supplies

110VAC: 2+2

Power Supplies Max 8 FC8-32E port

blades

200-240VAC: 1+1 Power Supplies

110VAC: 2+2

Power Supplies Max four FC16-48

port blades and max 2 Intelligent blades

200-240VAC: 1+1 Power Supplies

110VAC: 2+2

Power Supplies Max four FC8-48E

port blades and max 2 Intelligent blades

200-240VAC: 1+1 Power Supplies

110VAC: 2+2

Power Supplies Max 7 FC16-48 port

blades

200-240VAC: 1+1 Power Supplies

110VAC: 2+2

Power Supplies Max 7 FC8-48E port

blades

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Typical

Typical Power Supply

Power Supply Requirements

Typical Typical

Power Supply Power Supply

(For specific calculation of power draw with different blade combinations, please refer to Appendix A: Power Specifications

Configured

ConfiguredConfigured

Number of Ports

Number of PortsNumber of Ports

in the 8510

in the 8510----8 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)

in the 8510in the 8510

Blad

Blades

es Type of Blade

BladBlad

eses

Requirements Guidelines

RequirementsRequirements

8 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)

8 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)8 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)

Type of Blade

Type of BladeType of Blade

Guidelines for Blades

GuidelinesGuidelines

DCX 8510

DCX 8510----8

DCX 8510DCX 8510

(Redundant

(Redundant (Redundant

configurations)

configurations)configurations)

for Blades iiiin DCX 8510

for Blades for Blades

@110 VAC

@110 VAC @110 VAC

8 8

n DCX 8510----8888

n DCX 8510n DCX 8510

DCX 8510

DCX 8510----8

DCX 8510DCX 8510

@200

@200----240

@200@200

VAC

VAC (Redundant

(Redundant

VACVAC

(Redundant (Redundant

configurations)

configurations)configurations)

240

240 240

8 8

Comments

CommentsComments

384 16Gb ports + QSFP ICLs

384 8Gb ports + QSFP ICLs

Any combination of 8Gb or 16Gb ports and intelligent blades with QSFP ICLs

FC16-32, FC16-48 Port Blade Not Supported 4 Power

Supplies

FC8-32E, FC8-48E Port Blade Not Supported 4 Power

Supplies

FC16-32, FC16-48, FC8-64, FC8-32E, FC8-48E, FS8-18, FX8-24

Table

Table 4444 Power Supply Requirements for DCX

Table Table

Intelligent Blade /Combination

Power Supply Requirements for DCX 8510

Power Supply Requirements for DCXPower Supply Requirements for DCX

Not Supported

4 Power Supplies

8510----8888

85108510

200-240VAC: For DCX 8510-8, four

(2+2) 220V AC Power

Supplies are required

200-240VAC: For DCX 8510-8, four

(2+2) 220V AC Power

Supplies are required

For DCX 8510-8, four (2+2)

220V AC Power Supplies are required when any special purpose blade are installed

Notes:

1. When 2+2 power supply combination is used, the users are advised to configure the Fabric Watch setting for switch marginal state to be two power supplies. Users can use the CLI switchstatuspolicyset to configure this value if the current value is set to zero. In FOS v7.0.x, the default setting for the marginal state due to missing power supplies is incorrectly set to zero, which will prevent Fabric Watch from generating notifications when the switch enters the marginal state due to missing power supplies

Fabric OS v7.2.1e Release Notes v1.0 Page 21 of 82

TTTTypical

ypical Power Supply Requirements

Power Supply Requirements Guidelines

ypicalypical

Power Supply Requirements Power Supply Requirements

(For specific calculati

(For specific calculation of power draw with different

(For specific calculati(For specific calculati

Configured

ConfiguredConfigured

Number of

Number of Number of

Ports

PortsPorts

on of power draw with different blade combinations,

on of power draw with differenton of power draw with different

in the 8510

in the 8510----4 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)

in the 8510in the 8510

Blades

Blades Type of Blade

BladesBlades

Type of Blade

Type of BladeType of Blade

4 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)

4 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)4 Backbone Hardware Reference Manual)

Guidelines for Blades

Guidelines Guidelines

blade combinations, please

blade combinations, blade combinations,

DCX 8510

DCX 8510----4 @110

DCX 8510DCX 8510

VAC (Redundant

VAC (Redundant VAC (Redundant

configurations)

configurations)configurations)

4 @110

4 @110 4 @110

for Blades iiiin DCX 8510

for Blades for Blades

please refer to Appendix A: Power Specifications

please please

DCX 8510

DCX 8510----4

DCX 8510DCX 8510

VAC

VAC (Redundant

VACVAC

configurations)

configurations)configurations)

n DCX 8510----4444

n DCX 8510n DCX 8510

refer to Appendix A: Power Specifications

refer to Appendix A: Power Specifications refer to Appendix A: Power Specifications

240

240 240

4 4

Comments

CommentsComments

@200

@200----240

@200@200

(Redundant

(Redundant (Redundant

96 ports max with QSFP ICLs

Any combination of 8Gb or 16 Gb ports and intelligent blades with QSFP ICLs

Scalability

FC16-32, FC8-32E

FC16-32, FC16-48,

FC8-32E, FC8-48E,

FC8-64, FS8-18, FX8-24

Port Blade 2 Power Supplies 2 Power

Supplies

Intelligent Blade /Combination

Table

Table 5555 Power Supply Requirements for DCX

Table Table

Power Supply Requirements for DCX 8510

Power Supply Requirements for DCXPower Supply Requirements for DCX

Not Supported 2 Power

Supplies

8510----4444

85108510

1+1 redundancy with 110 or 200-240 VAC power supplies

200-240VAC: 1+1 Power Supplies

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

Other Important Notes and Recommendations

Adaptive Networking/Flow-Based QoS Prioritization

• Any 8G or 4G FC platform running FOS v6.2.2e or lower version of firmware cannot form an E-port with a 16G FC platform when Adaptive Networking QoS is enabled at both ends of the ISL. Users must disable QoS at either end of the ISL in order to successfully form an E-port under this condition.

Users can disable QoS via portcfgQos --disable command. Please consult Fabric OS Command Reference manual for details related to portcfgQoS command.

• When using QoS in a fabric with 4G ports or switches, FOS v6.2.2 or later must be installed on all 4G products in order to pass QoS info. E_Ports from the DCX to other switches must come up AFTER

6.2.2 is running on those switches.

• When FOS is upgraded from v7.1.x to v7.2.0 or later:

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If the Adaptive Networking license was NOT installed in v7.1.x, all ports will have QOS disabled following the firmware upgrade and links will come up in normal mode.

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If the Adaptive Networking license was installed in v7.1.x, there will be no change in port QOS mode following the upgrade.

 If the remote port supports QOS and QOS is not explicitly disabled on the local or

remote port, the link will come up in QOS mode.

 Otherwise, the link will come up in normal mode.

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• If FOS v7.2 or later is factory installed (or net installed), Adaptive Networking features are always available. This matches the behavior of the Brocade 6520 and all products shipping with prior versions of FOS and with the Adaptive Networking license factory installed.

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Ports will come up in AE mode by default

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If the remote port supports QOS and is not explicitly disabled, the link will come up in QOS mode. Otherwise, the link will come up in normal mode.

Access Gateway

• Users who want to utilize Access Gateway’s Device-based mapping feature in the ESX environments are encouraged to refer to the SAN TechNote GA-TN-276-00 for best implementation practices. Please follow these instructions to access this technote:

• Log in to http://my.brocade.com

• Go to Documentation > Tech Notes.

• Look for the Tech Note on Access Gateway Device-Based Mapping in VMware ESX Server.

Brocade HBA/Adapter Compatibility

• Brocade HBA/Adapter should be using driver version 2.3.0.2 or later when attached to 16G ports on Brocade switches.

D_Port

• FOS v7.0.0a and later support the execution of D_Port tests concurrently on up to eight ports on the switch.

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Support of D_Port is extended to R_RDY flow control mode. The R_RDY mode is useful for active DWDM links that do not work in VC_RDY or EXT_VC_RDY flow control modes.

• A new sub-option “-dwdm” is added to “portcfgdport --enable” CLI to configure D_Port over active DWDM links. The “-dwdm” option will not execute the optical loopback test while performing D_Port tests as the active

active DWDM links do not provide necessary support to run optical loopback tests.

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Edge Hold Time

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Edge Hold Time (EHT) default settings for FOS v7.x have changed from those in some FOS v6.4.x releases. The following table shows the Default EHT value based on different FOS release levels originally installed at the factory:

Factory Installed Version of FOS

Factory Installed Version of FOS Default EHT Value

Factory Installed Version of FOSFactory Installed Version of FOS

FOS v7.X 220 ms

FOS v6.4.3x 500 ms

FOS v6.4.2x 500 ms

FOS v6.4.1x 220 ms

Default EHT Value

Default EHT ValueDefault EHT Value

active

activeactive

FOS v6.4.0x 500 ms

Any version prior to FOS v6.4.0 500 ms

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Gen 5 platforms and blades are capable of setting an EHT value on an individual port basis. On 8G platforms EHT is set on an ASIC-wide basis, meaning all ports on a common ASIC will have the same EHT setting. Extra care should be given when configuring EHT on 8G platforms or Gen 5 platforms with 8G blades to ensure E_Ports are configured with an appropriate Hold Time setting.

When using Virtual Fabrics and creating a new Logical Switch when running FOS v7.1.0 or later, the default EHT setting for the new Logical Switch will be the FOS default value of 220ms. However, with FOS v7.1.0 and later, each Logical Switch can be configured with a unique EHT setting that is independent of other Logical Switches and the Default Switch. Any Gen 5 ports (Condor3 based) assigned to that Logical Switch will be configured with that Logical Switch’s EHT setting. Any 8G ports (Condor2 based) will continue to share the EHT value configured for the Default Switch.

For more information on EHT behaviors and recommendations, refer to the Brocade SAN Fabric Resiliency Best Practices v2.0 document available on www.brocade.com.

Encryption Behavior for the Brocade Encryption Switch (BES) and FS8-18

• SafeNet’s KeySecure hosting NetApp’s LKM (SSKM) is supported for data encryption operations with SSKM operating in PVM mode.Please see SSKM documentation for operating in PVM mode for details. Operation in HVM mode is not supported

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RASlog SPC-3005 with error 34 may be seen if the link key used by a BES/FS8-18 is reestablished. Please refer to the LKM/SSKM Encryption Admin Guide for the workaround. Also, please ensure that two (2) SSKM’s are present in the deployment for workaround to be performed.

• For crypto tape operations, please ensure to use Emulex FC HBA firmware/drivers

2.82A4/7.2.50.007 or higher. Use of lower level firmware/drivers may result in hosts not being able to access their tape LUNs through a crypto target container.

• Adding of 3PAR Session/Enclosure LUNs to CTCs is now supported. Session/Enclosure LUNs (LUN 0xFE) used by 3PAR InServ arrays must be added to CryptoTarget (CTC) containers with LUN state set to “cleartext”, encryption policy set to “cleartext”. BES/FS8-18 will not perform any explicit enforcement of this requirement.

• The Brocade Encryption switch and FS8-18 blade do not support QoS. When using encryption or Frame Redirection, participating flows should not be included in QoS Zones.

• FOS 7.1.0 or later will use SHA256 signatures for the TLS certificates used to connect to the ESKM 3.0 Server using ESKM 2.0 client. Upgrade from FOS v7.0.x to FOS 7.2 and downgrade from FOS 7.2 to FOS v7.0.x would require regeneration and re-registration of CA and signed KAC certificates to restore connectivity to the key vault. Please refer to the Encryption Admin Guide for more details on ESKM/FOS compatibility matrix.

• The RSA DPM Appliance SW v3.2 is supported. The procedure for setting up the DPM Appliance with BES or a DCX/DCX-4S/DCX 8510 with FS8-18 blades is located in the Encryption Admin Guide.

• Before upgrading from FOS v7.0.x to FOS7.2, it is required that the RKM server running SW v2.7.1.1 should be upgraded to DPM server running SW v3.2. Please refer to DPM/FOS compatibility matrix in the Encryption Admin Guide for more details.

• Support for registering a 2nd DPM Appliance on BES/FS8-18 is blocked. If the DPM Appliances are clustered, then the virtual IP address hosted by a 3rd party IP load balancer for the DPM Cluster must be registered on BES/FS8-18 in the primary slot for Key Vault IP.

• 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 in the FOS v6.3.1 or later release.

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• Hot Code Load from FOS v7.1.x to FOS v7.2 or later is supported. Cryptographic operations and I/O will be disrupted but other layer 2 FC traffic will not be disrupted.

• When disk and tape CTCs are hosted on the same encryption engine, re-keying cannot be done while tape backup or restore operations are running. Re-keying operations must be scheduled at a time that does not conflict with normal tape I/O operations. The LUNs should not be configured with auto rekey option when single EE has disk and tape CTCs.

• Gatekeeper LUNs used by SYMAPI on the host for configuring SRDF/TF using in-band management must be added to their containers with LUN state as “cleartext”, encryption policy as “cleartext” and without “-newLUN” option.

• FOS 7.1.0 introduces support for “disk device decommissioning” to the following key vault types: ESKM, TEKA, TKLM and KMIP. To use disk device decommissioning feature for these key vaults, all the nodes in the encryption group must be running FOS v7.1.0 or later. Firmware downgrade will be prevented from FOS v7.2 to a FOS v7.0.x if this feature is in use. Disk Device decommissioning for DPM and LKM key vaults will continue to work as with previous firmware versions.

• FOS7.2 supports KMIP key vault type for Thales e-Security Key Authority SW v4.0.0 KMIP servers. Please refer to the KMIP Encryption Admin Guide for more details.

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Replication feature from Thales e-Security Key Authority KMIP server is not supported with BES/FS8-18.

• In FOS 7.1.0 or later the encryption FPGA has been upgraded to include parity protection of lookup memory (ROM) within the AES engine. This change enhances parity error detection capability of the FPGA.

• BES/FS8-18 will reject the SCSI commands WRITE SAME, ATS(Compare and Write/Vendor Specific opcode 0xF1) and EXTENDED COPY, which are related to VAAI (vStorage APIs for Array Integration) hardware acceleration in vSphere 4.1/5.x. This will result in non-VAAI methods of data transfer for the underlying arrays, and may affect the performance of VM related operations.

• VMware VMFS5 uses ATS commands with arrays that support ATS. BES/FS8-18 does not support this command set. Use of a workaround procedure is required in order to configure encryption in a VMFS 5 environment. Please refer to Brocade Tech Note “Deployment Options for VMware VMFS-5 with Brocade Encryption” for details.

• XIV storage arrays that have been upgraded to firmware 11.2x or later required to support encryption on thin provisioned LUNs will report all XIV data LUNs as TP=Yes.

FCIP (Brocade 7800 and FX8-24)

• Any firmware activation will disrupt I/O traffic on FCIP links.

• Latency measurements supported on FCIP Tunnels:

o 1GbE & 10GbE - 200ms round trip time and 1% loss.

• After inserting a 4G SFP in GE ports of an FX8-24 blade or 7800 switch, sometimes “sfpshow” output might display “Cannot read serial data!” . Removing and re-inserting the SFP should resolve this issue. It is recommended that users perform sfpshow immediately after inserting the SFP and ensure SFP is seated properly before connecting the cables.

• When running FOS v7.2.0 or later, if the new FCIP Circuit Group feature is configured on any FCIP Circuits, a downgrade operation to pre-FOS v7.2.0 will be blocked until the feature is removed from the FCIP configuration(s).

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