Brocade Fabric OS v8.0.1 Release Notes v1.
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Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes Contents Contacting Brocade Technical Support ......................................................................................................... 7 Brocade Customers ................................................................................................................................... 8 Brocade OEM customers........................................................................................................................... 8 Related Documentation ......
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Document History: Contacting Brocade Technical Support Supported standards and RFCs ................................................................................................................... 21 Optionally Licensed Software ..................................................................................................................... 22 Temporary License Support ................................................................................................
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Document History: Contacting Brocade Technical Support Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform .................................................................................................. 36 FICON ...................................................................................................................................................... 36 Miscellaneous ..........................................................................................................
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Document History: Contacting Brocade Technical Support Document History Version Summary of Changes Publication Date v1.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Preface: Contacting Brocade Technical Support Preface Contacting Brocade Technical Support As a Brocade customer, you can contact Brocade Technical Support 24x7 online, by telephone, or by email. Brocade OEM customers contact their OEM/Solutions provider. To expedite your call, have the following information immediately available: 1.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Preface: Related Documentation Use the licenseIdShow command to display the License Identifier. Brocade Customers For product support information and the latest information on contacting the Technical Assistance Center, go to http://www.brocade.com/services-support/index.html. If you have purchased Brocade product support directly from Brocade, use one of the following methods to contact the Brocade Technical Assistance Center 24x7.
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Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Overview: Document feedback Overview Fabric OS v8.0.1 is a major release introducing the support for the new Gen 6 Fibre Channel Directors. Both the new 8-slot director Brocade X6-8 and the new 4-slot director Brocade X6-4 are supported in FOS v8.0.1. In addition, the new 32 Gbps FC32-48 Fibre Channel port blade and the new SX6 extension blade for the new director platforms are supported. Fabric OS v8.0.1 also supports Brocade Gen 5 (16 Gbps) Fibre Channel products.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 What is New in This Release: Hardware What is New in This Release Hardware The following section lists new hardware introduced with this release as well as hardware that are no longer supported with this release. New devices Product name Device Name Brocade X6-8 Director Gen 6 Fibre Channel 8-slot Director Product features Key features • • • • • Up to 384 ports at 32 Gbps 32 UltraScale ICLs equivalent to 128 32-Gbps ports 16.2 Tbps aggregate chassis bandwidth 1.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 What is New in This Release: Software features Deprecated hardware The following Brocade devices are no longer supported starting with this release. • • 300, 5100, 5300, 7800, VA-40FC, Brocade Encryption Switch, DCX, DCX-4S 5410, M5424, 5430, 5431, 5432, 5450, 5460, 5470, 5480, NC-5480 The following blades are no longer supported starting with this release. • FC8-16, FC8-32, FC8-48, FS8-18, FCOE10-24.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 What is New in This Release: Software features Monitor Security Certificate Expiration FOS v8.0.1 adds monitoring the validity period of digital security certificates present on Brocade switches. This provides administrators expiry notification before any security certificates actually expire. Monitor Gigabit Ethernet Ports FOS v8.0.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 What is New in This Release: Software features Quiet Time Support for SNMP FOS v8.0.1 extends the quiet time support to the SNMP alert actions so that users can configure MAPS rules to bypass sending duplicate SNMP trap messages for repeat violations. MAPS platform dependent default policies FOS v8.0.1 changes MAPS default policies so that only rules applicable to a specific platform are included in the default policies for that platform.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 What is New in This Release: Software features Fabric Flow Dashboard Enhancements FOS v8.0.1 enhances the Flow Dashboard with the following new data: • • MAPS history data for ports and back-end ports Identification of ports that have been fenced, decommissioned, or quarantined by MAPS actions FCIP and IP Extension FOS v8.0.1 provides additional enhancements to Brocade storage extension products beyond supporting the new SX6 blade in X6-8 and X6-4 directors.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 What is New in This Release: Software features Miscellaneous FOS v8.0.1 includes the following miscellaneous extension enhancements • • • • • • • The extncfg command allows the extension configuration to be reset The traffic Control List (TCL) configuration command portcfg tcl now supports port ranges and well-known application names.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 What is New in This Release: Software features Stronger Switch Password Hash Algorithm FOS v8.0.1 adds the support for both SHA-256 and SHA-512 as password hash algorithms to increase the security protection of switch passwords. MD5 password hash continues to be supported for backward compatibility. The default password hash is SHA-512 for a switch with FOS v8.0.1 installed from manufacturing. Password Policy Enhancements FOS v8.0.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 What is New in This Release: Software features Syslog Server FOS v8.0.1 supports server host names in syslog server configuration. FOS retains the server configuration, either as a host name or as an IP address, as provided by administrators to the syslogadmin command. RASLog FOS v8.0.1 increases the number of RASLog messages that are persistently saved to 8192 entries for Brocade G620 and X6 platforms.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 What is New in This Release: Software features SNMP FOS v8.0.1 includes the following enhancements and changes for SNMP. • • • The snmpConfig command now supports a non-interactive mode to improve configuration through scripting. Support for system resource (memory, CPU, and flash) monitoring in Access Gateway mode in the AG MIB.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 What is New in This Release: CLI Changes Automatic Non-DFE and portCfgNonDfe Command FOS v8.0.1 automatically activates non-DFE mode on Gen 5 (16 Gbps) platforms if a port non-DFE configuration is disabled, the port is in 8G or N8 speed, and the port receives a fillword of IDLE’s. There is no change to ports with non-DFE configuration enabled. The portCfgNonDfe command is also enhanced to display the non-DFE activation state of a port.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 What is New in This Release: Supported standards and RFCs Deprecated commands Refer to the “Deprecated commands” section in the Brocade Fabric OS Command Reference supporting Fabric OS v8.0.1. Supported standards and RFCs 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.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Software License Support: Optionally Licensed Software Software License Support Optionally Licensed Software Fabric OS 8.0.1 includes all basic switch and fabric support software, as well as optionally-licensed software enabled using license keys. Optionally-licensed features include: Brocade Ports on Demand — Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning additional SFP ports via license key upgrade. (Applies to select models of switches).
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Software License Support: Optionally Licensed Software Advanced Extension — This license enables two advanced extension features: FCIP Trunking and Adaptive Rate Limiting. The FCIP Trunking feature allows multiple IP source and destination address pairs (defined as FCIP Circuits) via multiple 1 GbE or 10 GbE interfaces to provide a high bandwidth FCIP tunnel and failover resiliency.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Software License Support: Temporary License Support capacity of 16 links, which activates 8 QSFP ports across both core blades. Each ICL license has the capacity of enabling half of the ICL bandwidth on X6-8 or X6-4 respectively. Enterprise ICL (EICL) License — The EICL license is required on a Brocade DCX 8510 chassis when that chassis is connected to four or more Brocade DCX 8510 chassis via ICLs. This license is not applicable to X6 Directors.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 • • • Software License Support: Temporary License Support Fabric Vision license WAN Rate Upgrade 1 license WAN Rate Upgrade 2 license Note: Temporary Licenses for features available on a per-slot basis enable the feature for any and all slots in 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.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Hardware Support: Supported devices Hardware Support Supported devices The following devices are supported in this release: • • • • G620, X6-8, X6-4 6505, 6510, 6520, DCX8510-8, DCX8510-4 6543, 6545, 6546, 6547, 6548, M6505, 6558 7840 Supported blades DCX 8510-8/DCX 8510-4 blade support Fabric OS v8.0.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Hardware Support: Supported power supplies Note: The QSFPs supported in FC16-64, part numbers 57-1000294-01 and 57-1000294-02, are also supported on X6 core blades.
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Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Software Upgrades and Downgrades: Image filenames Software Upgrades and Downgrades Image filenames Download the following images from www.brocade.com. Image filename Description v8.0.1.zip Fabric OS v8.0.1 for Windows v8.0.1_tar.gz Fabric OS v8.0.1 for Linux v8.0.1.md5 Fabric OS v8.0.1 Checksum v8.0.1_all_mibs.tar.gz Fabric OS v8.0.1 MIBs v8.0.1_releasenotes_v1.0.pdf Fabric OS v8.0.1 Release Notes v1.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Scalability Limitations and Restrictions Scalability All scalability limits are subject to change. Limits may be increased once further testing has been completed, even after the release of this version of the Fabric OS. For current scalability limits for Fabric OS, refer to the Brocade SAN Scalability Guidelines document, available at www.brocade.com.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Compatibility/interoperability WebTools Compatibility Fabric OS 8.0.1 is qualified and supported with Oracle Java version 8 update 77. Please refer to the “Other Important Notes and Recommendations” section for more details. SMI Compatibility It is important to note that host SMI-S agents cannot be used to manage switches running Fabric OS 8.0.1. If you want to manage a switch running Fabric OS 8.0.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Compatibility/interoperability 6558 FOS v8.0.1 or later 1 Brocade G620 FOS v8.0.0 or later Brocade X6-8/X6-4 FOS v8.0.1 or later Brocade X6-8/X6-4 with FC32-48 blade or SX6 blade FOS v8.0.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Important Notes Important Notes In-flight Encryption and Compression • • • Fabric OS 8.0.1 does not support in-flight encryption on Brocade G620 or X6 directors. The CLI command for port configuration for in-flight encryption is blocked in Fabric OS 8.0.1. In-flight compression is supported in FOS v8.0.1 on Brocade G620 and X6 directors. In-flight encryption and compression are supported on 6510, 6520, and DCX 8510 platforms.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Important Notes Ethernet Management Interface • Enabling IPSec on management interface is not supported on Brocade G620 switches. The IPSecConfig command is blocked to prevent enabling the configuration. The recommended interface speed configuration for a Brocade G620 is 1G auto-negotiate. If a G620 is configured for 10/100M Gbps forced-speed and fails to establish a link, Brocade recommends using a cross-over cable.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Important Notes Miscellaneous • • • • • • If the ambient temperature is above the recommended operational limit, the power supply units may shut down, in particular when the ambient temperature is above 62C degree for Brocade X6 directors. This will result in the switch being shut down without any warning.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defects Some defects listed in the following tables do not apply to the Brocade G620 platform but were disclosed in a previous release. Closed with code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 This section lists software defects with Critical, High, and Medium Technical Severity closed with a code change as of April 22, 2016 in version 8.0.1. Defect ID: DEFECT000471762 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.2.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Symptom: Flow command functions inconsistently after creating multiple flows with Egress E_Ports Condition: The issue will happen under stress test where one creates more than ten flows with same sid/did pair. Recovery: configdownload the previous working configuration on the switch. Defect ID: DEFECT000524199 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.3.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Condition: happens when the swEventTrap and swFabricWatchTrap configuration in switch and configuration file are different, but their desired severity levels are same. Defect ID: DEFECT000532799 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.3.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000537571 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.2.0 Probability: Low Technology: Monitoring Technology Area: Hardware Monitoring Symptom: CRC errors with good EOF at 4G speed may be encountered when with some SFPs. Condition: This may be seen when using 4G LW SFP part number 571000027-02.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Recovery: Run fcrproxyconfig CLI command to determine the total number of proxy devices in the switch. If the total count shows 10,000 proxy devices, use "fcrproxyconfig -r" to remove some proxy devices. Defect ID: DEFECT000547722 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.1.2 Symptom: Configuration keys corresponds to credit recovery feature may not be consistently reflected in configshow.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Condition: It is applicable if the switch or fabric is monitored by BNA and port decommission is configured and enabled. If BNA is unable to decommission an F_Port it then fences the port as a fall back action and in this case MAPS-1010 RASLOG message is not generated. Note, port decommission action always fences associated port so, if BNA fails to decommission F_Port then it fences the port.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000550554 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Probability: Medium Technology: Traffic Management Technology Area: FICON Symptom: With CUP Diagnostics and zOS HealthChecker, a port that reports a SlowDrain or Bottleneck Detected event, may persist in reporting this state, even though the condition has cleared.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Symptom: Diagnostic run may fail with RASLog "[BLZ-5040], 0, CHASSIS, ERROR, Brocade 7840, S0,P8(105) [OID 0x43028829]: Sending ipp port fault for reason 1". Condition: When running diagnostics on BR7840. Defect ID: DEFECT000553454 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.2.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000555826 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0_CNG Probability: Low Technology: Management Technology Area: Management GUI Symptom: Error will be shown for user description field while creating new user from switch admin. Condition: Error will be shown if user description text length is provided between 33 to 40 characters.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Condition: This issue is seen in all platforms, when the user receives swFCPortScn SNMP trap for port disable event. Defect ID: DEFECT000559352 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.2.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000560645 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.3.1 Probability: Low Technology: Management Technology Area: Configuration Fundamentals Symptom: Management access (via assigned IP address of logical switch) is lost and changing IP addresses is not possible.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Condition: Crypto key length 40 and 56 are invalid and the same has been removed in v7.2.1. This issue is observed when switch is running firmware lower to v7.2.1, user sets the crypto key length to invalid value 40 or 56 and upgrades the switch to firmware version v7.2.1 or above. Workaround: Set the crypto key length to valid value 128 prior to upgrade to firmware version v7.2.1 or above.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Workaround: Change the VE tunnel compression level from aggr-deflate to deflate. Defect ID: DEFECT000565355 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Probability: Medium Technology: Monitoring Technology Area: Flow Vision Symptom: The vtap flow would not mirror the frames to the AMP when the AE ports between the switch and AMP is toggled.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000566666 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Probability: High Technology: Extension Technology Area: Extended Fabrics Symptom: Error log will report warnings, with code XTUN-1997, stating DP ftrace triggers. DP ftrace will show errors stating: "iapi0762|should have been tcpCbRxQueueHandler()".
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000567324 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Probability: High Technology: Extension Technology Area: WAN Performance Analysis Tools Symptom: The WAN Tool session reports higher than expected round trip times. Condition: This occurs when the WAN Tool session is configured with jumbo frames and has a committed rate equal to the physical interface speed.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000567733 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Probability: High Technology: Monitoring Technology Area: MAPS Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Symptom: After an upgrade to Fabric OS v7.4.x, MAPS may stop working and HA Sync may be lose on a director switch. Condition: This is seen only after an upgrade to FOS version v7.4.x from FOS versions v7.3.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000568377 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Probability: Low Technology: Management Technology Area: Software Installation & Upgrade Symptom: Firmwaresync fails due to timeout when standby CP is running FOS 7.2 or older and active CP is running FOS 7.4. Condition: Occurs when active CP is running FOS 7.4 and standby CP is running FOS 7.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Condition: The issue happens due to user mistake to configure the same WAN IP address on multiple ports. Due to the underline defect, 7840 stuck in the state that are not allowed new TCP connection to be established. Defect ID: DEFECT000569309 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.4.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000570356 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Probability: Medium Technology: Extension Technology Area: FCIP Fibre Channel over IP Symptom: FCIP DP FFDC after multiple DRAM2 memory pool warnings via XTUN-1008 messages Condition: After running WAN tool to test an FCIP Circuit, DP events caused complete depletion of the DRAM2 pool on a DP.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Condition: When HCL is attempted after one or more tunnel bounces, the FC Flush logic can examine an internal credit counter and assume that FC flush failed. Defect ID: DEFECT000572790 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Probability: High Technology: Management Technology Area: Inband Management Symptom: VPD version 2.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000573629 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Probability: Low Technology: Management Technology Area: Configuration Fundamentals Symptom: IP configuration from Chassis Management Module (SVP) will fail the first time after power-cycle. Condition: Issue may be seen on embedded platforms. Recovery: Re-do the IP configuration from SVP.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000574253 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.0.1 Probability: Low Technology: Management Technology Area: SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol Symptom: Inconsistent enc_out stats between portstatsshow and SNMP may be encountered. Condition: This may occur under rare circumstance where top 32 bits of internal error counter is incremented.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Condition: Observed when WWN Static Mappings are configured and user has deleted the port group where the WWN is mapped. Defect ID: DEFECT000574877 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Symptom: The traps sent for Link up/Link down events of management fc interfaces that starts with fc0 contain incorrect ifindex as varbind. Condition: This happens on all the platforms and all the versions of FOS. Defect ID: DEFECT000576018 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Symptom: Kernel panic with zoned termination after zoned exceeds max thread. Condition: It happens where scripting with CLI commands such as portzoneshow without much delay in between or excessive queries for admin domain list from external management application. Workaround: Reduce excessive polling for any zone command through external application or scripting. Adding proper delays between CLIs can also avoid this issue.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Workaround: Run sfpshow -f before upgrading from FOS v7.0.x releases to FOS v7.4.1,7.4.1a, and 7.4.1b; or directly upgrade to FOS v7.4.1c with the fix. Recovery: For F_Port, bounce the port to recover. For trunk ports, disable ports in the trunk one at a time and then enable all ports. Defect ID: DEFECT000577183 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.3.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000577646 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.0 Probability: Low Technology: Monitoring Technology Area: Flow Vision Symptom: Frames are monitored for an ingress flow with frametype specified and srcdev/dstdev not specified even though the frames ingressing at the specified port do not match the frametype.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Condition: This is encountered when the Brocade 7840 pair has an IPSec enabled extension tunnel utilizing a VLAN tagged IP interface. Workaround: Disable IPSec on the extension tunnel, or utilize an untagged IP interface. Defect ID: DEFECT000578576 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Symptom: Symptom: portcfgshow -i does not show same references to FEC as portcfgshow and portcfgfec --show. It is still showing: FEC: ON FEC: via TTS Instead of: 10G/16G FEC: ON 16G FEC via TTS: OFF Condition: When user issues "portcfgshow -i " Defect ID: DEFECT000580006 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Condition: After upgrade from FOS v7.3.x to v7.4.0x and FOSv7.4.1, with existing F/E_Port on an ASIC chip, enabling an AE_Port on the same chip may cause routing problems in the switch. Recovery: Reboot switch to recover. Defect ID: DEFECT000580863 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.3.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000581627 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Probability: Medium Technology: Monitoring Technology Area: Hardware Monitoring Symptom: Switch may encounter false alarms for failed blowers and high temperatures, leading to an attempt to initiate switch shutdown.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000584234 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.4.1 Probability: Medium Technology: Monitoring Technology Area: Analytics Monitoring Symptom: Switch may report raslog MAPS-1003 alert, indicating greater than expected IOPs per second even though the IOP rate is below threshold.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Condition: Issuing 'portcfgshow ipif|iproute|fciptunnel|fcipcircuit' or other extension related 'portcfgshow' commands can cause the error. Defect ID: DEFECT000586412 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Symptom: DPs on BR7840 switch panic and recovery while disabling compression.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000588485 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Probability: Low Technology: Traffic Management Technology Area: Port Bring-up Symptom: Switch in AG mode reboots. Condition: This may occur when host is rebooted and switch did not discard the ABTS frame for the FLOGI while N_Port is undefined.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000590415 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.2.1 Probability: Low Technology: Management Technology Area: Access Gateway Symptom: Discrepancy is seen between the outputs of CLI commands "ag --show" and "ag --mapshow" on AG switch. Condition: This may occur on AG switches in no policy mode.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Closed without code changes in Fabric OS 8.0.1 This section lists software defects with Critical, High, and Medium Technical Severity closed without a code change as of April 22, 2016 in version 8.0.1. Defect ID: DEFECT000495229 Reason Code: Not Reproducible Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.2.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Symptom: In extreme conditions MAPS generates false alert for port errors such as LR etc. Condition: This false alert could be generated during state change of port and this happen in extreme conditions. Defect ID: DEFECT000543441 Reason Code: Feature/Function Not Supported Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.4.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000560401 Reason Code: Not Reproducible Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0_CNG Symptom: After moving switch to another slot (Movement Detection triggers) and switch reseat, first ipaddrset to set static IPv4 address takes up to 5 minutes to work.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Condition: When an Edge fabric is connected to both local FCR switch and remote FCR switch, and the FCR TI zone is configured on the remote FCR switch EX_Port. Workaround: If an Edge fabric is connected to both local FCR switch and remote FCR switch, user can configure TI zone only on the local FCR switch EX_Port. Recovery: Disable the local FCR EX_Port that is connected to the Edge fabric and restart the discovery.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000571567 Reason Code: Not Reproducible Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.0 Symptom: MAPS dashboard may show incorrect UTIL value in the current day or in the last column in the history data table.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000577380 Reason Code: Not Reproducible Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.0 Symptom: User might see FCR routing issue which might cause frame drop, host or target can't be discovered. Technical Severity: High Probability: Low Technology: Traffic Management Technology Area: Fibre Channel Routing Condition: All the following conditions must be met to trigger this issue. 1.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Reported In Release: FOS7.3.1 Technology: Traffic Management Symptom: The switch may encounter a ficon cup daemon (ficud) panic after observing IDC Timeout messages. Technology Area: FICON Condition: This is seen in FICON environment when response messages come in at the same time as an outgoing directory diagnostics message.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Open Defects in Fabric OS 8.0.1 This section lists open software defects with Critical, High, and Medium Technical Severity as of April 22, 2016 in version 8.0.1. Defect ID: DEFECT000463170 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.2.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Condition: Changes to the FCIP tunnels in the 7840 platform are not updated in the WebTools views. Workaround: Navigate to another tab and return to see the updated values of FCIP Tunnel. Defect ID: DEFECT000512746 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.3.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000548803 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.1.1 Symptom: After an offline/online event of storage ports in a session based zone, hosts are no longer able to connect to the storage ports. Condition: This may be seen in largely over-subscribed storage ports Workaround: portdisable/portenable storage ports.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Workaround: Remove the port from quarantined state using sddquarantine --clear before moving the port to a different logical switch Defect ID: DEFECT000554685 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.3.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Recovery: Remove ISL causing the inadvertent merge, deactivate vTap flow, configure the correct AF port, and activate vTap flow. Defect ID: DEFECT000559528 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.3.1 Probability: Medium Technology: Monitoring Technology Area: MAPS Monitoring and Alerting Policy Suite Symptom: MAPS traps are not sent as part of snmpTraps –send (test traps) command.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Symptom: One or more IPSec enabled FCIP circuits may continuously bounce or go down and not recover. The affected DP will report Authentication Tag Mismatch errors continually. Condition: When IPSec enabled on an FCIP tunnel between a pair of FX824 blades. Recovery: Reboot the affected FX8-24 blade. Defect ID: DEFECT000564187 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS6.4.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000564909 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.3.1 Probability: High Technology: Management Technology Area: CLI Command Line Interface Symptom: Switches upgraded to FOSv7.x firmware from FOSv6.4.x with long distance ISLs configured would see "Desired Buffers = 0" in portshow output instead of the configured distance.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000567870 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Condition: A two chassis topology having three Logical Partitions in each chassis and there a Base Fabric with ISL links. Workaround: Hafailover to prevent the issue. Recovery: Set the non-base logical switches offline and then online. Defect ID: DEFECT000570541 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000572497 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.3.0 Probability: Low Technology: Traffic Management Technology Area: Port Bring-up Symptom: Switch cold boot due to "Software Fault:ASSERT" Condition: The following conditions may cause this timing issue: - multiple switch ports bouncing repeatedly over the course of several minutes.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Symptom: When total flow count reaches the maximum but IT and ITL counts are less than their respective maximum limits and there are idle flows, flow aging may not happen. Condition: Aging is done based on IT and ITL usage counts. It can so happen both IT and ITL counts are well under the limits but total flow count in the system can exceed the aging threshold.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000576361 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.2.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Condition: When the F_Port index is different than trunk mater user port number, information will be displayed based on user port number which is equal to trunk port index. In this case slave port information may display instead of trunk master. Defect ID: DEFECT000577989 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000581120 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Symptom: The GE ports of the SX6 extension blade displays the port state as "No_Light" rather than "Mod_Inv" when a 32G SFP+ is inserted Condition: When a 32G SFP+ is inserted into the GE port of a SX6 extension blade. Defect ID: DEFECT000583693 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000586502 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Probability: Medium Technology: Management Technology Area: Configuration Fundamentals Symptom: The customer may see timeout messages from support save due to disruptive operation like pulling blades out. Condition: It is not recommended to pull blades during a support save.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000588840 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Probability: High Technology: Monitoring Technology Area: D_Port Diagnostic Port Symptom: D_Port fails when DWDM is applied to it Condition: When DWDM is enabled on a port configured as D_Port.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000590653 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Probability: Low Technology: Traffic Management Technology Area: QoS Quality of Service Symptom: After enabling QoS in a fabric, frame timeout may be observed under heavy congestion condition. Condition: While implementing QoS in an existing fabric, IO was stopped, QoS High was enabled and IO was started again.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Symptom: System checks during firmware install can add several minutes delay when downgrading a GEN5 platform to FOS v7.3.x or v7.4.x from FOS v8.0.1. Condition: On Gen5 platforms during firmware downgrade to FOS v7.3.x or v7.4.x from FOS v8.0.1. Defect ID: DEFECT000591695 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000591922 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Probability: Medium Technology: Extension Technology Area: FCIP Fibre Channel over IP Symptom: Unable to modify an enabled TCL when max TCLs are active. Condition: Maximum number of TCLs configured and enabled on the system.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000592535 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Probability: Medium Technology: Management Technology Area: Configuration Fundamentals Symptom: Missing blocking message when performing a configdownload of a file from a different platform type. Condition: When issuing a configdownload using a file from platform of different type.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Symptom: When using the CLI command "portcfg lag LAG1 --delete -f" the user may see the warning message: WARNING: While making configuration changes the modified LAN GE ports will be disabled. Please run "portenable" command to manually enable the modified LAN GE ports after completing all the configuration changes. Operation timed out.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Condition: A very short lived TCP connection that sends a small amount of data immediately after it is established and is followed by an immediate close, may close without transferring any data. The TCP connection must be terminated through IP Extension. Defect ID: DEFECT000593461 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000593757 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Symptom: F_Ports will remain disabled in AG and user need to manually enable the ports to bring up the F_Ports. Condition: switchdisable/enable without any delay on Wedge platform alone will make the F_Ports stay in the disabled state Workaround: Toggling the port will recover it.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000595368 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS7.4.0 Probability: Medium Technology: Management Technology Area: Management GUI Symptom: In zone configuration tab, two zone nodes will be displayed instead of one zone node Condition: This may be encountered when launching zone admin in FOS 7.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Defect ID: DEFECT000595599 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.1 Probability: Medium Technology: Traffic Management Technology Area: Fibre Channel Routing Symptom: When the port that is online at 32G goes offline because of link failure and comes back online, the port can form a separate trunk because of the FEC state mismatch with master port. This problem applies for 32G trunking ports.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Symptom: FCIP FCP and FICON I/O Errors during FCIP HCL Failover or Failback processing on FCP or FICON Emulation enabled tunnels Condition: When running active FICON and FCP traffic over a FICON emulation and FCP emulation enabled FCIP tunnel (or different tunnels) and performing an FCIP HCL firmware upgrade or downgrade. Defect ID: DEFECT000596073 Technical Severity: High Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.
Fabric OS 8.0.1 Release Notes v1.0 Limitations and Restrictions: Defects Condition: Firmwaredownload from FOS v8.0.1 to FOS v7.4.x Workaround: Remove the DHCHAP keys using "secauthsecret --remove -all" and add the keys back after downgrade to FOS v7.4.x Defect ID: DEFECT000596539 Technical Severity: Medium Product: Brocade Fabric OS Reported In Release: FOS8.0.
