HP B-series Network Advisor Enterprise, Professional Plus, and Professional 11.1.2 Release Notes (5697-1433, December 2011-includes all 11.1.x versions)

Version
11.1.2
Description
HP Network Advisor 11.1.2 is a new software management platform that provides users with a
consistent user interface across FC and FCoE / DCB along with custom views and controls based
on the users’ areas of specialization. Network Advisor provides users with the utmost flexibility in
deployment and operational models, including traditional SAN deployments (FC) and end-to-end
convergence (FCoE, iSCSI and NAS over DCB). It provides the next evolutionary step from the
previous DCFM software management platform, and is required for management of the new
hardware platforms highlighted below, and any future hardware platforms, as well as for the new
Fabric OS 7.0.0a and later releases.
New hardware platforms
There is now support for the following 16 Gbps hardware platforms:
• HP SN6000B 16Gb FC Switch with up to 48 ports running 4/8/10/16 Gbps FC for both
open systems and FICON environments.
• HP SN8000B 8-Slot SAN Backbone Director Switch and the HP SN8000B 4-Slot SAN Director
Switch. Both director switches are highly available, modular, and scalable platforms.
• New 16 Gbps Core Blades for the 16 Gbps director switches, enabling twice the slot
bandwidth available in previous generation directors.
• HP SN8000B 16Gb 32-port Fibre Channel Blade and HP SN8000B 16Gb 48-port Fibre
Channel Blade
New software features
SAN Management Feature Enhancements:
• DCB switch support: Network Advisor allows users to discover and manage DCB Switches
from the SAN tabs.
• Host views are supported on the SAN Tabs and allow users to discover hosts using a Virtual
Machine Manager (VMM) such as vCenter Server.
• Virtualization now allows users to discover VMs directly from the vCenter.
• Unified ACL management allows users to consistently define and deploy ACLs across different
types of devices.
Network Advisor brings forward the capabilities found in Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM)
for SAN management with additional features and enhancements:
• Policy monitor allows users to set up best practices for their network and run a test manually,
or on a scheduled basis, to ensure the network conforms to the best practices.
• Frame monitor provides a monitoring mechanism that allows configuring different thresholds
for different types of frames and report events whenever a count for a particular frame type
crosses its respective threshold.
• D_Port: Network Advisor allows users to run optical and electrical loopback and link traffic
tests. Network Advisor also provides digital diagnostics information on 16Gb port optics,
such as temperature, Rx/Tx power, bias current, and supply voltage.
• Bottleneck detection allows users to configure the parameters and view the statistics. In addition,
when a bottleneck is detected, Network Advisor allows users to view where the bottleneck is
occurring on topology as well as obtain information on the affected hosts.
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