HP Fabric OS 6.2.2f Release Notes (5697-1756, February 2012)

blade, and Brocade HBAs. Enterprise class customers who want to manage departmental
SANs can consider deploying this product.
• HP Network Advisor Enterprise—An application designed for enterprise-class customers that
provides unparalleled performance and scalability (24 physical fabrics and up to 9,000
switch ports). HP Network Advisor Enterprise configures and manages the same switches and
directors as Professional and Professional Plus, but also adds support for the DC SAN Backbone
Director and the SN8000B 8-Slot SAN Backbone Director Switch. HP Network Advisor
Enterprise is required to manage FICON fabrics. Existing DCFM customers that have active
Maintenance and Support contracts are provided a seamless migration path to HP Network
Advisor Enterprise.
DCFM compatibility
With the introduction of HP Network Advisor, DCFM has been put into sustaining mode.
Fabric OS 6.2.2f is fully compatible with DCFM 10.4.x management software. DCFM is a
comprehensive SAN management application that enables end-to-end management of HP B-series
data center fabrics.
DCFM is not qualified or supported for management of switches operating with Fabric OS 7.0.0a
and later firmware versions.
Fabric OS compatibility
Table 1 (page 14), “Supported Fabric OS versions,” lists the earliest versions of software supported
in this release, that is, the earliest supported software versions that interoperate. HP recommends
using the latest software versions to get the greatest benefit from the SAN.
When using the new VF feature, HP recommends that all switches participating in a fabric with a
logical switch use the latest firmware available for those switches. All switches must be operating
at the minimum firmware levels noted in the Fabric OS Interoperability table.
When using either the HP StorageWorks Encryption SAN Switch or the HP StorageWorks DC
Switch Encryption FC Blade, switches attached to hosts and targets, or switches that are part of
the encryption flow, must operate with the following minimum levels:
• 2-Gb platforms must operate with Fabric OS 5.3.2b or later.
• 4-Gb and 8-Gb platforms must operate with Fabric OS 6.1.0h, 6.1.2a, or later.
Fabric OS feature compatibility in native connectivity modes
Some Fabric OS features are not fully supported when operating in the native connectivity modes
for deployment with M-EOS-based products. All HP StorageWorks models supported by Fabric
OS 6.2.2f support both interopmodes 2 and 3, with the exception of the 4/32 SAN Switch.
NOTE: HP may not support all of these switches in this mode. For information about support in
interopmodes 2 and 3, see the HP StorageWorks Fabric Interoperability: Merging Fabrics Based
on M-series and B-series Fibre Channel Switches Application Notes, available at http://
www.hp.com.
Table 5 (page 19) specifies the support of Fabric OS features when operating in either interopmode
2 (McDATA Fabric Mode) or interopmode 3 (Open Fabric Mode) with Fabric OS 6.2.2f.
Table 5 Feature support in interopmodes 2 and 3
Fabric OS 6.2.2fFabric OS Features (supported in interopmode 0)
IM 3IM 2IM = interopmode
YesYesL2 Fabric OS Hot Code Load
YesYesFabric OS Hot Code Load with FCR
Fabric OS feature compatibility in native connectivity modes 19