HP Emulex Adapters Release Notes

For example, when 554FLB and NC553i adapters are present in a server blade that is in a HP

6125XLG Blade Switch based Blade Chassis, link failure occurs on secondary-adapters port, FIP

fails and might time out. This issue will be resolved in future release.

HP Emulex 8Gb and 16GB HBA Support for HP Proliant DL580 Gen8 Server

HP Emulex 8Gb and 16Gb HBAs are supported on the HP Proliant DL580 Gen8 server with UEFI

Boot, Legacy Boot, and Secure Boot.

NOTE: Secure Boot is supported only on Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Windows

Server 2012 R2, and SLES11 SP3.

Adapter version requirement:

The HP Emulex 8Gb and 16Gb HBAs require the following minimum version components:

81e/82e 8Gb HBA

• Firmware: 2.01a12

• BIOS: 3.30a2/UEFI 4.13a8

• Universal Boot Image: 5.20x7

SN1100E 16Gb HBA

• Firmware: 1.1.65.101 (BIOS and UEFI are included in the firmware image)

UEFI MS signed driver version is 8.04a14.

CNA/HBA Linux notes

This section provides information about Linux and CNAs/HBAs.

RHEL 5.x, RHEL 6.x Inbox online firmware update for CNAs using ethtools

Use ethtools to perform an online CNA firmware update while running RHEL 5.x Inbox or RHEL

6.x Inbox.

To do this:

1. Copy the latest firmware image (.ufi) from http://www.hp.com/support/downloads to

the /lib/firmware directory:

# cp oc1x-4.x.xxx.xx.ufi /lib/firmware

2. Start the update process:

# ethtool -f eth<X> oc1x-4.x.xxx.xx 0

3. Reboot the system to enable the new firmware image to take effect.

RHEL 5.x, RHEL 6.x Inbox management support for CNAs

There is no management support for CNAs using the OneCommand Management Utility for RHEL

5.x Inbox or RHEL 6.x Inbox at this time.

Fibre Channel HBAs do support OneCommand for RHEL 5.x and RHEL 6.x Inbox.

RHEL5.8 Device Mapper bindings file sync error

In a BFS configuration, a bindings file becomes out-of-sync between the copy in /var/lib/

multipath and a copy in the initrd image the server uses during boot.

A workaround is documented in the Native Linux Device-Mapper Multipath for HP Storage Disk

Arrays reference guide, available at http://spock.corp.hp.com/utility/document.aspx?

docurl=Shared%20Documents/an/solutions_linux/Device_Mapper_Multipath_RG_2012_02_21.pdf