Brocade Fabric OS v6.1.

1d
Release Notes v1.0

January 20, 2009

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Brocade Fabric OS v6.1.1d Release Notes v1.0 Initial release January 20, 2009
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Contents
Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 4
Optionally Licensed Software.................................................................................................................... 4
Previously Licensed Software Now Part of Base FOS ..............................................................................................5
Supported Switches.................................................................................................................................... 5
Standards Compliance ............................................................................................................................... 5
Technical Support ....................................................................................................................................... 5
Important Notes........................................................................................................................................... 6
DCFM Compatibility.................................................................................................................................................6
EFCM Compatibility .................................................................................................................................................7
Fabric OS Compatibility............................................................................................................................................7
Firmware Upgrades and Downgrades......................................................................................................................12
Scalability ................................................................................................................................................................14
Other Important Notes and Recommendations........................................................................................................16
Documentation Updates........................................................................................................................... 18
Brocade Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide (Publication Number 53-1000598-04).................................................18
Brocade 5100 Hardware Reference Manual (Publication Number 53-1000854-02)...............................................19
Web Tools Functionality Moved to DCFM .............................................................................................. 19
Brocade 7500 SAN Routers Hardware Reference Manual (Publication Number 53-100026-03)...........................20
Brocade 7500 SAN Routers QuickStart Guide (Publication Number 53-100028-05)...........................................22
Address change for all product documentation........................................................................................................23
Closed Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.1d....................................................................................................... 23
Closed Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.1c....................................................................................................... 26
Closed Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.1b....................................................................................................... 27
Closed Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.1a....................................................................................................... 29
Closed Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.1......................................................................................................... 32

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Overview
If you are already using the most recent version of the Fabric OS v6.1.1c Release Notes, here are the
changes between that version and this version.
• The table at the end of these notes contains a list of the Fabric OS v6.1.1d closed defects, as well
as those listed as closed in the Fabric OS v6.1.1a through 6.1.1c release notes.
• Multi-Protocol router interop is now supported with McDATA SAN Routers M1620 and M2640.
See the Fabric OS Compatibility section (below) for more information, including restrictions for
this interop.

Optionally Licensed Software

Optionally licensed features include:
• Brocade Ports on Demand — Allows customers to instantly scale the fabric by provisioning
additional ports via license key upgrade (applies to select models of switches).
• Brocade Extended Fabrics — Provides greater than 10km of switched fabric connectivity at full
bandwidth over long distances (depending on platform this can be up to 3000km).
• Brocade ISL Trunking — Provides the ability to aggregate multiple physical links into one
logical link for enhanced network performance and fault tolerance. Also includes Access
Gateway ISL Trunking on those products that support Access Gateway deployment.
• Brocade Advanced Performance Monitoring — Enables performance monitoring of networked
storage resources. This license includes the TopTalkers feature.
• High Performance Extension over FCIP/FC (formerly known as “FC-IP Services”) (For the FR4-
18i blade and Brocade 7500) — This license key also includes the FC-Fastwrite feature and
IPSec capabilities.
• Brocade Fabric Watch — Monitors mission-critical switch operations. Fabric Watch now
includes new Port Fencing capabilities.
• FICON Management Server — Also known as “CUP” (Control Unit Port), enables host-control
of switches in Mainframe environments.
• ICLs, or Inter Chassis Links — Provide dedicated high-bandwidth links between two Brocade
DCX chassis, without consuming valuable front-end 8G ports. Each DCX must have the ICL
license installed in order to enable the ICL connections. (Available on the DCX only)
• Enhanced Group Management — This license, available only on the DCX and new 8G platforms,
enables full management of the device in a datacenter fabric with deeper element management
functionality and greater management task aggregation throughout the environment. This license
is used in conjunction with Brocade’s Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM) application software.
• Adaptive Networking — Adaptive Networking provides a rich framework of capability allowing
a user to 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 8G
platforms.
• Integrated Routing — This licensed capability, introduced in Fabric OS v6.1, allows ports in a
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 DCX, 5300, or 5100 to be configured as EX_ports 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 the bandwidth for each FCR connection (when connected to another 8G-capable port).
• 7500E Upgrade (For the Brocade 7500E only) — This license allows customers to upgrade a 4-
port (2 FC ports and 2 GE ports) 7500E base to a full 18-port (16 FC ports and 2 GE ports) 7500
configuration and feature capability. The upgraded 7500E includes the complete High
Performance Extension license feature set.
• Brocade Accelerator for FICON – This license enables unique FICON emulation support for
IBM’s Global Mirror (formerly XRC) application (including Hitachi Data Systems HXRC and
EMC’s XRC) as well as Tape Pipelining for all FICON tape and virtual tape systems to
significantly improve XRC and tape backup/recovery performance over virtually unlimited
distance for 7500, upgraded 7500E and FR4-18i.

Previously Licensed Software Now Part of Base FOS

The following capabilities are included as part of the base FOS capability and no additional purchase
or licensing is necessary:
• Advanced Zoning and WebTools licenses are no longer necessary beginning with FOS v6.1.
These features are automatically enabled on all products running FOS v6.1 or later.

Supported Switches
Fabric OS v6.1.1 supports the Brocade 200E, 300, 4012/4016/4018/4020/4024/4424, 4100, 4900, 5000,
5100, 5300, 7500, 7500E, 7600, 48000, and DCX. All supported products are qualified for Native
Connectivity in interopmodes 2 and 3 for deployment in M-EOS fabrics with the exception of the
Brocade 4100.

Access Gateway is also supported by Fabric OS v6.1.1, and is supported on the following switches: the
Brocade 200E, 300, 4012, 4016, 4018, 4020, 4024 and 4424.

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

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
• Technical Support contract number, if applicable
• Switch model
• Switch operating system version
• Error numbers and messages received

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 • supportSave command output
• 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
The switch serial number is provided on the serial number label, as shown here.
FT00X0054E9

The serial number label is located as follows:

• Brocade 200E—On the nonport side of the chassis
• Brocade 4100, 4900, and 7500/7500E—On the switch ID pull-out tab located inside the
chassis on the port side on the left
• Brocade 300, 5000, 5100, and 5300—On the switch ID pull-out tab located on the bottom of
the port side of the switch
• Brocade 7600—On the bottom of the chassis
• Brocade 48000 —Inside the chassis next to the power supply bays
• Brocade DCX—Bottom right of the port side.

3. World Wide Name (WWN)

Use the wwn command to display the switch WWN.
If you cannot use the wwn command because the switch is inoperable, you can get the
WWN from the same place as the serial number, except for the Brocade DCX. For the
Brocade DCX, 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.

Important Notes
This section contains information that you should consider before you use this firmware
release.

DCFM Compatibility
FOS v6.1.1 is fully compatible with Brocade’s Data Center Fabric Manager (DCFM)
management software. DCFM is a comprehensive network management application that enables
end-to-end management of Brocade Data Center Fabrics. It is the next-generation product that is
the successor to existing Brocade management products, namely Brocade Fabric Manager (FM)
and Brocade Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager (EFCM).

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 DCFM is available in two versions: DCFM Professional, a complimentary application that is
ideally suited for small and medium size businesses that need a light-weight management product
to manage their smaller fabrics (one physical fabric at a time, up to 1,000 ports); and DCFM
Enterprise, that is designed for enterprise-class customers and showcases unparalleled
performance and scalability (24 physical fabrics, up to 9,000 switch ports). DCFM Enterprise
configures and manages Brocade DCX Backbones, along with Brocade directors, routers,
switches, and HBAs. It also supports Brocade fabric-based encryption capabilities for data-at-
rest. Existing EFCM and FM customers that have active Maintenance and Support contracts are
provided a seamless migration path to DCFM Enterprise.

EFCM Compatibility
When managing Brocade FOS-based switches with EFCM management software, EFCM 9.7.1 or
later should be used. For more information on migrating from previous versions of EFCM to
EFCM 9.7.1, refer to the EFCM 9.7.1 Release Notes documentation.

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.
When using any of Brocade’s encryption platforms in a fabric, it is required that all other FOS
products be operating with specific revisions of FOS. For 2G/4G platforms, a minimum level of
FOS v5.3.1b is required, and for all 8G platforms a minimum of FOS v6.1.1 is required.
When using M-EOS products in the fabric, it is required to use M-EOS v9.8.0 or later. Frame
redirection is not supported in mixed FOS and M-EOS fabrics operating in Open Fabric Mode
(interopmode 3). Only the ES-4400, ES-4700, M6140, and Mi10k may have devices directly
attached that are having data encrypted or unencrypted.
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

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 Supported Products and FOS Interoperability
Brocade 2000-series switches Not supported, end of support
(December 2007)
Brocade 3000, 3200, 3800 v3.2.1c 1
Silkworm 3014, 3016, 3250, 3850 and Brocade 3900, 4100, v5.1 and higher
24000, 7500, 7500E, 4012, 200E, 48000
Silkworm 12000 v5.0.x
Brocade 4900 v5.2.0 and higher

Brocade 4012, 4016, 4018, 4020, 4024 v5.2.1 and higher

Brocade 5000 v5.2.1 and higher
Brocade 4424 v5.3.0_emb and higher
Brocade 7600 v5.3.0 and higher
Brocade DCX v6.0.0 and higher
Brocade DCX with FS8-18 blade(s), Brocade Encryption Switch v6.1.1_enc
Secure Fabric OS (on any model) Not Supported
Mi10k, M6140, ED-6064, ES-3232, ES-4300, ES-4400, ES-4500, M-EOS v9.8.0 3
ES-4700 (McDATA Fabric Mode and Open Fabric Mode5) 2 4
McDATA ED-5000 32-port FC director Not Supported

Multi-Protocol Router interop

Brocade 7420 XPath v7.4.1
Brocade 7500 and FR4-18i blade v5.1.0 and higher
McDATA SAN Routers M1620 and M2640 (McDATA Fabric M-EOSi 5.1.2
Mode / Interopmode 2 only) 6

Notes:
1
All zoning and fabric operations performed in a fabric with products running older versions of FOS
should be done via interfaces to products running the latest version of FOS. This is particularly
important for Brocade 3XXX series switches that do not support zoning configuration for newer
products.
2
Other M-EOS models may participate in a fabric with FOS v6.1.1, but may not be directly attached
via E_port to any products running FOS v6.1.1. The McDATA ED-5000 director may not participate
in a mixed M-EOS/FOS fabric.

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 3
It is highly recommended that M-EOS products operate with the most recent version of M-EOS
released and supported for interoperability. M-EOS 9.8.0 is the minimum version of firmware that is
qualified to interoperate with FOS 6.1.1 or later.
4
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.
5
Frame redirection is only supported in M-EOS fabrics running in McDATA Fabric Mode
(interopmode 2 on FOS-based platforms). McDATA Open Fabric Mode is not supported.
6
For Multi-Protocol router interop, FOS-based switches deployed in M-EOS fabrics should not be
directly connected (via ISLs) to the M1620 / M2640 products, but rather attached to other M-EOSc/n
switches and directors (M6140s, 4700s, Mi10ks, etc) running in McDATA Fabric Mode /
Interopmode 2. McDATA Open Fabric Mode / Interopmode 3 is not supported.

Fabric OS v6.1.1 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the 48000 platform noted in the
table below.

48000 Blade Support Matrix

Port blade 16, 32 and 48-port 4Gbit blades (FC4- Supported with any mix and up to 8 of each. No
16, FC4-32, FC4-48), 16, 32 and 48-port 8Gbit restrictions around intermix. The 48000 must run
blade (FC8-16, FC8-32, FC8-48), and the 6-port Fabric OS v6.0 or later to support the FC8-16 port
10G FC blade (FC10-6) blade and Fabric OS v6.1 or later to support the
FC8-32 and FC8-48 port blades.
Intelligent blade Up to a total of 4 Intelligent blades (includes iSCSI,
FCIP/FCR and Application blade), FC4-16IP, FR4-
18i, and FA4-18 respectively. See below for
intermix limitations, exceptions, and a max of each
blade.

iSCSI blade (FC4-16IP) Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type

FC-IP/FC Router blade (FR4-18i) Up to a maximum of 2 blades of this type. This can
be extended under special circumstances but must
be approved by Brocade’s Product Team. Up to 8
FR4-18i blades can be installed if they are used only
for FC Fastwrite or FCIP without routing.
Virtualization/Application Blade (FA4-18) Up to a maximum of 2 blades of this type.

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Fabric OS v6.1.1 software is fully qualified and supports the blades for the DCX noted in the table below.

DCX Blade Support Matrix

16-, 32- and 48-port 8Gbit port blades (FC8-16, Supported with FOS v6.0 and above with any mix
FC8-32, FC8-48) and the 6-port 10G FC blade and up to 8 of each. No restrictions around intermix.
(FC10-6)
Intelligent blade Up to a total of 8 Intelligent blades. See below for
maximum supported limits of each blade.
FC-IP/FC Router blade (FR4-18i) Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type. This can
be extended under special circumstances, but must
be approved by Brocade’s Product Team. Up to 8
FR4-18i blades can be installed if they are used only
for FC Fastwrite or FCIP without routing.
Virtualization/Application Blade (FA4-18) Up to a maximum of 4 blades of this type.

Note: the iSCSI FC4-16IP blade is not qualified for the DCX.

Power Supply Requirements for Blades in 48k and DCX Chassis

Blades Type of blade 48K DCX Comments
FC 4-16, FC 4-32, Port Blade 2 Power 2 Power • Distribute the Power Supplies
FC 4-48, FC 8-16, Supplies Supplies evenly to 2 different AC
FC 8-32 connections for redundancy
FC10-6, FC 8-48 Port Blade 4 Power 2 Power • Power Supplies must be 220V
Supplies Supplies • Blades must meet minimum FOS
levels to operate in 48K/DCX
FR4-18i, FC4- Intelligent 4 Power 2 Power chassis (e.g. FC8-32 is not
16IP, FA4-18 Blade Supplies Supplies supported in 48K with FOS 6.0.x)

Note: the iSCSI FC4-16IP blade is not qualified for the DCX.

Secure Fabric OS
Secure Fabric OS (SFOS) is not compatible with FOS v6.1.1. Customers that wish to use the security
features available in SFOS should upgrade to FOS v5.3 or later version, which includes all SFOS features
as part of the base FOS. For environments with SFOS installed on switches that cannot be upgraded to
FOS v5.3 or later version, FC routing can be used to interoperate with FOS v6.1.1.

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Zoning and Fabric Operations
When configuring zoning or other fabric-wide settings in a fabric that has products operating with
different versions of FOS, it is recommended that the configuration be performed via an interface (such as
WebTools) to a product with the most recent version of FOS. Some older versions of FOS do not fully
support newer hardware models, and problems may arise when configuring settings through these older
products. Zoning configuration in particular should never be performed through a switch operating with
FOS v3.x in a fabric that also has products operating with newer releases of FOS firmware.

FOS Feature Compatibility in Native Connectivity Modes

Some FOS features are not fully supported when operating in the native connectivity modes for
deployment with M-EOS based products. All Brocade models that are supported by Fabric OS v6.1.1
support both intermode 2 and 3 with the exception of the Brocade 4100.
The following table specifies the support of various FOS features when operating in either interopmode 2
(McDATA Fabric Mode) or interopmode 3 (Open Fabric Mode) with Fabric OS v6.1.1.

FOS Features (supported in interopmode 0) FOS v6.1.1

IM = Interopmode IM 2 IM 3
L2 FOS Hot Code Load Yes Yes
FOS Hot Code Load with FCR Yes Yes
Zone Activation Support Yes No
Traffic Isolation Zones1 Yes No
1
Frame Redirection (devices attached to FOS) Yes No
Frame Redirection (devices attached to M-EOS) Yes No
FCR Fabric Binding (route to M-EOS fabric with Fabric binding) Yes Yes
L2 Fabric Binding Yes No*
DCC policies No No
SCC policies Yes4 No*
E/Ex_Port Authentication Yes Yes
ISL Trunking (frame-level) Yes2 Yes2
Dynamic Path Selection (DPS, exchange based routing) Yes3 Yes3
Dynamic Load Sharing (DLS, port based routing) Yes Yes
Virtual Channels (VC RDY) Yes2 Yes2
FICON Management Server (Cascading) Yes No*
FICON MIHPTO Yes No*
Full Scalability (to maximum M-EOS fabric limits) Yes Yes
Adaptive Networking: QoS No No
Adaptive Networking: Ingress Rate Limiting No* No*
Advanced Performance Monitoring (APM) No* No*
APM: TopTalkers No* No*
Admin Domains/Virtual Fabrics No No
Secure Fabric OS6 N/A N/A
Fabric Watch Yes Yes
Ports on Demand (POD) Yes Yes
NPIV Yes Yes
Timer Server function (NTP) No No
Open E_Port7 N/A N/A

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 FOS Features (supported in interopmode 0) FOS v6.1.1
IM = Interopmode IM 2 IM 3
Broadcast Zoning No No
FDMI No No
Remote Switch No No
Port Mirroring (8G port mirroring supported in FOS v6.1+) Yes Yes
Extended Fabrics Yes Yes8
Alias Server No No
Platform Service No No
FCIP (VE_Ports) Yes Yes
9
IPFC (IP over FC) Yes Yes9
M-EOS ALPA 0x13 configuration Yes Yes
VE to VEX Port Yes Yes
Integrated Routing Yes Yes
Domain Offset Support No No
239 Domain Support (available on Mi10k only) N/A No
Masterless F_PORT Trunking (AG connect to FOS switches only) Yes Yes
FC10-6-to-FC10-6 ISL Yes Yes
RASLOG Events on duplicate WWNs Yes Yes

* indicates the feature is available but not officially tested or supported

1. Feature requires M-EOS 9.7 or later.
2. Only allowed between FOS-based switches
3. DPS is supported outbound from FOS-based switches. (M-EOS can provide reciprocal load balancing using
OpenTrunking).
4. SCC policies only supported in conjunction with L2 Fabric Binding support
5. Fabric restriction (refer to FOS v5.2.1_NI release notes)
6. Not supported in FOS 6.0 or later
7. Mode 3 only qualified with M-EOS switches
8. Not on FCR
9. Only supported locally within the FOS switch

Note: FICON Cascaded CUP qualified only on select platforms.

Firmware Upgrades and Downgrades

Upgrading to Fabric OS v6.1.1 is only allowed from Fabric OS v6.0.0 or later. This policy to support only
one-level migration, which began with FOS v6.0.0, provides more reliable and robust migrations for
customers. By having fewer major changes in internal databases, configurations, and subsystems, the
system is able to perform the upgrade more efficiently, taking less time and ensuring a truly seamless and
non-disruptive process for the fabric. The new one-release migration policy also reduces the large number
of upgrade/downgrade permutations that must be tested, allowing Brocade to spend more effort ensuring
the supported migration paths are thoroughly and completely verified.

Only products based on 4G and 8G capable ASICs are supported by Fabric OS v6.1.1. Older products
utilizing previous generation 2G ASICs will remain on the FOS v5.x code stream. FOS v5.x is fully
compatible in fabrics with FOS v6.1.1, as well as for routing. The Brocade 12000 is not supported with
FOS v5.3.0; it remains supported only on FOS v5.0.x releases.

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All products supported by Fabric OS v6.0 can be upgraded to Fabric OS v6.1.1.

Products that can be upgraded to Fabric OS v6.1.1:

• 4012/4016/4018/4020/4024/4424, 4100, 4900, 5000, 7500, 7500E, 7600, 200E, 48000, and
DCX.

For routed SANs with M-EOS switches in an edge fabric, upgrades to Fabric OS v6.1.1 will be non-
disruptive if all EX_Ports to M-EOS edge fabrics are attached to Brocade 48000 directors with an FR4-
18i blade.

SAS Version Requirements for FA4-18 and 7600:

SAS v3.2.0 is the supported SAS version for FOS v6.1.1. This is the same level of SAS supported by
FOS v6.1.0.

• When upgrading from FOS v6.0 to v6.1.1 and SAS 3.1.0 to SAS 3.2.0, first upgrade FOS v6.0
to v6.1.1 and then upgrade SAS from 3.1.0 to 3.2.0.
• When downgrading from FOS v6.1.1 to v6.0 and SAS 3.2.0 to SAS 3.1.0, first downgrade SAS
from 3.2.0 to 3.1.0 and then downgrade FOS from v6.1.1 to v6.0.

Firmware Migration for the Brocade 7500E

Upgrades to FOS v6.1.1

The FOS v6.1.1 release will limit the configurations of a 7500E to the defined functionality for the 7500E
shown in the following table.

Feature 7500 7500E 7500E Upgraded

with 7500E
Base Unit
Upgrade License
Redundant power supplies and fans Yes Yes Yes
Fibre channel ports 1-, 2-, or 4 gbps 1,2,4 Gig 1,2,4 Gig 1,2,4 Gig
Number of fibre channel ports 16 2 16
Number of Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports 2 2 2
Fibre channel routing between remote fabrics for fault Yes Yes Yes
isolation
Fast Write over FC port Yes* No Yes
Tape Pipelining over FC port Yes* No Yes
FCIP tunnel over GE port Yes* Yes Yes
Max Committed Rate (throughput throttle) per FCIP tunnel Up to 1Gbps Up to 50 Mbps Up to 1 Gbps
Number of connections or tunnel (remote sites) per port 8 1 8
IPSec Yes* No Yes
IP Compression Yes* Yes Yes

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Feature 7500 7500E 7500E Upgraded
with 7500E
Base Unit
Upgrade License
Storage optimized TCP Yes* Yes Yes
Fast Write over FCIP tunnel Yes* Yes Yes
Tape Pipelining over FCIP tunnel Yes* No Yes
FICON XRC emulation and Tape Pipelining over FCIP Yes** No Yes**
Call home Yes No Yes
* Requires High Performance Extension license
** Requires Brocade Accelerator for FICON license

For customers running an earlier FOS release than v6.1.1 on a 7500E, it is possible that the configuration
may exceed the feature limitations defined in the table above. A 7500E cannot be upgraded to FOS
v6.1.1 if it had been inadvertently configured outside of the feature limitations.

The pre-installation script of v6.1.1 will check the system configuration to ensure that it is valid for a
7500E. If the configuration is not valid, the installation will be aborted, and the configuration will need to
be modified with the pre-6.1.1 release. If the pre-installation script identifies any violation, the script will
output an error message indicating the reason(s) the upgrade has been blocked.

Downgrades from FOS v6.1.1

If a 7500E is downgraded from v6.1.1 to v6.1.0x release, the 7500E, with or without the 7500E Upgrade
license, will operate as a standard 7500 and abide by honor based feature enforcement. Without the 7500E
Upgrade license, there will be no technical support for a configuration that is outside the defined
functionality of 7500E base shown in the above feature matrix table.

Scalability
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 the most current scalability limits for Fabric OS,
refer to the Brocade Scalability Guidelines document available at
http://www.brocade.com/products/SAN_interop_and_compatibility.jsp.
Scalability limits for Fabric OS v6.1.1 are essentially the same as those limits supported by FOS v6.0.
Fabrics of up to 6000 virtual or physical connections (WWNs logged into a single fabric) and 56 domains
(domain support is the same as on previous FOS releases) can be supported on DCX and 5300. Other
products running FOS v6.1.1 will retain similar fabric limits as prior FOS releases for non-routed fabrics
(i.e., L2 only, 56 domains and 2560 logged in devices).
When operating in Native Connectivity modes (interopmode 2 or 3), different scalability limits are
supported. For both interopmode 2 and 3, fabrics of up to 2048 virtual or physical connections (WWNs
logged into a single fabric) and 31 domains are supported. This is the same level of support as FOS
v6.1.0.

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Routed scalability limits are noted in the table below.

Fibre Channel Routing Scalability (Tested/Supported Limits)

Max # edge fabrics per metaSAN 48/48

Max # edge fabrics per chassis 16/16 (7500 & FR4-18i in

48k or DCX)
24/32 (5100 & 5300)
24/48 (DCX)

Max # switches per edge fabric (FOS) 26/26

Max # switches per edge fabric (M-EOS fabric) 1 16/ 16

Max # WWNs per edge fabric (M-EOS fabric) 1 800/1500

Max # imported devices per fabric (M-EOS fabric) 1 300/1000

Max # L2 switches per backbone fabric 12/12

Max # FCR’s per backbone fabric 12/12

Max # WWNs per edge fabric (FOS) 1200/1500

Max # WWNs per backbone fabric 512/1024

Max # imported devices per fabric 1000/1000

Max # LSAN device per metaSAN 10000/10000

Max # LSAN zones per metaSAN 3000/30002

Max # devices per LSAN zone 64/64

Max # hops between edge switches 12/12

EX_Ports per FCR (48K/DCX with FR4-18i) 32/32

EX_Ports per chassis with Integrated Routing DCX: 128/128

5300/5100: Max port
count

Table Notes:
1
M-EOS fabrics must be running M-EOS 9.6.2 firmware or later.
2
All BB FCRs with Fabric OS v6.0.0 and above. For M-EOS edge fabrics prior to v9.6 the limit is
1024 zones. For M-EOS edge fabrics operating with 9.6.x or later, the limit is 2048 zones.

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 Other Notes:
1) IPFC over FCR is only supported for edge to edge.
2) FC Fast Write is only supported for edge to edge.
3) The backbone cannot run in interopmode 2 (McDATA Native Interop) or 3 (Open mode). It
must be in FOS native mode.
4) All limits apply to Integrated Routing as well as FCR on 7500/FR4-18i unless otherwise noted.

Other Important Notes and Recommendations

Licensing Behavior:
• When operating a switch with Fabric OS v6.1.1, some licenses may display as “Unknown.”
This is due to changes in licensing requirements for some features that no longer require a
license key.
• When upgrading a Brocade 48000 that has the FCIP license installed, the licenseshow output
may falsely indicate that Integrated Routing is available.
Adaptive Networking/Flow-Based QoS Prioritization:
• When using QoS in a fabric with 4G ports or switches, FOS v6.0 or later must be installed on
all products in order to pass QoS info. E_Ports from the DCX to other switches must come up
AFTER 6.0 is running on those switches.
• Flow based QoS is NOT supported on FC8 blades in the Brocade 48000.
• Any products that are not capable of operating with FOS 6.0 may NOT exist in a fabric with
Flow based QoS. Major problems will occur if previous generation 2G products exist in the
fabric.
FCR Backbone Fabric ID changes:
• With FC8 blades, the switch must be disabled to change the backbone fabric ID
• With routing and dual backbone fabrics, the backbone fabric ID must be changed to keep the
IDs unique.
Integrated Routing
• To allow Hot Code Load on a Brocade 5100 when using Integrated Routing, the edge switch
connected to the 5100 must be running Fabric OS v6.1 or later code.
• The Brocade 5100 does not support Hot Code Load from FOS 6.1.0 to 6.1.1 in a dual
backbone configuration with a routed connection to an M-EOS product.
FCS Automatic Distribution
• When using the FCS Automatic Distribution feature in Fabric OS v6.0 or later, all switches in
the fabric must be running FOS v6.0 or later. If any switches are running FOS v5.x or earlier,
only manual distribution can be used.
• FOS v6.0 or later will only allow FCS automatic distribution when in strict mode, requiring
only switches with FOS v6.0 or later.
Access Gateway
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 • When in Access Gateway mode, the Automatic Port Configuration policy may not work
when attached to M-EOS switches. M-EOS ports should be set to G_port to prevent
problems with port type discovery.

10G Interoperability
• 10G interop between FC10-6 and McDATA blades is not supported due to a HW limitation,
however the FC10-6 is supported in a chassis running in Interopmode 2 or 3 (FC10-6 to
FC10-6 connections only). An FC10-6 blade will not synchronize with a McDATA 10G
blade but will not negatively impact the system.
Traffic Isolation over FCR
• All switches and Fibre Channel Routers both in edge and backbone fabrics must be running
FOS v6.1.0 or later in order to support this feature.
• It is essential to have “fail-over” policy ENABLED in all edge fabrics that are part of the
traffic isolation zones, in order for the proper functioning of Traffic Isolation over FCR.
Port Fencing
• Port Fencing is only supported on E_Port and F_Port classes. Port Fencing is available with
the optional Fabric Watch license.
• When the port fencing feature is enabled for ITW or CRC errors, the first set of errors
detected on an active link that meet the custom high threshold level set by the user (or the
default threshold level) is always ignored to account for expected link transition errors. The
port is only disabled upon detection of a second set of errors, i.e. the next time the user-set
threshold level (or default threshold level) is reached. This prevents a port from being
disabled due to normal link transition behaviors.
Extended Fabrics and R_RDY Flow Control
• Beginning with Fabric OS v5.1, Brocade supported the Extended Fabrics feature in
conjunction with R_RDY flow control (R_RDY flow control mode can be enabled via
portCfgISLMode command). R_RDY flow control mode that uses IDLE primitives does not
support Brocade frame-based Trunking for devices such as Time Division Multiplexor
(TDM.) In order to overcome this limitation and provide support for frame-based Trunking
with Extended Fabrics, Fabric OS v6.1.1 has been enhanced to support interoperability with
these distance extension devices.
Fabric OS v6.1.1 allows Extended Fabrics E_ports to operate in VC_RDY mode using either
ARB or IDLE primitives as fill words. This allows frame-based Trunking to be supported on
Extended Fabrics E-ports even when IDLE primitives are configured for these ports when
operating in native VC_RDY mode. Prior to this change, frame-based Trunking was
supported only when ARB primitives were used in VC_RDY mode. With Fabric OS v6.1.1,
frame-based Trunking is supported on Extended Fabrics E_ports regardless of whether IDLE
or ARB primitives are used when operating in native VC_RDY mode.
Implementation
The portcfglongdistance CLI parameter “VC Translation Link Init” is now overloaded to
specify if the long distance link should use IDLE or ARB primitives. By default vc_init is
enabled. If vc_init is enabled, the long distance link will use ARB primitives. If vc_init is
disabled, the link will use IDLE primitives.
Note:
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 Buffer to Buffer Credit Recovery feature is not supported on Extended Fabrics E_port when
it is configured to use IDLE primitives. The user must disable buffer to buffer credit
recovery feature using the command portcfgcreditrecovery and specifying the disable option;
otherwise, the link will continuously reset.
The Adaptive Networking SID/DID Traffic Prioritization QoS feature is not supported on
Extended Fabrics E_ports when IDLE primitives are configured on these ports. This is
because in this mode only data Virtual Channels are available while QoS related virtual
channels are not available.
When connecting to an extension device that does not support ARB primitives (such as some
TDM products), the following configuration must be used:
portcfgqos -disable <port>
portcfgcreditrecovery –disable <port>
portCfgLongDistance <port> <LD|LD> 0 <distance>
The fabric parameter “fabric.ops.mode.longdistance” is now deprecated and should not be
used.

Documentation Updates
This section provides information on last-minute additions and corrections to the
documentation. The most recent Fabric OS v6.1.1 documentation manuals are available
on the Brocade Partner Network: http://partner.brocade.com/

Brocade Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide (Publication Number 53-1000598-04)

In chapter 1, Getting Started, under the heading “Licensed features” there is a table “License requirements”
on page 16, where the following items in the table should be changed to reflect the following:

• EX_Ports licensing should only be on the local switch.

• Ingress rate limiting licensing should only be on the local switch.

On page 422, in chapter “Administering Extended Fabrics”, below Example: Consider Brocade 300, which
has 24 ports and total buffers of 676, change the following note:
• The 10 Gbps FC10-6 blade has two port groups of three ports each. For extended ISLs, all buffers available
to a group are used to support one port at up to 120 km.
• Change: 120 km to 100 km.

In chapter 11, “Implementing an Interoperable Fabric,” in the section “McDATA Open Fabric mode
configuration restrictions,” some of the scalability limits are incorrect. For the most current scalability
limits for Fabric OS, refer to the Brocade Scalability Guidelines document available at
http://www.brocade.com/products/SAN_interop_and_compatibility.jsp

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Brocade 5100 Hardware Reference Manual (Publication Number 53-1000854-02)

• On page 19, in the section “LED Patterns,” change the following item:

LED Name LED Color Status of Hardware Recommended Action

Power Supply Status No light Primary power cord is Verify the power supply is
(right) disconnected or is not on and seated and the
actively powered, or power cord is connected to
power supply has failed. a functioning power
source.

To the following:

LED Name LED Color Status of Hardware Recommended Action

Power Supply Status Flashing green Primary power cord is Verify the power supply is
(right) disconnected or is not on and seated and the
actively powered, or power cord is connected to
power supply has failed. a functioning power
source.

Web Tools Functionality Moved to DCFM

The functionality that was moved from Web Tools into DCFM is applicable to both DCFM
Professional and DCFM Enterprise. The following table details these changes.

Function Web Tools 6.1.0 DCFM Comments

Add Un-Zoned Devices Zone Admin Configure > Zoning
Reverse Find in the Zoning dialog
provides the view of the zoned and
unzoned devices in the fabric if all
zone members are selected for Find.

Analyze Zone Config Zone Admin Configure > Zoning:

Reverse Find in the Zoning dialog
provides the view of the zoned and
unzoned devices in the fabric if all
zone members are selected for Find.
Device Tree and Topology:
Connected End Devices - Custom
Display from the top level in the
main frame provides the device tree
and topology view for all the zoned
devices if all zones are selected in
the active zone configuration.

Define Device Alias Zone Admin Configure > Zoning

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 Function Web Tools 6.1.0 DCFM Comments
Device Accessibility Matrix Zone Admin Configure > Zoning
the Compare dialog provides the
Storage-Host and Host-Storage view
in a tree representation that is
comparable to the Device
Accessibility Matrix when all
devices are selected.

Fabric Events Monitor > Fabric Events Monitor > Logs > Events

Fabric Summary Reports > Fabric Summary Monitor > Reports > Fabric
Summary Report

FCIP Tunnel Configuration Port Admin Module > GigE tab Configure > FCIP Tunnel Viewing FCIP tunnels is still
supported in Web Tools
6.1.1, but New, Edit Config,
and delete are only available
in DCFM.

GigE Ports Interface Port Admin Module > GigE tab Configure > FCIP Tunnel

GigE Ports Route Port Admin Module > GigE tab Configure > FCIP Tunnel

Non-local switch ports display Zone Admin Configure > Zoning In Web Tools, non-local
in zoning tree Admin Domain switch port id/WWN can be
Switch Admin > DCC policies added using text box.
Performance Monitoring

Remove Offline or Inaccessible Zone Admin Configure > Zoning

Devices Replace/Replace All zone members
by selecting the offline devices from
the zone tree. Offline devices have
an unknown overlay badge with
good visibility.

Zone database summary print Zone Admin Configure > Zoning

Zoning report for both online and
offline database.

Zoning

Brocade 7500 SAN Routers Hardware Reference Manual (Publication Number 53-100026-03)

On the Title page, change the title to Brocade 7500 Extension Switches Hardware Reference Manual.

Throughout publication, change the product name “SAN Routers” to “Extension Switches.”

On page viii, replace “7500 SAN Routers” section with the following:

7500 Series Extension Switches

• 7500 Extension Switches QuickStart Guide

• Mid Size Switch Fan Assembly Replacement Procedure
• Mid Size Switch Power Supply Replacement Procedure

On page 2, replace the sentence “2 GbE ports supporting the FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing Services
features with link speeds up to 45 Mbps,” with the following:

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 • Two 1 GbE ports supporting the FCIP and Fibre Channel Routing Services features with link
speeds up to 50 Mbps each.

On page 2, replace the note about operational virtual ports with the following:

Note: For the base 7500E, you can only configure one virtual port per GbE port as an FCIP
tunnel connection (any virtual port can be used). With the 7500E upgrade license, you can
configure up to eight virtual ports per GbE port as tunnel connections

On page 3, replace Table 1 with the following table:

Feature 7500 7500E 7500E

Base Unit Upgrade
License
Call Home Yes No Yes
1
Fastwrite over FC port Yes No Yes
Fastwrite over FCIP tunnel Yes1 Yes Yes
1
FCIP tunnel over GE port Yes Yes Yes
Fibre Channel port speed 1, 2, or 4 Gbps 1,2, or 4 Gbps 1,2, or 4 Gbps 1,2, or 4 Gbps
Fibre Channel routing between remote fabrics for fault Yes Yes Yes
isolation
FICON XRC emulation and tape pipelining over FCIP Yes2 No Yes2
FIPS 140-2 Level 2 ready Yes Yes2 Yes2
IPSec Yes1 No Yes
1
IP compression Yes Yes Yes
Number of connections or tunnels (remote sites) per port 8 1 8
Maximum committed rate (throughput throttling) per FCIP Up to 1 Gbps Up to 50 Mbps Up to 1 Gbps
tunnel
Number of Fibre Channel ports 16 2 16
Number of Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports 2 2 2
Redundant power supplies and fans Yes Yes Yes
1
Storage Optimized TCP Yes Yes Yes
Tape pipelining over FCIP tunnel Yes1 No Yes
1
Tape pipelining over FC port Yes No Yes
1
Requires High Performance Extension license.
2
Requires Brocade Accelerator for FICON license.

On page 4, under “Upgrading the 7500E,” add the following note:

An upgrade license is required to enable additional ports on the 7500E base unit and to enable
additional features listed in Table 1 on page 3. If you attempt to enable features or
configurations for features beyond those described for the 7500E Base Unit, an error occurs.

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 On page 38, add a section titled, “Federal Information and Processing Standards (FIPS).” This section
should contain the following information:

Full FIPS compliancy requires the following:

• Software compliancy.

The switch must be in enabled to operate in FIPS mode. For instructions, refer to the
FIPS mode configuration procedures in the Fabric OS Administrator’s Guide.

• Application of FIPS security seals.

Refer to the Brocade FIPS Security Seal Procedure for Switches publication that pertains
to the 7500 Extension Switches.

Brocade 7500 SAN Routers QuickStart Guide (Publication Number 53-100028-05)

On the Title page, change the title to Brocade 7500 Extension Switches QuickStart Guide.

Throughout publication, change the product name “SAN Routers” to “Extension Switches.”

On page 3, replace Table 1 with the following table:

Feature 7500 7500E 7500E

Base Unit Upgrade
License
Call Home Yes No Yes
1
Fastwrite over FC port Yes No Yes
1
Fastwrite over FCIP tunnel Yes Yes Yes
1
FCIP tunnel over GE port Yes Yes Yes
Fibre Channel port speed 1, 2, or 4 Gbps 1,2, or 4 Gbps 1,2, or 4 Gbps 1,2, or 4 Gbps
Fibre Channel routing between remote fabrics for fault Yes Yes Yes
isolation
FICON XRC emulation and tape pipelining over FCIP Yes2 No Yes2
FIPS 140-2 Level 2 ready Yes Yes2 Yes2
IPSec Yes1 No Yes
IP compression Yes1 Yes Yes
Number of connections or tunnels (remote sites) per port 8 1 8
Maximum committed rate (throughput throttling) per FCIP Up to 1 Gbps Up to 50 Mbps Up to 1 Gbps
tunnel
Number of Fibre Channel ports 16 2 16
Number of Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) ports 2 2 2
Redundant power supplies and fans Yes Yes Yes

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Feature 7500 7500E 7500E
Base Unit Upgrade
License
Storage Optimized TCP Yes1 Yes Yes
1
Tape pipelining over FCIP tunnel Yes No Yes
1
Tape pipelining over FC port Yes No Yes
1
Requires High Performance Extension license.
2
Requires Brocade Accelerator for FICON license.

Address change for all product documentation

On the copyright page of all of the product documentation, the address for Asia-Pacific Headquarters is
incorrect. The correct address is as follows:

Asia-Pacific Headquarters
Brocade Communications Singapore Pte. Ltd.
30 Cecil Street
#19-01 Prudential Tower
Singapore 049712
Singapore
Tel: +65 6538 4700
Fax: +65 6538 0302
Email: [email protected]

Closed Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.1d

This section lists defects closed in Fabric OS v6.1.1d. When available, the listing contains a workaround solution
for the listed issue.

Defect ID: DEFECT000231458 Technical Severity: High

Summary: After multiple controller reboots, PLOGI Accept is dropped due to missing CAM entry.

Symptom: PLOGI Accept is not getting passed back up to the Initiator.

Workaround: Portdisable/portenable on device port to re-gain host/device connection.

Feature: FCIP Function: FCIP I/O

Risk of Fix: High Probability: Medium

Reported In Release: FOS6.1.0 Service Request ID: 336791

Defect ID: DEFECT000232995 Technical Severity: High

Summary: VI to PT routes are deleted following portdisable/enable on Brocade FC4-48 blade.

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Symptom: VI is not able to login to Target following creation of FR zone and portdisable/enable for the host
port.

Feature: FOS Software Function: FC Layer 2 Routing

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Medium

Reported In Release: FOS6.0.1

Defect ID: DEFECT000236041 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Switch may experience timeouts and traffic interruption during HCL operation of neighboring
switch with FOS v6.2.0.

Feature: High Availability Function: Switch hareboot/HCL

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported In Release: FOS6.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000237701 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Observed kernel panic on a Brocade DCX, in RTE module.

Feature: FOS Software Function: FC Layer 2 Routing

Risk of Fix: Low

Reported In Release: FOS6.1.1

Defect ID: DEFECT000237868 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Fabric Watch failed to initialize on fully populated Brocade DCX.

Symptom: During HA recovery, management application reports switch health status as Marginal/Down.
Traffic is not impacted, but DCFM call home will not be initiated.

Feature: FOS Software Function: Management Services

Risk of Fix: Medium Probability: Low

Reported In Release: FOS6.1.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000238250 Technical Severity: High

Summary: License problem observed after configdownload and QoS license was checked for 4G platforms at
CLI.

Symptom: License database can be corrupted after configdonwload and can not be added back. 4G platform
can disable QoS but cannot enable QoS without license.

Feature: FOS Software Function: OS: Infrastructure

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Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Medium

Reported In Release: FOS6.1.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000239126 Technical Severity: High

Summary: ASIC Interrupt handling fix – single defect to address issues found while attempting to respond to
ASIC generated interrupts.

Symptom: Customer may experience high CPU load and unexpected blade errors.

Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Reported In Release: FOS6.1.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000225796 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Brocade switch is sending RSCN event Qualifier as 0x20 for FOS 6.1.x and 0x08 for FOS v6.1.0g
and FOS v6.2.0

Symptom: Some OS/HBA combination takes down FC link when N_port generated RSCN are delivered by
switch with 0x08 or 0x20 as event qualifier. Revert back to FOS v6.0 way of sending as 0x0.

Feature: FOS Software Function: Fabric Services

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High

Reported In Release: FOS 6.1.0_8e Service Request ID: 332317

Defect ID: DEFECT000229323 Technical Severity: Medium

Summary: Webtools GUI has performance problem.

Symptom: Webtools freezes a few seconds about every 15 seconds, webtools light stop blinking, and cannot
scroll any windows.

Feature: FOS Software Function: Web Management

Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low

Reported In Release: FOS6.1.0 Service Request ID: 337039

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Closed Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.1c
This section lists defects closed in Fabric OS v6.1.1c. When available, the listing contains a workaround solution
for the listed issue.
Defect ID: DEFECT000208449 Technical Severity: High
Summary: If the contents of the /etc/inetd.conf file are modified, the file may be deleted the next time the
switch software is upgraded.
Symptom: User cannot access switch through network.
Feature: FOS Software Function: OS: Infrastructure
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: Low
Reported In Release: FOS5.3.0 Service Request ID: 225131

Defect ID: DEFECT000230294 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Out of Memory condition on switch occurred, due to memory leak in nsd process.
Symptom: Mixed fabric running in Interopmode2, switch hafailover/hareboot occurs due to out of memory
occurrence.
Feature: FC Services Function: Name Server
Risk of Fix: Low Probability: High
Reported In Release: FOS6.2.0

Defect ID: DEFECT000232290 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Switch in Access Gateway Mode, panic occurs when N-Port to F-Port trunking is enabled.
Feature: FC Services Function: F Port Trunking
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported In Release: FOS6.1.1

Defect ID: DEFECT000234873 Technical Severity: High

Summary: Unexpected return code from Fast Write and Tape Pipelining causes GE port traffic interrupt.
Feature: FOS Software Function: FCIP
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported In Release: FOS6.1.1

Defect ID: DEFECT000235711 Technical Severity: High

Summary: When first upgrading a newly installed FOS v6.0.x director to FOS v6.1.x, there is a very small
window that 8G blades may fault.
Feature: FOS Software Function: ASIC Driver
Risk of Fix: Low

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Reported In Release: FOS6.1.1

Closed Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.1b

This section lists defects closed in Fabric OS v6.1.1b. When available, the listing contains a workaround solution
for the listed issue.
Defect ID Technical Description of Defects Closed in Fabric OS v6.1.1b
Severity
DEFECT000208189 Medium Summary: Auditcfg not persistent through hareboot.
Symptom: Audit log stops after hareboot.
Feature: RAS
Function: RAS Audit
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000226603 Medium Summary: Brocade 5000 switch experienced out-of-memory condition
operating in a fabric with an M-Series 2640 switch.
Symptom: Switch panics due to out-of-memory condition.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: Fabric Services
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: Medium
Service Request # : 336081
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0

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 DEFECT000228681 Medium Summary: CRC error observed between BROCADE 5100 and Brocade 5300
with a particular SFP type.
Symptom: When connected Brocade 5300 and 5100, CRC errors on trunk ports
were observed.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: ASIC Driver
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000231168 Medium Summary: GNN_ID query for self NWWN from Target results in failure due
to Frame Redirection logic and causes Target Port Link down.
Symptom: Device discovery from host fails.
Feature: FC Services
Function: Name Server
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.1
DEFECT000231283 Medium Summary: Java out of memory condition occurs after Webtools session
expired.
Symptom: Java out of memory condition occurs after Webtools session expired.
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: Other
Risk of Fix: Medium
Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.1
DEFECT000231420 Medium Summary: PORT RSCNs are sent to DPC (VIs & VTs) every time when the
configuration changes, which is unrelated to VT/VI. This affects any application
that uses frame redirect zoning.
Symptom: Unexpected disruption on VI or VT when cfgenable unrelated
devices zone change.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: Fabric Services
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.1

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 DEFECT000231661 High Summary: With both RD zone and TI zone configured, a connectivity issue
can occur after hafailover or hareboot.
Symptom: With both TI zone and RD zone configured, after a hafailover or
hareboot, host can no longer see target until a cfgdisable and cfgenable.
Workaround: Run cfgdisable and cfgenable commands.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: Fabric Services
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: Medium
Service Request # : 343603
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.0
DEFECT000231681 High Summary: Frame drop is observed on 4G and 8G switches due to a time
window when a port in a trunk goes offline and route is not properly
recalculated.
Symptom: Host cannot see storage due to route mismatch.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: ASIC Driver
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: Low
Service Request # : 342469
Reported in Release: FOS5.3.0
DEFECT000231909 Medium Summary: Incorrect status when power cord was unplugged.
Symptom: Switch health status is incorrectly changed to marginal when power
cord is unplugged.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: EM / Hil / Sysctrl
Risk of Fix: Low
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.1
DEFECT000231952 High Summary: Various tape creation or restore process issues found with FICON
tape.
Symptom: Unexpected errors encountered during Tape Cancel and Selective
Reset processing.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP I/O
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS6.1.1

Closed Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.1a

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This section lists defects closed in Fabric OS v6.1.1a. When available, the listing contains a workaround solution
for the listed issue.

Defect ID Technical Severity Description of Defects Closed in Fabric OS v6.1.1a

DEFECT000221532 Medium Summary: The tag field of the node identifier command returned
contains the port number on which the command was received, instead of
the tag field of the device on the other end of the link.
Symptom: The port number of the port on which the command was
received will be returned.
Feature: FC Services
Function: FICON
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS v6.1.0
DEFECT000226652 High Summary: After "systemverification -short" is completed on the
Brocade 5300, route is affected. This applies to platforms with BI ports.
Symptom: Neighboring switches cannot route traffic through the
Brocade 5300 after systemverification -short is run on the Brocade 5300.
Feature: 8G Platform Services
Function: FOS Kernel Drivers
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS v6.2.0
DEFECT000227322 High Summary: 3rd party application paths fail with FC fast write enabled
with bi-directional traffic.
Symptom: 3rd party application path failed and needed to disable fast
write to recover. Observed out of order frames or dropped frames with
FC FW.
Feature: FC Services
Function: Other
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS v6.1.1
DEFECT000221532 Medium Summary: Speed Negotiation fails on some 4G Quad-Rate, Long-Wave
4Km SFPs.
Symptom: Ports are failing Speed Negotiation with certain SFPs.
Workaround: Reset SFPs to avoid quad-rate mode.
Feature: Platform Services
Function: ASIC Driver
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: Medium
Reported in Release: FOS v5.3.0

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DEFECT000227978 Medium Summary: Java running out of memory in Webtools
Symptom: Webtool application gets very sluggish.
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: Other
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: High
Reported in Release: FOS v6.1.1
DEFECT000228681 Medium Summary: CRC error observed with the Brocade 5300 with a particular
SFP type
Symptom: Observing CRC errors on trunk ports with certain SFPs on
Brocade 5300 and 5100.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: ASIC Driver
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS v6.1.0
DEFECT000229468 High Summary: On a backbone switch with both EX and VE port or VEX
port, after hafailover/hareboot, device on backbone has no access to
remote device.
Symptom: Devices are unable to access their targets.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: FCR
Risk of Fix: Low
Service Request # : 339745
Reported in Release: FOS v6.1.0
DEFECT000229732 Medium Summary: Need better response message from CAL when setting SCC
policy fails
Symptom: When a switch has different members in SCC policy and
when it is merged in to another fabric having some other SCC policy
members (the fabric is merging because FWCP is set as Tolerant), set
SCC policy from either Web tools or DCFM the operation is failing
without giving proper reason.
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Security-ACL
Risk of Fix: Low
Probability: Low
Reported in Release: FOS v6.2.0
DEFECT000229849 High Summary: SCSI timeouts /errors
Symptom: Extremely rare corner case involving a transient failure at the
same time as a hot-plug core blade insertion could lead to dropped
frames inside the switch.
Feature: FOS Software
Function: ASIC Driver
Risk of Fix: Low
Service Request # : 341141
Reported in Release: FOS v6.0.0

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Closed Defects in Fabric OS v6.1.1
This section lists defects closed in Fabric OS v6.1.1. When available, the listing contains a workaround solution for
the listed issue.

Defect ID Technical Severity Description of Defects Closed in Fabric OS v6.1.1

DEFECT000206188 High Summary: During storage failover/failback test, traffic stops and fails to
recover in single and dual backbone configurations.
Symptom: Certain devices could not resume the FC-VI traffic across
FCR after the devices failover.
Feature: FCR
Function: FCR Daemon
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.0.0

DEFECT000209324 High Summary: Detecting failure in FR4-18i blade due to a dead heartbeat
Symptom: FR4-18i blade faulted during operation with internal FCIP-
5031 raslog and external EM-1034 raslog.
Feature: Field Escalation
Function: FCIP
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS5.2.1

DEFECT000210908 High Summary: Link drops when FLOGI is received before the port comes
online on FL port
Symptom: Only 1 FL port FLOGI is successful and second FL port
FLOGI is disabled in a time interval and customer observes as link drop
on FL port. Even though FL port will be re-enabled after the short time
interval, 3rd party failover application may fail in this condition.
Feature: Field Escalation
Function: FC Layer 2 Routing
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS5.3.0
Service Request ID: 302653

DEFECT000211529 High Summary: Internal server ports on embedded platform: traffic may stop
due to loss of buffer credit.
Symptom: May see traffic stop on embedded platform when running in
AG mode.
Feature: Embedded Platform Services
Function: ASIC Driver
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0

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 Defect ID Technical Severity Description of Defects Closed in Fabric OS v6.1.1
DEFECT000214853 High Summary: Mixed fabric of McDATA and Brocade switches cannot be
managed if only IPv6 addressing is supported.
Symptom: In interopmode3, Fabric OS is not fetching the IPv6 address
from the M-model switches.
Feature: FC Services
Function: Fabric
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Medium
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000215233 High Summary: HBA not following fibre channel protocol standards could
cause a switch to reboot.
Symptom: Switch rebooted after powering on misbehaving HBA.
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Security
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000217910 High Summary: Problems within an IP network could cause a switch running
FOS v5.3.x to panic.
Symptom: An application attempting to establish an IP connection with
the environment daemon (evmd) blocked other connections, causing the
switch to panic.
Feature: Field Escalation
Function: Management Services
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS5.3.0

DEFECT000220686 High Summary: Device with slow initialization sequence may cause the
switch to mistakenly establish virtual channels on an F_Port.
Symptom: An incorrect credit model on an F_Port will cause link resets.
Feature: Field Escalation
Function: ASIC Driver
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.0.0
Service Request ID: 322675

DEFECT000224572 High Summary: Web Tools zoning breaks when 3rd party storage
virtualization appliance changed to standby mode
Symptom: Customer will see Web Tools hangs at the "initialization
done" when trying to launch zoning from the web interface. It will stay
like that forever and you won't be able to launch zoning from any switch
in your fabric. Once the 3rd party storage virtualization appliance was
placed back in ssi cf mode the problem goes away.
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: Zone Admin
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.1

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 Defect ID Technical Severity Description of Defects Closed in Fabric OS v6.1.1
DEFECT000226061 High Summary: FICON Tape Write Pipelining Selective Resets after
CmdRetry to No Op Sequence or LBY
Symptom: FICON Tape job failures with IOS000 missing device end
messages on MVS console.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP I/O
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000203144 Medium Summary: F_Port Link initialization failure exposed by new third party
device behavior
Symptom: A trace shows the HBA issuing NOS (host is performing a
boot loop test) and the switch is not responding to NOS. It should issue
OLS in response but continues to send idles (appearing to stay in Active
state) for the remainder of the trace.
Feature: Field Escalation
Function: ASIC Driver
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Medium
Found in Release: FOS5.2.1
Service Request ID: RQST00000064340

DEFECT000204158 Medium Summary: supportSave captured using DCFM does not contain
information from the standby CP.
Symptom: When capturing support information (supportSave), only the
active CP details are captured.
Feature: Mgmt Embedded - CAL
Function: Other
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Medium
Found in Release: FOS6.0.0

DEFECT000209121 Medium Summary: Brocade 7500 sends the wrong Sense code during tape
backup with pipelining enabled.
Symptom: With tape pipeline enabled, the sense byte (key=80) sent to
the Tape device is wrong. This causes a tape backup problem. This error
does not occur if tape pipelining is turned off.
Feature: Field Escalation
Function: FCIP
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS5.3.0
Service Request ID: 244793

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 Defect ID Technical Severity Description of Defects Closed in Fabric OS v6.1.1
DEFECT000210684 Medium Summary: Web Tools: DCX Blade attention LEDs on the switch view
GUI window do not turn amber when blade needs attention.
Symptom: The Web Tools GUI LED for switchview on a DCX may not
reflect the correct color state for a failed blade . The attention LED is
illuminated appropriately on the blade view but not in the Web Tools
switchview.
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: Switch Explorer/Switch View
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000211115 Medium Summary: FICON PTP VTS Selective Resets and Aborted sequences
caused by incorrect entry into FICON tape read pipelining.
Symptom: IFCCs or Interface Timeouts reported at the FICON Channel
interface.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP I/O
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.0.0

DEFECT000211720 Medium Summary: After renaming a port group name to blank from Web Tools,
the port group is deleted.
Symptom: If a port group is renamed to blank from Web Tools, the port
group is deleted.
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: AG Support
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000212286 Medium Summary: If EE monitors are restored from flash on a switch that has
Top Talker monitors, there is no warning or error and the filters will not
function properly.
Symptom: After rebooting the switch, the Top Talker monitors are gone,
replaced by EE monitors. A reboot of the switch will cause any EE
monitors to be restored from flash (if they exist). So, if the user saves EE
monitors to flash, then deletes the EE monitors to setup Top Talker
monitors, but leaves the EE monitors in flash, a reboot of the switch will
cause EE monitors to be restored from flash. The existence of EE
monitors will cause the Top Talker monitor installation recovery to fail.
However, there is no warning or other message.
Feature: Fabric Infrastructure
Function: Advanced Performance Monitor
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0

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 Defect ID Technical Severity Description of Defects Closed in Fabric OS v6.1.1
DEFECT000212304 Medium Summary: Extra CAM entries could exist on Brocade 300 when Frame
Redirection is used and VI/VT offline/online
Symptom: This behavior is seen only when features from a future release
are activated. CAM table entries would prevent communication from
host-to-target after the 7600 switch goes offline.
Feature: FC Services
Function: Other
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000212522 Medium Summary: References to dual-domain systems (SilkWorm 12000) need

to be removed from man pages.
Symptom: Reference to a dual-domain system could be confusing to a
DCX user.
Feature: Man Pages
Function: Edit/Correct
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000212529 Medium Summary: The aaaconfig command help text needs to be corrected for
LDAP mode.
Symptom: LDAP cannot be configured while FIPS in enabled, but
online help text does not clearly state this.
Feature: Man Pages
Function: Edit/Correct
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: High
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000212536 Medium Summary: FR4-18i faulted after overnight stress testing.

Symptom: If the customer forces a failover while the port blades are
being powered on, an FR4-18i blade may be faulted.
Feature: FR4-18i Platform Services
Function: FR4-18i Blade FOS SW
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000213410 Medium Summary: Brocade 7500E restrictions bypassed via

configupload/edit/configdownload/reboot
Symptom: Configuration limitation checks could be bypassed by
uploading a config, editing the files, then downloading the configurations
back to the system.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP CLI
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0

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 Defect ID Technical Severity Description of Defects Closed in Fabric OS v6.1.1
DEFECT000213619 Medium Summary: Brocade 7500E restrictions fails to allow creation of FCIP
TUNNEL numbers greater than zero
Symptom: An error is reported if the user attempts to assign a tunnel
numbers that is greater than zero.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP CLI
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000214113 Medium Summary: FCIP FICON feature can be enabled on restricted Brocade
7500E via configdownload
Symptom: FICON acceleration license checking could be defeated with
a procedure of uploading configurations, editing files, then downloading
the files
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP CLI
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000216626 Medium Summary: A TI zone with an invalid(too high) port number can cause a
kernel panic.
Symptom: Switches that contain an empty zone database (both defined
& effective) will panic when merged with a switch holding many (~50-
60) Defined TI Zones.
Feature: FC Services
Function: Zoning
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0

DEFECT000216757 Medium Summary: ARRd Daemon had multiple restarts that ultimately led to a
KSWD event
Symptom: An invalid frame being received at the Ethernet port is
causing the switch to panic.
Feature: Field Escalation
Function: Management Services
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Medium
Found in Release: FOS5.2.0
Service Request ID: 312919

DEFECT000218388 Medium Summary: Fast Write could obtain incorrect FCP command data length
if the optional additional CDB length is selected.
Symptom: Incorrect command data length may be computed.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP I/O
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.0.0

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 Defect ID Technical Severity Description of Defects Closed in Fabric OS v6.1.1
DEFECT000219513 Medium Summary: Synchronization time-of-day clock messages filling error log.
Symptom: A Brocade 4020 that is in interopmode 1 is constantly
reporting "2008/05/08-17:12:11, [TS-1006], 179513,, INFO,
MLWSAN53, Synchronizing time of day clock" every 5m20s.
Feature: FC Services
Function: Other
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS5.3.0
Service Request ID: 317877

DEFECT000220682 Medium Summary: Environmental specification (of Temp) issue for BR 5300 .
Symptom: Hardware LED shows error status (flashing amber/green)
even though all FRUs are OK. All environmental readings, including
temperature, are OK.
Feature: Platform Services
Function: Sys-Control/Environment Monitor
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.0.0
Service Request ID: 322617

DEFECT000221092 Medium Summary: Invalid Tx/Rx rate can be computed if a polling cycle takes
place when a domain name has not been assigned.
Symptom: Port Peak Data Rate read from the SMI interface shows
incorrect values that exceed the speed of the switch.
Feature: Field Escalation
Function: Management Services
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS5.2.1
Service Request ID: 314691

DEFECT000221377 Medium Summary: EZ Switch Manager validation error on existing zones.

Symptom: Devices of type Initiator+Target or Unknown are treated like
Storage and shown as Storage within EZswitch. This can lead to an
invalid zone definition, as zones with only “storage” devices are flagged
as invalid.
Feature: WebMgmt
Function: Web Tools EZ
Probability: High
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0
Service Request ID: 324839

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 Defect ID Technical Severity Description of Defects Closed in Fabric OS v6.1.1
DEFECT000221738 Medium Summary: The Accept CT_IU to GA_NXT Request frame is being
rejected by a 3rd-party storage device because the frame is 680 bytes in
size.
Symptom: This particular storage device has a function that
automatically sets the access limitation between the servers and the
storage device by security reason. The function does not work because
the frame is rejected.
Feature: FC Services
Function: Name Server
Probability: Low
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0
Service Request ID: 325337

DEFECT000221907 Medium Summary: Brocade 5100: FRU faulty status is not recovered correctly.
Symptom: client experienced that FRU faulty status is not recovered
even after connect to the correct power source when once it operated
with single power source.
Feature: Brocade 5100 Platform Servies
Function: Sys-Control/Environment Monitor
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0
Service Request ID: 326227

DEFECT000222317 Medium Summary: Tape Selective Reset error due to incorrect handling of Early
End Synchronization status.
Symptom: Job is failing due to a selective reset after read pipelining
incorrectly processed a status frame as a chain breaking status event
during a GVRESTOR job.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP I/O
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.0.0

DEFECT000222441 Medium Summary: FICON Device Level Ack Emulation Processing error.
Symptom: DvcAck emulation processing in FICON XRC and FICON
Tape emulation logic can incorrectly generate a DvcAck when not
appropriate.
Feature: FCIP
Function: FCIP I/O
Probability: Medium
Risk of Fix: Low
Found in Release: FOS6.1.0

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