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HP V ir tual C onnect Manager V er si on 1 . 1 5b and 1 . 1 6 R elea se Note s and Com patibility Matr i x Part Number 463081-001 October 2007 (First Edition)[...]
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© Copyright 2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to chan ge without no tice. The only warranties for HP products and services ar e set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such produc ts and services. Noth ing herein should be construed as constituting an a dditional w arranty.[...]
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Contents 3 Con t en t s Hardware and firmwa re requir ements ............................................................................................. 4 HP Virtual Connect Manager firmware ............................................................................................ ............. 4 Supported hardware .............................[...]
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Hardware and firmware requirements 4 H a rd wa re a n d fi r mw a re re q u i re m e n t s HP Virtual Connect Manager firmware The latest HP Virtual Connect Manager firmware package (version 1.16) contains the following firmwar e versions: • HP 1/10Gb VC-Enet version 1.16 • HP 4Gb VC-FC version 1.02 IMPORTANT: The VC-Enet module firmware must b[...]
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Hardware and firmware requirements 5 For the latest list of supported hardware, see the HP we bsite ( http://www.hp.com/go/bladesystemupdates ). Firmware upgrade requirements IMPORTANT: For compatibility and proper operation of HP Virtual Connect Manager, all system firmware must be cur rent. Always install the most current firmwar e for the follow[...]
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Hardware and firmware requirements 6 Server blades and mezzanine cards that do not meet the required firmware versions will not properly accept Virtual Connect-assigned par ameters (MACs, WWNs, etc.) and will maintain factory defaults. However, these server blades will have the Ethern et network and Fibre Cha nnel fabric connectivity specified in t[...]
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New features 7 Ne w f eatur e s The VC-Enet version 1.15 firmware includes the fol lowing features: • Smart Link A network enabled with Smart Link automatically drops link to the server ports if all uplink ports lose link. This feature can be useful for certain se rver network teaming (b onding) configurations. • Native VLAN Identifying a netwo[...]
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Important notes and recommendations 8 Important no tes and r ecommendati ons When a c-Class enclosure i s used with Virtua l Connect v1.15, 1.15b, and 1.16, the foll owing configuration restrictions and guidelines apply: • Plan your interconnect module usage car e fully before running the Virtua l Connect Domain Setup Wizard. After an interconnec[...]
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Important notes and recommendations 9 • Back up the VC domain configuration each time changes are made. While saved in non-volatile memory and check-pointed to the neighboring mo dule, HP recomme nds saving the configuration external to the enclosure. • Removing a VC-Enet module and plugging it in to another enclosure causes the configuration i[...]
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Known issues 10 Kn own i s s u e s General • During an Onboard Administrator failover, Virtua l Connect Manager can lose communication with the Onboard Administrator for as long as 15 minutes. During this time, Virtual Connect Manager is not able to make profile changes to server blades or perform some enclosure administration functions, such as [...]
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Known issues 11 User interface • Virtual Connect Manager allows users to change the number of VC-FC M o dule uplink ports connected to an external Fabric Switch without a warning while a server might be accessing remote storage devices. • Virtual Connect Manager shows either a server blade or an interconnect module as degraded (but not both) fo[...]
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Resolved issues 12 Re s o lve d i s s u e s The following issues that existed in Virtual Connect 1.10 have been resolved in Virtual Connect 1 .15: • To move a server profile from a device bay cont aining a storage blade to another bay, the storage blade must first be removed. • Do not create or modify a network name with a hy phen ("-"[...]
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Resolved issues 13 • When running with 16:1 oversubscription ratio on a VC-FC module, the hardware regist ers do not allow auto-routed traffic for the sixteenth server blade. When this scenario occurs, the firmware routes FC frames, causin g a significant drop in the performance. The following issues that existed in Virtual Connect 1.15b and earl[...]