Firmware and Boot Code Release Notes for Emulex OneConnect
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1. Firmware and Boot Code Release Notes for Emulex OneConnect OCe14000 series Adapters 13 P011403 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX An Avago Technologies Company 12 IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES INCLUDING ANY GENERAL SPECIAL INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIFS OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES Firmware and Boot Code Release Notes for Emulex OneConnect OCe14000 series Adapters 14 P011403 01A Rev A2. Known Issues 1 Changing the target s digest parameters may cause the boot LUN to revert to LUN 0 Workaround None You must re select the appropriate boot LUN 2 iSCSISelect utility may attempt to connect to target even when connect option is not selected in iSCSI UEFI utility Workaround None 3 Adapter failover using multipath I O MPIO with iSCSI boot may not work properly on VMware ESXi 5 0 systems Workaround None 4 A boot target may not be seen immediately after enabling Discover Boot Target via DHCP Workaround Use the iSCSI UEFI utility to configure the boot target 5 When entering the isCSI BIOS on Windows Server 2008 x86 SP2 systems an iSCSI Initiator Name mismatch error message may be displayed The error message states Error There is an iSCSI Initiator Name mismatch for the OneConnect controllers in this system Please use the iSCSI Initiator Configuration screen to set a single iSCSI Initiator Name for all controllers in the system Workaround None FCoE x86 BootBIOS Known Issues 1 The Configure Boot Devices menu only scans for the next 16 LUNs from the starting LUN which limits the LUNs displayed Workaround None Firmware and Boot Code Release Notes for Emulex OneConnect OCe14000 series Adapters 7 P011403 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX An Avago Technologies Company Technical Tips 1 Firmware and Boot Code Release Notes for Emulex OneConnect OCe14000 series Adapters Under SLES
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4. gt G EMULEX An Avago Technologies Company Firmware and Boot Code Release Notes for Emulex OneConnect OCe14000 series Adapters Version 10 6 144 21 Date July 2015 Purpose and Contact Information These release notes describe new features resolved known issues current known issues and technical tips associated with this release of the firmware and boot code for the Emulex OneConnect OCe14000 series adapters For the latest product documentation go to www Emulex com If you have questions or require additional information contact an authorized Emulex technical support representative at tech support elx avagotech com 800 854 7112 US Canada toll free 1 714 885 3402 US International or 44 1189 772929 Europe Middle East and Africa New Features Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7 1 Added support for OCe14000B series adapters Added support for RoCE version 2 UDP encapsulation on OCe14000B series adapters Added support for re configurable links in OCe14401B adapters to use a breakout cable Added support for an iBFT crash dump driver for the iSCSI protocol Added support for esxcli plug in on VMware ESXi 5 5 and 6 0 systems Nog 7 FP Y NH PR Added support for high temperature detection on OCe14000 series 1OGBASE T adapters Resolved Issues from Firmware Version 10 4 255 25 Firmware Resolved Issues 1 Made changes to enhance performance for the RoCE protocol 2 Corrected an issue with
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7. the Ethernet flow control setting always reverting to TX RX Flow Control 3 Corrected an issue with port beaconing not working properly on OCe14000 series 10GBASE T adapters 4 Corrected an issue where the port link would go down after updating firmware 5 Corrected intermittent issues that would occur when pulling cables on an EMC XtremlO array running VMware ESXi 5 5 6 Corrected an issue that when the initiator IP type was set to IPv4 and the target IP type was set to IPv6 the iSCSI target login would succeed even with invalid initiator IP settings Firmware and Boot Code Release Notes for Emulex OneConnect OCe14000 series Adapters 1 P011403 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX An Avago Technologies Company 7 Corrected an issue with the local loopback test may not working properly which could result in an unrecoverable error 8 Corrected an issue that when performing a PHY loopback test in the OneCommand Manager application on an Emulex OCe14102 NT or OCe14102 UT adapter the test would fail after a random period of time 9 Corrected an issue with the Force 1Gb set speed setting not being implemented properly the first time it was selected in the OneCommand Manager application General Boot Resolved Issues 1 Removed references to NIC ETS Disabled in the Boot Version 10 6 for NIC iSCSI FCoE and RoCE Protocols User Manual iSCSI UEFI Resolved Issues 1 Corrected an issue where the iSCSI IPv6 ping and login w
8. the following text All OC14 controllers will be updated to firmware version lt VERSION gt This is a cosmetic issue and the installed OCe14000 series adapters will be updated by the utility Workaround i When the Do you want to continue y n text appears type y to continue The utility will update all of the OCe14000 series adapters NIC UEFI Known Issues 1 If iBFT boot is non functional and version 10 2 370 19 or later firmware is installed you must update the firmware to version 10 2 370 19 using the ISO flash image or using a version 10 2 management application or firmware update utility You must reboot the system after the firmware update If you updated the firmware from a version earlier than 10 0 803 37 you must perform the update process twice using a version 10 2 management application or firmware update utility You must reboot the system after each firmware update Workaround None Firmware and Boot Code Release Notes for Emulex OneConnect OCe14000 series Adapters 5 P011403 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX An Avago Technologies Company iSCSI UEFI Known Issues 1 An iSCSI login does not display an error when providing invalid target information Workaround None 2 Dell PowerEdge R720 systems may appear to hang when configuring the adapter in the NIC UEFI utility because pop up messages are not supported on this specific Dell platform Note The system is not in a hang state but it is ac
9. was written so as to conform with Netscapes SSL This library is free for commercial and non commercial use as long as the following conditions are aheared to The following conditions Firmware and Boot Code Release Notes for Emulex OneConnect OCe14000 series Adapters P011403 01A Rev A 10 gt G EMULEX An Avago Technologies Company apply to all code found in this distribution be it the RC4 RSA Ihash DES etc code not just the SSL code The SSL documentation included with this distribution is covered by the same copyright terms except that the holder is Tim Hudson tjh cryptsoft com Copyright remains Eric Young s and as such any Copyright notices in the code are not to be removed If this package is used in a product Eric Young should be given attribution as the author of the parts of the library used This can be in the form of a textual message at program startup or in documentation online or textual provided with the package Redistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without modification are permitted provided that the following conditions are met 1 Redistributions of source code must retain the copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer 2 Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and or other materials provided with
10. 11 the bond 5 and 6 modes must be configured properly to work with the firmware When configuring the bond mode change the default setting to include updelay 100 For example the correct setting for bond 6 is BONDING_MODULE_OPTS mode 6 miimon 100 updelay 100 For Cisco switches the access mode must be set in trunk mode and native VLAN cannot be FCoE VLAN that is the FCoE VLAN must be in the allowed list For example if VLAN 2 is the FCoE VLAN and VLAN 1 is the Ethernet VLAN you would enter the following e Switchport mode trunk e Switchport trunk native vlan 1 e Switchport trunk allowed vlan 1 2 For Brocade switches trunk mode must be set in converged mode For example if VLAN 2 is the FCoE VLAN you would enter the following e Switchport mode converged e Switchport converged allowed vlan add 2 For best performance disable the Spanning Tree Protocol STP on all networked switches if you are using the following e Adapter fault tolerance AFT e Automatic load balancing ALB e Static link aggregation teaming When using SR IOV within virtual machines VM on Windows 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 systems VM to VM communication on SR IOV enabled switches always works however there is a difference in how data is transferred e When virtual Ethernet bridge VEB is enabled and physical link tracking is disabled the VF link is always up and VF VF is always used e When VEB and physical link tracking are enabled defaul
11. Note Do not use Linux inbox drivers when performing the firmware update Firmware and Boot Code Release Notes for Emulex OneConnect OCe14000 series Adapters 2 P011403 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX An Avago Technologies Company Note After you have updated the firmware you must not downgrade the firmware to a version earlier than 10 0 803 37 If you are updating from firmware version 10 0 803 37 or later use one of these methods to update the firmware to 10 6 144 21 e Use the ISO flash tool e Use the released 10 6 version of the OneCommand GUI or OneCommand CLI application OneCommand for VMware vCenter application CIM Provider utility or online or offline utilities and reboot the system after the firmware update It is not necessary to perform the firmware update process twice e Use the NIC configuration utility that is currently installed and reboot the system after the firmware update After the new firmware is installed run the new NIC configuration utility Note Do not use Linux inbox drivers when performing the firmware update Note After you have updated the firmware you must not downgrade the firmware to a version earlier than 10 0 803 37 Workaround None 2 Out of Box OOB Wake on LAN WoL is enabled by default with every power cycle There is no way to change this behavior WoL can be disabled via configuration software This setting persists across reboots that continue to supply AUX power to the OCe14000
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16. endor systems include e Colfax Intel system with S2600C0 motherboard e SuperMicro X9SRL F motherboard e SuperMicro X9SCL X9SCM Workaround None 9 On OCe14401 adapters installed on Microsoft Windows systems the number of VMQueues are reduced when migrating the VMs Firmware and Boot Code Release Notes for Emulex OneConnect OCe14000 series Adapters 4 P011403 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX An Avago Technologies Company Workaround Refer to Knowledge Base article 3031598 on the Microsoft website for more information 10 Updating the firmware from version 10 2 to version 10 6 may fail if the OneCommand Manager application version 10 2 or Elxflash utility version 10 2 are used to update the firmware Workaround You must update the OneCommand Manager application or Elxflash utility version to 10 6 before updating the firmware 11 During heavy I O traffic on Arista switches PFC traffic may be dropped at the switch Workaround Increase switch port egress buffers using the following commands platform trident mmu queue profile emulex egress unicast queue 5 threshold 4 platform trident mmu queue profile emulex apply 12 Boot from SAN does not work on x86 systems with OCe14000 series FCoE adapters running Solaris 11 2 and later versions Workaround None 13 The Emulex OneConnect Firmware Update Utility does not provide feedback that all OCe14000 series adapters will be updated when performing a firmware update The utility is not displaying
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21. ould fail on the second port when the first port link was not connected iSCSI BootBIOS Resolved Issues 1 Corrected an issue where discovery login CHAP authentication had to be provided multiple times once during discovery once during log in and when the boot flag was enabled 2 Corrected an issue where the iSCSISelect utility would display incorrect iSCSI LUN size for 4 terabyte TB LUNs 3 Corrected an issue where the iSCSI IPv6 ping and login wouldy fail on the second port when the first port link was not connected Known Issues Firmware Known Issues 1 Firmware version 10 6 144 21 includes new features that required new flash regions to support them Firmware versions earlier than 10 0 803 37 did not have the ability to configure the flash regions to support these new features If you are updating from a firmware version earlier than 10 0 803 37 use one of these methods to update the firmware to 10 6 144 21 e Use the ISO flash tool e Use the released 10 6 version of the OneCommand GUI or OneCommand CLI application OneCommand for VMware vCenter application CIM Provider utility or online or offline utilities You must perform the firmware update procedure twice to ensure that the flash regions are properly configured and you must reboot the system after each firmware update e Use the NIC configuration utility that is currently installed After the new firmware is installed run the new NIC configuration utility
22. ovide increased reliability and increased bandwidth this is not the case in this circumstance Since the channels are assigned to the same physical port reliability is not increased because it is still the same as a single physical port and not equal to two ports combined In addition bandwidth increases are not actually realized Greater throughput could be achieved by assigning the combined bandwidths of the channels to a single channel as the overhead of teaming would not be a factor in that case Copyright 2015 Emulex All rights reserved worldwide This document refers to various companies and products by their trade names In most if not all cases their respective companies claim these designations as trademarks or registered trademarks This information is provided for reference only Although this information is believed to be accurate and reliable at the time of publication Emulex assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions Emulex reserves the right to make changes or corrections without notice This report is the property of Emulex and may not be duplicated without permission from the Company Firmware and Boot Code Release Notes for Emulex OneConnect OCe14000 series Adapters P011403 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX An Avago Technologies Company OpenSSL Notice This is a copy of the current LICENSE file inside the CVS repository LICENSE ISSUES The OpenSSL toolkit stays under a dual license i e both the conditions of the Ope
23. series adapter A full power cycle of the system or warm boot which results in AUX power disruption to the OCe14000 series adapter results in default behavior being restored Workaround None 3 Changing personalities may disable a Cisco switch s operator mode for priority flow control PFC Workaround Perform the following steps a Check the operator mode by typing show int eth 1 x priority flow control b If the operator mode is off for each affected port you must then toggle the priority flow control mode to off and then back to auto At the switch priority flow control mode off priority flow control mode auto 4 Maximum bandwidth settings for NIC functions are ignored when multichannel is enabled The rate limiting features on Emulex OCe14000 series adapters are designed to provide a guaranteed rate to a given function as noted in the minimum bandwidth setting in the Firmware and Boot Code Release Notes for Emulex OneConnect OCe14000 series Adapters 3 P011403 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX An Avago Technologies Company Emulex management interface The notion of work conservation applies to this approach specifically that any bandwidth left unused by other functions will be awarded to the function even in excess of the guaranteed minimum The maximum bandwidth parameter in the Emulex management interface is for a rate cap that is a bandwidth value must not be exceeded regardless of the behavior of other func
24. t a When the physical link is up VF VF is used b When the physical link is down an emulated path through a virtual switch is used e When virtual Ethernet port aggregator VEPA is enabled a When the physical link is up VF VF is used b When the physical link is down an emulated path through a virtual switch is used On four port adapters only one priority based flow control PFC enabled protocol is allowed on each port iSCSI PFC priority 4 is not enabled by default when an OCe14104 series adapter is configured for converged mode when configuring DCB parameters for the iSCSI NIC iSCSI and NIC FCoE iSCSI ports Although you can set one port on an OCe14000 series adapter to run multiple protocols only one priority can be enabled for PFC The default is to enable FCoE and not iSCSI iSCSI cannot specify the bandwidth in its own priority group so the switch must be configured to P011403 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX An Avago Technologies Company include it in the default priority group The adapter will not use the switch settings if the PFC iSCSI priority is manually enabled UMC NIC channels on the same physical port cannot be placed in the same team on Windows and VMware systems Each of the NIC channels is presented to the operating system as a separate and unique port running a NIC function However this can create an issue if the NIC channels on the same physical port are placed in the same team While teaming can pr
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27. tions The maximum bandwidth parameter was placed in the Emulex management interface for other products it is not currently available in the OCe14000 series adapters Workaround None 5 An incorrect connectivity status may be reported when the initiator link is brought down Workaround None 6 When performing a PHY loopback test in the OneCommand Manager application the test may fail when the port is connected to a direct attach copper DAC cable Workaround None 7 Erroneous warning messages may appear in the Windows Event Log when using an OCe14401 adapter with Avago QSFP AFBR 79EQDZ The messages may state text similar to the following Warning Unqualified SFP module detected on Emulex OneConnect OCe14401 UX NIC Port 1 from AVAGO part number AFBR 79EQDZ Warning Emulex OneConnect OCe14401 UX NIC Incompatible optics Replace with compatible optics for card to function Workaround None This message can be ignored as this Avago QSFP is supported by Emulex 8 The host may fail to boot on certain vendor system BIOS versions when a single physical function PF is configured with SR IOV disabled This is most commonly observed when a 1 port adapter is using the RoCE protocol but it can also occur when a 1 port adapter uses the NIC protocol with SR IOV enabled Note This issue can also be observed on 2 and 4 port adapters that support link reconfigurability and are reconfigured for a single port Affected v
28. tually waiting for the lt Esc gt key to be pressed Workaround If the system appears to be locked up and making configuration changes press the lt Esc gt key to see if the system responds 3 A complete memory dump will not finish in a boot from SAN configuration using iBFT with IPV6 Workaround Do not specify complete dumps when using iBFT with IPV6 Choose Automatic or Kernel memory dumps PXE BootBIOS Known Issues 1 IfiBFT boot is non functional and version 10 2 370 19 or later firmware is installed you must update the firmware to version 10 2 370 19 using the ISO flash image or using a version 10 2 management application or firmware update utility You must reboot the system after the firmware update If you updated the firmware from a version earlier than 10 0 803 37 you must perform the update process twice using a version 10 2 management application or firmware update utility You must reboot the system after each firmware update Workaround None 2 The PXE Boot Support attribute on the PXESelect utility s Port Configuration page does not match the Option ROM attribute on the UEFI NIC Configuration page Workaround None 3 PXE VLAN is not supported in multichannel environments Workaround Set the LPVID to the same value as the PXE VLAN Firmware and Boot Code Release Notes for Emulex OneConnect OCe14000 series Adapters 6 P011403 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX An Avago Technologies Company iSCSI BootBIOS
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