Blade Network Technologies BLADEOS 5.1, Release Notes

Page 1: ...50 Mission College Blvd Suite 600 Santa Clara CA 95054 www bladenetwork net BLADEOS Release Notes 1 10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter Version 5 1 Part Number BMD00098 December 200...

Page 2: ...ical data and commercial software documentation as those terms are used in FAR 12 211 12 212 Oct 1995 Government End Users are authorized to use this documentation only in accordance with those rights...

Page 3: ...for the 1 10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter BLADEOS 5 1 Command Reference for the 1 10Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter BLADEOS 5 1 ISCLI Reference for the 1 1...

Page 4: ...ded network switch that features tight integration with IBM BladeCenter management modules Figure 1 1 10Gb Uplink ESM Faceplate The GbESM has the following port capacities Three external 10Gb SFP slot...

Page 5: ...witch disables the port and generates a syslog message indicating that the DAC is not approved The GbESM does not disable the SFP ports when using MSA compliant DAC cables For best results the followi...

Page 6: ...two different software images called image1 and image2 as well as boot software called boot When you load new software you must specify where it should be placed either into image1 image2 or boot For...

Page 7: ...ftware will load into the switch 7 When loading is complete enter the following command at the Boot Options prompt 8 The system informs you of which software image image1 or image2 is currently set to...

Page 8: ...er if applicable 5 The system prompts you to confirm your request Once confirmed the software will load into the switch 6 When loading is complete use the following command in Global Configuration mod...

Page 9: ...onfiguration Management page appears 3 If you are loading software from your computer HTTP client skip this step and go to the next Otherwise if you are loading software from a FTP TFTP server enter t...

Page 10: ...efined events An RMON management application can be used to access RMON MIB information on the GbESM as described in RFC 1757 The switch supports RMON Group 1 Statistics Group 2 History Group 3 Alarms...

Page 11: ...EE 802 3ah Operation Administration and Maintenance OAM protocol OAM allows the switch to detect faults on physical port links Using OAM if the Local Information that a port sends does not match the R...

Page 12: ...arded Further reliability and performance could be provided by configuring parallel BGP paths to a loopback interface on a peer device which would result in improved load sharing Access and security c...

Page 13: ...o active interfaces but do not receive LSAs hello packets or any other OSPF protocol information from active interfaces Passive interfaces behave as stub networks allowing OSPF routing devices to be a...

Page 14: ...5 1 the implementation of Access Control Lists ACLs has been standardized to use ascending order of precedence ACLs that are assigned to a port are now processed in numeric sequence based on ACL numb...

Page 15: ...info vlan command permits the following options The numbers in a range must be separated by a dash start of range end of range Multiple ranges or list items are permitted using a comma range or item 1...

Page 16: ...link information info link for switches installed in bay 1 and bay 2 Alias Port Speed Duplex Flow Ctrl Link TX RX INT1A 1 1000 full yes yes up INT1B 2 1000 full yes yes up INT2A 3 1000 full yes yes u...

Page 17: ...rn Fld PVID NAME VLAN s INT1A 1 y n e e 1 INT1A 1 4095 INT1B 2 y n e e 1 INT1B 1 4095 INT2A 3 y n e e 1 INT2A 1 4095 INT2B 4 y n e e 1 INT2B 1 4095 INT3A 5 y n e e 1 INT3A 1 4095 INT3B 6 y n e e 1 INT...

Page 18: ...BLADEOS 5 1 now also supports PVRST Alias Port Tag Fast Lrn Fld PVID NAME VLAN s INT1 1 y n e e 1 INT1 1 4095 INT2 2 y n e e 1 INT2 1 4095 INT3 3 y n e e 1 INT3 1 4095 INT4 4 y n e e 1 INT4 1 4095 IN...

Page 19: ...The following table correlates the Firmware Type listed in the IBM management module s Web interface Firmware VPD window to the GbESM software version Within the IBM management module Web interface th...

Page 20: ...and the management module go to the I O Module Configuration window on the management module s Web interface Under the New Static IP Configuration section click Save to trigger the management module t...

Page 21: ...hree server keys 1 One key is generated to replace the current server key if used 2 A second key is generated as a spare in case the current server key is used and the specified interval expires 3 A t...

Page 22: ...e for each switch a single SYSLOG server can distinguish between the various GbESMs in the network Refer to System Host Log Configuration in the BLADEOS 5 1 Command Reference Internal Port Autonegotia...

Page 23: ...IGMP Relay When having joins from multiple VLANs and the multicast data transmitter is on a VLAN that did not receive any joins multicast data is routed only if the flood option is disabled using the...

Page 24: ...if the external device is changed first the external device may erroneously report the link as DOWN even after the GbESM is changed to 10 Mbps Solution At the external device disconnect and reconnect...

Page 25: ...problem occurs the GbESM continuously displays the following messages at the console WARNING packet_sent u 0 dv_active tx ring full packet_sent dcnt 114 public1 110 vcnt 1025 Solution Remove the loop...

Page 26: ...Password with automatic expiration the password might not expire if the system date and time is not configured first Use of a Network Time Protocol NTP server resolves this issue Solution When you con...