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HP G7/8 Blades: New Emulex firmware 4.1.450.7 released

HP has released a new firmware version 4.1.450.7 of its Emulex OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet Controller which is used in HP G7 and G8 Blades.

http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=4118472&prodNameId=4118473&swEnvOID=54&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=co-108044-1

This is a standalone image so not part of the HP Service Pack for ProLiant 2012.08.0 release which is unfortunate.

The new firmware release notes state the following:

Added support for the following operating systems:

  • RHEL 6.3

Resolved Issues from Firmware Version 4.1.402.20:

  • BladeEngine Firmware
  • SR IOV: Unable to ping IPV6 from DUT VF to Peer VF
  • Running ethtool with BE3 takes longer than expected after cable pull
  • FAT_CFG_SNAPSHOT command timed out
  • Out of Order CQEs
  • Data integrity Issue noted during short duration cable pulls
  • W2K8 graceful shutdown failed under B120i with NC552
  • BL460c Gen8 with 554FLB Unable to PXE boot
  • 1Gb LOM ports in Windows do not come back up when switch is power cycled
  • RSCN is not generated by switch when a driver restarts 10. 7 second delay in _CARD_ATTRIBUTES command
  • BE3 read sfp ioctl returns bad data on twinax cables that BE2 returns good data with
  • 554FLR FCoE Path Multipath Recovery Fail SLES11 sp1 x64
  • Out of order Abort completion and IO completion CQE
  • Received CQE_EXT_INVALID_RPI in abort completion of ELS command
  • Correction to OCSD to prevent DMA conflicts with LPFC driver

PXE BIOS

  • PXE issue on Gen 8 blades hang at gPXE prompt when set for one time PXE boot.

UEFI iSCSI

  • EFI: CHAP name only accepts 6 to 10 characters
  • EFI: iSCSI name is case sensitive

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