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Brocade FC switch nondisruptive upgrade path had a disruptive reboot

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Applies to

  • Brocade G620
  • Fabric OS (FOS) v9.1.1a

Issue

  • Device attached to Brocade switch sees link break/port offline during an upgrade that is expected to be nondisruptive, example ONTAP EMS logs:

Link break detected on Fibre Channel target HBA 2a with event status 1 , topology type 1, status1 0x0, status2 0x0.

  • errdumpall from supportsave logs shows a port lost sync during the upgrade:

[C4-5257], 91/0, CHASSIS | PORT 0/4, WARNING, BrocadeG620, S0,P4(63): (PHY05): HA recovery check failure - port lost sync C4_LLIS_LOSYNC, lli_status = 0x08174004, OID:0x4302803f, SPOID:0x43068104, c4_physm.c, line: 1178, comp:insmod

  • Port errors seen:

/fabos/cliexec/porterrshow :

frames        enc     crc     crc     too     too     bad     enc    disc    link    loss    loss    frjt    fbsy     c3timeout     pcs      uncor

tx       rx      in     err     g_eof   shrt    long    eof     out    c3      fail    sync    sig                      tx      rx      err     err

4:   12.8g   61.8g    0       0       0       0       0       0       0      11.1k    0       0       0       0       0      11.1k    0       0       3

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