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Announcing Xgig 3.6: 6G SAS/SATA and 8G Fibre Channel (FC) Analyzer Combined Release

The 6G SAS/SATA and 8G Fibre Channel Analyzer combined release, Version 3.6, is now available on the Finisar portal! To access it, point your browser to: http://ntcustomer.finisar.com:8080/login.xgig.aspx.

The Xgig® 8G Fibre channel Analyzer is the industry's leading protocol analysis tool. It supports 1, 2, 4 and 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel as well as upper layer protocols such as iSCSI, FCP, FICON, and FCIP. For Xgig® blades that support Gigabit Ethernet, Version 3.6 also supports Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) protocol.

• The new 8.5 Gb/s FC blade introduced in this release has 4 SFP+ compatible ports that support 1.0625, 2.125, 4.25 and 8.5 Gb/s Fibre Channel data rates.

• The new Analyzer blade implements a deep trace buffer offering 2GB per SFP port for a total of 8 GB on one blade.

• Finisar has implemented scrambling feature in hardware following the 8GFC specification. Scrambling is available at all four data speeds (1.0625, 2.125, 4.25 and 8.5 Gb/s). The default setting for 8.5 Gb/s is scrambling on and scrambling off for all other speeds.

• The new Xgig 8.5 Gb/s FC Analyzer blade continues to support analog pass-through and digital re-time probing options with nominal signal quality impact and data stream clean-up.

• Xgig Expert support for the most recent updates on the 8GFC specification from INCITS T11 committee, such as ARB(ff ) decoded as IDLEs.

• TraceControl now reports SFP Tx/Rx optical power readings.

• Each Xgig 8.5 Gb/s FC blade can serve as a protocol analyzer, Jammer, BERT, and/or Load Tester through simple software configurations without the need of modifying hardware.

Also in version 3.6, Finisar extends the Xgig® family with the addition of 6 Gb/s SAS/SATA support. Line rates supported include SAS and SATA 1.5, 3.0, and 6.0 Gb/s. Other features of the release include the following.

• DWORD search to quickly find information within frames

• Detection and decodes for new 6 Gb/s OOB signaling

• Support for analog pass-through and digital re-time probing options (These provide nominal signal quality impact and data stream clean-up, respectively

• Implementation of SAS-2 at all speeds to support testing SAS-2 features at lower clock rates

• Native Mini-SAS 4x Connector Interfaces to simplify cabling

• Quad Memory support with 4 banks of memory per port pair, which allows taking multiple traces into the different memory segments

• 1 GB SODIMM memory to allow the double-wide 6Gb/s SAS/SATA blade to support up to 16 GBs of physical memory total - 4 GB of memory per port-pair

• Spread-Spectrum Clocking (SSC) support

• Decodes all new SAS-2 primitives and Zoning commands

Announcing SAN Commander 2.6.3 (Maintenance Release)

SAN Commander is a 4 G/s Wire-Speed, Multi-Port SAN Testing Solution. This is a software-only maintenance release. Version 2.6.3 fixes multiple customer bugs and introduces new enhancements and features including the following. (For a complete list including numbers, see the proceeding page.)

• Updated online help

• Implemented execution of Integrity Test through Topology Viewer

• Added progress indicator when executing SCSI format and verify commands

• Fixed execution of SCSI format command on JBOD

• Improved multiple-tester support in Integrity Test and BERT

• Fixed Tx/Rx frame count mismatch in Integrity Test/BERT for multiple tester. [Fixed and non-fixed payload size]

• Fixed test length inconsistency in Integrity Test

• Improved boundary checking for Integrity Test Settings

• Bumped script file version due to changes in Integrity script file format

A complete list of fixes, with tracking numbers, is included below. Note that this SAN Commander release is not available on the Finisar portal. Customers needing the release should email techsupport@finisar.com.
 

SAN Commander 2.6.3 Fixes Summary