HP just announced Virtual Connect Firmware version 3.30.
Following are the select new features supported in VC 3.30 including many others. For details please refer to Release Notes and User Guide.
Features | Description/ Benefits |
CLI based network debugging | Trouble shoot network performance and monitor health in terms of Port utilization, CPU and Memory |
Increased mapped VLAN capacity | Up to 1000 VLANs SUS from 128 and up to 162 VLANs to down link from 28 |
Simultaneous tunneled and mapped VLAN connections | Unique VLAN flexibility supports best practice network requirements for virtualized servers |
TACACS+/RADIUS role based security | User authentication, Command Authorization and Command loggings for network and storage teams |
Server network access control | Prevent connection to specific network combinations in the same server profile |
Simplified iSCSI boot setup | Automatically retrieve parameters from HP 4000 SAN solutions and attach to server profile;Reduce manual entries to 2 instead of 18 (90% reduction) |
GUI and CLI interface improvements | Many GUI and CLI improvement for consistency and productivity |
And it’s available on public FTP: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p673331540/v65480/vcfwall330.bin
More info thanks to @bladeguy: URL