Release Notes

Notes and Limitations

This section contains information important to the release of Dell Storage Manager 2016 R3.

Cross-Platform Replication Snapshots

After replicating a volume from a Storage Center to a PS Series group, snapshots replicated to the PS Series group do not expire

based on the Snapshot Prole set on the source volume. To prevent the snapshots from consuming excessive space, manually delete

the PS Series group snapshots in Storage Manager.

Documentation Corrections

The Dell Storage Manager 2016 R3 Administrator's Guide and Online Help contain the following incorrect Storage Center version

requirement for creating Live Migrations:

The source and destination Storage Centers must have version 7.1 or later.

The Storage Center version requirement for creating Live Migrations should state:

The source and destination Storage Centers must have version 6.7.30 or later.

Fixed Issues

The following sections summarize the issues xed in Storage Manager R3.

Fixed Issues Related to Management of PS Series Groups

The following issues are xed in Dell Storage Manager 2016 R3.

Table 1. Issues Fixed in Storage Manager 2016 R3.1

Issue Description

DSM-21915 Storage Manager is not able to manage a PS Group with a session banner of more than 255

characters.

DSM-19815 Storage Manager fails to manage a PS Group after updating to Storage Manager 2016 R1 from an

earlier version.

DSM-17313, DSM-17379 After refreshing the Storage Manager Client, Storage Manager does not update the % Full, InUse

Space, or Number of Snapshots columns for a PS Series group volume.

Fixed Issues Related to the Data Collector

The following issues are xed in Dell Storage Manager 2016 R3.

Table 2. Issues Fixed in Storage Manager 2016 R3.20

Issue Description

DSM-31950 Resolved a directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2017-14384). In Dell Storage Manager versions

earlier than 16.3.20, the EMCongMigration service is aected by a directory traversal

vulnerability. A remote malicious user could potentially exploit this vulnerability to read

unauthorized les by supplying specially crafted strings in input parameters of the application. A

malicious user cannot delete or modify any les via this vulnerability.

DSM-30415 Resolved a hard-coded password vulnerability (CVE-2017-14374). The SMI-S service in Dell

Storage Manager versions earlier than 16.3.20 is protected using a hard-coded password. A

remote user with the knowledge of the password might potentially disable the SMI-S service via