HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 MU5 Release Notes

11 HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 MU3 Release Notes
Online Upgrade Considerations
This feature allows the upgrade of the OS concurrently with I/O activity on the attached hosts,
provided certain conditions are met. For further information and pre-planning of online upgrades,
refer to the latest version of the HP 3PAR OS Upgrade Pre-Planning Guide. To obtain a copy of
this documentation, go to http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/psi/
manualsResults/?sp4ts.oid=5044394, click General Reference and then search for HP 3PAR OS
Upgrade Pre-Planning Guide.
NOTE: Direct upgrades from 3.1.1.226 to 3.1.2.484 are not supported.
Customers running 3.1.1.226 and wishing to upgrade to 3.1.2 will need to upgrade to the latest
3.1.1 MU before upgrading to 3.1.2.
Supported Platforms
The HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 Configuration Matrix contains information about supported hardware and
software platforms. To obtain a copy of this documentation, see the Single Point of Connectivity
Knowledge for HP Storage Products (SPOCK) website at http://www.hp.com/storage/spock.
Components
VersionComponent
3.1.2.484OS
3.1.2.484CLI
What's New in the HP 3PAR OS
HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 MU3 resolves important issues in the HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 release line. This
includes following benefits:
• Manageability and Serviceability for the nodes and cages
• Remote Copy including Transparent Failover and Peer Persistence
Modifications to the HP 3PAR OS
DescriptionItemIssue ID
When the link comes up, the driver issues PLOGIs to
all devices in parallel. If the link goes down while
cage goes offline or degraded due to badly
behaving pd.
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some of PLOGIs are pending, then the driver issues
PLOGIs to devices one by one. If the link goes down
again while the PLOGI is pending, driver marks this
device as ByPass and sends an event to SYSMGR.
Due to an issue in the transport layer module of HP
3PAR OS, a node might incorrectly access unmapped
Resolved an issue in the inter-node transport layer
that can cause a node to access unmapped memory
and become unresponsive.
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memory area when sending large data mover
requests and become unresponsive. This is resolved
and node ensures that large data mover requests do
not access invalid memory areas.
On HP 3PAR 7000 Series storage system with no
drives, the showcage and the shownode commands
On HP 3PAR 7000 Series storage system with no
drives, the showcage and the shownode
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do not show any of the cage or node information.
This is resolved.
commands do not show the cage or the node
information.
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