HP 3PAR InForm OS 3.1.1 MU1 Release Notes

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................5
Audience.................................................................................................................................5
Support and Other Resources.....................................................................................................5
Related Documentation..............................................................................................................5
Open Source Software..............................................................................................................6
2 HP 3PAR InForm OS 3.1.1 GA Release Notes..................................................7
Online Upgrade Considerations.................................................................................................7
Supported Platforms..................................................................................................................7
End of Support Features............................................................................................................7
Components............................................................................................................................7
What’s New in the InForm OS...................................................................................................7
Multi-tenancy for Consolidation on Scalable, Resilient Infrastructure............................................7
HP P10000 3PAR Storage System Support..........................................................................7
Additional Multi-tenancy Enhancements.............................................................................7
Autonomic Management for Agility and Ease of Use................................................................8
HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software.........................................................................................8
Autonomic System Rebalance...........................................................................................8
Additional Enhancements to Dynamic Optimization.............................................................9
Configurable Priority for Snapshot Promote.........................................................................9
Additional Enhancements to Virtual Copy...........................................................................9
Expanded User Roles.......................................................................................................9
Additional Ease of Use Enhancements..............................................................................10
Thin Technologies for Efficiency and Capacity Reduction.........................................................10
Fine-grained 16KB Space Reclaim...................................................................................10
Remote Copy Bandwidth Optimization.............................................................................10
Additional Remote Copy Enhancements...........................................................................10
Subnet restrictions removed.................................................................................................10
System startup after 24 hour shutdown requires manual intervention..........................................11
Modifications to the InForm OS................................................................................................11
Limitations of the InForm OS.....................................................................................................16
Fibre Channel/SCSI Interface..............................................................................................16
LDAP authentication...........................................................................................................16
Remote Copy Link Speeds...................................................................................................17
Known Issues with the InForm OS..............................................................................................17
Thin Provisioned Virtual Volumes with no_tp_bzero policy enabled could result in uninitialized
data (Bug 62394)..............................................................................................................17
32-Bit Libraries Needed for 64-Bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 to Run a CLI Client (Bug
63679).............................................................................................................................18
4Gb/s 2-Port adapter Issue.................................................................................................18
Downgrade Issues..............................................................................................................18
Issues Preventing Downgrades from InForm OS release 3.1.1 to InForm OS release 2.3.1.........18
Issues Preventing Downgrades from InForm OS release 3.1.1 to InForm OS release 2.2.4.........19
Issues Causing a Change to the InForm Configuration........................................................20
Running Recovery Manager and Remote Copy (from outside of Recovery Manager) at the Same
Time is not Supported.........................................................................................................20
Windows 2003 Pop-Up......................................................................................................21
Cage Loop Down Alert is not Auto-Recovered (Bug 40274)......................................................21
System Manager Could Fail During Rolling Upgrade if Remote Copy Groups Running (Bug
40867).............................................................................................................................21
No Explicit Way to Reset the Default Value for Tunelinks (Bug 43579).......................................21
Remote Copy Volumes go Stale Due to Lack of Adm Space (Bug 44963)..................................21
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