HP 3PAR InForm OS 3.1.1 MU1 Release Notes

2 HP 3PAR InForm OS 3.1.1 GA Release Notes
Online Upgrade Considerations
This feature allows the upgrade of the InForm OS concurrently with I/O activity on the attached
hosts, provided certain conditions are met. For further information and pre-planning of Rolling
Upgrades, refer to the latest version of the HP 3PAR InForm OS Upgrade Pre-Planning Guide. To
obtain a copy of this documentation, go to http://www.hp.com/go/3par/, navigate to your
product page, click Support for your product, and then click Manuals.
Supported Platforms
The HP 3PAR Configuration Matrix for InForm OS 3.1.1 contains Information about supported
hardware and software platforms. For additional information, go to the Single Point of Connectivity
Knowledge for HP Storage Products (SPOCK) Web site at http://spock.corp.hp.com/index.aspx.
End of Support Features
The following features are no longer supported by HP 3PAR:
• Direct Connect, Remote Copy over Fibre Channel (RCFC).
• Port Personas, as Host Personas are now used.
Components
VersionComponent
3.1.1.226OS
3.1.1.226CLI
1.5.0SNMP Agent
What’s New in the InForm OS
HP 3PAR InForm Operating System 3.1.1 enables customers to increase multi-tenant consolidation
on shared infrastructure and increase agility and efficiency with several new features and
enhancements. InForm OS 3.1.1 features include the following benefits:
• Enhanced multi-tenancy with support for the new HP 3PAR Storage System and several
scalability and resiliency features
• Autonomic management for agility and ease of use with HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software,
autonomic system rebalance, and other enhanced capabilities
• Thin Technologies for efficiency and capacity reduction with fine-grained 16KB space
reclamation with HP 3PAR Thin Persistence Software and remote copy bandwidth optimization
with HP 3PAR Remote Copy Software.
Multi-tenancy for Consolidation on Scalable, Resilient Infrastructure
HP P10000 3PAR Storage System Support
InForm Operating System (OS) 3.1.1 enables support for HP P10000 3PAR Storage System, a
new, highly virtualized Utility Storage platform that is ideal for virtual and cloud datacenters.
Additional Multi-tenancy Enhancements
• HP 3PAR InForm OS now operates in 64-bit mode, enabling greater scalability levels on HP
P10000 3PAR Storage Systems. InForm OS 3.1.1 supports the HP P10000 3PAR Storage
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