HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 MU5 Release Notes

Autonomic Management for Agility and Ease of Use
• HP 3PAR Adaptive Optimization software has been enhanced to support all manageability
and configuration using HP 3PAR management console and CLI. The data for AO is now
maintained on the StoreServ Storage in an internal database.
• Autonomic Rebalance capability is now available as part of the HP 3PAR OS. Autonomic
Rebalance provides the ability to analyze how volumes on the HP 3PAR Storage System are
using physical disk space and makes intelligent, autonomic adjustments to ensure optimal
volume distribution when new hardware is added to the system.
• Added the ability to retrieve and display Fibre Channel fabric information to provide the users
with a single location to obtain switch models, logs and other connectivity information.
• Ability to instantly export a full copy to the host while the data is being copied as a background
task.
• Common Provisioning Groups are created by default based on the drive configuration once
the new hardware is admitted to the system.
• Introducing HP 3PAR Web Services API which is a well-defined application programming
interface that customers can use for end-to-end automation of their service delivery and
management of HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage.
• Re-imaging the local drive on the node has been simplified and automated in most scenarios.
The drive is re-imaged by leveraging the image from the master nodes in the system through
the backplane.
• Introducing HP 3PAR SmartStart for HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage which simplifies the
startup functionality and guides the administrator through the configuration of HP 3PAR
StoreServ Storage, HP 3PAR Service Processor, and Production Application hosts.
Thin Technologies for Efficiency and Capacity Reduction
• Array integration with Windows Server 2012 storage features such as Thin Provisioning,
Space reclamation with UNMAP, and Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) capabilities. These
capabilities in addition to providing capacity efficiencies also minimize administrative tasks.
• Conversion of fully provisioned volumes to thin provisioned volumes and vice versa has been
enhanced to provide the ability to convert the volumes online so that the applications need
not go through an offline transition from the old volumes to the new volumes.
Federated Technologies
• Introducing EVA to 3PAR Online Import: The EVA Command View will enable the orchestration
of data migration from a source EVA storage system to a destination 3PAR storage system.
Customers can migrate EVA virtual disks and host configuration information to a HP 3PAR
StoreServ Storage system without having to change host configuration or interrupting data
access. Peer Motion is the fundamental technology that enables this capability.
• Peer Motion configuration and management between HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage can now
be orchestrated through the HP 3PAR Management Console.
• Introducing HP 3PAR Peer Persistence which enables HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems
located at metropolitan distances to act as peers to each other, presenting a nearly continuous
storage system to hosts and servers connected to them. This capability allows you to configure
a high-availability solution between two sites or data centers where failover and failback
remains completely transparent to the hosts and applications running on those hosts.
What’s New in the OS 7