HP 3PAR OS 3.1.3 Release Notes

1 HP 3PAR OS 3.1.3 Release Notes
Online Upgrade Considerations
This feature allows upgrade of the OS concurrently with I/O activity on the attached hosts, provided
certain conditions are met. For more information regarding the required order for upgrade and
installation of software components, see the HP 3PAR OS 3.1.3 Upgrade Instructions (P/N
QL226-97721). 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://www.hp.com/3par/support_manuals, select your product, and then click Manuals.
NOTE: Customers running HP 3PAR OS 3.1.1 and wishing to upgrade to HP 3PAR OS 3.1.3
must upgrade to the latest 3.1.2 Maintenance Update (MU) before upgrading to 3.1.3. For
customers running HP 3PAR OS 3.1.1, the upgrade path is to 3.1.1 MU3 to 3.1.2 MU3 to 3.1.3
with appropriate patches installed at each stop. Direct upgrade from HP 3PAR OS 3.1.1 GA to
HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 MUx is not supported.
Supported Platforms
HP 3PAR OS release supports HP 3PAR Storage. For details, see the Single Point of Connectivity
Knowledge for HP Storage Products (SPOCK) website at http://www.hp.com/storage/spock.
End of Support Features
The following feature is no longer supported by HP 3PAR OS:
• Support HP 3PAR OS version 2.3.1 for replication
NOTE: HP 3PAR OS version 3.1.3 is the last OS version that supports T- class and F-class systems.
The next version of HP 3PAR OS will not support T- class and F-class systems.
Components
VersionComponent
3.1.3.202OS
3.1.3.202CLI
1.7.0SNMP Agent
What’s New in the OS
IT requirements are changing. Today’s multi-tenant, mixed-workload environments are more
demanding than ever. New HP 3PAR OS 3.1.3 delivers Tier 1 performance and quality of service
(QoS) in a system that is more scalable than ever before to exceed the requirements of the most
demanding hybrid and private cloud environments.
HP 3PAR OS 3.1.3 features include the following benefits:
• Assured QoS and resiliency enhancements
• Flash storage optimization
• Increased scalability
• Remote Copy enhancements
• Federated technologies
• New drive support
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