HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 MU5 Release Notes

What’s New in the OS
HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 enables customers to increase multi-tenant consolidation on shared infrastructure
and increase agility and efficiency with several new features and enhancements. HP 3PAR OS
3.1.2 supports the new HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage.
HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 features include the following benefits:
• Enhanced multi-tenancy and several scalability and resiliency features
• Autonomic management for agility and ease of use with enhancements to Autonomic System
Rebalance, Adaptive Optimization and other enhanced capabilities
• Thin Technologies for efficiency and capacity reduction with tighter integration with Windows
Server 2012
• Federated Technologies for providing online data migration with Online Import between EVA
Storage and 3PAR storage
NOTE: The HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 introduces a new host persona for ESX, host persona 11. Host
persona 11 should be used when configuring any new ESX host. Persona 6 remains fully supported.
Multi-tenancy for Consolidation on Scalable, Resilient Infrastructure
HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage
HP 3PAR Operating System (OS) 3.1.2 enables support for HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage
system, a new, midrange offering from the world’s most advanced storage platform, bringing
massive scalability and advanced features to the midrange storage.
Multi-tenancy Enhancements
• Persistent Ports: Reduces the dependency on multipath software during the process of Online
SW Upgrade. Persistent Ports enables the host paths to remain online during the online upgrade
process.
• Significantly improved the performance of group snapshot creation and deletion by grouping
the necessary metadata updates and also running the deletion as a background task.
• Enhanced the Logical Disk check mechanism to reduce the time duration it takes to complete
and to also serve data while the check is in progress.
Remote Copy Enhancements
• HP 3PAR Remote Copy Software has been enhanced to support Synchronous mode and
Asynchronous Periodic mode between a pair of HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage.
• Ability to support bi-directional replication between the Source and the Synchronous target in
a Synchronous Long Distance Remote Copy configuration.
• The ability to mix Remote Copy ports with host ports on the same HBA for HP 3PAR StoreServ
7000 Storage.
• Ability to support bi-directional replication on both the links in a 1:2 Remote Copy configuration.
• Ability to move Remote Copy Volumes from one Remote Copy Volume Group to another
without having to perform a full synchronization
• Remote Copy is enhanced to support auto creation of a volume and the ability to automatically
add the volume to the Remote Copy group on the secondary array. The auto created volume
on the secondary site by default will have the same size, type, and WWN as the primary
site. For the auto created volumes a volume grow operation on the primary site will trigger a
volume grow operation automatically on the secondary site.
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