HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.3 Update 1 Release Notes

Required software versions for FlexFabric Integrity physical provisioning support
Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration requires the following minimum software versions
to support HP FlexFabric for Integrity physical provisioning:
• Ignite-UX C.7.12.475 or higher
• HP-UX 11i v3 Update 8 (March 2011) or higher
Install Microsoft Sysprep tool for customization of Windows 2003 guests on Hyper-V
after installation
The Microsoft System Preparation (Sysprep) tool, which is required for customization
of Windows 2003 guests on Microsoft Hyper-V, is not retained on the CMS after
upgrading from previous versions of Insight Software. Without these tools, customization
of Windows 2003 guests on Hyper-V results in failures.
Installation of the Sysprep tool is not required for customization of Windows 2008 and
higher VM guests.
Suggested action
To enable customization of Windows 2003 guests on Hyper-V, install the Microsoft
Sysprep tool on the CMS in the folder C:\Program Files\HP\Insight Control
virtual machine management\Sysprep\2003 after the installation or upgrade
of Insight Management 7.1, 7.2, 7.2 Update 1, 7.2 Update 2, 7.3 or 7.3 Update 1.
Cannot power on a virtual server during provisioning if VM hardware version is 4 and
a template contains more than three NICs
A request to power on an ESX virtual server may fail if the ESX VM hardware version
is set to 4 and the virtual machine contains more than three NICs. Matrix OE
infrastructure orchestration provisions virtual machines using ESX hardware version 4
by default, which allows a maximum of five PCI Controller devices (two SCSI controllers
and three NICs) attached to a virtual machine. ESX hardware version 7 allows four
SCSI controllers and ten NICs.
Suggested action
Use an ESX native template with a hardware version of 7, or reduce the number of
NICs in the infrastructure orchestration template to three or fewer.
Physical disks with multiple partitions are unsupported unless all but the first partition are
excluded
If your environment contains a physical disk with multiple partitions (volumes with the
same disk identifier) and you want to provision virtual machines on that disk, exclude
all partitions except the first partition on the disk. A virtual machine created on a physical
disk with two or more partitions without this exclusion is unsupported, and the service
could fail to deploy with the error “Import failed for logical-server. VM host
datastore not found.”
Suggested action
Exclude all partitions except the first partition on the disk in the “VOLUMES TO
EXCLUDE” section of the hpio.properties file.
For example, if there are three volumes (C:, D:, and E:) on a physical disk, exclude the
D: and E: volumes to provision a logical server on the virtual machine created on the
C: volume of the physical disk.
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