HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.3 Update 1 Release Notes

HP Matrix Operating Environment recovery management
Limitations
Required configuration for disaster recovery
Storage pool entry names must be the same at both the preferred and secondary site.
HP Storage Provisioning Manager
Storage Provisioning Manager runs on an x86/x64 Windows CMS.
Limitations
Required version of Brocade Network Advisor and HP B-Series Network Advisor
Brocade Network Advisor 11.1.3, 11.1.4, or 12.1.4 or HP B-Series Network Advisor
11.1.3, 11.1.4, or 12.1.4 must be installed in order to manage Brocade-based SAN
environments. No other versions of BNA are supported
HP B-Series Network Advisor is available from http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/
storageworks/dc_fabricmgr/index.html. See the HP Storage Provisioning Manager
(SPM) User Guide at Enterprise Information Library for additional details.
Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) upgrade process must complete before rebooting
the CMS or applying hotfixes
When upgrading from Matrix Operating Environment 6.x to 7.x and SPM is being
used, the SPM upgrade process must complete without interruption. The SPM upgrade
can take several hours (based on the number of entries in the storage catalog). Ensure
you allocate sufficient time for SPM to upgrade before starting the upgrade process. It
can take an average time of half a second to one second per volume, so approximately
90 minutes for 5000 volumes. CMS reboots must not be performed and hotfixes must
not be applied until the SPM upgrade process is completed. To verify that the SPM
upgrade process has completed, check the UpgradeReport.txt file in the SPM state
folder (such as C:\Program Files\HP\Storage Provisioning Manager) and
make sure that the following appears at the end of the file:
================================================================================
[Current Date:Current Time][I] Upgrade completed with 0 errors
and 0 warnings.
================================================================================
SPM limitations on EMC Symmetrix VMAX arrays
For more operational details and information about configuring the SPM adapter for
EMC Symmetrix VMAX, see the technical white paper on SPM adapter for EMC
Symmetrix VMAX at Enterprise Information Library.
• Creating a new volume with a given RAID requires pre-configuration of a storage
pool setting instance by the EMC storage administrator who can create a volume
of that RAID through EMC native tools (SMC or SYMCLI).
• Creating a thin volume for a given RAID requires creating a thin pool for that RAID,
if it does not already exist, through EMC native tools (SMC or SYMCLI) by the
EMC storage administrator.
• SPM defines thick and thin volumes based on the capacity requirements. If a new
volume is to be created with committed capacity set to 100%, then a thick volume
is expected to be created by the adapter. If the committed capacity is set to 0%
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