HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.3 Update 1 Release Notes

HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage Peer Motion has limited support in SPM

If Peer Motion is used on an HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage System that is imported into

an SPM catalog, a number of steps must be performed in order to ensure that SPM and

Matrix OE can properly use the storage affected by Peer Motion. For details on these

steps, see the SPM 3PAR StoreServ Storage Peer Motion Technical White Paper at

Enterprise Information Library.

HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage Peer Persistence is not supported in SPM

SPM 2.3 (included in Matrix 7.3) does not support peer persistence. SPM 2.3 cannot

import volumes that are part of a remote copy group, and cannot import two volumes

that share the same worldwide name. For this reason, SPM cannot be used to manage

volumes in a peer persistence configuration.

Managed node installation

Limitations

Multipath I/O and Emulex FC HBA or Emulex FlexFabric Converged Network Adapter

is not supported on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Using multipath I/O during OS installation is not supported with an Emulex FC HBA

or an Emulex FlexFabric Converged Network Adapter on any Matrix-supported server

on Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 2012.

The following suggested actions enable you to install the OS single-path and then modify

the storage definitions to create multiple-path access to the boot volume. After a

successful OS installation, these instructions will define an additional physical path to

the boot volume by:

• Modifying the storage definition to add an additional server HBA definition (port)

• Modifying the boot volume definition to add a second physical ‘path’ to its

definition.

Suggested action 1

If you are creating a template using Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration designer

select Redundant SAN paths to disk when configuring the boot volume.

Beginning in Matrix OE 7.2, infrastructure orchestration executes steps to work around

this issue by ensuring that the OS is single-path while the OS is being provisioned, and

then modifies the storage definitions to create multipath access to the boot volume when

OS provisioning is complete.

Suggested action 2

If you are defining a storage pool entry in Matrix OE logical server management:

1. Define the storage pool entry, adding multiple ports, and marking all non-boot

disks as redundant. Keep the boot volume as a single path.

2. Assign the storage pool entry to a logical server.

3. Activate the logical server.

4. Provision the OS, and install the multipath IO drivers as appropriate.

5. Deactivate the logical server.

6. Modify the storage pool entry to make the boot volume redundant.

7. Reactivate the logical server.