HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.0 Release Notes Abstract This document describes the HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.0 release content and provides information about limitations, and major and minor issues with suggested actions.
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1 Description HP Matrix Operating Environment is advanced infrastructure management software that allows you to analyze and optimize both physical and virtual resources in the same way. Matrix OE gives you a powerful toolkit to accelerate complex technology projects and simplify daily operations. It enables you to plan capacity and power continuously, provision infrastructure consistently, and balance across physical and virtual resources.
New name Previous name HP Matrix Operating Environment infrastructure orchestration HP Insight Orchestration HP Matrix Operating Environment recovery management HP Insight Recovery HP Matrix Operating Environment visualization HP Virtualization Manager New software on managed systems • • • Operating systems ◦ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 (x86 and x64) ◦ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 (x64) ◦ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
New features in Matrix Operating Environment • Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration (Windows CMS only) Leading cloud functionality ◦ Unique bursting capabilities to Savvis ◦ With federated CMS (Central Management Server), scale to 10,000 HP ProLiant virtual machines or 6,000 HP Integrity virtual machines Increased infrastructure automation ◦ Auto-generation of storage pool entries from service template storage information ◦ Ability to use HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) storage templates w
• Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) (Windows CMS only) ◦ On-demand storage provisioning – satisfy Matrix storage service requests by using either pre-provisioned volumes or by dynamically provisioning volumes to match the specified storage requirements ◦ Dynamic zoning – automatically zone Fibre Channel SANs (from supported vendors) based on service requirements ◦ Storage templates – provide administrative control to set policies and access controls for storage provisioning ◦ New, enhanced user in
Matrix Operating Environment for ProLiant and non-HP servers The latest version of Matrix OE for ProLiant and non-HP servers is available from the following location: https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPID Accessing online help before licenses are installed You can access the Matrix OE online help before you have installed licenses on the CMS by performing the following steps. 1. 2. Select Help→For HP Systems Insight Manager from the top menu.
After the upgrade has completed, but before the services are restarted or the CMS is rebooted, edit the new properties files and add any custom entries made to the previous version of the file. Check logical server management upgrade log file When Matrix OE logical server management is upgraded to 7.0, the pre-upgrade task completes even if there are exceptions or missing objects. Suggested action After the upgrade is complete, check for important upgrade messages at ..
Operations Orchestration Studio installation and upgrade issues Pointing a remote Operations Orchestration Studio installation to Operations Orchestration Central installed on a CMS A “Failed Login” error message is displayed when you try to log in to Operations Orchestration Studio 9.00 pointing to a remote repository (for example, Operations Orchestration Central 9.00 on the CMS). To resolve this issue, perform the following steps: 1. 2. 3. Make a backup of the rc_keystore file on the CMS.
For details on using Matrix OE with Microsoft Windows systems not running OpenSSH, see the HP Insight Dynamics 6.0 software without OpenSSH on HP ProLiant and Integrity Servers Running Microsoft Windows white paper, available at the following website: Matrix OE Information Library Patch required to provision Hyper-V linked clone VM guests using HP Server Automation If you are using HP Server Automation (SA) 9.0 or 9.
4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Select the Configuration tab from the right pane. From the Hardware section, select Networking. Click Properties for the Virtual Switch where the VMKernel port used for management traffic is located.
2 Issues and suggested actions The issues and limitations in this release are listed in this chapter, organized by Matrix Operating Environment feature or functional area. If a feature or functional area has no limitations or issues, that category will not appear.
Capacity Advisor Limitations Automatic power calibration of Integrity Linux systems running SUSE 11 operating system is not supported The Matrix OE software does not support the automatic power calibration of Integrity Linux systems running the SUSE 11 operating system. Suggested action Manually calibrate Integrity Linux SUSE 11 systems for power.
Limitations Cross-technology logical servers are not supported by infrastructure orchestration Cross-technology logical servers are not supported by Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration. Only logical servers created or imported in Matrix OE logical server management, using Create→Logical Server or Tools→Logical Servers→Import, can be moved from physical to virtual or virtual to physical.
• QLogic HBA (BIOS version 2.07 or higher) RHEL 5.3 and higher SLES 11 and higher SLES 10 SP3 and higher Windows 2003/2008: QLogic driver 9.1.7.29 or higher • Emulex HBA (BIOS version 3.11a3 or higher) RHEL 5.4 or higher SLES 10 SP3 or higher SLES 11 in-box driver not yet available. Requires out-of-box Emulex driver version: 8.2.8.32 Windows 2003/2008: Emulex driver 5.00.17.
Suggested action 1 To enable support for physical provisioning with NPIV enabled on HP-UX 11i v3 Integrity blades with QLogic FC controllers, set the attribute npiv.integrity.enabled=true in the C:\ Program Files\HP\Matrix infrastructure orchestration\conf\hpio.properties file. On earlier versions of HP-UX, or if the environment is mixed (QLogic and Emulex controllers), the attribute npiv.integrity.enabled=false (the default) should remain unchanged in the hpio.properties file.
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.
Suggested action 1 1. 2. Cancel the Create or Add Server request. Modify the template to remove the HA requirement, or Modify the template to deselect linked clones and add a cluster disk for each virtual machine. 3. Resubmit the Create request, or For the Add Server request, delete the existing service and recreate it with the updated template. Take care to migrate data from the existing service to the new service before deleting the existing service.
Suggested action 1 Before adding servers to a VM cluster server group, ensure the Maximum number of sharers is greater than or equal to the maximum number of servers (after the server is added) in the VM cluster server group for the storage pool entry. To change this value: 1. Select the Matrix OE visualization logical server management Modify→Logical Server Storage Pools screen and click Modify for the storage pool entry. 2.
Suggested action If you did not perform the preceding steps before you started a delete request for the Integrity service, the automatic delete service will not succeed completely. In that case, you must clean up the logical server associated with the Integrity blade and manually erase the disk. 1. 2. 3. Power on the server blade. (The blade was powered off when delete service request completed or failed.
of defined requirements, including these tags. Within a logical server group, if the private data disk(s) contain different tags than the boot disk, the service will fail to provision. Suggested action Use the same storage tags for the boot disk and private data disks in a logical server group. If separate tags are needed, separate storage pool entries can be manually defined for the boot disk and private data disks with those separate tags.
Set retry parameters for BL620c G7 and BL680c G7 blades Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration may time out while waiting for the server to be recognized due to long server post times, particularly when using the BL620c G7 or the BL680c G7. Suggested action To avoid this issue on any server: 1. Edit C:\Program Files\HP\Matrix infrastructure orchestration\conf\ hpio.properties and set the retry.count.ares.pxe parameter to a value greater than 30. 2. Restart the HP Matrix infrastructure orchestration service.
Matrix OE infrastructure orchestration and Operations Orchestration issues when browser is set to Japanese The following issues may occur if your browser language is set to Japanese. • If you specify Japanese characters for the service name of a provisioning task, the logical server is not provisioned. (See Suggested action 1.) • If you create a new virtual provisioning template and configure mail settings, the “Approve or Reject” e-mail contains a garbled service name. (See Suggested action 2.
You can download this patch from http://www.hp.com/go/hpsc. Log on with your HP passport, and select Patch management from the Download options menu. Type PHSS_40784 in the search box. HP Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO3) support HP Integrated Lights-Out 3 (iLO3) is supported in the current release of Insight managed system setup wizard. However, iLO3 for ProLiant requires firmware version 1.05 or higher. Suggested action Update iLO3 ProLiant firmware to version 1.05 or higher.
Limitations Restrictions on using cross-technology logical servers Cross-technology logical servers can be moved between ProLiant server blades with Virtual Connect to ESX and back, between Integrity server blades with Virtual Connect and Integrity VM and back, and between servers with Virtual Connect with unlike configurations.
Refer to the following table for the appropriate steps to prevent VM guests and VM logical servers from becoming inoperable. VM Host operation you want to perform Steps to perform on VM guests Steps to perform for the VM Host after performing the steps on the VM guests Move VC profile to another blade Power off or perform a graceful shutdown of all VM guests 1. Unregister the VM Host from Insight Control virtual machine management.
NOTE: The Hyper-V host version is shown in the Platform column in the Available Target Hosts table on the activate or move logical server target screen. The host is a Hyper-V R1 host if the host version begins with 6.0 (for example, 6.0.6001 or 6.0.6002 in Windows 2008 Server – Hyper-V SP1 or Windows 2008 Server – Hyper-V SP2). The host is a Hyper-V R2 host if the host version begins 6.1 (for example, 6.1.7077 in Windows Server 2008 R2).
With this limitation, only MBR (master boot record) formatted iSCSI cluster disks are supported. Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine logical server boot disk is IDE and data disks are SCSI When you create a Hyper-V virtual machine logical server, the boot disk (where Windows or Linux is installed) is always created using an IDE controller. Data disks are created using a SCSI controller.
EXTENDEDFC Server profile has two or more FC Connections using the same connection bay (with the same connectionBay attribute value), which identifies a server profile created for an HP Integrity BL860c) EXTENDEDFCOE Server profile has more than one Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) connection associated with the same interconnect bay (IO bay) ISCSI Server profile has at least one iSCSI connection NAG Server profile has an associated Network Access Group Applications that depend on IO hardware path
4. Create a placeholder logical server to prevent the MAC addresses from being assigned to new logical servers: 1. Create a new logical server template without specifying any storage entries in the storage configuration. 2. In the network selection page, click Add Network Entries. NOTE: LSM shows the MAC addresses that were part of the unmanaged logical server. 3. Click Next and then Finish to create the logical server template.
Minor issues Performing operations on logical servers outside of Matrix OE visualization may cause incorrect information to be displayed If you use tools other than Matrix OE visualization to manage logical servers, modifications to the underlying resources managed by logical server management are not immediately reflected in the logical server.
Suggested action When modifying a storage pool entry, make sure that the corresponding “Masked” checkbox is checked throughout the initial provisioning process (which includes modifying the storage pool entry and adding a new volume, getting and selecting candidates, and saving the storage pool entry to initiate activation of the new volume in SPM). If you unchecked “Masked” during this process and the volume becomes inoperable, remove the volume and re-add it to the storage pool entry.
Suggested action Do not change PRM configuration files using the PRM user interface when privilege elevation is enabled. Storage Provisioning Manager Storage Provisioning Manager runs on an x86/x64 Windows CMS.
SPM supports FC fabric repair but not FC fabric re-configuration When using the SPM automated zoning capability with HP B-series or Brocade SAN networks, SPM can recover from fabric repairs but not from fabric re-configuration. Fabric repairs are fabric changes that keep Brocade Network Advisor’s persistent fabric name intact (such as switch replacement, switch firmware upgrade).
Restart is required if SPM loses connectivity to an XP storage array while it is attempting to access the array Using SPM to manage XP storage arrays requires the CMS to be connected to the FC SAN. If SPM loses connectivity to the array while it is attempting to access the storage array, either to gather information for the catalog or perform configuration operations, the SPM catalog might be in an inconsistent state.
Suggested action 2 Manually log into SPM and browse to the offline array. Click Resync Array, which forces SPM synchronization with the array to be performed immediately. If successful, the array will be marked online. Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Mode must be disabled If Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Mode is enabled, Internet Explorer will not run any browser plugins.
3 Support and other resources Contacting HP Information to collect before contacting HP Be sure to have the following information available before you contact HP: • Software product name • Hardware product model number • Operating system type and version • Applicable error message • Third-party hardware or software • Technical support registration number (if applicable) How to contact HP Use the following methods to contact HP technical support: • See the Contact HP Worldwide website for contac
After creating your profile and linking your support agreements to your profile, see the Software Updates and Licensing portal at http://www.hp.com/go/hpsoftwareupdatesupport to obtain software, documentation, and license updates. Warranty information HP will replace defective delivery media for a period of 90 days from the date of purchase. This warranty applies to all Insight Management software products.
4. 5. Select Business & IT Professionals to open the Subscriber's Choice web page. Do one of the following: • Sign in if you are a registered customer. • Enter your e-mail address to sign-up now. Then, select the box next to Driver and Support alerts and click Continue. Related information The latest versions of manuals and white papers for Matrix Operating Environment and related products can be downloaded from the HP Web. Documents for Matrix OE software can be found at Matrix OE Information Library.
