HP 2000 G2 Modular Smart Array Controller Firmware M113R11 Release Notes HP Part Number: 508849-014 Published: February 2012 Edition: 14
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Version: M113R11 Description This package delivers firmware for HP MSA2000 G2 array controllers and includes enhanced features or fixes to issues found during use and additional qualification testing. NOTE: Companion drive enclosure firmware is not included in this controller firmware package. When updating controller firmware, verify that firmware installed on all attached drive enclosures is up-to-date. If needed, upgrade the firmware on the drive enclosures.
• HP 2324i G2 Modular Smart Array (HP MSA2324i G2) • HP 2324sa G2 Modular Smart Array (HP MSA2324sa G2) Operating systems Operating systems supported for use with the HP MSA2000 G2 family of products and when installing the binary firmware package: • Citrix XenServer HP Enterprise Editions • HP-UX 11i V2 Integrity, HP9000 • HP-UX 11i V3 Integrity, HP9000 • Microsoft Windows 2003 and 2003 R2 IA32, x64, IA64 • Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 IA32, x64, IA64 (Standard, Enterprise, Datace
• Improved processing on dual-ported drives. • After updating drive firmware, an email notification indicating that the update failed was generated, when the update actually completed successfully. • After replacing a failed chassis, cascaded drive enclosures were numbered incorrectly. (Single-controller systems only) • When a controller was in the process of booting up and that controller killed the partner controller, some vdisks were unnecessarily quarantined.
• The controller crashed when I/O restarted on vdisks that came online after drives that were removed earlier were reinstalled. • The incorrect speed was reported for 3Gbps drives. • When both SAS paths to a drive briefly disappeared, the drives were dropped. • In large systems with many cascaded drive enclosures, POST stalled during the SAS topology initialization. • Prevent repeated crashes and reboots during offline initialization of vdisk.
• ◦ In the Provisioning Wizard, allow the maximum volume size to equal the vdisk size. ◦ In the Provisioning Wizard, when a volume was created using MB, the display showed the volume size in GB, not MB as expected. ◦ Changed the terminology in the SMU interface and user documents. Base Mapping is now Default Mapping. ◦ Enhanced all wizards to provide default responses. CLI-specific enhancements and fixes: ◦ help show power-supplies command—Added online help information.
• • Schedule an appropriate time to install the firmware: ◦ For single domain systems, I/O must be halted. ◦ For dual domain systems, because the online firmware upgrade is performed while host I/Os are being processed, I/O load can impact the upgrade process. Select a period of low I/O activity to ensure the upgrade completes as quickly as possible and avoid disruptions to hosts and applications due to timeouts.
Installing firmware using Smart Components—Windows environments This is a self-extracting executable module. You can execute this module from the Windows graphical user interface (GUI) or the command line interface (CLI). GUI update method 1. 2. 3. 4. Obtain the firmware package and save it to a temporary directory. Firmware for all HP products is available from the HP Business Support Center website at http://www.hp.com/support/ downloads.
Installing firmware using Smart Components—Linux environments 1. 2. 3. Obtain the firmware package and save it to a temporary directory. Firmware for all HP products is available from the HP Business Support Center website at http://www.hp.com/support/ downloads. Open a Linux command console. From the directory containing the downloaded file, enable execute access to this model by entering: chmod +x CPxxxxxx.scexe where CPxxxxxx.scexe represents the downloaded Smart Component filename. 4.
Installing firmware using the Storage Management Utility (SMU) 1. 2. Obtain the firmware package and save it to a temporary directory. Firmware for all HP products is available from the HP Business Support Center website at http://www.hp.com/support/ downloads. If using a Smart Component, extract the contents of the Smart Component using one of the following methods: • In Windows—Click Extract on the first screen of the Smart Component. • In Linux—Enter a command using the following syntax: ./CPxxxxxx.
Installing firmware using FTP 1. 2. Obtain the firmware package and save it to a temporary directory. Firmware for all HP products is available from the HP Business Support Center website at http://www.hp.com/support/ downloads. If using a Smart Component, extract the contents of the Smart Component using one of the following methods: • In Windows—Click Extract on the first screen of the Smart Component. • In Linux—Enter a command using the following syntax: ./CPxxxxxx.
Installation troubleshooting If you experience issues during the installation process, do the following: 1. When viewing system version information in the SMU System Overview panel, if an hour has elapsed and the components do not show that they were updated to the new firmware version, refresh the web browser. If version information is still incorrect, proceed to the next troubleshooting step. 2.
Known issues and workarounds The following is a cumulative list of known issues and workarounds. • Issue: DHCP address is not being set on the array. • Workaround: Verify that there is a valid gateway being given by the DHCP server or set a manual IP address and gateway. • Issue: Citrix XenServer paths do not automatically appear after reinserting a SAS cable. • Workaround: Do the following: 1. Login to the Citrix XenServer host, dom0. 2. Change directories to /etc/udev/rules.d/. 3.
• Issue: The Storage Management Utility Restore System Defaults function is not available. • Workaround: The Restore System Defaults function is listed in the User Guide as an available feature. This function has been removed from the SMU and is only available as an advanced option in the Command Line Interface (CLI). • Issue: Linux Boot from Storage (BFS) configurations can become unresponsive on a controller failure due to incorrect multipathing setup.
• Issue: Windows and Linux are limited to discovering fewer than the maximum number of LUN IDs that are presentable from an MSA2000 G2 (512 LUNs) • Workaround: Windows and Linux operating systems do not support enumerating all of the LUN IDs presented from an MSA2000 G2 array. Windows supports the discovery of LUN IDs 0 - 254; Linux supports the discovery of LUN IDs 0 – 255. Note that SAS arrays do not support presenting a LUN on ID 0.
• Issue: Some entries in the SMU and CLI are not localized properly for all languages. • Workaround: HP is continually updating localized content. • Issue: Some configuration changes under heavy I/O may return a communication error. • Workaround: Retry configuration changes during a period of lower I/O. • Issue: Some cached data in the browser may not be updated while navigating through the SMU. • Workaround: Press CTR + F5 to refresh or log out and back into the SMU.
