HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Release Notes (7.2.3)

User Guide for details about viewing News Feed and Tasks data from an earlier version of Insight
Control for vCenter.
To facilitate viewing the News Feed and Tasks data, the installer for the earlier version of Insight
Control for vCenter should be saved. Contact HP Support for the earlier version of Insight Control
for vCenter if necessary.
• The Physical NIC labels of some blade servers may be incorrect if the plug-in has not discovered
the enclosure's Onboard Administrator. This can happen for the first few minutes after the plug-in
is installed or when new hardware is added.
• When using the HPSIM launch link with Internet Explorer 9, the browser must be set to Compatibility
View.
• The HP Infrastructure page for HP XP P9000 storage systems shows slightly different values for
Free and Total Capacities of a Storage Pool (Parity Group) than those shown on the Remote Web
Console.
• The vSphere Web Client host network configuration feature is not supported for hosts running the
ESX classic version.
• After successfully deploying a server, the Recent Tasks window will indicate that the deployment
was successful. A task to add the target server to vCenter is initiated by Insight Control for vCenter,
but this event is not displayed in the Recent Tasks window until the vSphere Web Client is refreshed.
• When working with datastores using an HP StoreVirtual Storage System, the time required for HP
Insight Control Storage Module to create and delete both iSCSI and Fibre Channel datastores is
proportional to the number of paths utilized by the HP StoreVirtual Storage System. To view the
paths in VMware’s Storage Adapters GUI page, select one of the following:
◦ vSphere Client: Host→Configuration→Storage Adapters
◦ vSphere Web Client: Host→Manage→Storage→Storage Adapters
• Uninstalling HP Insight Control Storage Module for vCenter does not remove all files.
The following directories and their contents remain after uninstalling HP Insight Control Storage
Module for vCenter:
◦ <install folder>\JBoss\standalone\log
You can access this directory to retrieve log files.
◦ <install folder>\icvc
Part of the uninstallation process is to back up server module configuration data. You can
access this directory to retrieve this configuration information and backup data of the server
module.
◦ <install folder>\export.si
If the storage module was installed and configured previously, the configuration information
is exported to this file. You can import the data from this file during subsequent installations.
• HP MSA 2000 G2 storage system is no longer supported beginning with Insight Control for
vCenter 7.2.1. HP MSA 2000 G2 configuration information will not be imported when upgrading
from earlier versions of the product. HP MSA 2000 G2 cannot be configured in the Storage
Administrator Portal.
• When HP Insight Control for vCenter is uninstalled, the vSphere Web Client plug-in is not removed
from the filesystem. To remove the plug-in from vSphere Web Client, perform the following steps:
6 Important notes and suggested actions