HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform 2.1.1 release notes (5697-0066, July 2009)

DPM issues
TPRLO issue
TPRLO does not properly propagate PRLO to shared initiators.
Unable to FTP during upgrade
If you are unable to connect to a DPM using FTP during an upgrade for the DPM, contact HP services
for assistance.
Host receives “Unsupported IOCTL 6” errors on non-gigabyte aligned sync mirror virtual disks
Synchronous mirror virtual disks have a limitation where the host might receive I/O errors if the size
of the virtual disk is not aligned on a 1 GB (1024 MB) boundary or is a multiple of specific values,
depending on the virtual disk size. This also affects synchronous mirror virtual disks created from
imported virtual disks. The VSM currently does not prevent you from creating a synchronous mirror
that does not conform to this rule. If an synchronous mirror is created where this rule is not satisfied,
it can be fixed by removing the synchronous mirror and expanding the virtual disk to the next GB
boundary. This is subject to application or file system support for virtual disk expansion. Also note
that an imported virtual disk that undergoes expansion cannot be exported.
The synchronous mirror virtual disk size rule is: Virtual disk size should be aligned at a GB boundary,
or the virtual disk size must be less than or equal to a multiple defined below.
Size ≤ 64 GB, multiple of 16 MBSize ≤ 2 TB, multiple of 512 MB
Size ≤ 32 GB, multiple of 8 MBSize ≤ 1 TB, multiple of 256 MB
Size ≤ 16 GB, multiple of 4 MBSize ≤ 512 GB, multiple of 128 MB
Size ≤ 8 GB, multiple of 2 MBSize ≤ 256 GB, multiple of 64 MB
Size ≤ 4 GB, multiple of 1 MBSize ≤ 128 GB, multiple of 32 MB
Change active switch command does not work with Sun Solaris hosts
The change active switch command is an operation that you can initiate on the VSM to force
a virtual disk to become active on the other DPM. This is typically used in maintenance operations to
proactively failover virtual disks to one of the DPMs so that the other DPM can be serviced. When a
Solaris host is running I/O to a virtual disk and the command is applied on that virtual disk, the Solaris
host reactivates the virtual disk and the virtual disk does not become active on the other DPM.
Rescan is required after deleting or unpresenting virtual disks
Hosts may not automatically detect that a virtual disk has been deleted or unpresented. A rescan
should be performed on the host after any virtual disks to that host have been deleted or unpresented.
This is required before any new virtual disks, especially any with the same LUN as a
deleted/unpresented virtual disk, are presented to the host.
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