4.0.0 HP Polyserve Matrix Server Release Notes (T5392-96051, March 2010)

Version: HP PolyServe Matrix Server 4.0.0
Description
This document describes the HP PolyServe Matrix Server 4.0.0 release.
Supersedes HP PolyServe Matrix Server 3.6.1
Enhancements
HP PolyServe Matrix Server 4.0.0 includes support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Standard,
Enterprise, or Datacenter Edition (64-bit) with Service Pack 2 (SP2). It also includes the following new
features and implementation changes:
• Compatibility support for Hyper-V. A supported guest OS can be installed on any node in the
cluster. VHD and VM state (VSV, BIN) can be hosted on a PSFS filesystem and VHD, VSV and
BIN state files can be stored on the filesystem.
The supported guest operating systems are:
• Windows 2008 32-bit and 64-bit guest OS
• Vista 32-bit and 64-bit (with SP1) guest OS
• Windows 2003 (with SP2) 32-bit and 64-bit guest OS
• Windows 2000 (with SP4) 32-bit guest OS
• Windows XP (with SP2 or SP3) 32-bit and 64-bit guest OS
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (with SP1 or SP2) 32-bit and 64-bit guest OS
• Support for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager on Windows Server 2008 SP2.
• Small files performance enhancement. Changes have been made to the PSFS filesystem to improve
performance for small files. Existing filesystems can be upgraded to take advantage of this en-
hancement.
• The NNTP service is deprecated in Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Consequently, the NNTP
service monitor has been removed from HP PolyServe Matrix Server 4.0.0.
Installation instructions
See the HP PolyServe Matrix Server installation guide for installation instructions. For upgrades from
Matrix Server 3.6.1, see the HP PolyServe Matrix Server upgrade guide.
Supported filesystem features
The PSFS filesystem supports a wide variety of NTFS filesystem interfaces and semantics. It smoothly
integrates into existing Windows environments, supporting all of the standard filesystem read, write,
open, and close calls and simplifying application deployment and scalability.
The PSFS filesystem supports the following features of the NTFS filesystem:
• Alternate Data Streams (ADS).
• Byte-range locking. PSFS supports both local-node and cross-node byte-range locking.
• Cached and non-cached file access.
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