Release Notes

Area Description

Account Management and

Authentication

If you have a cluster joined to Active Directory and NIS domains, the

Domain drop-down list displays the UNIX and Windows user names in

different windows.

NAS Volumes, Shares, and

Exports

If you enter a value as a Unicode character string, fewer characters are

accepted because Unicode characters take up a variable number of

bytes.

Data Protection NDMP snapshot creation fails when a NAS volume name contains

spaces.

Workaround: Rename the NAS volume to remove the spaces.

File System Maintenance Attaching a v5 controller to a v4 cluster is not supported.

Maintenance If you enter the EULA (end-user license agreement) approver name and

approver title as a Unicode character string, note that fewer characters

are accepted because Unicode characters take up a variable number of

bytes.

Known Issues in FluidFS Version 5.0

The following known issues exist in FluidFS v5.0.

Table 8. Known Issues in FluidFS Version 5.0

Area Description

System Functionality The current vSphere Web Client plug-in, Compellent Integration Tools

for VMware (CITV 3.0), does not support FluidFS v5 systems. A plug-in

that supports FluidFS v5 is planned for an upcoming release.

System Functionality The Dell Storage Manager client might lose connection to the Data

Collector if it has been up and running for a period of time. If a

connection loss occurs, the following error is generated:

Unable to obtain Jdbc connection from DataSource.

Workaround: Apply the Microsoft fix, which can be downloaded from

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2577795

System Functionality Certain Internet Explorer versions (for example, IE 11.0.9600 running on

Windows 2008 R2) cannot retrieve MIB files from the management FTP.

System Functionality If the firmware update stalls at 0% and other management operations

are not available, contact Dell Technical Support and reference KB

SLN302683.

System Functionality During a controller reboot, errors similar to Internal hard error

occurred might display on the Dell Storage Manager client. These

errors can be ignored and should not display again after all the

controllers are available.

System Management Clusterization cannot be performed if IPv6 multicast packets are not

passed through the switch on the interconnect network.

Dell FluidFS Version 5.0 Release Notes