Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Tools for Microsoft Edition Version 5.3 Release Notes
- Revision History
- Platforms Affected
- HIT/ME Components
- Supported Versions of the Windows Operating System
- Requirements
- New in This Release
- Usage Constraints
- Known Issues
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- Known Issues with PowerStore Import
- HIT/ME Online Help link in ASM tool navigates to HIT/ME 5.0 Online Help
- Importing The SMP Provider by Using SCVMM 2016 Displays an Error Message
- The Change Option is not Available to Add or Remove any Components or Features of HIT/ME
- EHCM Might Drop Sessions When Using Broadcom or QLogic HBAs for iSCSI
- ASM Error When Updating to Window Server 2016 or Windows Server Core 2016
- Windows 2016 Schedules Not Running When Re-Enabled
- Set-ASMCollection Cmdlet Not Functioning as Designed
- Installing SCVMM 2012 R2 UR5 Causes EqualLogic Storage Discovery Issues
- Windows 2016 SharePoint Components Not Enumerated After Fresh Install of HIT Kit
- Exchange Replica Smart Copies Might Require Manual Soft Recovery
- Deleting a VSS Snapshot Occasionally Results in an Error Condition in the Group Manager Due to iSCSI Log Off Failure
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- Support Resources
Dynamic Disks
Dynamic disks are not supported.
Disks Offline After a Reboot
Disks containing iSCSI SAN volumes (located on your PS Series array) might appear as offline after you reboot your computer.
Use Windows Disk Manager to set the disks online. If the offline disks are associated with applications, you might also need to
restart the associated application services.
Use the following procedure to set the disks online:
1. Open Server Manager in Windows 2012.
2. Expand the Storage object and open Disk Management.
3. Look for disks marked as Offline.
4. Right-click the offline disks, then select Reactivate Disk.
5. (Optional) Assign a drive letter to each disk.
6. (Optional) Restart the application services associated with the disks.
Local Language Support
None of the components are available as local-language variants. You can install and use the English versions under localized
variants of supported Windows operating system versions. You might not be able to enter local-language character set glyphs
under certain circumstances, such as:
● CHAP user names and passwords
● PS Series group names, member names, administrative passwords, and group membership passwords.
Application Issues
This section describes usage constraints for the applications supported by HIT/ME.
Exchange Server
The following constraints apply when using HIT/ME with Exchange Server:
● When you use ASM/ME to create Smart Copies of Exchange storage groups, the transaction logs are not truncated. See the
Exchange documentation for information about how to truncate transaction logs.
● For Exchange volumes, you can only create Smart Copies of type copy.
Exchange Replication Fails After Uninstalling HIT Kit
If you are uninstalling the version 4.5.0, 4.5.1, 4.6.0, 4.7.0, or 4.7.1 HIT/ME kits on a host that has Exchange servers configured
and performing replication (using DAGs), the replications can fail due to an issue with the trim driver. The driver is not updated
correctly while open handles to the PS Series group volumes are involved in the replication.
To avoid this issue, suspend all Exchange replication before updating or installing the HIT/ME kit.
SQL Server
HIT/ME supports online backup and quick restore of SQL Server databases using the Auto-Snapshot Manager GUI. See
Platforms Affected on page 1 for supported versions of SQL Server.
The following constraints apply when using HIT/ME with SQL Server:
● Auto-Snapshot Manager does not support SQL Server database object recovery (such as recovering table data). This
recovery is available only by using the Restore as New Database option, and by other manual tasks.
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