5Revision: A02 Release Date: January 2021 Dell EMC PowerStore Release Notes Release Version: 1.0.3.0.5.007 Release Type: Service (SR) Contents Revision History ..................................................................................................................................................................1 Product Description ............................................................................................................................................................
Product Description The ground-breaking Dell EMC PowerStore achieves new levels of operational simplicity and agility, utilizing a containerbased architecture, advanced storage technologies, and intelligent automation to unlock the power of your data. Based on a scale-out architecture and hardware-accelerated advanced data reduction, PowerStore is designed to deliver enhanced resource utilization and performance that keeps pace with application and system growth.
PowerStore deployment models and configurations Deployment Model Model numbers Support Configurations PowerStore T 1000T Storage-centric deployments. 3000T Both block (storage area networks (SAN)) and file (network attached storage (NAS)) services are supported with PowerStore T deployments. 5000T Note: Hypervisor deployments are not supported on this model. 7000T 9000T PowerStore X 1000X Application and storage-centric deployments.
New Features The following new features have been introduced in this version of PowerStore. Functional Area Feature Description Summary of Benefits Discovery A new method of discovery has been added to PowerStore. PowerStore Appliances can be discovered by providing a reserved IP address. In addition to discovering PowerStore with a direct connection or remotely with the Discovery Tool, you now have the option to discover PowerStore using reserved IP addresses.
Functional Area Feature Description Summary of Benefits Installation and upgrade PowerStore X model systems now support VMware vSphere Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) licenses. vSphere ROBO Enterprise and vSphere ROBO Advanced licenses are supported on PowerStore X model systems, but vSphere ROBO Standard licenses are not supported. A less expensive VMware vSphere ROBO license can be used by customers who do not require more than 25 VMs per PowerStore X model.
Functional Area Feature Description Summary of Benefits Security Directory Services for PowerStore This feature allows system administrators to connect to authentication services for centralized user management across entire domains. This provides for easier and more flexible management of system user access and authorization to PowerStore appliances. The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), is an application protocol for querying and modifying directory services running on TCP/IP networks.
Functional Area Feature Description Summary of Benefits Virtualization During the initial configuration of a PowerStore X model appliance, best practice settings can be automatically applied to the appliance to enable maximum performance. This new step in the Initial Configuration Wizard will: The settings needed to achieve maximum performance on PowerStore X system are now automated during Initial Configuration. Applying these settings during Initial Configuration is highly recommended.
Functional Area Feature Description Summary of Benefits Virtualization The PowerStore software upgrade for PowerStore X model appliances includes a required ESXi update for the internal nodes of the appliance. The internal nodes of an existing PowerStore X model appliances must be upgraded to VMware ESXi 6.7 P03, Patch Release ESXi670-202008001 (Build: 16713306) before the appliance can be upgraded to this latest version of the PowerStore OS.
Changed Features The following functionality has changed. Functional Area Feature Description Summary of Benefits Documentation The following two documents: The new guides include both planning and configuration information in one document for the specific PowerStore models, which allows for easier navigation through the guides.
Resolved Issues The following issues have been resolved in this release. Issue ID Functional Area Description MDT-208568 Connectivity - Hosts Hosts may disconnect after zone changes are made to zones in a Cisco MDS Fibre Channel (FC) switch configured with Registered State Change Notification (RSCN3) format (default from NX-OS 6.2).
Issue ID Functional Area Description MDT-154063 PowerStore CLI The CLI client incorrectly displays embedded arrays of data in tabular output. MDT-142069 PowerStore Manager(GUI) There are situations when the system is Out of Space where the UI is unable to update its statistics. This situation will be evident by a red banner on the top of the screen. You may see objects in the UI that are incorrectly displayed as "0 MB/GB/TB" due to the inability for the UI to query for system statistics.
Issue ID Functional Area Description MDT-195104 SupportAssist There is a known issue with the ‘Sent to Support’ field of the Support Materials settings page. When a “SEND TO SUPPORT” action is taken against a Data Collection, the “Status” field will be set to “UPLOAD SUCCESSFUL”. And the “Sent to Support” field will be given a timestamp almost immediately. This information really applies to the fact that the process has been initiated, and the file upload has begun, not that the upload has completed.
Issue ID Functional Area Description Workaround/Resolution MDT-211358 ConnectivityNetworks TDIP stopped advertising on PowerStore 3000X model. Perform either one of the following actions to workaround this issue: Either, wait a few minutes for the state of the system to change and try again. or Reset Drive, Mezz or I/O Module if available and wait for few minutes and try again, then reboot the primary node.
Issue ID Functional Area Description Workaround/Resolution MDT-190232 Hardware The svc_node shutdown command may reboot the node instead of powering it off. Run the svc_node shutdown command again when the node has finished rebooting. MDT-137439 Import If an import from a Unity or VNX2 system to PowerStore is cancelled by the user or fails for some reason, it is possible that subsequent attempts to import the volume will also fail.
Issue ID Functional Area Description Workaround/Resolution MDT-219735 Install or Upgrade If a PowerStore 1.0.3.0.5.007 software upgrade package is uploaded to a PowerStore T model cluster with a single appliance running PowerStore OS version 1.0.1.0.5.002 or 1.0.1.0.5.003, then an appliance running PowerStore OS version 1.0.2.0.5.003 is added to the cluster and another PowerStore 1.0.3.0.5.
Issue ID Functional Area Description Workaround/Resolution MDT-145344 PowerStore Manager(GUI) While performing a Refresh Using Related Volume or Volume Group operation, you might receive an exception error when you select Choose One from the dropdown before you click Refresh. If this occurs, you must restart PowerStore Manager. When refreshing a resource, do not select the "Choose One" entry in the Refresh from Volume/Volume Group drop-down.
Issue ID Functional Area Description Workaround/Resolution MDT-139095 Storage - File While trying to create or delete a snapshot the following error message was returned: "Addition [or deletion] of NFS Export failed due to [The path [path_name] was not found on the system and cannot be exported.]" Wait for some time and try the action again. MDT-147688 Storage - File SMB clients cannot connect to a NAS server when the NAS server name is more than 15 characters.
Issue ID Functional Area Description Workaround/Resolution MDT-137232 Storage - File Under rare circumstances, NAS services could be disrupted, if the appliance is close to reaching the maximum used data capacity. Take one of the following actions on the appliance on which the NAS service is installed: add capacity to the appliance (for example, add drives or expansion enclosures), increase free capacity on the system (for example, deleting unused snapshots, volumes) , or migrate data off the system.
Issue ID Functional Area Description Workaround/Resolution MDT-111956 Virtualization In rare case, the automated mounting of a user-created PowerStore vVol storage container on an ESXi host could fail with the following error message displayed in vCenter "Timed-out waiting to get datastore information from host". Manually mount the vVol storage container from the VMware vSphere GUI or CLI.
Issue ID Functional Area Description Workaround/Resolution MDT-119414 Virtualization Deploying a VM fails, and checking the vvold.log vCenter log file reveals the following messages: Try to deploy the VM again. For more information, see the Dell knowledge base article SLN320647. 2019-11-15T05:24:35.161Z info vvold[2112740] [Originator@6876 sub=Default] VVolAbandonedObjectScan::ProcessName space examining namespace /vmfs/volumes// and 2019-11-15T05:24:35.
Limitations The following limitations exist in this release. PowerStore T and PowerStore X model limitations The following limitations exist in PowerStore T and PowerStore X deployment models. Functional Area Description Importing external storage to PowerStore A maximum of 16 import sessions is supported in the Ready-For-Cutover state during an import. In some cases, when several dozen import operations are run back-to-back, intermittent failures of alternate import sessions may occur.
PowerStore X model limitations The following limitations exist in PowerStore X deployment models. Functional Area Description Clustering Clustering with multiple PowerStore X appliances is not supported Replication of Virtual Volumes (vVols) Replication of vVols is not supported Storage – File NAS services are not supported in PowerStore X models. Support for Virtual Machines Virtual Machines (VMs) running on PowerStore X internal nodes only supports Virtual Volumes (vVols).
PowerStore T model appliance To upgrade your PowerStore T model cluster to PowerStore version 1.0.3.0.5.007: 1. Download the latest PowerStore T software upgrade package named PowerStoreT-1.0.3.0.5.007.tgz.bin from the Dell Digital Locker at https://www.dell.com/support/software. Upgrade package name Package type Description Required PowerStoreT-1.0.3.1.3.xxx.tgz.bin Software release PowerStore OS and node firmware updates Yes 2.
2. Node firmware - PowerStore-node_firmware-1.57.tgz.bin 3. ESXi update - ESXi670-202008001.zip 4. PowerStore OS - PowerStoreX-1.0.3.0.5.007.tgz.bin The upgrade packages that must be uploaded to the PowerStore X model appliance are: • PowerStoreX-PreUpgrade_Package-1.9.tgz.bin • PowerStore-node_firmware-1.57.tgz.bin • PowerStoreX-1.0.3.0.5.007.tgz.bin The update package must be uploaded to the vCenter Update Manager on the vCenter Server is ESXi670-202008001.zip.
