HP IO Accelerator Driver and Management Software Version 2.3.10 Release Notes

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Contents
About this guide ........................................................................................................................... 5
Description ............................................................................................................................................... 5
Download location .................................................................................................................................... 5
System requirements ...................................................................................................................... 6
Hardware requirements .............................................................................................................................. 6
Sufficient system memory (RAM) ........................................................................................................ 6
Supported operating systems ...................................................................................................................... 7
Supported Linux operating systems .................................................................................................... 7
Supported Windows operating systems .............................................................................................. 7
Supported VMware operating systems ............................................................................................... 7
Supported devices ..................................................................................................................................... 8
Product models ................................................................................................................................ 8
Upgrade notes ............................................................................................................................. 9
Supported firmware version ........................................................................................................................ 9
Upgrading devices for IO Accelerator VSL 2.3.10 ......................................................................................... 9
Do not downgrade device firmware ............................................................................................................. 9
Change log ................................................................................................................................ 10
Version 2.3.10 change log ...................................................................................................................... 10
Errata ........................................................................................................................................ 11
Errata overview ....................................................................................................................................... 11
General issues ........................................................................................................................................ 11
Incorrect reserves indicated in fio-status ............................................................................................ 11
Firmware update might fail with a TDO mismatch error ...................................................................... 11
Periodic latency bump .................................................................................................................... 11
Do not run fio-status during driver load ............................................................................................. 11
fio-status might not display failed devices .......................................................................................... 12
Linux-specific issues ................................................................................................................................. 12
kdump crashkernel requires additional memory for the IO Accelerator.................................................. 12
SMI-s provider registration issues when upgrading ............................................................................. 12
Software not installed post kernel update .......................................................................................... 12
Rare error on driver unload using kernels older than 2.6.24 ............................................................... 12
ext4 in Kernel.org 2.6.33 or earlier might silently corrupt data when discard (trim) is enabled ................ 13
Kernels 2.6.34/35 don't handle switching interrupt types ................................................................... 13
RHEL6 udevd warning .................................................................................................................... 13
RHEL6 gives a warn_slowpath message during device attach .............................................................. 13
Switching interrupt types with newer kernels might cause errors ........................................................... 14
Stop fio-snmp-agentx when the IO Accelerator driver is unloaded ........................................................ 14
Compiler Cache causes driver src.rpm rebuild failures on some distributions ......................................... 14
Windows-specific issues ........................................................................................................................... 14
Fusion-io Trim service fails to start .................................................................................................... 15
Conversion to GPT or Dynamic disk terminates Logical Disk Manager Administrative Service .................. 15
Windows Installer (DLL) errors ......................................................................................................... 15
VMware ESX-specific issues ...................................................................................................................... 16
Using VMDirectPathIO with multiple-device products .......................................................................... 16