MU3 Release Notes

4 InForm OS 3.1.1 MU1 Release Notes

Online Upgrade Considerations

CAUTION: SP-2.5.1.GA-xx P005 is a mandatory prerequisite Service Processor patch required

when upgrading from 3.1.1 GA to 3.1.1 MU1.

This feature allows the upgrade of the InForm OS concurrently with I/O activity on the attached

hosts, provided certain conditions are met. For further information and pre-planning of Rolling

Upgrades, refer to the latest version of the HP 3PAR InForm OS Upgrade Pre-Planning Guide. To

obtain a copy of this documentation, see http://www.hp.com/go/3par/, navigate to your product

page, click Support for your product, and then click Manuals.

Supported Platforms

The HP 3PAR InForm OS 3.1.1 Configuration Matrix contains information about supported hardware

and software platforms. To obtain a copy of this documentation, see the Single Point of Connectivity

Knowledge for HP Storage Products (SPOCK) website at http://www.hp.com/storage/spock.

Components

VersionComponent

3.1.1.342OS

3.1.1.342CLI

1.5.0SNMP Agent

What's New in the InForm OS

HP 3PAR InForm Operating System 3.1.1 provides driver and firmware support for the 10G iSCSI

CNA on the HP P10000 3PAR Storage System and CIM Server changes to view information on

the 10G iSCSI CNA. This release also recognizes the Common Criteria standard of security. The

Common Criteria are internationally well-recognized standards for the evaluation of products

incorporating security functionality. This release provides new features to secure ports under the

Common Criteria standard.

SMI-S Remote Replication Support

HP 3PAR InForm Operating System Software 3.1.1 enables SMI-S read-only support for Remote

Copy based on the remote replication portion of the SMI-S v1.4 Replication Services Profile.

Modifications to the InForm OS

The following items are addressed in this release.

DescriptionItemBug ID

While failed logins from using the CLI and IMC clients have always been logged,

failed logins using SSH were not logged. A failed login via SSH will now be

reported in the event log.

Logging of failed SSH

logins

31968

When the link comes up, the driver issues PLOGIs to all devices in parallel. If

the link goes down while some of PLOGIs are still pending, then the driver issues

Degraded disk causes

P10000 Storage

58471

PLOGIs to devices one by one. If the link goes down again while the PLOGI isSystem cage to go

offline still pending, mark this device as “ByPass” and send an event to the System

Manager.

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