HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Release Notes (XCS 09534000) Abstract This document applies to the HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array, HP StorageWorks 6400 Enterprise Virtual Array, and HP StorageWorks 8400 Enterprise Virtual Array.
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Contents Description..............................................................................................................................4 Enhancements..........................................................................................................................4 Fixes (XCS 09534000)..............................................................................................................5 Fixes (XCS 09531000)............................................................................
Version: XCS 09534000 Description This document contains information specific to the release of XCS 09534000, which applies to the following array models: • HP StorageWorks 4400 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA4400), which includes the HSV300 controller enclosure or HSV300-S controller enclosure, and the M6412 and M6412A disk enclosures • HP StorageWorks 6400 Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA6400), which includes the HSV400 controllers and the M6412A disk enclosure • HP StorageWorks 8400 Enterprise Virtual A
For feature details and best practices, see the HP Continuous Access EVA Implementation Guide. NOTE: HP strongly recommends that you review these release notes and the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array Updating Product Software Guide (XCS 09534000) before upgrading the controller software and using this feature. • VMware for HP Command View EVA support—The controller software supports HP Command View EVA on a Windows guest operating system (running on a VMware server).
Disks (disk groups, virtual disks) This section describes issues affecting physical and virtual disks or disk groups, which can lead to a range of behaviors including a loss of redundancy, performance impact, or data unavailability. • 1000995785, GR884000200714, 4000202176, 40002022216: Resolved an issue that resulted in a false metadata inoperative condition (Operator Control Panel message System Inoperative displayed) due to multiple missing drives.
restarted partner controller. When the restarted controller became the master controller prior to the cached work being flushed, a recursive controller termination could occur (termination code 0x03030102). • 1000995641: Resolved a recursive controller termination that could result if a controller restart occurred during deletion of a DR group (termination code 0x4238011f).
HP Continuous Access EVA This section describes issues affecting HP Continuous Access EVA implementations of remote replication, including data replication (DR) groups. • 1001024584: Fixed an issue where a DR group write history log expansion could result in performance issues, including potential data loss, in rare circumstances.
Disks (disk groups, virtual disks) This section describes issues affecting physical and virtual disks or disk groups, which can lead to a range of behaviors including a loss of redundancy, performance impact, or data unavailability. • 1000938013: A data migration operation stalled after a disk drive error occurred. • 1000986223: The one minute delay that occurred prior to a controller resynchronization (due to a RAID1 inoperative state) has been removed.
HP Continuous Access EVA This section describes issues affecting HP Continuous Access EVA implementations of remote replication, including data replication (DR) groups. • 1000943954: During a migration from an EVA3000/5000 running VCS 3.xxx to an EVA4400 or EVA6400/8400, a controller termination (termination code 0x0442011f) occurred if the target EVAx4000 had existing DR groups with another EVA model communicating on the same Fibre Channel port. This problem has been corrected in this release.
Upgrades (controller software, I/O module firmware, disk drive firmware) This section describes issues affecting upgrades involving controller software, I/O module firmware, or disk drive firmware. • 1000957675, 1000970056: Improved reconstruction of a disk drive that failed during a firmware download. • Support for an online controller software upgrade to XCS 09534000 for arrays connected to Solaris x86 and SPARC hosts is added.
HP StorageWorks SmartStart EVA Storage Kit HP StorageWorks SmartStart EVA Storage is a CD-based wizard that you use on your Windows Server 2003 or 2008 system to install and configure HP Command View EVA. You can use HP Command View EVA to configure, manage, and monitor the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage system. NOTE: For the EVA4400, HP Command View EVA 9.2 is pre-installed on the controller enclosure management module (for array-based management).
Performance sizing To configure an EVA for the intended disk model(s) and host I/O workloads, please contact your HP account support representative for consulting services and instructions. For additional information on performance and solutions, see the following HP websites: • http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/arraywhitepapers.html • http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/whitepapers.html Workarounds This section identifies important notes and workarounds for the EVA4400, EVA6400, and EVA8400.
WWN].sceventstatefile.txt. The [EVA WWN].sceventstatefile.txt file stores the last sequence number retrieved from the controller event log in the second value. NOTE: [EVA WWN] is the worldwide name of the EVA storage system being managed. If the second value in the [EVA WWN].sceventstatefile.txt file is larger then the value shown in the GUI, apply the following workaround: NOTE: This workaround is not applicable for array-based management environments. Contact HP Services for assistance. 1. 2. 3.
Emulex HBAs require unique zoning When multiple Emulex HBAs are connected to the same EVA4400, each HBA requires unique zoning. QLogic HBA speed setting In a Linux direct connect environment with QLogic 4 Gb/s HBAs, auto speed negotiation is not supported. The QLogic HBA speed setting must be set to 4 Gb/s.
For VMware ESX 2.5.4 or 2.5.5 (EVA4400 only) Using the ESX server console, add HSV3 to the following setting: echo "HSV1:HSV2:DGC:MSA_VOLUME:HSV3" > /proc/vmware/config/Disk/SANDevicesWithNonConstantSNInPa Microsoft Windows 2003 MSCS cluster installation The MSCS cluster installation wizard on Windows 2003 can fail to find the shared quorum device and disk resources might not be auto-created by the cluster setup wizard.
2. 3. 4. Close Disk Management. Stop and restart the Virtual Disk services. Open Disk Management, and then rescan or Diskpart rescan to enumerate the LUNs. If these steps are not successful, reboot the server.
