HP IO Accelerator Driver and Management Software Version 3.2.3 Release Notes

Contents 3
Contents
About this guide ........................................................................................................................... 5
Description ............................................................................................................................................... 5
Product naming ......................................................................................................................................... 5
System requirements ...................................................................................................................... 7
Hardware requirements .............................................................................................................................. 7
Sufficient system memory (RAM) ........................................................................................................ 7
Supported operating systems ...................................................................................................................... 8
Supported Linux operating systems .................................................................................................... 8
Supported Windows operating systems .............................................................................................. 8
Supported VMware operating systems ............................................................................................... 9
Supported Solaris operating systems .................................................................................................. 9
Supported devices ..................................................................................................................................... 9
IO Accelerator Gen2 devices ............................................................................................................ 9
IO Accelerator Gen2 Duo devices ................................................................................................... 10
IO Accelerator Gen1 devices .......................................................................................................... 10
IO Accelerator Gen1 Duo devices ................................................................................................... 10
Virtual Controller technology support ............................................................................................... 10
Upgrade notes ........................................................................................................................... 11
Firmware version ..................................................................................................................................... 11
Upgrading devices for IO Accelerator VSL 3.x.x ......................................................................................... 11
Upgrading from IO Accelerator VSL 2.x ..................................................................................................... 12
Do not downgrade device firmware ........................................................................................................... 12
Change log ................................................................................................................................ 14
3.2.3 change log .................................................................................................................................... 14
3.2.2 change log .................................................................................................................................... 16
Errata ........................................................................................................................................ 19
Overview ............................................................................................................................................... 19
General issues ........................................................................................................................................ 19
Do not disable CPUs after loading the IO Accelerator VSL driver ......................................................... 19
Improved hardware failure detection ................................................................................................ 19
Keep default MSI interrupts for better performance ............................................................................. 19
Improved thermal throttling ............................................................................................................. 19
Proper time on startup .................................................................................................................... 20
Firmware update might fail with a TDO mismatch error ...................................................................... 20
Device capacity might change after upgrade .................................................................................... 20
Management-specific issues ...................................................................................................................... 20
Do not run multiple fio-format commands in parallel ........................................................................... 20
Be sure the utilities match the IO Accelerator VSL software version ....................................................... 20
Utility failed while running fio-bugreport ........................................................................................... 21
Do not run fio-status during driver load ............................................................................................. 21
fio-status might not display failed devices .......................................................................................... 21
Windows-specific issues ........................................................................................................................... 21
fio-trim-config returns Unknown status ............................................................................................... 21
Specific partitions required for devices with capacities greater than 2 TB .............................................. 21