HP StorageWorks Clustered File System 3.6.
Version: 3.6.0 Description The 3.6.0 release of HP StorageWorks Clustered File System 3.6.0 includes the following new features: • Role-based security—Allow users to create a role to manage Virtual CIFS Servers, Virtual File Shares, and Matrix File Shares • Support for offline caching—Allows users to cache files and programs from Virtual File Shares or Matrix File Shares to their local machines. Update recommendation Recommended Supersedes HP StorageWorks Clustered File System 3.4.
HP CFS Management Console features • New Installed Software viewer that lists all of the HP software currently installed on the system. • Progress task bar that displays progress indications when you initiate a task on the console. Enhancements and new features in HP Clustered File System File Serving (FS) Option 3.6.0 HP Clustered File System FS Option 3.6.0 includes the following new features. • Role-based security.
• Case-sensitive naming. • Content indexing. PSFS support is the same as the FAT filesystem. (See “Unsupported Features” for more information.) • Directory Change Notification (DCN). PSFS supports both local-node and cross-node Change Notification. • Disk quotas. • Hidden, readonly, archive bits (and so on). • Memory-mapped files. PSFS support is for the local node only; memory mapped file data is not coherent cluster-wide. (See “Filesystem Semantics” for more information.) • Open by File ID.
• If you restore data from an NTFS filesystem to a PSFS filesystem, you may see warnings such as the following. The warnings indicate that data belonging to an unsupported NTFS feature will be lost during the restore. Warning: The target file system does not support some of the features of the original filesystem. Some data may not be restored as a result. Warning: Unable to set the short 8.3 name for “V:\test-restore\WINNT\q50.dmp.gz”. Reason: The parameter is incorrect.
Windows applications You may notice the following differences from NTFS filesystems when running applications on PSFS filesystems: • Certain Windows applications disable NTFS-related features when run on a PSFS filesystem. For example, older versions of Robocopy do not copy security descriptors. (As a workaround, use Xcopy to copy the security descriptors.) Open issues and workarounds for HP Clustered File System The following open issues affect HP Clustered File SystemGateway operations.
Legato NetWorker volume shadow copy not supported [5807] HP Clustered File SystemGateway does not currently support the manner in which Legato NetWorker 7.1.1 uses volume shadow copies. HP recommends that you configure NetWorker so that it does not use shadow copies. One way to do this is to choose Options > Save Options in the NetWorker client, and then type VSS:*=off in the options box.
Filesystem resize does not work correctly with mount points [7591] The HP Management Console includes an option to extend the size of a filesystem. After a filesystem is extended, HP Clustered File System attempts to reassign the drive letters or mount points associated with the filesystem. HP Clustered File System reassigns drive letters correctly; however, it fails to reassign mount points. Re-create the appropriate mount points manually after the extend operation is complete.
mpdump Membership Partition Host Registry (Version 3): Host ID: 10.10.180.5 fencestatus=0 fencetype=0 Fence ID:21:00:00:e0:8b:0c:12:1f::10.10.11.221 state=0 Host ID: 10.10.180.11 fencestatus=0 fencetype=0 Fence ID:21:00:00:e0:8b:05:c2:b1::10.10.11.221 state=0 Fence ID:21:01:00:e0:8b:25:c2:b1::10.10.11.221 state=0 Host ID: 10.10.180.6 fencestatus=0 fencetype=0 Fence ID:21:00:00:e0:8b:10:ee:88::10.10.11.
Synchronized bookmarks do not work with secondary interface [13411] If you are unable to connect to the cluster using the primary network interfaces on your servers because of the network infrastructure or a firewall, the "Synchronize Server Bookmarks Automatically" option should be disabled. If it is not disabled, bookmarks that contain addresses on a secondary interface will be replaced with the unreachable primary interface.
Clustered File System is not compatible with Microsoft Forefront Client Security product [16858] Using the Forefront Client Security product on a Clustered File System node causes the node to bugcheck in the PSFS filesystem. This issue occurs because of an incompatibility between the Clustered File System PSFS filesystem and the Forefront Client Security product. We have reported this incompatibility to Microsoft and are working to fix it.
mxcheck error message regarding conflicting network addresses is unclear [19168] When mxcheck detects that multiple interfaces have the same network address, it reports the following: Failure: Check IP network and interface assignments (networks) Interface 10006 shares a network address with interface 10008, Matrix Server requires each interface to have a unique IP network address.
Workaround—Either disable the Cluster File Shares one-at-a-time, or disable the LanManServer service. IP address may be set to 0.0.0.0 when Autofailback policy is used [6555] When a Virtual File Server is configured with the Autofailback policy, HP Clustered File System FS Option places an IP address on the newly booted node selected for the failback operation. Under certain circumstances, the IP address is incorrectly set to 0.0.0.0, making the address inaccessible from the network.
For the maximum flexibility and fine-grained failure handling, have only one Virtual File Share per Virtual CIFS Server if possible. This will not always be possible, as in some consolidation scenarios where legacy server/share names must be preserved. FS Option for CIFS cannot remove share that is a DFS root target [16464] If you have a CIFS share that is also a DFS root target, the DFS service must be stopped before the share can be removed.
Content Indexing can cause ClusterPulse problems [7837] The Content Indexing Service can cause ClusterPulse connections to be dropped. Workaround—Consider discontinuing the Content Indexing Service. Windows 2003 problem can cause processes to block [7783] A defect exists in Windows Storage Server 2003 that can cause high-priority processes to become blocked by low-priority processes.
