J06.13 Release Version Update Compendium

• NonStop Operations Guide for H-Series or J-Series RVUs
• Migrating from NB50000c to NB54000c or NB54000c to NB54000c-cg service procedure
Solid State Drives
In addition to hard disk drives (HDDs), current SAS disk enclosures that connect to DL380 G6
Storage CLIMs can accomodate solid state drives (SSDs). HDDs and SSDs can co-exist in SAS disk
enclosures that support them, with some limitations.
SSDs require the J06.13 or later J-series RVU.
For more information, refer to the planning guide for your system.
Migration Considerations
None.
Fallback Considerations
See the Planning Guide for your system for information about CLIMs and storage devices. SSDs
require the J06.13 or later J-series RVU. If you must fall back to an earlier RVU, you cannot use
SSDs.
Solid State Drive (SSD) Partitioning
Disk partitioning is now supported on (SDDs) that connect to DL380 G6 Storage CLIMs. SDD
partitioning is enabled on a per-SDD basis.
Disk partitioning requires the J06.13 or later J-series RVU.
For more information, refer to the planning guide for your system and the SCF Reference Manual
for the Storage Subsystem.
Migration Considerations
None.
Fallback Considerations
See the planning guide for your system for information about the CLIMs and storage devices. Disk
partitioning requires the J06.13 or later J-series RVU. If you must fall back to an earlier RVU, you
cannot partition SSDs.
Tape Backup/Restore FSF Emulation
The EmulateFSF emulator is a new feature for restore operations. EMULATEFSF emulates a File
Space Forward SCSI operation. This option is meant to allow faster partial restores or LISTONLY
restores on specific tape drives where the tape firmware is apparently slower in doing the same
operation.
Guidelines for using EMULATEFSF are:
• The usage of EMULATEFSF is meant only for M8501 and M8502 models of LTO-3 Tape drives
and should not be used with any other drives. Virtual and other physical tape drives may not
show any performance improvement for restore operations and may in fact be slower with
this option.
• It is advised to use the EMULATEFSF option in a non-CLIM setup only, as a CLIM-based setup
would slow down the performance.
• The file-mode options that are meaningful with the EMULATEFSF option is LISTONLY.
• Using EMULATEFSF speeds up LISTONLY and PARTIAL in some specific types of physical Tape
drives such as the M8501 and M8502 models of LTO-3 tape drives.
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