9.5 HP P4000 SAN Solution Software Release Notes (AX696-96235, September 2012)
Table Of Contents
- HP P4000 SAN Solution Software Release Notes
- Updated software components in this release
- Supported upgrade paths
- Description
- Platforms supported for this release
- Languages
- Announcing Microsoft Windows Server 2012 support with HP LeftHand SAN/iQ software version 10.0 (releasing in late Fall 2012)
- Enhancements
- Fixes
- Prerequisites
- Version requirements
- Upgrading the SAN
- Upgrade planning
- Performing the upgrade
- Using Advanced upgrades
- Upgrading software in an offline environment
- Upgrading using an offline directory
- Upgrading when using the HP P4000 Application Integration Solution Pack
- HP P4000 Application Integration Solution Pack compatibility with SAN/iQ software
- Upgrading the HP P4000 Application Integration Solution Pack
- Upgrading the HP P4000 DSM for MPIO
- Upgrading the Application Aware Snapshot Manager (was VSS Provider)
- Online Upgrades troubleshooting
- Best practices
- Upgrading management groups with Remote Copy associations
- Increase the size of the OS disk on both VSAs (ESX) and Failover Managers (ESX) if upgrading from pre-8.5 version
- Verify management group version
- How to verify management group version
- To install the SNMP MIBs
- Retaining snapshot if an SRA operation takes longer than 30 minutes
- Configuring SRM and vCenter servers for the VmImageConsistency feature
- When using the P4000 SRA for SRM, configure the server IQN even when using CHAP authentication
- Compatibility/interoperability
- Mixed SAN/iQ software versions in management groups
- Workarounds
- While cross–version Remote Copy is occurring from 9.x to 8.5 management groups, if the copying halts because of Cluster full, the CMC shows the Error Message - "See Alarms Window," although the 8.5 management group does not have Alarms
- IQN names and uppercase letters
- CMC on Windows 2008 is unable to auto discover storage systems if firewall is on
- Application-managed snapshots will not work if the Windows server running VirtualCenter Server is not in the domain
- 9.5 Online Help is missing translated graphics in Spanish
- To ensure desired system settings are retained after the 9.5 upgrade, use Copy Configuration before upgrading
- Blank windows when installing CMC on HPUX11
- CMC install and uninstall wizards contain special characters such as question marks
- SNMP clients and multi-byte characters
- CHAP name in multi-byte characters requires server to be configured with the IQN name
- Safe to Remove status shows Yes to all drives when two drives need to be rebuilt in Raid 6
- In rare situations, creating a bond may result in an event notice
- An error occurs when an application-managed snapshot is created during NIC failover on an application server
- Intermediate VMware snapshots are not deleted when a timeout error occurs
- HP Technical Support
Version:
• SAN/iQ software Version 9.5.00.1215
• Failover Manager ESX and Failover Manager Hyper-V software Version 9.5.00.1215
• HP P4000 Centralized Management Console Version 9.5.00.1215
• HP P4000 Command Line Interface (Cliq) Version 9.5.0.1050
• HP P4000 Application Integration Solution Pack Version 9.5.00.968 (was HP P4000 Windows
Solution Pack)
• HP P4000 Application Aware Snapshot Manager Version 9.5.0.996 (was VSS Provider)
• HP P4000 DSM for MPIO Version 9.5.0.981
• SRA for VMware SRM 5 Version 9.5.0.615
• SRA for VMware SRM 1x/4x Version 9.5.00.1215
Updated software components in this release
NOTE: New names for Version 9.5 software
• The HP P4000 Windows Solution Pack is now the HP P4000 Application Integration Solution
Pack.
• The VSS Provider is now delivered as part of the Application Aware Snapshot Manager component
of the Application Integration Solution Pack.
• SAN/iQ software
• HP P4000 Centralized Management Console
• HP P4000 Command Line Interface
• HP P4000 Application Integration Solution Pack
HP P4000 Application Aware Snapshot Manager◦
◦ HP P4000 DSM for MPIO
◦ HP P4000 Storage Replication Adapter for VMware SRM
Supported upgrade paths
Direct upgrades to Version 9.5 can be performed from the following released versions:
• Version 9.0
• Version 8.5
• Version 8.1
• Version 8.0
If you are upgrading from Version 7.0.01 SP1, the online upgrade automatically upgrades to Version
8.0 before upgrading to Version 9.5.
Description
These release notes provide information about upgrading to this release, and about enhancements
and fixes in this release. These release notes are current as of the published date.
Update recommendation
HP recommends that all customers running 9.0 and earlier versions upgrade to Version 9.5.
Updated software components in this release 3