HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server Release Notes 7.3

Important notes and suggested actions
• Special characters
HP Insight Control for vCenter plug-in cannot be installed on a server (or a VM) whose name
contains multi-byte or special characters.
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◦ VMware does not support multi-byte or special characters to be used for credentials. The
credentials specified for the Storage Administrator Portal User during the installation of HP
Insight Control for vCenter should not contain such characters.
◦ When using the Active Management operations, the names for VMs or Datastores specified
in the wizards should not contain multi-byte or special characters.
• News Feed and Tasks data is now migrated when upgrading from 7.2.x to 7.3. This data is not
migrated when upgrading from earlier versions of the product. See the Troubleshooting section
of the HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server User Guide for information on viewing News
Feed and Tasks data from earlier versions of the product.
The earlier version of Insight Control for vCenter must be used to view the saved News Feed and
Tasks data. See the Troubleshooting section of the HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server
User Guide for details about viewing News Feed and Tasks data from an earlier version of Insight
Control for vCenter.
To facilitate viewing the News Feed and Tasks data, the installer for the earlier version of Insight
Control for vCenter should be saved. Contact HP Support for the earlier version of Insight Control
for vCenter if necessary.
• The Physical NIC labels of some blade servers may be incorrect if the plug-in has not discovered
the enclosure's Onboard Administrator. This can happen for the first few minutes after the plug-in
is installed or when new hardware is added.
• When using the HPSIM launch link with Internet Explorer 9, the browser must be set to Compatibility
View.
• The HP Infrastructure page for HP XP P9000 storage systems shows slightly different values for
Free and Total Capacities of a Storage Pool (Parity Group) than those shown on the Remote Web
Console.
• The Replication tab does not list the replication details for volumes on XP/P9000 storage systems.
• After successfully deploying a server, the Recent Tasks window will indicate that the deployment
was successful. A task to add the target server to vCenter is initiated by Insight Control for vCenter,
but this event is not displayed in the Recent Tasks window until the vSphere Web Client is refreshed.
• When working with datastores using an HP StoreVirtual Storage System, the time required for HP
Insight Control Storage Module to create and delete both iSCSI and Fibre Channel datastores is
proportional to the number of paths utilized by the HP StoreVirtual Storage System. To view the
paths in VMware’s Storage Adapters GUI page, select one of the following:
◦ vSphere Client: Host→Configuration→Storage Adapters
◦ vSphere Web Client: Host→Manage→Storage→Storage Adapters
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