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
In the Storage section, navigate to the following locations
• Disk Storage Systems→ P4000 SAN Solutions →HP P4000 G2 SAN Solutions
• Disk Storage Systems→ P4000 SAN Solutions →HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions
• Storage Software→Storage Virtualization Software→HP P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software
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