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
VMware
◦ ESX Server 4.x
◦ ESX Server 5.0
• HP DSM for MPIO
Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2◦
◦ Windows Server 2008
◦ Windows Server 2008 R2
HP P4000 Command-line interface (Cliq)
• 10 MB available space
• Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows XP SP2
• Windows Vista
• Windows 7
Failover Manager for VMware ESX Server
• VMware ESX Server version 4.x or later
• Microsoft .Net 2.0 or later on the installer client
• 1 GB RAM
• Bridged connection through the VMware Console, or assigned network in VI Client
• 15 GB of disk space
Failover Manager for Microsoft Hyper-V Server
• Windows Server 2008 versions
2008 R2 Standard◦
◦ 2008 R2 Enterprise
◦ 2008 R2 Datacenter
◦ 2008 R2 Server Core
◦ 2008 SP2, except for Core, which is not supported
• 15 GB available drive space on Windows server for the Failover Manager
• Hyper-V role installed and running
• At least 1 GB of memory reserved for the Failover Manager
• A single virtual CPU with at least 2000 MHz reserved
Version requirements
To upgrade to Version 9.5 SAN/iQ software, the storage systems must be at Version 7.0.01 SP1 or
later. If the storage systems are at a lower version, please contact Customer Support for access to the
interim upgrade files. Refer to “HP technical support” (page 16) for customer support contact information.
8 Version requirements