HP P6000 EVA Release Notes (XCS 11001100) (5697-2516, March 2013)

2. Wait 10 minutes before checking the disk drive properties page to verify the correct firmware
version is displaying.
3. If the problem persists, contact HP Support Engineering.
Disk group occupancy allocation notification received on non-thin provisioned virtual disks
After expanding or shrinking a virtual disk, if the action exceeds the occupancy alarm level setting
(either warning or critical), you may receive notification from P6000 Command View events and
Insight Remote Support notifications. These events and notifications may be received even if the affected
virtual disk is not a thin provisioned virtual disk. All notification alarms should be investigated and
when it is determined that they apply to non-thin provisioned virtual disks, the alarm may be safely
ignored.
Data Replication Protocol changes after controller software upgrade
In an HP P6000 Continuous Access configuration, the Data Replication Protocol may change to HP
SCSI FC Compliant Data Replication Protocol when the array being upgraded to XCS 11001100 or
later is:
• An EVA4400 that was initialized at a controller software version earlier than XCS 09500000
• An EVA6400 or EVA8400 that was upgraded from an EVA4400 (data in place upgrade) and
was initialized at a controller software version earlier than XCS 09500000.
Symptoms of this issue are:
• Data replication stops after the upgrade.
• There are no visible paths to the destination array. To determine if there are visible paths, select
the Data Replication folder in the HP P6000 Command View navigation pane. When the Data
Replication Properties Folder window opens in the content pane, select View remote connections.
To resolve this issue, you must set the protocol to HP FC Data Replication Protocol in HP P6000
Command View as follows:
1. Select the upgraded array in the EVA Storage Network Properties window.
2. Select the Data Replication folder in the navigation pane.
The Data Replication Properties Folder window opens in the content pane.
3. Select Data Replication Options.
The Data Replication Options window opens.
4. Select Set Data Replication Protocol.
The Data Replication Protocol options window opens.
5. Select HP FC Data Replication Protocol.
6. Select Save Changes.
DR log progress bar percentage appears incorrect
Because the DR log can suddenly reach the full copy threshold, the percentage complete displayed
by HP P6000 Command View can appear to be inaccurate. This is caused by overhead (or metadata)
that is applied to the file and is included in the percent complete, which reduces the amount of capacity
available. This overhead is more significant for smaller log files than larger log files because some of
the overhead is constant in size. For example, a 5 GB minimum log size can contain 35 percent
overhead, while a 40 GB log file might only contain 10 percent overhead. This could cause the
progress bar in HP P6000 Command View to show a larger amount of progress than one would
expect for the allocated log size.
Connectivity
This section describes workarounds for HBA, switch, and operating system connectivity. For the latest
support information about connectivity, see the Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge (SPOCK) at
10 Workarounds