HP ProLiant Storage Server Release Notes (January 2006)

Storage Server release notes 19
Issue: Unable to format a volume with the WebUI
Description If you choose an existing volume and click Format on the Manage Volumes
page, enter a new Volume label, and then click OK, the format may not take
effect.
Workaround Verify that there are no applications accessing and locking files and folders
within the drive before formatting the drive.
Issue: Volume mount fails when drive letter is reused
Description When changing the mount point of a volume through the WebUI while the
volume is in use, the WebUI does not give any indication that the volume is
currently being used and forces a mount point change. For example, if Microsoft
Windows Explorer is currently browsed to a folder on a volume mounted at F:,
and the WebUI is used to change the mount point to G:, the WebUI will not
indicate the volume is in use and will force the mount point change. Also, if the
WebUI is used to return the mount point back to F:, the volume may appear as
UnMounted in the WebUI.
Workaround A system reboot restores the volume mount point to F: and the volume details are
displayed properly in the WebUI.
Issue: Reboot required after remounting a local disk volume on a mount point or drive letter that
is currently being used by a mapped network share
Description If a network share is currently being mapped on the storage server at a specified
drive letter (for example, Y:) and an administrator mounts a local disk volume
using that same specified drive letter (Y:) through the WebUI Manage Volumes
page, conflicting information may be reported from various WIN32 API
applications.
Workaround Disconnect the mapped network share from the specified drive letter (Y:) using
the net use Y: /d command from a command prompt and reboot the
storage server. To prevent such issues, always check and verify that the given
mount point or drive letter path is not being used before mounting a disk volume
or network share on that mount point.
Issue: Error while creating an NFS-shared folder
Description If you create a folder on the storage server and enable NFS sharing for the
folder, an NTFS File ID is created. If that folder is deleted and a new folder is
created using the same name, NFS sharing is automatically enabled using the
same NFS settings as the original folder.
Workaround Try not to reuse folder names. If the same folder name is necessary, the NFS
client needs to remount the NFS share.
Issue: Extend function may show an available disk space value greater than the amount of space
that a disk volume can grow
Description The extend function within the WebUI does not recognize extended disk volume
partition boundaries. As such, if an extended partition is created that consumes
part of a disk and the extended partition has a logical drive that consumes a
portion of the extended partition, the WebUI may report that all available disk
space on that disk is usable for extending the logical drive within the extended
partition.
Workaround Because extended partitions are seen as virtual physical disks, the logical drive
within the extended partition can only be extended to the size of the extended
partition. Primary partitions and dynamic disks are not affected by this issue.