HP StorageWorks SAN Visibility 5.1 release notes

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HP StorageWorks SAN Visibility 5.1

Release Notes

Part Number: AA-RWEUM-TE

First edition: June 2011

Summary of content (6 pages)

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HP StorageWorks SAN Visibility 5.
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Version: 5.1 Description HP StorageWorks SAN Visibility (SAN Visibility) provides a quick and easy way to review the topology and inventory in a complex Storage Area Network (SAN) environment. Update recommendation Supersedes Recommended HP StorageWorks SAN Visibility version 5.0 New features HP StorageWorks SAN Visibility offers the following new features: • Supports data collection from Microsoft windows hosts configured with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses.
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• Supports physical host discovery of HP-UX, RHEL, SUSE, HyperV, VMware ESX, and Microsoft Windows. Also supports virtualization by discovering virtual machines associated with HyperV and VMware ESX. • Detects host operating system details and the details of the HBA attached to the host. • Provides XP firmware recommendations for XP storage devices in the report.
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IP masking for multiple hosts — IP address is masked in the report when there are multiple hosts in the input data from the SV GUI. Prerequisites Following are the prerequisites to install HP StorageWorks SAN Visibility: • To use the HP StorageWorks SAN Visibility 5.1 software, following are the necessary applications that must be installed on a host where HP StorageWorks SAN Visibility is installed: • Java 2 Runtime Environment (JRE) SE v1.5 Update 1 or higher • Brocade SMI-Agent (120.6.
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• Host discovery and data collection with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is not supported on nonWindows OS. • For physical and virtual hosts, only the mandatory details are displayed in the report.