HP StorageWorks SAN Visibility 5.1 release notes

• 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.

Supported Operating Systems for Installation/Upgradation

Microsoft Windows system with any of the following operating systems:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard or Enterprise edition with Service Pack 2

• Microsoft Windows XP Professional edition with Service Pack 2

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 2 (x86), (x64)

• Microsoft Windows 7

• Microsoft Windows 2008 R2

• Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 2 (x86)

NOTE:

For installing SAN Visibility on a system running on Microsoft Vista, do one of the following:

— Disable User Account Control (UAC) on the system. For more information on how to disable

UAC, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc709691.aspx.

Enhancements

SAN Visibility 5.1 includes the following enhancements:

• Compatibility check between SAN components: Analyzes compatibility between the SAN compon-

ents available in the report. It will check compatibilities between, Host and Switch, Switch and

Storage Systems, Host and Storage System using SDG guidelines.

• Check for SAN Design Guide Fabric non-adherences Runs through captured SAN information and

analyzes it for any potential SAN Design Guide non-adherence and generate recommendations

in the processed report based on the output of the non—adherence check.

• IPv6 support for Windows Hosts: Supports data collection from Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 hosts

configured with Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses.

• Newly supported Storage Devices: Provides support for

• 3PAR

• P9500

• P6300/P6500

• Send Logs: Intuitive and one click function to send log from GUI.

• Mail acknowledgement to sender's email id Informs the sender about the processed report sent to

the mail id mentioned in SV GUI.

Fixes

Resolved the following: