HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 3000/5000 release notes (VCS 3.
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Release notes contents This document contains the most recent product information for an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 3000/5000 running VCS 3.028. This information applies to both the EVA5000 (HSV110) and EVA3000 (HSV100) products.
Table 1 Additional information Information Location General EVA 3000/5000 http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/arraysystems.html Enterprise Virtual Array product support http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/enterprise HP StorageWorks Command View EVA http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/ cmdvieweva/index.html HP StorageWorks Business Copy EVA http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/ bizcopyeva/index.html HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA http://h18006.www1.
Fault management and diagnostic enhancements • Improved handling of disk drives which disrupt device discovery, resulting in improved system availability. Fault management and diagnostics WEBES must be installed to ensure proper alerts for your EVA products. You can use WEBES with HP ISEE remote service, or you can configure WEBES to send email notification only to a local account. The email option is also available when you use WEBES with ISEE.
• HP StorageWorks Business Copy EVA Release Notes • HP StorageWorks EVA software compatibility reference See Table 1 for links to these documents. • Corrected an issue that will allow Continuous Access EVA site failovers between VCS 3.020 and 3.028 during a one week upgrade window. • Resolved an issue that prevented snapshot units from entering an overcommit state due to one or more disk drive failures. This affected snapshots or snapclones of any RAID type with parent virtual disks of any RAID type.
HP StorageWorks Command View EVA 4.1 is required to access all the features and benefits provided by VCS 3.028. Upgrading an Enterprise Virtual Array to VCS 3.028 HP recommends that you upgrade to VCS 3.028 to realize the benefits included in this release. To upgrade to VCS 3.028, a copy of the system software is provided on the CD-ROM in the HP StorageWorks Virtual Controller Software media kit for dual HSV controllers.
Click the Technical documentation link under Product information. Supported disks Table 3 lists the supported Fibre Channel disks. NOTE: • To maintain your storage system at the most current configuration, HP recommends that all disk drives use the current version of firmware. • A minimum of eight disks is required to create a disk group. Additional disks may be added up to the established disk group limits. • A disk group cannot contain both online (high performance) disks and FATA disks.
Table 3 Supported disks Fibre Channel disk HP model displayed in HP Command View EVA Minimum supported firmware version Current firmware version BD03654499 3BE9 3BE9 BD03655B28 HP05 HP05 BD03656ABA HP09 HP0A BD03659532 HP02 HP02 BD07254498 3BE9 3BE9 BD07255B29 HP05 HP05 BD07256ABB HP09 HP0A BD07258224 HP01 HP01 BD0725822B HP01 HP02 BD14656ABC HP09 HP0A BD14658225 HP01 HP01 BD14655B2A HP05 HP05 BD1465822C HP01 HP02 BD30058226 HP00 HP01 BD30058232 HP00 HP02 BF0
Any operating constraints pertaining to the host operating system can be found in the individual operating system release notes. See Supported operating system specifications. Upgrading VCS on Windows 2003 When performing an online upgrade from VCS version 3.014, the logical drives being presented to a Windows 2003 host may become inaccessible, resulting in job loss. Rebooting the Windows 2003 host will make the logical drives accessible once again.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Open the Microsoft Cluster Administrator. Select a disk group resource in the left pane. Right click each disk resource in right pane, one at a time, and select Properties. Select the Advanced tab from the Properties menu. Locate the Pending Timeout value and change it to 360. Click OK. Reserving adequate free space To ensure efficient storage system operation, a certain amount of unallocated capacity, or free space, should be reserved in each disk group.
by specifying host volumes and logical volumes. With host agents, you can also: suspend/resume application I/O, mount/unmount volumes, and launch backup applications. The RSM host agent command line interface supports interaction between HP Business Copy jobs and host scripts. For more information on HP Business Copy EVA and HP Replication Solutions Manager, visit the following web site: http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/bizcopyeva/index.
Setting Point in time Behavior Path B - Failover Only At initial presentation The units are brought online to Controller B. On dual boot or controller resynch If cache data for a LUN exists on a particular controller, the unit will be brought online there. Otherwise, the units are brought online to Controller B. On controller failover All LUNs are brought online to the surviving controller. On controller failback All LUNs remain on the surviving controller.
Table 5 Failback Settings by Operating System Operating system Default behavior Settings supported Windows® Secure Path Autoback done by the host No Preference, Path A/B - Failover Only. Sun Solaris® Secure Path Autoback done by the host No Preference, Path A/B - Failover Only. HP-UX Secure Path Autoback done by the host No Preference, Path A/B - Failover Only. IBM AIX Secure Path Autoback done by the host No Preference, Path A/B - Failover Only.
