HP IBRIX X9000 Network Storage System 6.1.
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Version: 6.1.1 Description This release provides the new HP IBRIX X9730 Network Storage System and updates to HP IBRIX X9000 File Serving Software and to HP IBRIX X9300, X9320, and X9720 systems.
Other supported software Software Supported versions Linux X9000 clients • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 (all 64 bit) nl • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Updates 5, 6, 7, 8 (all 64 bit) • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (64 bit) • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 (64 bit) • openSUSE 11.1 (64 bit) • CentOS 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.
• Monitoring of chassis, storage, and server components on X9720/X9730 systems. You can display component status on the GUI or with the ibrix_chassis, ibrix_pv, and ibrix_health commands. • Support for Antivirus software. • New ibrix_evacuate command to move data from one segment to another. This feature was previously provided with the ibrix_rebalance command. • New upgrade60.sh utility to upgrade pre-6.0 file systems for software snapshots.
• The ibrix_event -l option now displays events in a short format, with event descriptions truncated to fit on one line. The new ibrix_event -i option displays events in a long format, with complete event descriptions. • The ibrix_datavalidation -c option has changed to ibrix_datavalidation -s. • Fusion Manager maintenance mode is now called nofmfailover mode. When a Fusion Manager is in this mode, it no longer participates in Fusion Manager failover.
Software snapshots Upgrading pre-6.0 file systems for snapshots To accommodate software snapshots, the inode format was changed in the 6.0 release. Consequently, files used for snapshots must either be created on X9000 File Serving Software 6.0 or later, or the pre-6.0 file system containing the files must be upgraded for snapshots. To upgrade a file system, use the upgrade60 utility. For more information about the utility, see “upgrade60” in the HP IBRIX X9000 Network Storage System CLI Reference Guide.
management console has not yet assumed active mode, the management console being moved from fmnofailover to passive mode will become active again. CIFS • CIFS and X9000 Windows clients cannot be used together because of incompatible AD user to UID mapping. You can use either CIFS or X9000 Windows clients, but not both at the same time on the cluster. • The X9000 CIFS server does not support connections from Linux SMB clients. The workaround is to use NFS for Linux.
1. Disable the SMB2 protocol on all nodes: ibrix_cifsconfig -t -S SupportSmb2=0 2. Restart the CIFS service on all nodes: ibrix_server -s -t cifs -c restart You may also need to restart the Windows client, as the original negotiated protocol, SMB2, may be cached by the client. Restarting the client renegotiates the protocol back to SMB1. • Be sure to remove Active Directory users from the X9000 share admin list before removing them from Active Directory.
Block snapshots • Snapshot creation may fail while mounting the snapshot. The snapshot will be created successfully, but it will not be mounted. Use the following command to mount the snapshot manually: ibrix_mount -f -m / • Quotas are disabled on block level snapshots (for example, MSA2000 snapshots) and the quota information from the origin file system is not carried to the block level snap file system. Block level snapshots are temporary file systems that are not writable.
Data retention and validation • The ibrix_reten_adm command fails if the date string specified with -e contains spaces. As a workaround, use the following command to enter date strings containing spaces: /usr/local/ibrix/sbin/ibr_reten_adm -e expire_time -f FSNAME -P PATHLIST • The ibrix_vs_snap command cannot delete a block snapshot file system that is enabled for data retention. Instead, use the ibrix_fs command with the -R option.
2. Run the following command to exclude all files in the .webdav directory: # ibrix_avconfig -a -E -f FS1 -P /FS1/.webdav/ -x '*' 3. Reset the immutable bit on the .webdav directory: # chattr +i .webdav/ 4. Exclude all files in the .DAV directory for each HTTP/WebDAV share created: # ibrix_avconfig -a -E -f FS1 -P /FS1/httpshare/.DAV/ -x '*' Segment evacuation • The segment evacuator cannot evacuate segments in a READONLY or BROKEN state.
components to toggle from Up, to Stale, and back to Up. Common causes of failures in the monitoring system include: ◦ Reboot of a file-serving node ◦ Network connectivity issues between the management console and a file serving node ◦ Resource exhaustion on a file serving node (CPU, RAM, I/O or network bandwidth) While network connectivity and resource exhaustion issues should be investigated, they can occur normally due to heavy workloads.
Then restart the snmp service: service snmpd restart • On X9320/X9720 systems, the virtual SAS manager and VC connect manager must be configured manually for HP Support. • On HP SIM 7.1, X9320/X9300 nodes are discovered as “HP X9320 NetStor FSN” if MSA storage is registered on the cluster nodes. This does not affect sending alerts to HP Support. Upgrades • System User login credentials are backed up and restored during upgrades. However, any user data is not retained.
Documentation changes ibrixinit command The syntax for the ibrixinit command is shown incorrectly in the HP IBRIX X9000 Network Storage System Installation Guide.
