6.2.4 HP StoreAll Storage Release Notes (AW549-96071, April 2013)

• The default number of adm server threads was increased from 10 to 24. Previously, adm server
threads were used only for Fusion Manager and IAS management but many utilities now use adm
server threads.
• A race condition could occur in the StoreAll kernel when a delegation thread was deallocated
without being properly synchronized with other threads. This occurred only in very rare
circumstances. The fix ensures that proper synchronization occurs before performing the thread
deallocation.
• An electrical signal on the cache module is now synchronized before being analyzed. Previously,
electrical noise on this signal had been driving the supercapacitor charging logic into an undefined
state.
• A deadlock in the switch’s internal thread handling was eliminated.
• The controller firmware now retries certain operations that were prematurely marked as failed.
• A reset signal on the cache module was previously being cleared prematurely in brownout
scenarios; this has been corrected.
• The firmware was corrected to ensure that drive heads are safely parked during a loss of power.
• Previously, the switch firmware was miscounting SAS frame errors, resulting in a generic warning
being displayed on the SAS switch.
• The Firmware Management Tool now displays a more informative error message when it is unable
to retrieve a list of file serving nodes from the Fusion Manager.
• The firmware bundle includes disk drive firmware version HPD3 for disk drives MB1000FBZPL
and MB2000FBZPN. HPD3 prevents an infrequent condition that may occur when the WRITE
SAME command is used during RAID ARRAY parity initialization, which can result in unexpected
data on the hard drive.
• Fixed an issue with StoreAll Linux clients running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x in which the system
froze for five seconds during file editing.
Fixes in the 6.2.2 release
• Administrators were unable to add a user as “nasxxx” in SMB Authentication.
• Share administrators were unable to add users and groups with parenthesis and ampersands in
their name to an SMB share.
• Thousands of /tmp/tmp*.lvmtool directories were being created.
• StoreAll nodes were not discoverable when the Fusion Manager IP address was used in HP Systems
Insight Manager (SIM).
• A crash would sometimes occur while renaming a folder.
• Quotas were being incorrectly reported after an upgrade.
• The ibrix_fsck command was showing "illegal inode number while reading inode."
• The ibrix_vs -a command would fail on combined 9730+X9720 and 9320+9730 clusters.
• Long delays (approximately 10 minutes) followed by an HTTP status code in the 5XX range would
occur while using the StoreAll REST API.
Fixes in the 6.2.1 release
• There is no longer a 100 LUN limit when creating a file system.
• When a blade was pulled out, the segment server might not failover.
• The summary page does not show relevant message of the action taken by the user. The UI has
since been modified.
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