9.5 HP P4000 SAN Solution Software Release Notes (AX696-96235, September 2012)
Table Of Contents
- HP P4000 SAN Solution Software Release Notes
- Updated software components in this release
- Supported upgrade paths
- Description
- Platforms supported for this release
- Languages
- Announcing Microsoft Windows Server 2012 support with HP LeftHand SAN/iQ software version 10.0 (releasing in late Fall 2012)
- Enhancements
- Fixes
- Prerequisites
- Version requirements
- Upgrading the SAN
- Upgrade planning
- Performing the upgrade
- Using Advanced upgrades
- Upgrading software in an offline environment
- Upgrading using an offline directory
- Upgrading when using the HP P4000 Application Integration Solution Pack
- HP P4000 Application Integration Solution Pack compatibility with SAN/iQ software
- Upgrading the HP P4000 Application Integration Solution Pack
- Upgrading the HP P4000 DSM for MPIO
- Upgrading the Application Aware Snapshot Manager (was VSS Provider)
- Online Upgrades troubleshooting
- Best practices
- Upgrading management groups with Remote Copy associations
- Increase the size of the OS disk on both VSAs (ESX) and Failover Managers (ESX) if upgrading from pre-8.5 version
- Verify management group version
- How to verify management group version
- To install the SNMP MIBs
- Retaining snapshot if an SRA operation takes longer than 30 minutes
- Configuring SRM and vCenter servers for the VmImageConsistency feature
- When using the P4000 SRA for SRM, configure the server IQN even when using CHAP authentication
- Compatibility/interoperability
- Mixed SAN/iQ software versions in management groups
- Workarounds
- While cross–version Remote Copy is occurring from 9.x to 8.5 management groups, if the copying halts because of Cluster full, the CMC shows the Error Message - "See Alarms Window," although the 8.5 management group does not have Alarms
- IQN names and uppercase letters
- CMC on Windows 2008 is unable to auto discover storage systems if firewall is on
- Application-managed snapshots will not work if the Windows server running VirtualCenter Server is not in the domain
- 9.5 Online Help is missing translated graphics in Spanish
- To ensure desired system settings are retained after the 9.5 upgrade, use Copy Configuration before upgrading
- Blank windows when installing CMC on HPUX11
- CMC install and uninstall wizards contain special characters such as question marks
- SNMP clients and multi-byte characters
- CHAP name in multi-byte characters requires server to be configured with the IQN name
- Safe to Remove status shows Yes to all drives when two drives need to be rebuilt in Raid 6
- In rare situations, creating a bond may result in an event notice
- An error occurs when an application-managed snapshot is created during NIC failover on an application server
- Intermediate VMware snapshots are not deleted when a timeout error occurs
- HP Technical Support
Supersedes
Version 9.5 supersedes Versions 9.0, 8.5, and 8.1.
Platforms supported for this release
Upgrades to Version 9.5 software are available for the following platforms:
• HP P4300 G2
• HP P4500 G2
• HP P4800 G2
• HP LeftHand P4300
• HP LeftHand P4500
• VSA for ESX and for Hyper-V
• Failover Manager for ESX and for Hyper-V
• NSM 2120 G2
• NSM 2060 G2
• NSM 2120
• DL 320s
• DL 185
Languages
Version 9.5 supports the following languages:
• English
• Simplified Chinese
• Japanese
• Korean
• Spanish
NOTE: The Configuration Interface and the on-system CLI are not localized.
Announcing Microsoft Windows Server 2012 support with HP LeftHand
SAN/iQ software version 10.0 (releasing in late Fall 2012)
To use your HP P4000/StoreVirtual SAN Solutions on Windows Server 2012, you must upgrade your
storage system to 10.0 first and then upgrade to Windows Server 2012. SAN/iQ software version
10.0 is the first version that will support Windows Server 2012 and will include the latest set of
SAN/iQ features and performance enhancements. SAN/iQ 9.5 support for Windows Server 2012
will be delivered shortly after the SAN/iQ 10.0 release.
Stay tuned for the general availability date for SAN/iQ software version 10.0. For more information,
go to:
http://www.hp.com/go/LeftHandDownloads
Enhancements
The 9.5 release is a comprehensive release that includes enhancements in the following areas:
• Application managed snapshots for VMware ESX Server and Microsoft Hyper-V Server
• SAN Status Home Page — the SAN Status home page is the new home page for the CMC and
presents key information for all management groups in the storage environment in a single view.
4 Platforms supported for this release