HP ProLiant Storage Server with Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 - Release Notes (5697-6072, September 2006)

Data Protec tion Manager
Issue:
Two hotfixes need to be installed after running DPM mini-setup
Description
The following two hotfixes should be installed only af ter the DPM mini-setup is
complete:
• DataProtectionManager2006–KB 910330.exe
• DataProtectionManager2006–KB 911169.exe
These hotfixes
can be obtained from the c:\hpnas\components\hotfix
folder on the D
ata
Protection Storage Server.
Workaround Not applicable.
Issue:
DPM Administration tool can overwrite data on a physical disk with no warning given
Description
On
storage servers with Data Protection Manager, if certain steps are followed,
volumes can be created on a physical disk that the D PM Administration tool does
not
see. If these physical disks are allocated to DPM, the volumes will be removed
with no warning about data loss given to the user.
Workaround
Always clic
k
the Rescan option before adding new disks to DPM.
Issue:
DON’T ERASE disk can be added to the DPM storage pool
Description
The DON’T ERASE disk is displayed in the list of d isks that can be added to the
storage pool in D PM. The DON ’T ERASE disk is used during a Quick Restore, and
any data on this disk will be deleted in the event of a Quick Restore.
Workaround Do not use the DO N’T ERASE disk to store DPM data.
Issue:
Event ID:1101 SNMP warning displayed in System Event log
Description
The foll
owing warning may be logged to the System Event log for the Data
Protect
ion Storage Server:
Event So
urce: SNMP
Event
ID
: 1101
The
SNM
P Service is ignoring extension agent
key
SOFTWA
RE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\SNMP\Current Version
because
it is
mi
ssing or mis-configured.
Becaus
e
DPM only installs a named instance of SQL, it does not create the correct
SNMP r
egistry keys.
Workaround
See h
ttp://s upport.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q279870& for
more details about the issue and workaround.
Issue:
Japanese characters are not rendered properly in DPM reports when exported to a PDF file
Description
Japanese characters are not rendered properly when a report is exported to a
PDF file. The "?" symbol is shown in lieu of Japanese characters. This can be
seen on all
types of D PM reports (for example, Administrator Recovery, Disk
Utilization, Network Traffic, Shadow Copy, and Synchronization). This is a known
issue with Adobe Acrobat software versions 6.x and 7.0 that are installed on
the
storage ser ver.
Wor
karound
Other formats (for example, xls and htm) that can be used for exporting reports
are rendered properly.
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