HP VMA-series Memory Arrays VMA3205 & VMA3210 PCIe Direct-Connect Release Notes - August, 2012
HP VMA-series Memory Arrays VMA3205
& VMA3210 PCIe Direct-Connect
Release Notes – August, 2012
Table of contents
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 2
Features ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 2
HP Supported Configurations........................................................................................................................................................... 2
Not all VMA Features Initially Supported by HP ........................................................................................................................ 3
Purchase of Stand-alone VMA-series Memory Arrays ............................................................................................................. 4
Front Panel Display Navigation and Power buttons ................................................................................................................. 4
VMA Power recommendations ........................................................................................................................................................ 4
Caution When Opening or Removing the Top Cover .............................................................................................................. 4
VMA-series Memory Array: General Recommendations........................................................................................................ 4
Alignment of data transfer I/O block sizes.............................................................................................................................. 5
Data layout structure alignment on VMA: ............................................................................................................................... 5
Tune application to issue I/Os which are multiple of 4KB ................................................................................................. 5
Partition for parallelization of I/O for applications............................................................................................................... 5
Data Backup ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
CLI commands are case sensitive .................................................................................................................................................... 5
Setting Date and Time ......................................................................................................................................................................... 6
Spare Part Numbers ............................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Open Known Problems: ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6
For HP Technical Support: .................................................................................................................................................................. 6
In the United States: ........................................................................................................................................................................ 6
In other locations: ............................................................................................................................................................................ 6
For software drivers and firmware downloads: ........................................................................................................................... 6