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4 HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 MU1 Release Notes Online Upgrade Considerations This feature allows the upgrade of the OS concurrently with I/O activity on the attached hosts, provided certain conditions are met. For further information and pre-planning of online upgrades, refer to the latest version of the HP 3PAR OS Upgrade Pre-Planning Guide. To obtain a copy of this documentation, go to http://www.hp.com/3par/support_manuals, select your product, and then click Manuals. NOTE: Direct upgrades from 3.1.1.226 to 3.1.2.322 are not supported with this release of HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2, but are expected to be supported at a future date. Customers running 3.1.1 and wishing to upgrade to 3.1.2 will need to upgrade to the 3.1.1 MU prior to upgrading to 3.1.2. Supported Platforms The HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 Configuration Matrix contains information about supported hardware and software platforms. To obtain a copy of this documentation, see the Single Point of Connectivity Knowledge for HP Storage Products (SPOCK) website at http://www.hp.com/storage/spock. Components Component OS SNMP Agent Version 3.1.2.322 1.6.0 What's New in the HP 3PAR OS HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 MU1 provides support for Linux and VMWare ESX version 4 and 5 with EVA online Import. NOTE: Starting from HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2, the HP 3PAR OS installation and admit hardware process does not automatically create a RAID 5 Fiber Channel CPG. RAID 5 for both HP 3PAR Fiber Channel and SAS (10K/15K) drives is fully supported on any class of HP 3PAR array. The creation and modification of RAID 5 on NL drives is disabled via a system parameter: AllowR5OnNLDrives. This system parameter can be modified via the setsys command to enable support for RAID 5 on NL drives. If this parameter is disabled, new RAID 5 CPGs cannot be created or modified on NL drives. If this parameter is enabled, RAID 5 CPGs can be created or modified on NL drives. HP strongly recommends RAID 6 for high capacity NL drives. HP has no RAID level recommendation for non-NL drives, but the use of RAID 6 is a higher availability selection. Modifications to the HP 3PAR OS The following items are addressed in this release. Issue ID 72577 Item Description A new Host Persona is added for OpenVMS OS hosts. A new host persona is added for OpenVMS OS hosts. The capabilities are Lun0SCC and UARepLUN. For the existing HPUX_Legacy host persona, the capabilities are clarified as Lun0SCC and Volume Set Addressing 30 HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 MU1 Release Notes

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4HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 MU1 Release Notes
Online Upgrade Considerations
This feature allows the upgrade of the OS concurrently with I/O activity on the attached hosts,
provided certain conditions are met. For further information and pre-planning of online upgrades,
refer to the latest version of the
HP 3PAR OS Upgrade Pre-Planning Guide
. To obtain a copy of
this documentation, go to
h
t
tp://w
w
w
.hp
.co
m/3par/su
ppo
r
t_man
uals
, select your product, and
then click
Manuals
.
NOTE:
Direct upgrades from 3.1.1.226 to 3.1.2.322 are not supported with this release of HP
3PAR OS 3.1.2, but are expected to be supported at a future date.
Customers running 3.1.1 and wishing to upgrade to 3.1.2 will need to upgrade to the 3.1.1 MU
prior to upgrading to 3.1.2.
Supported Platforms
The HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 Configuration Matrix contains information about supported hardware and
software platforms. To obtain a copy of this documentation, see the Single Point of Connectivity
Knowledge for HP Storage Products (SPOCK) website at
h
t
tp://w
w
w
.hp
.co
m/s
t
o
r
age/s
poc
k
.
Components
Version
Component
3.1.2.322
OS
1.6.0
SNMP Agent
What's New in the HP 3PAR OS
HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 MU1 provides support for Linux and VMWare ESX version 4 and 5 with EVA
online Import.
NOTE:
Starting from HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2, the HP 3PAR OS installation and admit hardware
process does not automatically create a RAID 5 Fiber Channel CPG. RAID 5 for both HP 3PAR
Fiber Channel and SAS (10K/15K) drives is fully supported on any class of HP 3PAR array. The
creation and modification of RAID 5 on NL drives is disabled via a system parameter:
AllowR5OnNLDrives
. This system parameter can be modified via the
setsys
command to
enable support for RAID 5 on NL drives. If this parameter is disabled, new RAID 5 CPGs cannot
be created or modified on NL drives. If this parameter is enabled, RAID 5 CPGs can be created
or modified on NL drives.
HP strongly recommends RAID 6 for high capacity NL drives. HP has no RAID level recommendation
for non-NL drives, but the use of RAID 6 is a higher availability selection.
Modifications to the HP 3PAR OS
The following items are addressed in this release.
Description
Item
Issue ID
A new host persona is added for
OpenVMS
OS hosts.
The capabilities are
Lun0SCC
and
UARepLUN
. For the
A new Host Persona is added for
OpenVMS
OS
hosts.
72577
existing
HPUX_Legacy
host persona, the capabilities are
clarified as
Lun0SCC
and
Volume Set Addressing
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