HP MSA 2040 HP MSA 2040 SAN Controller GL100R002 Firmware Release Notes (73828 - Page 4

NOTE: • Support for additional operating systems may be approved after release of this firmware. For up-to-date, detailed operating system support information and known restrictions, see the HP Storage Single Point Of Connectivity Knowledge (SPOCK) Website at http://www.hp.com/ storage/spock. Enter your HP Passport account credentials and then, in the left pane, select View by Array. In the displayed table of arrays, on the MSA row, use the Refine and the Add to Selection options to display the list of supported operating systems for your controller model. • When installing firmware using the Smart Component, the following operating systems are supported: Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server 2012, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and 6 and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11. Additional devices HP MSA 2040 array controller enclosures support the cascading of drive enclosures. The following table lists supported drive enclosure models and firmware versions. HP MSA 2040 array controller firmware Cascaded drive enclosure model HP P2000 drive enclosures GL100R002 HP MSA 2040 drive enclosures HP D2700 drive enclosure Recommended drive enclosure firmware S200B26 S200B26 0147 IMPORTANT: After updating array controller firmware or after connecting new drive enclosures to an existing controller enclosure, verify the firmware compatibility of all devices. If needed, obtain and install the supported controller or drive enclosure firmware. Firmware is available for download from the HP Business Support Center Website at http://www.hp.com/support/downloads. MSA 2040 downloads are available at the HP MSA 2040 Website at http://www.hp.com/support/msa2040/ downloads. Important firmware notes • Windows Server 2012 management integration: ◦ - HP recommends that you update the Windows cache by using the cmdlet, Update-StorageProviderCache -DiscoveryLevel Full -Name manually, after attempting any storage provision operations that use the MSA management interface. - HP recommends that you use the MSA management interface (Storage Management Utility or Command Line Interface) to modify volume mappings, delete volumes, or modify volume names. Manually update Windows cache by using the cmdlet, Update-StorageProviderCache -DiscoveryLevel Full -Name . • System Center VMM integration: ◦ - Running operations concurrently is not supported. HP recommends that you serialize those operations. This includes creating objects (e.g., LUNs, clones, snapshots) and registering objects to hosts or clusters. • The MSA 2040 contains an embedded SMI-S provider for use by SMI-S client applications. The embedded provider is designed to support MSA 2040 configurations with up to 24 hard drives and up to 250 mapping paths. A mapping path is defined as an MSA 2040 volume presented through an MSA 2040 target port to a host initiator. 4 Additional devices