HP StorageWorks NAS 8000 NAS 8000 Version 1.6.3 Release Notes - Page 2

These release notes appear in the following main categories: Product Changes and Improvements (Versions 1.6.2 and 1.6.3) Release Notes Operating System and NAS Web Interface Applications NAS Data Path Manager Product Changes and Improvements (Versions 1.6.2 and 1.6.3) Operating System High Availability ƒ Modifications to HA failover timeouts to reduce the chance of premature package failovers. ƒ Modifications to HA configuration caching to eliminate cache coherency problems that would block HA packages from failing over successfully. ƒ Eliminate a problem with the rmtab file in HA systems. ƒ Ensure consistent User Mappings between cluster nodes. Networking ƒ Updated driver for the NC7770 copper Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC). Security ƒ Modifications to Samba to close a potential security hole identified by the Open Source Community. Snapshots ƒ Eliminate a problem that would occasionally prevent the user from successfully creating a snapshot. ƒ Eliminate a problem that would occasionally cause snapshots to hang under heavy load. ƒ Eliminate a problem caused when creating a snapshot of the Disaster Recovery Volume. Backup ƒ NAS 8000 release 1.6.3 contains the new Data Protector 5.1 agent. For more information, see the Backup section. Upgrades ƒ Correct several registry problems introduced when upgrading from version 1.4.X to 1.5.0 and from 1.5.0 to 1.6.X. Command View NAS Web Interface ƒ Improved GUI performance, particularly when configuring storage. Supported Hardware ƒ Support for VA7110 in both dedicated storage and SAN configurations. HP StorageWorks NAS 8000 Version 1.6.3 Release Notes 2