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HP StoreVirtual 4000 | 9.5 HP P4000 SAN Solution Software Release Notes (AX696-9 - Page 1
HP P4000 SAN Solution Software Release Notes HP Part Number: AX696-96235 Published: September 2012 Edition: 7
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© Copyright 2009, 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
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. • SAN/iQ software • HP P4000 Centralized Management Console • HP P4000 Command Line Interface • HP P4000 Application Integration Solution Pack ◦ HP P4000 Application Aware Snapshot Manager ◦ HP P4000 DSM for MPIO ◦ HP P4000 Storage Replication Adapter for VMware SRM Supported upgrade paths Direct
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Configuration Interface and the on-system CLI are not localized. Announcing Microsoft Windows Server 2012 support with HP LeftHand SAN/iQ software version 10.0 (releasing in late Fall 2012) To use your HP P4000/StoreVirtual SAN Solutions on Windows Server 2012, you must upgrade your storage system
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DR solutions. • Storage Replication Adapter for Vsphere Site Recovery Manager 5.x - Supports automated failback and is included on the HP P4000 Application Integration Solution Pack • Best Practice configuration wizards - Configuration wizards guide towards highest availability configurations: add
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configuring the interface through the TCP/IP tab with DHCP or a static IP address problem • The CMC, along with supporting changed to 30 seconds for more efficiency in failover situations • 9.0 SNMP now reports accurate storage system performance statistics for storageRaidStats OIDs in the Storage
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can subsequently be changed using the Edit existing hardware problems in a pre-9.0 storage system during service logging • Fixes excessive benign messages in some log files to improve supportability • Improves supportability 600 HP P4000 Application Integration Solution Pack • Microsoft iSCSI
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R2 HP P4000 4.x or later • Microsoft .Net 2.0 or later virtual CPU with at least 2000 MHz reserved Version requirements To upgrade to Version 9.5 SAN/iQ software, the storage systems must be at Version 7.0.01 SP1 or later. If the storage systems are at a lower version, please contact Customer Support
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. If you are running iSCSI load balancing, you must have a Virtual IP Address configured on each cluster. Plan for volume access and the impact to iSCSI sessions that The SAN/iQ software upgrade will reboot the storage system. the upgrade will have. Therefore, for volumes to remain online
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have Administrator privileges in Microsoft Windows is Program Files→HP→ storage systems. If you do copy the files to a network location, any CMC you use to do upgrades must point Configuration Summary and click the Upgrades tab. 3. Click Use Local Media. 4. Choose the network directory where you stored
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Pack software is not forward compatible. If you upgrade your SAN/iQ software to Version 9.5, you must also upgrade the Solution Pack software components to Version 9.5. Upgrading the HP P4000 Application Integration Solution Pack 1. Ensure that you have Administrator privileges before beginning the
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storage systems running SAN/iQ Versions 8.0, 8.1, and 8.5, that are not supported with SAN/iQ 9.x, get a SAN/iQ 9.x manager that allows them to be configured NOTE: These instructions apply to VMware ESX Server. Other VMware products have similar instructions for extending a virtual disk. Please
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Virtual Device Node is SCSI (0:1)). 7. Using the VI Client, power on the Failover Manager. 8. Find the Failover Manager in the CMC and apply the 9.5 upgrade. Verify management group version • When upgrading to Version 9.5, the management group version will not change to Version 9.5 until all storage
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a complete list of supported SAN/iQ software releases and application software compatibility, including for the Failover Manager, Microsoft Windows, and VMware Server, refer to the HP P4000 SANs compatibility matrix (White Paper/4AA2-5654ENW.pdf), at http://www.hp.com/go/p4000compatibility. Mixed
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that are applied to all the systems being upgraded. Therefore, use the Copy Configuration function in a Version 8.5 or earlier CMC to apply the desired settings to (SXM/CDE), check the default font. If it is white, change it to black and begin the installer again. CMC install and uninstall
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virtual machine is busy), the snapshot will still be created, but the intermediate virtual machine snapshots will not be deleted. You can determine if this issue occurred by reviewing you must delete the intermediate snapshots manually. HP Technical Support For technical support, call 1-800-633-3600,
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G2 SAN Solutions • Disk Storage Systems→ P4000 SAN Solutions →HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions • Storage Software→Storage Virtualization Software→HP P4000 Virtual SAN Appliance Software Receive support alerts (such as Customer Advisories), driver updates, software, firmware, and customer replaceable

Section	Page
HP P4000 SAN Solution Software Release Notes	1
Updated software components in this release	3
Supported upgrade paths	3
Description	3
Platforms supported for this release	4
Languages	4
Announcing Microsoft Windows Server 2012 support with HP LeftHand SAN/iQ software version 10.0 (releasing in late Fall 2012)	4
Enhancements	4
Fixes	5
Prerequisites	7
Version requirements	8
Upgrading the SAN	9
Upgrade planning	9
Performing the upgrade	9
Using Advanced upgrades	10
Upgrading software in an offline environment	10
Upgrading using an offline directory	10
Upgrading when using the HP P4000 Application Integration Solution Pack	11
HP P4000 Application Integration Solution Pack compatibility with SAN/iQ software	11
Upgrading the HP P4000 Application Integration Solution Pack	11
Upgrading the HP P4000 DSM for MPIO	11
Upgrading the Application Aware Snapshot Manager (was VSS Provider)	11
Online Upgrades troubleshooting	12
Best practices	12
Upgrading management groups with Remote Copy associations	12
Increase the size of the OS disk on both VSAs (ESX) and Failover Managers (ESX) if upgrading from pre-8.5 version	12
Verify management group version	13
How to verify management group version	13
To install the SNMP MIBs	13
Retaining snapshot if an SRA operation takes longer than 30 minutes	13
Configuring SRM and vCenter servers for the VmImageConsistency feature	13
When using the P4000 SRA for SRM, configure the server IQN even when using CHAP authentication	13
Compatibility/interoperability	14
Mixed SAN/iQ software versions in management groups	14
Workarounds	14
While cross–version Remote Copy is occurring from 9.x to 8.5 management groups, if the copying halts because of Cluster full, the CMC shows the Error Message - \	14
IQN names and uppercase letters	14
CMC on Windows 2008 is unable to auto discover storage systems if firewall is on	14
Application-managed snapshots will not work if the Windows server running VirtualCenter Server is not in the domain	14
9.5 Online Help is missing translated graphics in Spanish	14
To ensure desired system settings are retained after the 9.5 upgrade, use Copy Configuration before upgrading	15
Blank windows when installing CMC on HPUX11	15
CMC install and uninstall wizards contain special characters such as question marks	15
SNMP clients and multi-byte characters	15
CHAP name in multi-byte characters requires server to be configured with the IQN name	15
Safe to Remove status shows Yes to all drives when two drives need to be rebuilt in Raid 6	15
In rare situations, creating a bond may result in an event notice	16
An error occurs when an application-managed snapshot is created during NIC failover on an application server	16
Intermediate VMware snapshots are not deleted when a timeout error occurs	16

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HP P4000 SAN Solution Software Release

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HP Part Number: AX696-96235

Published: September 2012

Edition: 7