HP Storevirtual 4000 Manual de instrucciones

HP LeftHand Storage Release Notes

HP Part Number: AX696-96225

Published: November 2012

Edition: 8

Version:

•SAN/iQ software version 10.0.00.1888

•HP LeftHand Failover Manager for VMware vSphere and HP LeftHand Failover Manager for

Microsoft Hyper-V software version 10.0.00.1888

•HP LeftHand Centralized Management Console version 10.0.00.1888

•HP LeftHand Command-Line Interface (CLI) version 10.0.0.1574

•HP LeftHand Application Integration Solution Pack (was HP P4000 Windows Solution Pack) version

10.0.00.1460

•HP LeftHand Application Aware Snapshot Manager (was VSS) version 10.0.00.1488

•HP LeftHand DSM for Microsoft MPIO version 10.0.00.1486 (installs Microsoft certified DSM

driver version 10.0.00.1485)

•SRA for VMware SRM 5.0.1/5.1 version 10.0.00.433

•HP LeftHand Recovery Manager 1.1.0.123

Updated software components in this release

•SAN/iQ software

•HP LeftHand Centralized Management Console

•HP LeftHand Command-Line Interface

•HP LeftHand Application Integration Solution Pack

HP LeftHand Application Aware Snapshot Manager◦

◦HP LeftHand DSM for Microsoft MPIO

◦HP LeftHand Storage Replication Adapter Software for VMware vCenter SRM

◦HP LeftHand Recovery Manager

Supported upgrade paths

Direct upgrades to version 10.0 can be performed from the following released versions:

•Version 9.5

•Version 9.0

If you are upgrading to version 10.0 from version 8.x (8.5, 8.1, or 8.0), Online Upgrades will first

upgrade to version 9.5 and then upgrade to version 10.0.

If you are upgrading to version 10.0 from version 7.0 SP1, you must manually upgrade first to version

8.0. From version 8.0, Online Upgrades will first upgrade to version 9.5 and then upgrade to version

10.0.

Description

These release notes provide information about upgrading to this release, and about enhancements

and fixes in this release. These release notes are current as of the published date.

Update recommendation

HP recommends that all customers running version 9.5 or earlier upgrade to version 10.0.

Supersedes

Version 10.0 supersedes versions 9.5, 9.0, 8.5, 8.1 and 8.0.

Updated software components in this release 3

Platforms supported for this release

Upgrades to version 10.0 software are available for the following platforms:

•HP StoreVirtual 4130

•HP StoreVirtual 4330

•HP StoreVirtual 4330 FC

•HP P4900 G2

•HP P4800 G2

•HP StoreVirtual VSA for VMware vSphere

•HP StoreVirtual VSA for Microsoft Hyper-V

•HP P4500 G2

•HP P4300 G2

•HP P4000 VSA

Languages

Version 10.0 supports the following languages:

•English

•Simplified Chinese

•Japanese

•Korean

•Spanish

NOTE: The Configuration Interface and the on-system CLI are not localized.

Enhancements

The 10.0 release is a comprehensive release that includes enhancements in the following areas:

•Fibre Channel support in the HP LeftHand Storage environment, including a new Fibre

Channel-capable storage system, the HP StoreVirtual 4330 FC

•Active Directory integration to allow administrators to manage user authentication to HP LeftHand

Storage via the Microsoft Windows Active Directory framework

•Windows Server 2012 support

•Online Upgrade enhancements including the following:

Patch classifications to inform users whether a patch is critical, recommended, or optional◦

◦Patch release notes delivered via Online Upgrades

◦Expanded support for component firmware upgrades including disk firmware

◦Customer notifications delivered via Online Upgrades

◦Support for using a proxy server to access the Online Upgrade ftp sites

•Quorum Alarms now proactively warn of system manager misconfigurations that put data

availability at risk. Previously the Best Practice Analyzer flagged this information in Systems running

managers.

4 Platforms supported for this release

•The SAN Status Page now has an Active Tasks Status Pane, which allows you to monitor the

progress of snapshot creation and deletion, volume resynchronization and restriping, and RAID

rebuilding

•Performance Enhancements including the following:

Multi-threading capabilities allow for improved application performance◦

◦Internal data transmission improvements impact internal SAN processes, such as significantly

enhancing volume resynchronization and restriping speeds, and reducing the impact to

overall system performance resulting from scheduled snapshot activity

◦StoreVirtual VSA adds a second virtual CPU

•Release of HP StoreVirtual 4330 and 4330 FC

Rebranding to HP StoreVirtual and LeftHand OS

Over the next year HP is transitioning to new product naming in our product, documentation, and

solution materials. StoreVirtual is the new name for the LeftHand P4000 product family and LeftHand

OS is the new name for the SAN/iQ operating system.

Fixes

Released version 9.5 patch sets and patches, which are included in version 10.0 software.

Version 9.5—Patch set 04

Centralized Management Console (CMC)

•The CMC reported “export support bundle successful” when the storage system failed to export

all log files.

•The CMC notifications window did not display the most recent patches at the top of the list.

SAN/iQ operating system

•Eliminated the requirement for manually adding the RAID controller SAAP license when a P410

RAID controller is replaced.

•iSCSI sessions could be disconnected during patch upgrades.

•Upgrades and patches did not install when a storage system was added to a management group

without the required SAN/iQ partition.

•Setting the network interface speed to auto failed if it was previously set to a specific speed.

•After upgrading storage systems (nodes) in a management group from 8.5 to 9.5, if you attempt

to delete the 8.5 storage systems (nodes), it is possible under rare conditions that the 8.5 storage

systems (nodes) could cause the 9.5 managers to stop. As a result, all volumes in a management

group would go offline for up to a minute while the managers restart.

•Memory leak occurred with SNMP version 9.5 monitoring. The leaks occurred specifically when

the SNMPWALK or the SNMPGET command was invoked.

•Running concurrent CLI commands on the same storage system caused the management gateway

service to restart. For best performance, HP recommends that a maximum of two CLI commands

be sent to a storage system (node) an any time. If you need to send more commands, HP

recommends balancing the command load by sending commands to different storage systems

(nodes) in the management group instead of to only one storage system (node).

Fixes 5

NOTE: The patch fixes the problem that caused the storage system (node) to fail when multiple

commands are sent. However, even with the patch installed, sending multiple commands to one

storage system (node) could cause the storage system to respond more slowly or time out. It is the

script programmer’s responsibility to handle non-fatal errors returned by the CLI, including timeouts.

This is not a CLI limitation, but is a normal script programming best practice to ensure the operation

requested succeeds.

•An issue with the management gateway service created high and critical memory utilization alerts

that resulted in initiators being unable to communicate with the storage system for a short period

of time.

Version 9.5—Patch Set 03

Centralized Management Console (CMC)

•Addressed various localization issues that affected how text was displayed in the CMC.

•The CMC did not obtain the updated status of the cache battery backup unit (BBU) after a cache

BBU patch was applied.

•Clicking Restore Defaults on the Upgrades tab of the Preferences window did not automatically

populate the default path in the Download Directory box.

•The CMC did not notify the user that Patch 10118 was available for upgrade if no other upgrades

or patches were needed for the management group.

•Multiple log entries were created on the FTP download site for an empty download file. This empty

file is used to create a single log entry on the FTP site to track activity.

•When editing a volume, the reported volume size in the CMC differed from the size provided

during volume creation.

•Added text to the Edit Dialog window to inform users that they should not use Network RAID 5

or Network RAID 6 volumes in a multi-site cluster.

•During a remote copy operation, discovery of other storage systems (nodes) became slower when

there were 20 or more management groups in the configuration, which prevented user input in

the CMC for a long period of time.

•The value of Network Utilization statistics in the Performance Monitor displayed more than 100%

for systems using 10 GbE network interfaces. This was due to the CMC defaulting to the speed

for 1 GbE network interfaces.

•When using the 9.5 CMC, application-managed snapshots could not be created for associated

volumes on 8.5 and 9.0 management groups.

•Passwords stored in an unencrypted format in the global database caused alarms to be unavailable.

SAN/iQ operating system

•Data could become unavailable during an upgrade to version 9.5 due to a store crash.

•False warning alarms were reported after upgrading the remote management group to a later

version of SAN/iQ than the primary management group.

•HP Insight Remote Support cases were prevented from being automatically generated.

•Improved reliability of SNMP services on the storage system.

•If a read workload occurred on a RAID 5 or RAID 6 volume in a five-node management group

with one overloaded node, all volumes went offline if another storage system (node) in the

management group went offline.

6 Fixes

•The version of a store operation request was not logged prior to the request causing an upgrade

to fail. Logging the version will aid in future troubleshooting.

•Enabled the RPC load balancing policy to be changed to round robin from the default of linear

when upgrading from 9.0 to 9.5. Round robin is better for configurations that require higher

sequential read workloads and are not prone to network saturation issues.

•VSA configurations sent false warning alarms for high latency values.

•During a heavy load of small I/Os, a store process on multiple storage systems could fail in close

succession, causing unreplicated and two-way replicated volumes to be unavailable while the

store process restarts.

•A problem occurred if an initiator terminated an iSCSI session while internal login processing

was in progress.

•Changed the performance parameters for midline SAS drives to prevent a storage system (node)

from becoming overloaded when there are higher I/O loads.

•The createRemoteSnapshot CLI command did not work when the primary management group

for the remote copy was running an earlier version of SAN/iQ and the remote management

group was running a later version of SAN/iQ.

•On rare occasions, the creation of an application-managed snapshot (either manual or scheduled)

would hang while the SAN/iQ operating system connected to the application server, which

caused subsequent scheduled snapshots to hang. Now, if there is a problem with snapshot creation,

the action will fail instead.

Version 9.5—Patch Set 02

Centralized Management Console (CMC)

•A repaired storage system could not be added as a site for an existing cluster. A message about

the cluster changing from a multi-site to a standard cluster, which typically appears when deleting

a site and the cluster would contain only one site after the deletion, was displayed.

•Attempting to edit a site that included a ghost storage system caused the Edit Site dialog box to

become unresponsive.

•When email is not configured for a storage system, the warning icon no longer displays incorrectly

next to the storage system icon. The warning icon correctly displays next to the Email icon under

Events storage system (node) in the Navigation pane.

•After adding a Failover Manager (FOM) to a management group, the license registration dialog

box is no longer displayed. License registration is only required when adding storage systems.

•Clicking OK on the Edit Volume dialog box, even when making changes unrelated to size, caused

the volume size to increase or decrease automatically.

•In a management group with 700 or more servers or volumes, the CMC login no longer causes

slow performance.

•For non-English systems that use the comma as the separator instead of decimal point, the Edit

Volume dialog box displayed the Reported Size as 10 times larger than it was.

•Enhanced the Online Upgrades feature to:

◦Display a notifications window in the CMC, which ensures you are notified of any updates

to the system, such as patches, customer advisories, or updated release notes. The Notifications

Fixes 7

window displays automatically when the CMC is first opened. You can also access it by

select SAN Status Page in the navigation pane.

◦Identify the type of patch (urgent, recommended, informational) in the notifications window

so you can quickly determine the importance of the patch.

◦Improve download capability by fixing the limitation of concurrent FTP connections. Increasing

the number of concurrent FTP connections ensures that you can obtain updates in a timely

manner and avoid connectivity issues.

•The Cancel button was not localized in the Spanish CMC.

•Added localized content for the Online Upgrades notifications window and for the FOM message

that displays on the Welcome window of the Management Group, Clusters, and Volumes wizard.

•The storage system may become unstable if, when entering a server address for email notification,

the address contains an invalid character (such as a forward or backward slash (/, \) or a colon

(:).

•The firmware version for both P410 RAID controllers in a P4900 G2 will not display correctly.

Application Aware Snapshot Manager

•Application-managed snapshots fail if vCenter is running under a domain account

SAN/iQ operating system

•Application-managed snapshots fail when CHAP is enabled.

•Application-managed snapshots fail when the host IQN contains uppercase letters.

•The storage server process may encounter a race condition and restart with the Storage Server

Down alarm during heavy system CPU load conditions.

•Performance issues could occur randomly on reads with large (2 TB or greater) volumes.

•The Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) of the 10 GbE interfaces on a P4460sb G2 (P4800 server

blade) is incorrectly limited to 4,074 bytes. This patch will enable the MTU to be set to 9000

bytes.

•Some SNMP trap event severities do not match to corresponding CMC event severities.

•Notification emails and traps for email configuration events contain substituted text for "@x" in

the event message, where xis one of several alphanumeric characters.

•Updated Slot logs are generated successfully and support log bundles can now be emailed to HP

Support.

•Enable the configuration of additional network ports for SAN management traffic and keep

management traffic separate from SAN data traffic (for P4800 G2).

•The iSCSI session auto rebalancer may get stuck, causing data unavailability because iSCSI

sessions to a volume cannot be established. This may also result in a Storage Server Down alarm

if the storage server process restarts when encountering this condition.

•There was no time zone listed for GMT+01:00-BST-Europe/London.

Version 9.5—Patch Set 01

Centralized Management Console (CMC)

•Unable to log in to a management group after scheduling a snapshot on a volume that contains

special characters in its name.

•The Volume Failover/Failback wizard cannot be accessed due to a failed iSCSI session.

8 Fixes

•Wording changes were made in the "Getting Started" wizard.

•Users can obtain software patches for currently installed software after a new upgrade has been

posted to the FTP site.

Application Aware Snapshot Manager

•Memory resource allocation during a managed snapshot is not completely returned to the system

for reuse.

•A help file shortcut for the HP P4000 Application Aware Snapshot Manager Authentication

Console was broken.

•An application-managed snapshot is not created if the management group name has multibyte

characters and these management group credentials are provided in the Authentication Console.

•Application-managed snapshots will fail if theVMware ESX server has a NFS volume mounted.

Prerequisites

Patch 10118

HP LeftHand Centralized Management Console

•For the CMC complete installation, 35 MB disk space and 50 MB RAM during runtime

•Minimum monitor resolution for the CMC is 1024 x 600

HP LeftHand Application Integration Solution Pack

•HP LeftHand Application Aware Snapshot Manager (was VSS Provider)

Windows

◦Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2

◦Windows Server 2008

◦Windows Server 2008 R2

◦Windows Server 2012 Datacenter

VMware

◦ESX Server 4.x

◦ESX Server 5.x

•HP LeftHand DSM for Microsoft MPIO

Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2◦

◦Windows Server 2008

◦Windows Server 2008 R2

◦Windows Server 2012 Datacenter

HP LeftHand Command-Line Interface (CLI)

•10 MB available space

•Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2

•Windows Server 2008

•Windows Server 2008 R2

•Windows XP SP2

Prerequisites 9

•Windows Vista

•Windows 7

•Windows Server 2012 Datacenter

HP StoreVirtual VSA on Windows Server 2012

•The VSA installer will run on Windows Server 2012. Deploying a VSA for Hyper-V or a Failover

Manager from a Windows Server 2012 system is supported.

•vCenter installation on Windows Server 2012 is currently not supported by VMware. Consequently,

using the VSA installer for Zero-to-VSA deployments is only supported when vCenter is installed

on a Windows operating system other than Windows 2012.

HP LeftHand Failover Manager for VMware vSphere

•VMware ESX Server version 4.x or later

•Microsoft .Net 4.5 or later on the installer client

•1 GB RAM

•Bridged connection through the VMware Console, or assigned network in VI Client

•15 GB of disk space

HP LeftHand Failover Manager for Microsoft Hyper-V

•Windows Server 2012 Datacenter

•Windows Server 2008 versions

2008 R2 Standard◦

◦2008 R2 Enterprise

◦2008 R2 Datacenter

◦2008 R2 Server Core

◦2008 SP2, except for Core, which is not supported

•15 GB available drive space on Windows server for the Failover Manager

•Hyper-V role installed and running

•At least 1 GB of memory reserved for the Failover Manager

•A single virtual CPU with at least 2000 MHz reserved

Version requirements

To upgrade to version 10.0 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 for access to the

interim upgrade files. See “HP technical support” (page 22) for customer support contact information.

If you are upgrading to version 10.0 from version 7.0 SP1, you must manually upgrade first to version

8.0. From version 8.0, Online Upgrades will first upgrade to version 9.5 and then upgrade to version

10.0.

Upgrading the SAN

Automatic Online Upgrades are supported in version 9.x or later. See the HP LeftHand SAN Solution

Upgrade for more information.

NOTE: Patches 10136 and 10137, which contain a firmware update for the RAID controller on

specific platforms, are automatically applied during the 10.0 upgrade.

10 Version requirements

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