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HPE XP Intelligent Storage Manager 10.6.0-00 Release Notes for XP Intelligent Management Suite HPE XP Intelligent Storage Manager 10.6.0-00 Release Notes for XP Intelligent Management Suite Published: March 2021 Edition: 1 © Copyright 2019-2021 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP Notices The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for Hewlett Packard Enterprise products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. Hewlett Packard Enterprise shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. Confidential computer software. Valid license from Hewlett Packard Enterprise required for possession, use, or copying. Consistent with FAR 12.211 and 12.212, Commercial Computer Software, Computer Software Documentation, and Technical Data for Commercial Items are licensed to the U.S. Government under vendor's standard commercial license. Links to third-party websites take you outside the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has no control over and is not responsible for information outside the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website. Acknowledgments Intel®, Itanium®, Optane™, Pentium®, Xeon®, Intel Inside®, and the Intel Inside logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. Microsoft® and Windows® are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Adobe® and Acrobat® are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Java® and Oracle® are registered trademarks of Oracle and/or its affiliates. UNIX® is a registered trademark of The Open Group. All third-party marks are property of their respective owners. Release Notes Description This is release version 10.6.0 of Hewlett Packard Enterprise XP Intelligent Storage Manager (ISM). Update recommendation Recommended Superseded version 10.5.1 Product models HPE XP Intelligent Storage Manager Devices supported HPE XP7 Storage HPE XP8 Storage Supported microcode/firmware • XP7 Storage with microcode version 80-06-6x or later • XP8 Storage with microcode version 90-01-4x or later Operating systems VMware ESXi 6.0 or later Languages English Release Notes 3 Enhancements • Case-insensitive search is available for Volumes, Server Details, Host Groups, Virtual Storage Machines inventories, and some related dialogs and wizards. • The Storage System Details screen now includes an in-context launch to the Remote Web Console License Information screen. • For security reasons, the Intelligent Storage Manager server supports a server certificate chain length of up to 10 for TLS handshakes. Fixes The following issues are resolved: • When migrating volumes, the job that deletes a migration pair child job no longer fails with a message that includes, An unexpected internal error occurred. • Upgrades no longer fail with a message that includes, Failed to restore backup data. • Text-based filtering now functions for on the Select Secondary Servers page for Create, attach and protect volumes with HA and on the Select Servers page for Detach Volume. • Attaching a volume no longer fails to assign the correct virtual volume ID. • In the Edit LUN Paths dialog box, changing a LUN and removing a path can now be completed in a single operation with no job failure. • If Intelligent Storage Manager manages storage systems that exceed the installed server CPU cores, a job that changes the storage system configuration no longer fails with the following message:Resource <Storage Serial Number>: <Resource name> is not available. Also, Intelligent Storage Manager no longer displays incorrect information about storage system capacity and number of resources. • Attaching a volume using the Attach Existing Volume dialog box no longer fails if 0 is specified for the LUN. The following known issues are resolved or are no longer applicable: • An unexpected time lag no longer occurs in Intelligent Storage Manager while loading resources. • If a server is added while a storage system is being added, accurate server volume information is included. • If the snapshot schedule is for day 31 of the month, the schedule now runs correctly. • When backup files that include changes to network settings are restored, storage system inventories can now be restored. • In some older browsers, the bottom of the Tier Capacity graph for platinum-tier storage is cut off in the Pool Details window. • When attaching or detaching 50 or more volumes at the same time, Elasticsearch remains available for use. • Snap volumes reported in Intelligent Storage Manager no longer report a capacity usage value of 0 GB because the storage array does not report capacity information for secondary volumes. • Intelligent Storage Manager can attach or protect a volume even when an array has a host group with spaces in the name. Release Notes 4 • On the Pools and Volumes inventory windows, mainframe pools and volumes are shown. Pool auto-selection no longer selects mainframe pools for volume creation. • Replication groups can now be deleted when all P-Vols are unprotected. • The Attach Volume or the Create and Attach volume operation no longer fails if a port is not part of the VSM. • When snapshot creation fails, an external replication group is no longer created. • Access to Intelligent Storage Manager is now available after changing the Intelligent Storage Manager server network address. • Backups now restore appliance details, such as NTP settings, log settings, certificate settings, and user settings (password of service account). • Intelligent Storage Manager no longer times out when creating a Docker container when the RMI port is changed for the storage system. • When the host mode option is set to auto for HP-UX, SOLARIS, AIX, OVMS or TRU64, all values are no longer set to null. Important considerations None Issues and workarounds Problem Workaround / Comments The Intelligent Storage Manager user interface displays a The service is down, resulting in the alert indicating an spinning icon or a yellow triangle if a call fails with an internal server error. Internal Server Error (500). Contact Hewlett Packard Enterprise customer support. Hardware alerts on the Monitoring tab are not updated Click another tab and click the Monitoring tab to display unless you navigate to another tab and back to the updated alerts. Monitoring tab. Spaces are automatically deleted from the beginning and No workaround. end of fields when entering SNMP configuration information. When a large number of objects is loaded in the UI, the Reload the page and use the filtering functionality, if window slows down and eventually becomes unusable. possible. An option is to use the API instead of the UI. Hardware monitoring alerts display even though alerts for Alerts are only cleared when all components of a given type some components of a given type (for example, fans, pools, with errors in the storage system return to a normal state. batteries) have cleared. The exception is disks, each of which can have alerts cleared, even if other disks remain in error. Alerts for ports and processors are cleared together, so alerts are cleared only when all ports and all processors are normal. If one volume is attached to multiple servers, Data No workaround. Intelligent Storage Manager displays only Protection Alerts does not launch the Server Inventory one Server Detail page. page to display all servers that are affected. Table Continued Release Notes 5 Problem Workaround / Comments No error is reported when the Change IP Address Utility is When running the utility, verify that the specified default executed with a default gateway that is outside the subnet gateway is in the same subnet as the VM IP address. If you of the VM. configuring an invalid gateway, the VM is inaccessible from other subnets. Refcode mapping to SNMP trap description is not Refcode mapping file is available in the product available. installation media. When a volume is being restored (RCPY state), subsequent Once the restore is complete, scheduled snapshots resume scheduled snapshots may fail with the error message: without errors. An unexpected internal error occurred. Contact System Administrator if this condition persists. Failure details: An order to the control/command device was rejected It was rejected. While creating pools, the following error displays: Confirm if the pool was created. If it was created, check that it matches the creation parameters. If it does not match, the Unexpected Error: LDEV not blocked. pool can be deleted through Intelligent Storage Manager. Then create the pool again. Onboarding a control processor results in the error: • Confirm the status of the control processor; if it is active, create the zoneset. Switch has no active zoneset. • If the control processor is not active, then the IP address given was for the standby control processor. To add a switch, onboard with the active control processor. If you immediately unprotect a volume after it is protected A volume can only be unprotected when it is in the PSUS/ with Clone Now, the following error message appears: It SSUS state. If the state is COPY, wait and retry again. was rejected due to SKEY=0x05, ASC=0x26, ASCQ=0x00, SSB=0xB9A2,0x23EF on Serial#(410304). If a replication group has been set up using Intelligent Intelligent Storage Manager is designed to restrict volume Storage Manager and any snapshot volumes are deleted deletion if that volume is part of a replication group. without removing the replication group first, an issue may However, if volumes are deleted directly through the SVP occur where Intelligent Storage Manager still displays the console, the issue may still occur. deleted volume as part of a pair. It is also possible in this scenario for a subsequent volume created in Intelligent It is not recommended to perform volume deletion Storage Manager to be mistakenly assigned a status as a operations outside of Intelligent Storage Manager, especially cloned volume. if they are part of a replication group. If issues result from such operations, contact Hewlett Packard Enterprise customer support.
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