Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft® Windows Azure Pack Release Notes

Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft® Windows Azure Pack v01.1.0 Release Notes

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Contents

About This Document ...... 3 Getting Help ...... 3 Hardware Requirements ...... 4 Volume Type ...... 4 Storage Models ...... 4 Device Type ...... 5 Host Interface ...... 5 Software Requirements ...... 5 About This Release ...... 6 New Features ...... 6 Documentation ...... 6 Copyrights and Licenses ...... 7

About This Document

This document provides the latest information about Hitachi Storage Adapter for Windows® Azure Pack version 01.1.0. It includes information that was not available at the time the technical documentation for this product was published, as well as a list of known problems and solutions.

Revision Date RN-92ADPTR107-00 September, 2015 RN-92ADPTR107-01 April, 2016

Intended Audience

This document is intended for customers of the Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft® Windows Azure Pack. Getting Help

The Hitachi Data Systems Support Center staff is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Provisions for patches and fixes are restricted to normal business hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. PST.

If you need technical support, log on to the Hitachi Data Systems Portal for contact information: https://portal.hds.com. If you purchased this product from an authorized Hitachi Data Systems reseller, contact that reseller for support.

Before calling the Hitachi Data Systems Support Center, please provide as much information about the problem as possible, including:

The circumstances surrounding the error or failure.

The exact content of any error message(s) displayed on the host system(s).

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Note This release supports only the software and hardware listed below.

Hardware Requirements

Item Minimum Requirements Note Servers Two servers: production and backup CPU One 2GHz or faster Intel/AMD Recommended: processor four CPUs at 500MHz each Memory 4 GB or more Graphics 1024x768, 24-bit color or more HDD Capacity 1GB >=400MB on the drive that has the ${TMP} directory Network Gigabit connection recommended

Volume Type

Volume Type Supported Normal X HDP X

Storage Models

Model Firmware Supported 0981/B-S or Hitachi Unified Storage 150 X newer 73-03-44- Hitachi Unified Storage VM X 00/00 or newer 70-06-35-00/00 Virtual Storage Platform X or newer 80-04-01-00/00 Virtual Storage Platform G1000 X or newer 83-03-01-40/00 Virtual Storage Platform Gx00 X or newer

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83-03-01-40/00 Virtual Storage Platform Fx00 X or newer Virtual Storage Platform Gx00 83-03-21-40/01 X Unified or newer

Device Type

Device Supported Disk1 X

Host Interface

Interface Supported FC X iSCSI X Software Requirements Software Supported Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 X Microsoft System Center Virtual X Machine Manager 2012 R2 Microsoft Windows Hyper-V Server X 2012 R2 Java 7 or higher X Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft X Windows PowerShell v06.2.0 On the Hyper-V host Microsoft Windows Azure Pack 3.24 X

1 We have not tested device types other than disks (such as third-party tape devices and corresponding libraries).

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About This Release

This document pertains to Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft® Windows Azure Pack v01.1.0.

New Features

• Provide support for HUS 150 storage subsystem

• Provide support for VSP F400 Jaguar storage subsystem

• Provide support for HM800 Unified storage subsystem

• Provide support for subsystem monitoring

• Provide support for iSCSI connection with storage subsystems

• Provide support for tenant feature of VM Cloning using HTI Snapshot and ShadowImage

• Provide support for additional VM vhdx creation by tenant

• Provide support for LUN expansion for VHDX

• Improved performance in SAN provisioning, snapshot, and shadowimage operations by at least 30%

Documentation

Related documentation includes Hitachi Storage Adapter for Microsoft® Windows Azure Pack User’s Guide.

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Copyrights and Licenses

Hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems, and HiCommand are registered trademarks of Hitachi, Ltd.

Archivas, Essential NAS Platform, Tagmaserve, Tagmasoft, Tagmasolve, Tagmastore, TrueCopy, Universal Star Network, Universal Storage Platform, Innovate With Information, ShadowImage and HiTrack are registered trademarks of Hitachi Data Systems Corporation.

IBM and FlashCopy are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation.

Microsoft, PowerShell, and SQL Server are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

All other trademarks, service marks, and company names are properties of their respective owners.

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