HP 3PAR Management Console 4.5.1 Release Notes

Abstract The information in this document is intended for use by HP customers, partners, and HP field representatives. These release notes describe the features and fixes included in HP 3PAR Management Console 4.5.1.

HP Part Number: QR482-96749 Published: June 2014 Edition: 2

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This document provides the release notes for HP 3PAR Management Console 4.5.1. NOTE:

The HP 3PAR Storage System was rebranded as the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage system.

To obtain a copy of this documentation, go to the HP 3PAR support site and click the Support link for your product. http://www.hp.com/go/3par

1.1 What’s New in the HP 3PAR Management Console The HP 3PAR Management Console allows users to administer all HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems from a single management window, including remote systems used for replication. A single screen provides a dashboard view of all connected HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems, regardless of model, as well as graphical charts and tables representing important system data and remote replication configurations.

1.1.1 Ease-of-Use Enhancements Inline and online help functionality is improved.

1.2 Supported Browsers HP 3PAR Management Console 4.5.1 supports the following Internet browsers: •

Google Chrome 20 and newer

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Internet Explorer 8 and newer

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Mozilla Firefox 14 and newer

1.1 What’s New in the HP 3PAR Management Console

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1.3 Modifications to the HP 3PAR Management Console The following items have been addressed in this release. Issue ID

Item

Description

80417

Console and showport -ids command do not display the correct iSCSI IP address and iSCSI name for the failover partner port

Partner Port in iSCSI lists IP address as 255.255.255.255 and in the table header, the Partner WWN displays where the Partner IP should be. This issue was fixed with this release.

93871

Need better description/label for Grown Copy Space column in Virtual Volumes table

The Grown Copy Space column in Virtual Volumes table does not adequately describe the displayed data, which could cause confusion when interpreting the data. The text Cumulative was prepended to Grown Admin Space, Grown User Space, and Grown Copy Space to indicate that these columns are a historical and cumulative sum of how much the virtual volume grew, each time it was grown. This issue was fixed with this release.

96213

The Physical Disks table shows remaining disk threshold for SSD drives in red (low disk space) even with 95% of disk space remaining

The Physical Disks table shows remaining disk threshold for SSD drives in red even with 95% disk space remaining. It should only show red when there is 5% left. This issue was fixed with this release.

96528

Virtual Volumes table summary row After filtering the virtual volumes table using the advanced filter, does not summarize correctly after using the summary row still shows the old values, and the total is incorrect the advanced filter for the virtual volumes shown. This issue was fixed with this release.

96878

HP 3PAR Management Console 4.4.1 in Japanese: Edit Virtual Volume inadvertently increases virtual size by 0.250 GiB

When running in the Japanese locale, the virtual volume size is increased by 0.250 GiB after users edit the virtual volume with no change and click the Finish button. This only happens in Japanese locale. This issue was fixed with this release.

97229

HP 3PAR Management Console does not reconnect to the StoreServ when user selects Auto-Refresh

While connected to multiple StoreServs, after unchecking Auto-Refresh and then re-checking it from the View/Auto-Refresh menu item, the HP 3PAR Management Console freezes for a few seconds. When it resumes, all the actions for the StoreServ are disabled and users can proceed. This issue was fixed with this release.

99913

Synchronous copy set incorrectly when editing a Remote Copy Group

When editing a Remote Copy Group — for example, to change the Periodic Sync Period — the display shows that the Synchronous copy is incorrectly set to Periodic. This issue was fixed with this release.

100048

Incorrect Serial Number displayed under cage subsystem hardware inventory

The HP 3PAR Management console displays incorrect data for the cage subsystems drive cage Serial Number column on the hardware inventory page. This issue was fixed with this release.

101312

HP 3PAR Management Console does not properly set the backup volume WWN to be the same as source volume when creating a new remote copy group in Peer Persistent configuration

When users create a new remote copy group using the Peer Persistent Provisioning Manager and right–click a virtual volume on the Virtual Volumes table and select Create Remote Copy Group..., the HP 3PAR Management Console might not properly set the WWN backup volume to be the same as source volume. This issue was fixed with this release.

101491

Virtual Volume tables do not refresh correctly

The Virtual Volumes table does not refresh when switching from vSphere Client Console (iLO Console) Desktop to Remote Desktop. This issue was fixed with this release.

1.4 Known Issues with the HP 3PAR Management Console 1.4.1 When connected to the StoreServ and performing a rolling upgrade, the HP 3PAR Management Console fails (Issue 46452) A fatal error occurs when a rolling upgrade is performed on the StoreServ.

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1.3 Modifications to the HP 3PAR Management Console

Workaround: When performing a rolling upgrade, HP recommends closing all StorServ HP 3PAR Management Console connections.

1.4.2 Support needed for converting existing remote copy 1-1 to Synchronous Long Distance (SLD) configuration (Issue 48421) HP 3PAR Management Console does not currently support conversion of an existing remote copy 1-1 configuration to an SLD configuration. Workaround: Use the CLI to convert a 1-1 configuration to an SLD configuration. This will be addressed in a future release.

1.4.3 HP 3PAR Management Console Online Help is not supported in Internet Explorer 10 (Issue 79134) Online Help is not supported in Internet Explorer 10. Workaround: Use Internet Explorer 8 or 9, or Mozilla Firefox 14 or 15.

1.4.4 Cannot create direct RW snapshots (RWSS) from a group of baseVVs (Issue 79230) If specified virtual volumes are set to read-write, HP 3PAR Management Console creates read-only snapshots. The HP 3PAR Management Console cannot create direct RWSS from a group of baseVVs that use the HP 3PAR Management Console. HP 3PAR OS 3.1.2 now allows users to create RW snapshots from RW bases, or snapshots, in addition to creating them from RO snapshots. Workaround: Use the creategroupsv CLI command. For additional information on this and other commands, see the HP 3PAR Command Line Interface Reference. For information about command usage in general, see the HP 3PAR OS CLI Administrator’s Manual .

1.4.5 Minimal Disruptive Migration for Windows 2003 MSCS cluster in Peer Motion fails (Issue 81875) When using the Peer Motion Manager Migration Data wizard in Peer Motion, the Minimal Disruptive Migration for Windows 2003 shuts down the cluster host before the Import Volumes step is performed. There is no warning stating that the cluster host need to be shutdown first before users click Finish. As a result, virtual volumes are not admitted. Workaround: None

1.4.6 The User Interface of the LDAP Configuration wizard hangs when characters are entered quickly and randomly in the Groups DN and User Base DN fields (Issue 83921) The HP 3PAR Management Console UI LDAP configuration wizard might hang if users enter characters quickly and randomly in the Groups DN or User Groups DN fields. Workaround: Type slowly when entering data into the Groups DN or User Groups DN fields.

1.4.7 When performing Active Thin Reclamation, the utilized User Size does not update immediately (Issue 85830) When performing Active Thin Reclamation, the utilized User Size does not decrease in real time, as it does in the CLI. Workaround: None

1.4 Known Issues with the HP 3PAR Management Console

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1.4.8 System Manager Panel Selects Multiple Manager Panes at the Same Time (Issue 91536) When selecting one manager pane, additional panes are also selected. This might occur more frequently on Microsoft Windows 8 systems. Workaround: None. This will be addressed in a future release.

1.4.9 Extraneous Japanese characters display in the Results for field of the HP 3PAR Management Console Online Help (Issue 94749) When using the Online Help search function on Japanese versions of the HP 3PAR Management Console, extraneous Japanese characters appear in the Results for field. Workaround: None. This will be addressed in a future release.

1.4.10 Peer Motion fails to import all volumes selected, continues to migrate after error message (Issue 98150) When the destination user CPG size is insufficient, Peer Motion fails to display an error message. Workaround: Users will need to calculate disk CPG space to ensure there is sufficient space for all the volumes added. Users can still fix the disk issue at the destination StoreServ and then resume the import operation for the remaining volumes.

1.4.11 Peer Motion fails to import on all volumes reports and fails with “Error importing volume_name - An import operation is currently running on this VV” (Issue 98255) Peer Motion fails to initiate and import all volumes when an import operation is interrupted. Workaround: The Import function should be cancelled or completed before users start new imports.

1.4.12 Peer Motion configuration appears after disconnecting a source or target StoreServ (Issue 99989) Peer Motion configuration appears after disconnecting a StoreServ source or target. Users can view the Peer Motion configuration even if they disconnect from the source or the target machine. All common actions, however, are disabled and users cannot perform any actions.

1.4.13 When migrating a source VV with a LUN ID which has a VV with a StoreServ host destination, “Error LUN ID already taken” occurs (Issue 100009) When users receive the “Error LUN ID already taken” error, the LUN ID is not automatically assigned to the next available ID after migration, as it does when a virtual volume is exported to a host. Workaround: Go to the destination array and manually perform the export operation on the migrated volume.

1.4.14 English names display in the Japanese Online Help (Issue 100496) In the current Japanese release of HP 3PAR Management Console, Online Help displays in English and Japanese. Workaround: All remaining English names will be translated to Japanese in the next release.

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1.4 Known Issues with the HP 3PAR Management Console