Release Notes

Release Notes— Fluid Cache for SAN for VMware Systems
Contents
PURPOSE OF THIS RELEASE ................................................................................................................................. 3
FIXED ISSUES IN THIS RELEASE ............................................................................................................................ 3
SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY .................................................................................................... 6
KNOWN ISSUES ARISING FROM THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE .................................................................................. 8
CANNOT ENABLE PASSTHROUGH FOR NVME DEVICE IN VSPHERE WEB CLIENT ......................................................................... 8
KNOWN ISSUES IN FLUID CACHE FOR SAN 2.0 ..................................................................................................... 8
REMOVING A SERVER FROM A CLUSTER .............................................................................................................................. 8
REMOVING MULTIPLE SERVERS FROM A CLUSTER ................................................................................................................. 8
SHUTTING DOWN MULTIPLE SERVERS FROM AN FLDC CLUSTER ............................................................................................. 9
REPLACING A FAILED NODE ON A THREE NODE CLUSTER ....................................................................................................... 9
CONFIGURATION ERRORS AFTER MAPPING VOLUME FAILS ..................................................................................................... 9
TUI EXITS WHEN PARSING IP ADDRESS WITH ZERO PADDED OCTETS ....................................................................................... 9
ISSUES WITH SAMSUNG NVME AND MICRON SSDS ON SAME SERVER .................................................................................. 10
VSA AGENT TIMES OUT AND EXITS WHEN CONNECTING TO VCENTER ................................................................................... 10
POWER-CYCLING THE ESXI HOST CAUSES CLAIM RULES TO BE REWRITTEN ............................................................................. 10
CACHED VOLUME MAPPING AND UNMAPPING FAILURES CAN LEAVE STALE CLAIM RULES ......................................................... 11
BACKING LUN OF CACHED VOLUME APPEARS IN VCENTER .................................................................................................... 11
GUEST VM I/O TIMED OUT OR EXPERIENCED VERY LONG DELAYS ........................................................................................ 12
GUEST VMS BECOMES UNRESPONSIVE AND/OR ESXI HOST CANNOT BE MANAGED BY VSPHERE ................................................. 12
NOT ALL FLUID CACHE VSAS STARTED CORRECTLY AFTER A CLUSTER SHUTDOWN OR ESX HOST POWER FAIL ............................... 13
UNMAPPING MULTIPLE CACHED VOLUMES CAN LEAVE CLUSTER IN A DEGRADED STATE ........................................................... 13
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