Release Notes

Storage Management Service
Known Limitations and Workarounds for Storage Management Service
• With Chinese or Japanese language browser settings, using the Storage Management Service
Advanced Create VDisk Wizard may occasionally result in text overflowing to the bottom of the
side-by-side blue text boxes.
• View slot occupancy report shows 4 HDD slots on backplanes with just two HDD slots for any
server.
• Physical disk clear operation is not available on PERC 8 family of controllers.
• Physical disk properties such as Manufacture day, Manufacture week, and Manufacture year are
available for SAS drives only.
• Creating many sliced span virtual disks using the spun-down drives through the command line or
GUI result may be delayed.
Workaround: After creating one sliced span virtual disk, wait for some time to create the next sliced
span virtual disk.
• A Security Key Identifier can contain numerals, lowercase alphabets, uppercase alphabets, non-
alphanumeric characters (except space), or a combination of any of these.
NOTE: If you have used the special characters ”/” (forward slash) or “ ‘ ” (single quote) in the
Security Key Identifier, they are displayed as “_” (underscore) on the Change Security Key page and
Import Secured Foreign Configurations page. This is applicable only to the Security Key Identifier
and not to the Passphrase.
• If Storage Management displays a path failure message for a Logical Connector after a reboot, use
the "Clear Redundant Path View", provided in the "Change Controller Properties" controller task,
and restart the system.
NOTE: Use this command only if you have intentionally removed the multipath connection while
rebooting the system.
• In the VMware ESX 4.x and ESX 5.x environment, when you create a virtual disk using Storage
Management, you may see an error message "The task failed to complete: The create virtual disk
task was successful, but the operating system may not be aware of the new virtual disk." However,
the virtual disk is available for all operations on rebooting the system.
• Patrol Read is not supported on SSD media. The Patrol Read feature fails for any controller that has
SSD media on a virtual disk.
• Hot plug of enclosures takes time to enumerate the enclosure and its components. During this
time, there will be a delay in the response time of tasks, such as displaying the physical disks on
the physical disk page and in the virtual disk selection page.
• All virtual disks from the SAS/iR controller display the name "IR Virtual Disk" on the "Preview" page.
On successful import, another name is assigned to these virtual disks and the "IR Virtual Disk" name
is not displayed on the "Preview" page.
• Storage Management does not permit connecting the first enclosure in single path and attaching
the subsequent enclosures in multipath. All enclosures must be connected in multipath to enable
the multipath view.
• An error message may not appear when "Import Foreign Configuration" task is not successful.
Description: The "Import Foreign Configuration" task can only import virtual disks that have
consistent data. A virtual disk with inconsistent data cannot be imported. When importing multiple