Release Notes

• BITS218630: The PCIe extender cards in slot 4 and 7 are being displayed as 2.5" SFF PCIe SSD
devices by Storage management.
• BITS236391: Broadcom NXII cards display duplicate NIC information in Server Administrator after
updating the driver.
• BITS227835: In Safari browser 8.x, “Add Attachment” button is not working.
Workaround: Downgrade Uninstall Safari version 8.x and install an earlier version of Safari such as,
version 7.0.6
• BITS251741: After removing the Power supply unit (PSU) from the server, Server Administrator still
displays the PSU voltage probe with its values in Voltages.
Workaround: To resolve this issue, restart the DSM SA Data Manager services
• BITS257008: The Intel® Txt feature (BIOS attribute) cannot be configured using the “omconfig”
command because of other attribute dependencies.
Workaround: If the Intel® Txt feature is configurable through “omconfig”, yet crashing, you can use
the Server Administrator web interface to configure the same.
Storage Management Service
Known Limitations and Workarounds for Storage Management Service
• Storage Management version 8.2 does not support 4KB sector SATA drives connected to a Software
RAID controller (S130).
• 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