HP 3PAR InForm OS 3.1.1 GA/MU1/MU2/MU3 Release Notes

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................6
Audience.................................................................................................................................6
Related Documentation..............................................................................................................6
Open Source Software..............................................................................................................6
2 HP 3PAR InForm OS 3.1.1 GA Release Notes..................................................7
Online Upgrade Considerations.................................................................................................7
Supported Platforms..................................................................................................................7
End of Support Features............................................................................................................7
Components............................................................................................................................7
What’s New in the InForm OS...................................................................................................7
Multi-tenancy for Consolidation on Scalable, Resilient Infrastructure............................................7
HP P10000 3PAR Storage System Support..........................................................................7
Additional Multi-tenancy Enhancements.............................................................................7
Autonomic Management for Agility and Ease of Use................................................................8
HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software.........................................................................................8
Autonomic System Rebalance...........................................................................................8
Additional Enhancements to Dynamic Optimization.............................................................9
Configurable Priority for Snapshot Promote.........................................................................9
Additional Enhancements to Virtual Copy...........................................................................9
Expanded User Roles.......................................................................................................9
Additional Ease of Use Enhancements..............................................................................10
Thin Technologies for Efficiency and Capacity Reduction.........................................................10
Fine-grained 16KB Space Reclaim...................................................................................10
Remote Copy Bandwidth Optimization.............................................................................10
Additional Remote Copy Enhancements...........................................................................10
Subnet restrictions removed.................................................................................................10
System startup after 24 hour shutdown requires manual intervention..........................................11
Modifications to the InForm OS................................................................................................11
Limitations of the InForm OS.....................................................................................................16
Fibre Channel/SCSI Interface..............................................................................................16
LDAP authentication...........................................................................................................16
Remote Copy Link Speeds...................................................................................................17
Known Issues with the InForm OS..............................................................................................17
Thin Provisioned Virtual Volumes with no_tp_bzero policy enabled could result in uninitialized
data (Bug 62394)..............................................................................................................17
32-Bit Libraries Needed for 64-Bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 to Run a CLI Client (Bug
63679).............................................................................................................................18
4Gb/s 2-Port adapter Issue.................................................................................................18
Downgrade Issues..............................................................................................................18
Issues Preventing Downgrades from InForm OS release 3.1.1 to InForm OS release 2.3.1.........18
Issues Preventing Downgrades from InForm OS release 3.1.1 to InForm OS release 2.2.4.........18
Issues Causing a Change to the InForm Configuration........................................................19
Running Recovery Manager and Remote Copy (from outside of Recovery Manager) at the Same
Time is not Supported.........................................................................................................19
Windows 2003 Pop-Up......................................................................................................20
Cage Loop Down Alert is not Auto-Recovered (Bug 40274)......................................................20
System Manager Could Fail During Rolling Upgrade if Remote Copy Groups Running (Bug
40867).............................................................................................................................20
No Explicit Way to Reset the Default Value for Tunelinks (Bug 43579).......................................20
Remote Copy Volumes go Stale Due to Lack of Adm Space (Bug 44963)..................................21
controlport Configuration Gives Warning after Being Taken Offline (Bug 44989).......................21
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