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

DescriptionItemBug ID
The user and snap space defragmentation can consume a lot of system resources
in short bursts and can cascade into leaving the Storage System unresponsive
to host I/O. To address this issue, space defragmentation is throttled.
Throttle user/snap
space defragmentation
66808
To improve security, some cipher and MAC (Message Authentication Code)
algorithms are disabled. We now allow only aes192-ctr, aes256-ctr, aes128-ctr,
Allowed encryption
methods for SSH
reduced
66810
aes192-cbc, aes256-cbc, aes128-cbc, and 3des-cbc for the encryption algorithm.
We allow only hmac-sha1 and hmac-sha1-96 for the MAC.
An issues in the HBA driver is causing the FC044X card's Qlen to be set to the
LP11002 card's Qlen.
HBA driver settings67095
Reading or accessing the audit log is, itself, an auditable event. Hence, invoking
showeventlog either implicitly or explicitly now adds a getevenlog entry in
the event log.
Logging
showeventlog
requests
67444
Due to an overflow, System Manager would panic when checking the user
allocation limit for checkhealth if the volume was 2TB or greater in size. To
Checkhealth allocation
limit may cause a
System Manager panic
67803
address this, the type used for the computation has increased in size to prevent
other potential overflows.
Due to an issue in InForm OS 3.1.1, if PDs are not present on all nodes, flusher
on the nodes that do not have PD will not work properly. This can cause dirty
cache pages to accumulate which impacts performance.
Flusher does not work
properly on nodes with
no PD connections
68039
After an uncontrolled shutdown, logical disks belonging to nodes which do not
come up could remain unstarted. Fixed the logical disk startup code to handle
this situation properly.
Fixed a condition that
was causing LDs to
remain unstarted after
68205
an uncontrolled system
shutdown
Fixed the chunklet relocation to fail if there is double disk failure with RAID-5 or
triple disk failure with RAID Multi-Parity (MP).
The movech command
should fail on RAID-5
69470
double-disk failure or
RAID-6 triple disk
failure
Limitations of the InForm OS
Unsupported Remote Copy Across InForm OS Levels
Remote Copy is only supported between adjacent HP 3PAR InForm OS release levels. HP 3PAR
Storage System running InForm OS 2.2.4.nnn may not be in a Remote Copy configuration with a
Storage System running InForm OS 3.1.1 GA or 3.1.1 MU1.
SupportSystem “B” InForm OS LevelSystem “A” InForm OS Level
Yes2.3.1.nnn2.2.4.nnn
Yes3.1.1.nnn2.3.1.nnn
No3.1.1.nnn2.2.4.nnn
Upgrades direct from all levels of InForm OS 2.2.4 to 3.1.1 GA or MU1 when remote copy is
configured will fail. This includes offline upgrades and when remote copy is simply stopped. For
these upgrades, you must first upgrade to InForm OS 2.3.1 MU5, then proceed to upgrade to
3.1.1 MU1.
34 InForm OS 3.1.1 MU1 Release Notes