HP 3PAR InForm Management Console 4.2.1 Release Notes (QL226-96244, December 2011)

1.1 Introduction
This document provides the release notes for the HP 3PAR InForm Management Console 4.2.1.
The InServ Storage Server has been rebranded as HP 3PAR Storage System. There are instances in
this document where menu items and command output refer to the HP 3PAR Storage System as InServ
or InServ Storage Server.
To obtain a copy of this documentation, go to http://www.hp.com/go/3par/, navigate to your
product page, click Support for your product, and then click Manuals.
1.2 What’s New in the InForm Management Console
This release includes bug fixes for the IMC 4.2.1 release.
1.3 Modifications to the InForm Management Console
The following items have been addressed in this release.
DescriptionItemBug ID
For certain Remote Copy operations such as New Remote Copy
Configuration, the IMC sends a series of commands to the Storage
IMC takes a long time to return an
error for Remote Copy operations
61675
System to complete the operation. In such case, it is necessary to retry
when encounter a not ready error for a command, otherwise
subsequent command will fail. However, IMC retries the command
on all errors, which leads to long wait for the user on a real error.
This change will make IMC retries command only in the scenarios
that requires for successful operation.
Copy Space Reclaim has been removed from InForm OS 3.1.1, thus
user should not be able to set it for Storage System running this version.
IMC shows meaningless error
"Unknown System Setting" when
62017
IMC has been updated to disallow user from setting Copy Space
Reclaim for Storage System running InForm OS 3.1.1 and above.
trying to set Copy Space Reclaim on
Storage System running InForm OS
3.1.1
When Remote Copy configuration has already been configured with
links and user wants to add new link between two systems in the
IMC does not show connected ports
and available ports
62388
config, when Add Link dialog comes up some ports would not show
up and the user will not see the picture of the port connectivity and
what ports are available for configuration.
IMC previously uses EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA to negotiate SSL
connection to Storage System. This cipher suite is considered
Change IMC to use
DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA when
63993
unsecured. IMC 4.2.1 will use DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA when negotiate
SSL connection.
negotiate SSL connection with the
Storage System
The raw allocated capacity column in the common provisioning group
table is empty. Now it populates with raw allocated value.
Total raw allocated capacity of
Common Provisioning Group does
not show
65258
The following advanced options have been removed from Remote
Copy Failover, Remote Copy Revert Failover, Remote Copy Switch
Failover, Remote Copy Recover and Remote Copy Restore dialogs:
Remote Copy advanced options are
too easily accessible and mis-use of
these options will lead to data
inconsistency
65275
Do not sync group after role reversal is completed
Do not promote snapshots to base volumes
Do not take snapshots
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