HP 3PAR SmartStart 1.3 Release Notes (QR482-96640, March 2014)

This document provides the release notes for HP 3PAR SmartStart software. HP 3PAR SmartStart is a
single startup tool that enables effortless setup of the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 Storage system.
SmartStart guides you through configuring all the required components for starting up the HP 3PAR
StoreServ 7000 Storage platform.
To obtain a copy of this documentation, go to the HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage site and click the Support
link for your product:
http://www.hp.com/go/3par
1.1 Features
SmartStart now runs on Windows 7 under Windows 7, although in this configuration it does not allow
for remote host configuration.
1.2 Modifications to HP 3PAR SmartStart
The following items have been addressed in this release.
DescriptionItemIssue ID
Item: SmartStart fails to install Host Explorer on a remote host if SmartStart
is running in a folder with a name that contains certain non-alphanumeric
characters.
SmartStart fails to install Host
Explorer on remote host if it is run
from a local folder with a certain
name.
86823
Workaround: If SmartStart is copied from its CD to a folder on a hard
drive, ensure that the folder's name doesn't contain the following characters:
& (ampersand), ( or ) (parentheses), [ or ] (brackets), { or } (braces), ` (back
tick), or ' ' (space).]
Item: Folders on a remote host are not validated correctly if their names
contain certain non-alphanumeric characters.
SmartStart fails to validate remote
folder name with special characters.
88780
Workaround: When mounting a volume in a folder on a remote host using
the Add virtual volumes to Windows wizard, ensure that the folder's name
doesn't contain the characters ` (back tick), $ (dollar sign), ' (apostrophe),
or " (double quote).
This is Microsoft WMI issue: SmartStart uses WMI to query for the browser
path in Windows 7 OS. In any scenario, WMI returns only a Firefox path
All the help pages and links open
in Firefox even though Internet
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even if Internet Explorer (IE) is set as default browser, thus resulting the
help pages and other links to be opened in Firefox.
Explorer is set as the default
browser.
It’s a limitation of WMI to return the correct default browser path in
Windows 7 OS.
Workaround: If Firefox is not installed on your computer, then help pages
and other links will open in IE.
When initializing the Service Processor and the StoreServ array with
SmartStart and/or the Storage System Setup Wizard, if NTP is not
The Storage System Setup Wizard
may not set the date/time of the
StoreServ array correctly
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configured and the manual date/time selection is used with a timezone
other than PST/PDT, the date/time on the StoreServ array will not be set
correctly.
Workaround: The date/time will need to manually set using the CLI
command, setdate, using option 7 in SPMAINT, which is available from
either SPOCC or the command line SPMAINT.)
1.3 Known Issues with HP 3PAR SmartStart
The following are known issues in SmartStart 1.3:
1.1 Features 3