HP XP Cluster Extension Software 6.00.00 Release Notes for Windows

Operating systems
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and x64)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Server Core (32-bit and x64)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core (x64)
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 (x64)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (x64)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Server Core (x64)
RAID Manager 1.28.5 or later is required with XP Cluster Extension 6.00.00.
Languages
International English
Enhancements
This release includes the following enhancements:
• Supports firmware versions V4a (70-04-52-00/00) and V5 (70-05-00-00/03)
• Supports Windows Server 2012 and Server Core 2012
Prerequisites
• Windows Server 2008 only: In certain situations, resources do not follow the Preferred Owners
List order during failover. See the Microsoft Knowledge Base article KB950181 for more
information.
• A physical disk resource may unexpectedly fail or go offline when the IsAlive function is run
on a Windows Server 2008 cluster node. See the Microsoft Knowledge Base article KB953652
for more information.
• Immediately after installing XP Cluster Extension, bringing a resource online might fail with
the error Create process to execute command "horcmstart instance" failed.
This error occurs because the Raid Manager environment path variable value is not reflected
for the XP Cluster Extension resource. If you experience this problem, restart the cluster service
on the affected cluster node to resolve this issue. After you restart the cluster service, this error
message will not appear again.
• In Server core and Hyper-V server environment, after the installation of CLX, the Raid Manager
related path environment variable value does not get updated appropriately to CLX. To
workaround this issue, either re-login to the Windows session of the cluster nodes or reboot
the cluster nodes.
• To enable use of the HP OpenView AutoPass GUI, install the Java Runtime Environment (Java
SE Release families 1.6.0 or later) and set the path environment variable for java.exe.
Installation instructions
For installation instructions, see the following manual:
Manual name: HP XP Cluster Extension Software Installation Guide
Part number: TB534-96012
Publishing year: October 2012
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