HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition 8.0.
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Version 8.0.0-01 Description This is the initial release of HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition (CVAE) 8.0.0-01. For details, see “Enhancements ” (page 4). For previous behaviors resolved in this release, see “Fixes ” (page 6). For potential updates to these release notes, check the HP XP7 CVAE website at: http://www.hp.com/support/ CVAE/manuals/. Update recommendation HP recommends updating to HP XP7 CVAE 8.0.0-01. Superseded version 8.0.
Enhancements Enhancements for 8.0.0-01: • The Device Manager server, GUI, and CLI now support the virtualization server product VMware vSphere ESXi 5.1 Update 2. For details on guest operating systems, see HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition System Requirements. See http://www.hp.com/support/ CVAE/manuals/. • For HP XP7 P9500, Device Manager now supports the host mode options below. These options can be specified when allocating volumes.
◦ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 ◦ Oracle Linux 6.5 UEK R3 For details on operating systems, see HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition System Requirements. • Host Data Collector now supports the following operating systems as a target host: ◦ AIX 6.1 TL9 ◦ AIX 7.1 TL3 ◦ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 ◦ Oracle Linux 6.5 UEK R3 For details on operating systems, see HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition System Requirements.
• Device Manager now supports roles that can be specified in Element Manager of HP XP7 by roles allocated to resource groups of HP XP7. • The Device Manager GUI now supports the displaying and configuration of Virtual Storage Machine in HP XP7. • The design of the Device Manager GUI was improved. • Device Manager now supports HP XP7 Storage.
- KAIC15470-E - KAIC15131-E ◦ Symptom 3: After Symptom 1 occurred, a system became unstable. For example, the state of processing by DevMgr operations in general did not progress. ◦ Symptom 4: After Symptom 1 occurred, if the DevMgr service was restarted, the KFPA11404-E error occurred while the service was restarting, and the attempt to restart failed.
AddHostStorageDomain creates an unusable host group The CLI command, AddHostStorageDomain creates an unusable host group for the user executing the command if the user has permission for a User-defined resource group. If a user who has permission for a User-defined resource group executes the CLI command, AddHostStorageDomain without the domain parameter, a host group with a unusable domain ID for the user might be created.
The unvirtualize volumes process for users who do not have Modify permission for All Resources If a user who does not have Modify permission for All Resources opens the Unvirtualize Volumes dialog box, external parity groups that have no virtualized internal volumes will not be displayed as available parity groups to unvirtualize volumes.
Creating Continuous Access Synchronous pair or Continuous Access Journal pairs from volumes in a virtual storage machine A Continuous Access Synchronous or Continuous Access Journal pair cannot be created from the following combination of volumes: • A volume in a virtual storage machine • A volume that exists in one of the following storage systems or corresponding virtual storage machine ◦ P9500 ◦ XP20000/XP24000 ◦ XP10000/XP12000 Creating SMART Pools When creating a SMART pool, select a resource
Adding, refreshing, or editing a Windows host in Device Manager In Windows, if Startup Type of the Application Experience service* is set to Disabled, adding, refreshing, or editing the host in Device Manager might generate the KAIC05512-E error.
Creating virtual storage machines If you create a virtual storage machine, specify the model and serial number of a storage system that actually exists.
Viewing the label information for Unvirtualize Volumes For the Unvirtualize Volumes function, if you select the storage system that is registered in Device Manager for the external storage system, the Label column is blank in the external path information tables in the Plan Confirmation window and the Task Details window. If you check the row that unifies the volume IDs in the external volume information table, you can check the label information.
For the AddExternalArrayGroup command in the Device Manager CLI, the KAIC90083-E (error code = 5601) is generated when all of the following conditions are met: • P9500 is specified as the internal storage system. • The pathgroupid parameter is omitted, or a path group ID that does not exist is specified. • You attempt to virtualize multiple external volumes (more than about 500) at one time by using the batch functionality.
You can check the status and the splitTime of the pair by executing one of the following commands: • ModifyReplication (operation=split) or ModifyReplication (operation=resync) If the pair status is not Split, the pair operation is being performed. Wait a while, refresh the storage system, then verify the following: • ◦ The pair status is Split. ◦ The value of splitTime is later than the time when the operation was executed.
Take the following actions to correct the problem: • Check the instance number and service number that are being used for the RAID Manager or for the P9000 RAID Manager. For a host that is run by the Device Manager agent, use a number in the range specified in the following properties of the server.properties file:* ◦ Instance number: server.agent.rm.temporaryInstance ◦ Service number: server.agent.rm.
Virtualizing storage devices by users who can operate permitted ports only When a volume virtualization task that meets all of the following conditions is created, some of the task information becomes invalid, and the task generates the KAIC07810-E error. • XP P9500 is selected as the internal storage system. • A storage system that is discovered by Device Manager is selected as the external storage system.
Symptom 2: Volumes of hosts that are added by executing ImportHosts do not appear in the volume list in the GUI. 1 The total is number of volumes is considered to be large when the volumes visible from the WWN specified by the ImportHosts command exceeds 128,000. 2 If the Device Manager server runs out of memory, "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space" appears in the error.log3 file for Device Manager.
Installing Host Data Collector on a UNIX host Before installing Host Data Collector on a UNIX host, make sure that the host name of that UNIX host can be resolved correctly on that UNIX host. If the host name cannot be resolved correctly, a KAIG04047-E error is generated. KAIC17023-E error message in GUI If the GUI displays the KAIC17023-E error message, the storage system information might not have been refreshed, or the resource previously used for migration might not have been released.
Target columns • Host • WWN/iSCSI Name • WWN Nickname • Port • Port Type • LUN • File System • File System Used % • Virtual Port • Virtual Host Group ID Temporary solution Reduce the number of hosts registered for the logical group to be displayed. Recovery • Recovery when the KAIC16993-E message is generated as a result of the user sorting the data: Click the tree node to redraw the window.
Allocated volume on Provider when connected with SCVMM 2012 Provider cannot manage allocated volume whose number is 4000 or greater. To confirm the allocated volume, use the following procedure: 1. Open the other search screen on CVAE. 2. Select all storage systems for search range. 3. Retrieve the allocated volume 4. Confirm the allocated volume in the search results.
Displaying the volume list and the volume details of file system data In the volume list and the volume details which show its file system data, the data is not displayed when the following conditions are met: • The volume is allocated to a Windows Server 2012 host. • The volume described in the first condition is a part of the volumes which composes a memory area pool.
• Copy Info (S-VOL) • Copy Info (P-VOL) • Parity Group • Parity Group of Ext.
If you close the command prompt window manually, the HiScan command does not complete. In this case, execute the HiScan command manually. Customizable tiering policy names The following shows the correspondence between customizable tiering policy names in the Device Manager GUI and Element Manager: Device Manager GUI Element Manager Custom 1 Level6 Custom 2 Level7 ... ...
Changing the IP address of a host added by a Device Manager agent When the Device Manager agent is installed, and either the IP address of the host was changed or the server.http.socket.agent Address property in the server.properties file for the host was changed, the IP address was not reflected for the Device Manager Server, even though the Device Manager agent service or deamon was restarted.
CIM/WBEM function property deleted at overwrite installation When Device Manager is installed with overwrite installation, the following property is deleted in the property file jserver.properties. Before you install Device Manager with overwrite installation, the file needs to be saved at another location. After overwrite installation, update the property file by using the saved file. Property name: com.wbemsolutions.jserver.bindto Properties file name: jserver.
◦ Volume capacity of external storage system specified for the externallun parameter is greater than 4,294,967,296 KB (4.0 TB). ◦ The capacity parameter is omitted or is specified for a volume capacity that is greater than 4,294,967,296 KB (4.0 TB). If this occurs, virtualize a volume using Element Manager.
Inaccurate error messages in the tier relocation starting operation for Smart pool when using manual mode If an error occurs in the tier relocation starting operation for a Smart pool when using manual mode, the following inaccurate error messages may be output. • • In the CLI, if the tier relocation starting operation is executed for a Smart pool that is not multi tier configuration, the following error message is output.
Creating THP volumes In the Create Volumes dialog box, the subscription limit of the pool is not checked when the create volumes task is registered if the following conditions are met: • The Create Volumes dialog box is launched after a pool is selected. • Either of the following pools exist in the storage system. ◦ The subscription limit is set larger than the subscription limit of the selected pool. ◦ The subscription limit is not configured.
Created volumes capacity When you allocate or create volumes and you do not use whole numbers to specify the capacity, the volumes might not be created with the specified capacity. If this occurs, delete the created volumes, then allocate or create volumes again by specifying the block. Displaying volume capacity in the Create Volumes dialog box The specified volume capacity may not be displayed correctly in the plan screen of the Create Volumes dialog box.
Shrinking a pool An unexpected error (KAIC60003-E) might appear without the message when using shrink pool. If this occurs, confirm if the task of shrink pool has completed in Element Manager. If the shrink pool task has completed in Element Manager, execute the format task. Refresh the storage system by using the CVAE after the format task completes.
Using users, user groups, and resource groups To use user groups and resource groups, the following limits apply: • • • Limits for CVAE ◦ Number of users: 301 ◦ Number of user groups: 30 ◦ Number of resource groups: 400 Limits for each user group ◦ Number of users: 30 ◦ Number of resource groups: 20 Limits for each user ◦ • Number of user groups: 3 Limits for each resource group ◦ Number of LDEV IDs: 16,000 ◦ Number of host group numbers: 16,000 ◦ Parity groups: No limit ◦ Storage
To add or remove resources, specify no more than 16,000 resources for each resource type. • When multiple resource groups are simultaneously deleted, communication with the Device Manager server might not succeed. Make sure that no more than 16,000 resources for each resource type are assigned to each resource group to be deleted. The number of resources assigned to a resource group can be confirmed in the resource group details window.
Filtering in the Logical Group dialog box When adding volumes in the Logical Group dialog box, you cannot filter by the Encryption column. If this occurs, filter the volumes with some other criteria first, then try to sort by the Encryption column. Creating and allocating volumes The following items cannot be filtered in the Select THP Pool dialog box: • Used Capacity • Subscription Volume list filtering An error occurs when the following columns are selected in the filter for the volume list.
4. Import the database. a. Execute the hcmdsdbtrans command to import the databases: \Component\bin\hcmdsdbtrans /import /workpath /file /type ALL /auto b. Specify true for the server.base.initialsynchro property on the Device Manager server. Other than user information, the hcmdsdbtrans command does not migrate the Common Component repository.
Delete these files from the directory after registering hosts, updating host information, or running TLC. Displaying capacity of hosts When the capacity of hosts is changed by Create LUSE Volumes or Expand THP Volumes, the capacity of hosts is not refreshed. Refresh the hosts or the storage systems to display the latest capacity of hosts. Host list When multiple hosts are registered by a virtualization server, the task status shows a dash (—) for the second and subsequent hosts.
The logical group information also is not updated. To confirm the last logical group information, wait for the status column of Data Collection Tasks tab to be Completed.
Sorting the Copy Info column The sorting on the Copy Info (P-VOL) column and the Copy Info (S-VOL) column is linked when the columns are sorted. When either header of the two columns is clicked, the values of both columns are sorted in alphabetical order. Sorting and filtering columns The sort order of the following columns might not be correct.
• No. of Parity Groups • Total Capacity File servers columns: • Model Storage systems columns: • Model Data collection tasks columns: • Target Type The filtering result of the following columns might not be correct. Volumes columns: • No.
Virtual Parity Group information Virtual Parity Group information does not appear in the volume list. Check the Virtual Parity Group information from the Detailed Information dialog box for each volume. Mozilla 1.7.13 (HP-UX 11i v3) If the Device Manager GUI uses Mozilla 1.7.13 on HP-UX 11i v3 for PA-RISC, the IPv6 protocol cannot be used to communicate with the Device Manager server.
Operations of a parity group for mainframes in the Create Volumes dialog box and the Allocate Volumes dialog box The KAIC15023-W message occurs because Device Manager does not support operations to parity groups for mainframes when the following functions to parity groups for mainframes are performed: • Create Volumes • Allocate Volumes Allocating volumes to many hosts Operations in the Allocate Volumes dialog box cannot continue andThe change of the method for detecting variation in configuration of XP7 or P9500 If server.dispatcher.daemon.configUpdate.detection.variable.enabled property in dispatcher.properties file is set false (default value at 7.3.
CLI copy pair operation error 6119 A CLI copy pair operation may generate the error code 6119. If this occurs, check the following items. • Check the version of RAID Manager or RAID Manager XP that supports the required operation. • Check that RAID Manager or RAID Manager XP is properly installed. If this does not solve the problem, collect maintenance information and contact HP Technical Support. CLI copy pair operations While a HiScan command is running, CLI copy pair operation might not succeed.
Setting and using storage resource access control If any of the following operations are performed, then other Device Manager operations are performed, the windows might appear incorrectly or a KAIC15001-E error might occur. If this occurs, restart the Device Manager server. • Storage resource access control is simultaneously specified for multiple users.
• 103(gppitnp) • 104(acrnema) • 109(pop2) • 110(pop3) • 111(sunrpc) • 113(auth) • 115(sftp) • 117(uucp-path) • 119(nntp) • 123(ntp) • 135(loc-srv / epmap) • 139(netbios) • 143(imap2) • 179(bgp) • 389(ldap) • 465(smtp+ssl) • 512(print / exec) • 513(login) • 514(shell) • 515(printer) • 526(tempo) • 530(courier) • 531(chat) • 532(netnews) • 540(uucp) • 556(remotefs) • 563(nntp+ssl) • 587(smtp) • 601(syslog) • 636(ldap+ssl) • 993(ldap+ssl) • 995(pop
products on that computer. Similarly, do not install any of these HiRDB products on a computer with CVAE products installed. • HiRDB/Single Server • HiRDB/Parallel Server • HiRDB/Workgroup Server • HiRDB/Run Time • HiRDB/Developer's Kit • HiRDB/SQL Executer TMP environment variable (Windows) If multi-byte characters are included in a Windows login account name, they will also be included in the path specified in the TMP environment variable, and you will not be able to install the CVAE.
Registering and refreshing hosts The KAIC169001-E message might appear when communications between Host Data Collector and target multiple hosts are not successful in registering or refreshing hosts. If this occurs, close the browser then log in again five minutes later. Host name length of Device Manager agent host The host name length of the Device Manager agent host must be 50 bytes or less.
Enabling SSL between the Device Manager server and management clients when using Firefox To enable SSL4 between the Device Manager server and management clients by using Firefox, perform the following operations: 1. Disable SSL between the Device Manager server and management clients. 2. Register the license files. 3. Enable SSL between the Device Manager server and management clients.
Mapping of Available External Volumes In the GUI, the Available External Volumes created with one of the following volumes cannot be mapped to Internal Volumes. • Volumes created when the volume virtualization task in the GUI did not succeed by interception. • Volumes in the external storage system allocated to the internal storage system by the CLI AddLun command.
Prerequisites Superseded version 8.0.0-00 See the HP XP7 Command View Advanced Edition System Requirements for complete product requirements. Applicable product version 8.0.
Table 1 Estimated time in minutes for Windows Installation Product name Composition Backup Import Etc. -Device Manager -Volumes: 128,000 11 35 49 -Tiered Storage Manager -Paths: 512,000 -Replication Manager -Hosts: 1,000 -Global Link Manager -Paths/hosts: 1,000 2 7 43 -Hosts: 60 -Pathstatuslog: 4GB (total capacity) Table 2 Estimated time in minutes for Linux Installation Product name Composition Backup Import Etc.
Device Manager CLI: • Symptom 3: The AddVirtualizationServer command fails to add a host and the error message KAIC07122-E or KAIC08244-E is output. • Symptom 4: The RefreshVirtualizationServer command or Modify VirtualizationServer command fails to refresh or edit a host and the error message KAIC07667-E is output. *1: If several of virtualization servers are managed by VMware vCenter server in bulk, that VMware vCenter server is affected.
4. 5. In Host Data Collector 7.5.0 or later, the WMI protocol specified to register a host is no longer supported. If Host Data Collector is the only program needing the corresponding exception registration in the Windows Firewall, manually delete the registered exception. In Host Data Collector 7.5.0 or later, the log collection tools were changed from the SLC and TLC commands to the hdc_getras and hdc_target_getras commands.
Changing port numbers in the CIM/WBEM function If server.cim.support.protocol property in the server.properties file is set to 1 (only http is enabled), do not set the following: - A value other than 5989 for server.cim.https.port property in the server.properties file - A value other than 5989 for HTTPSPort property in the cimxmlcpa.properties file If server.cim.support.protocol property is set to 2 (only https is enabled), do not set the following: - A value other than 5988 for server.cim.http.
