HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software 7.6.0-00 User Guide

NOTE:

The enhancements below are primarily intended to highlight new software (GUI) features, and are

not an exhaustive list of enhancements. For complete information about new features and

enhancements, see the:

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HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software Release Notes

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HP P9000 Tiered Storage Manager Software Release Notes

For complete information about management server, host data collector, device manager agent, CLI,

and storage system requirements, see the:

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HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software System Requirements

Device Manager enhancements

For LUN path management, Device Manager now supports:

• Deletion of individual LUN paths.

• When replacing a host HBA, Command View AE Suite sets the LUN paths in the replacement HBA

based on the LUN path configuration assigned to the existing HBA.

• Edit LUN paths for multiple HBAs collectively.

• Specify odd block size volumes when creating, allocating, or expanding volumes.

For WWN, Device Manager now supports:

• Specify a new WWN nickname, change, or delete an existing nickname for storage HBA WWNs

registered in a host group.

• In the Add Hosts and Edit Hosts dialog boxes, WWNs that have logged in to a port of a managed

storage system now appear in the list of known WWNs that is used to manually add WWNs.

For host group management, Device Manager now supports:

• Define clustered-host storage by allocating new volumes to a new host within an existing host

group.

• Edit host group information, such as host group name, host mode, and host mode options.

For logical groups in multi-tenant environments, Device Manager now supports:

• Restriction of logical group privileges for each user group.

For task management, Device Manager now supports:

• Restart failed or stopped tasks, with inheritance of the values set at the time the task was registered.

In the Allocate Volumes dialog box, the Device Manager GUI now supports:

• Preservation and restoration of LUN path information.

For removing hosts, Device Manager now supports:

• Removes related storage resources, such as volumes allocated to the target hosts and path setting

information.

Device Manager GUI now supports:

• Starting Element Manager from a FQDN.