HP StorageWorks Clustered File System 3.6.0 Windows Storage Server Edition (software-only) Release Notes (432086-004, February 2008)

Version: 3.6.0
Description
The 3.6.0 relea
se of HP StorageWorks Clustered File System 3.6.0 includes the following new features:
• Role-based security—Allow users to create a role to manage Virtual CIFS Servers, Virtual File
Shares, and Matrix File Shares
• Support for of
fline caching—Allows users to cache files and programs from Virtual File Shares
or
Matrix File Shares to their local machines.
Update recommendation Recommended
Supersedes HP StorageWor
ks Clustered File System 3.4.0 for Window s Release Notes, October 2006
Operating systems
The supported operating systems for HP Clustered File System 3.6.0 are as follows:
• Windows Server 2003 SP1 Standard or Enterprise Edition (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2003 SP2 Standard or Enterprise Edition (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard or Enterprise Edition (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 Standard or Enterprise Edition (32-bit and 64-bit)
Languages
English
Enhancements and new features in 3.6.0
HP Clustered File System 3.6.0 includes the following enhancements and new features.
Security f
eatures:
• Single sign-on. Clustered File System now uses AD single sign-on semantics to authorize users
attemptin
g
to access the cluster.
• Role-Based Security Control. You can create roles, define the operations that are allowed or
denied for each role, and add specific user or g roup accounts to the roles.
• Auditing
of all login attempts and user-initiated actions that change the cluster configuration.
Availability features
• Dynamic volume recovery.
• Online membership pa r tition repair and replacement. Membership par titions can now be added,
repaired, or replaced while Clustered File System is running.
Cluster management features
• New eve
nt
viewer. The event viewer shows the Clustered File System event messages currently
in
the W
indows event log. You can filter the output to lim it the messages that appear, and you
can
dis
play details about specific messages.
• New event notifi er services. The event notifier services can be configuredtosendanSNMPtrap,
to
send email, or to run a script when specific Clustered File System events occur.
• New Clustered File S ystem SNMP service. This service pr ovides an SNMP extension agent and
MIBs for r etrieval of all cluster-wide state and status information.
HP StorageWorks Clustered File System 3.6.0 WSS Edition (software-only) release notes
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