HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 3000/5000 release notes (VCS v4.
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RELEASE NOTES CONTENTS This document contains the most recent product information for an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 3000/5000 running VCS v4.004. Much of the information included here is not documented elsewhere, so it is recommended that you read this information thoroughly before installing and operating the EVA3000/5000. The information in this document was the current at the time of publishing.
ENHANCEMENTS • Support for 400 GB and 500 GB FATA disks. See Table 4 on page 5. FIXES The following issues have been resolved in VCS v4.004: • Resolved an issue that could potentially cause a resynch of the controllers when encountering a bad drive. • Resolved an issue that caused EVA3000s being upgraded to VCS v4.001 to continuously restart if the EVAPerf CLI was running in the SAN environment.
Additional Enterprise Virtual Array information Additional information for the EVA3000/5000 and associated software is listed in Table 3. Table 3 Additional information Information Location Enterprise Virtual Array product support http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/enterprise HP StorageWorks Command View EVA http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/ cmdvieweva/index.html HP StorageWorks Replication Solutions Manager http://h18006.www1.hp.
http://www.hp.com/go/eva5000 http://www.hp.com/go/eva3000 Click the Technical documentation link under Product information. Supported disks Table 4 lists the supported Fibre Channel disks. NOTE: • To maintain your storage system at the most current configuration, HP recommends that all disk drives use the current version of firmware. • A minimum of eight disks is required to create a disk group. Additional disks may be added up to the established disk group limits.
Table 4 Supported disks HP model displayed in HP Command View EVA Minimum supported firmware version Current firmware version BD03654499 3BE9 3BE9 BD03655B28 HP05 HP06 BD03656ABA HP09 HP0A BD03659532 HP02 HP03 BD07254498 3BE9 3BE9 BD07255B29 HP05 HP06 BD07256ABB HP09 HP0A BD07258224 HP01 HP01 BD0725822B HP01 HP03 BD14656ABC HP09 HP0A BD14658225 HP01 HP01 BD14655B2A HP05 HP06 BD1465822C HP01 HP03 BD30058226 HP00 HP01 BD30058232 HP00 HP03 BF03654564 3BE9 3BE9
IMPORTANT NOTES AND WORKAROUNDS This section identifies important notes and workarounds specific to the EVA3000/5000 hardware and VCS software.
6. Click OK. EVAPerf does not display Vdisk and disk group after upgrading An EVAPerf issue exists when upgrading an EVA3000 or EVA5000 from VCS v3.x to VCS v4.x. Following the upgrade, EVAPerf will not be able to display VD (Vdisk) and VDG (Virtual Disk Group) statistics when EVAPerf is run on a Windows host with LUN presentations from the storage system.
