HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 3000/5000 Release Notes VCS V4.004 (5697-5794, March 2006)

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.
• Resolved an issue so it is not necessary to stop all I/O, including breaking the replication link,
when doing a CA site failover bet ween systems running VCS v4 .00x. This fixdoesnotapply
to failover bet ween systems running VCS v3.028 and v4.00x.
• Resolved an instance where the Loop Initialization Disruptor (LID) recovery process could cause a
controller to terminate unexpectedly.
• Resolved an issue which could prevent a data merge process from completing while a data
reconstruct operation is in progress.
• Resolved an issue that disrupted controller operation due to attempts to access nonexistent
memory addresses.
EVA3000/5
000 OVERVIEW
Software
Table 2 lists the HSV controller software and the op tional software products supported on VCS v4.004.
Table 2 HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 3000/5000 sof tware
Software Minimum/
Recommended
Version
Description
HP StorageWorks EVA3000/5000
Series v4.0 Controller Media Kit
4.004/4.004 Required for EVA5000 and EVA3000.
HP OpenView Storage Management
Appliance software
2.1/2.1 Optional. If using this product, please note
that the upgrade is available in the form of a
Restore CD only .
HP StorageWorks Command View EVA
4.1.2/5.0
Required with VCS v4.004.
HP StorageWorks Business Copy EVA
3.1/3.2 Optional. You must purch ase a license for th
is
feature which offers enhanced management
capability of local replication. The HP
Business Copy EVA user interface is included
as part of RSM 1.2.
HP StorageWorks Continuous Access
EVA
2.2/2.3 Optional. You must purchase a license for this
feature which offers enhanced management
capability of remote replication. The HP
Continuous Access EVA user interface is
included as part of RSM 1.2.
Replication Solutions Manager (RSM)
1.2/2.0 Optional. An interface that offers e nhanced
management capability of both local and
remote replication. RSM 1.2 includes the
user interface for HP Continuous Access EVA
2.2 and HP Business Copy EVA 3.1. RSM is
available at no charge.
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