HP Storage Platform 2.1 Release Notes

Enhancements
Enhancements in the 2.1 release
A Quick Restore could enter infinite reboots should a local IP address be used for the credential service.
This problem has been corrected through an enhancement to the implementation.
Improvements were made to monitoring of transient errors observed by low level surface scanning of disk
drives by the RAID firmware. These enhancements enabled improvements in diagnostic messages emitted
by the system and captured in log files.
Reduced size of kernel crash dump file if a crash occurs during an upgrade or Quick Restore.
Enhancements in the 2.0 release
The following section describes enhancements that we made in HPSP Release 2.0:
• Enhanced installation and upgrade procedures or the Ibrix 9300 Storage Gateway and 9320
Storage Platform.
• Storage Provisioning Tool (hpsp_spt) enhancements:
o Ibrix 9730 Storage Platform:
 Storage provisioning support for D6000
o Ibrix 9320 Storage Platform:
 Storage provisioning support for MSA G2 (MSA2000) and MSA G3 (P2000)
• Firmware Management Tool (hpsp_fmt) enhancements:
o Ibrix 9730 Storage Platform:
 Support for D6000 firmware management
o Ibrix 9320 Storage Platform:
 DL380c G6 and G7 Server Components
 MSA G2 (MSA2000) and MSA G3 (P2000) storage components
o Ibrix 9720 Storage Platform:
 BL460c G6 and G7 Server components
 ExDS9100cc storage components
 C7000 Chassis components (OA, VC, 3G SAS switch)
o Ibrix 9300 Storage Gateway platform:
 DL380c G6 and G7 Server Components
• Server hardware monitoring support for the Ibrix 9300 Network Storage Gateway platform.
• Server and Storage hardware monitoring support for the Ibrix 9320 Storage Platform.
• Ability to pause/resume hardware monitoring.
• Operating system crash dump utility (sendSysRq).
• Support has been added so that new SKUs based on a D6000 6Gb SAS JBOD can be used.
• Two new User manuals for HPSP tools were written and published in SAW:
o HP HPSP_FMT User Guide, SAW document number c03598024-1. This new document has
disclosure level of HP and Customer Viewable so that services may share its contents with
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