HP Storage Platform 2.1 Release Notes

Fixes

Fixes in the 2.1 release

• On the StoreAll 9730, power-up of all server blades simultaneously could lead to unresponsive

OA, bouncing SAS Switch management connection and confusion in platform monitoring. This

has been corrected.

• On the StoreAll 9730, the collection of diagnostic logs could lead to a temporary issue

communicating with iLO leading to confusion in platform monitoring, where the iLO would be

reported as FAILED and then shortly thereafter reported as OK. This has been corrected.

• On the StoreAll 9730, following an upgrade, simultaneous reboot of multiple servers, sometimes

led SAS expanders in MDS600 and D6000 storage enclosures to remain undiscovered leading

to ‘disappearing’ hard disk drives and failure to come online, even in degraded mode. This has

been corrected.

Fixes in the 2.0 release

Firmware

The following firmware issues have been resolved:

• On the Ibrix 9730 Storage Platform, storage could become unresponsive when multiple surface

scans were launched on a single physical disk. Interaction between background surface scans

and performance has been significantly improved.

• On the Ibrix 9730 Storage Platform the controller caching policy has been adjusted to

significantly reduce the occurrence of command timeouts and aborts when running heavy

workloads with small block sizes.

• On the Ibrix 9730 Storage Platform, drive LEDs could go dark when an MDS600 storage

enclosure IO module was removed. Drive LEDs are now refreshed in this scenario.

• On the Ibrix 9730 Storage Platform, sometimes MDS600 storage enclosure IO modules were not

visible to the storage controllers after a FW flash of the IO module. This has been corrected.

• On the Ibrix 9730 Storage Platform, improved resilience against SAS topology disruptions due to

events such as booting of blades, which could lead to missing paths to storage.

Hardware Monitoring

The following hardware monitoring issues have been resolved:

• MDS600 and D6000 drive enclosure drawers are now reported by number: Drawer 1 for the

front-facing left drawer and Drawer 2 for the front-facing right drawer.

• Requests for storage health requests could result in delays for hpspmon daemon status requests.

Status requests and health report requests are now processed in parallel to eliminate delays.

HPSP 2.1 Release Notes