Ignite-UX Release Notes HP-UX 11iv1, HP-UX 11iv2 and HP-UX 11iv3 (762792-001, March 2014)
5 Known issues
Open critical/serious customer-found defects
Known customer-found critical/serious defects are listed in known problems associated with each
release. When these defects are resolved they will be listed in the change content for the release
where they are fixed.
HP Auto-Port Aggregation (APA)
Clients whose primary LAN is configured with HP Auto-Port Aggregation, APA, (bundle tag
J4240AA) can only be successfully installed with /opt/ignite/bin/bootsys if the LAN is
disaggregated during the bootsys process. During the HP-UX installation process, the APA software
is not present and therefore the virtual LAN configuration is not valid.
EVA GL (EVA3000/EVA5000) disk arrays
With new firmware released for the EVA GL (EVA3000/EVA5000) disk arrays (in December
2005) all of the previous limitations with Ignite-UX have been removed. If the array is running the
new firmware, Ignite-UX supports installation and recovery of systems using the EVA GL disk arrays.
To determine if you are running a version of firmware for these arrays that is supported with
Ignite-UX, look at the ioscan output on a system connected to it. In the ioscan output for LUNs, the
array will be a string that starts with "HSV". Look at the following table to see if your array firmware
is supported by Ignite-UX:
Table 12 Array firmware supported by Ignite-UX
SupportedNot SupportedArray
HSV101HSV100EVA3000
HSV111HSV110EVA5000
If you are running SecurePath with the newer firmware, you must be running at least version 3.0F
SP1 of SecurePath.
If you are running older firmware (when the ioscan description for a LUN shows HSV110 or
HSV110), Ignite-UX does not support those EVA GL (EVA3000/EVA5000) disk arrays. The following
limitations apply:
1. System installation from a golden image is not supported if an EVA GL disk LUN is included
in any volume group to be created by Ignite-UX. This includes the root volume group.
2. Recovery (tape or network) is not supported if a volume group that is recreated includes any
disk LUNs belonging to an EVA GL array. This includes the root volume group.
3. Any volume group containing EVA GL array disk LUNs may need to be manually imported
post recovery.
4. The disk device file names for EVA GL array disk LUNs may change during a recovery session
as instance numbers for hardware associated with the array are not preserved.
5. When adding a new client to an Ignite-UX server via the ignite command (or by running
add_new_client manually), if the client has an EVA GL connected, the process may hang
and fail to complete. The rescan_hw_host command that hangs can be killed manually.
Note that this is not considered a defect in Ignite-UX or in the combination of SecurePath and EVA
GL disk arrays.
Active/passive devices disconnected for install & recovery
During HP-UX 11i v3 installation and recovery, connected Active/Passive devices will cause long
delays (one hour or more) or may cause a system to hang. Similarly, connecting an Active/Passive
20 Known issues