HP Insight Cluster Management Utility v7.2 Release Notes

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Contents

1 About this product......................................................................................5

1.1 Operating system support.....................................................................................................5

1.2 Compute node hardware support..........................................................................................5

1.3 Support for non-HP servers...................................................................................................5

2 New and changed features in this release.....................................................7

2.1 Highlights...........................................................................................................................7

2.2 Automated installation tool...................................................................................................7

2.3 Windows provisioning support on specific Moonshot cartridges................................................7

2.3.1 Support for autoinstall on Windows................................................................................7

2.3.2 Support for backup and cloning on Windows images......................................................7

2.4 GUI improvements..............................................................................................................7

2.5 TECHPREVIEW oneSIS diskless support for RHEL and SLES.......................................................8

2.6 Licensing changes...............................................................................................................8

2.7 post_node_config program added to the diskless API..............................................................9

2.8 Monitoring Intel coprocessors...............................................................................................9

2.9 Support for backup and cloning of Dynamic Smart Arrays (B120i/B320i RAID mode).................9

2.10 API improvements..............................................................................................................9

2.11 Back-end improvements.....................................................................................................10

2.12 cmudsh and cmudiff improvements.....................................................................................10

2.13 autoinstall engine improvements.........................................................................................10

3 Upgrading to v7.2....................................................................................12

4 Bug fixes.................................................................................................13

5 Limitations and workarounds......................................................................15

5.1 LVM and Software RAID nonsupport....................................................................................15

5.2 HP iLO CM ssh/vsp connections are limited to 15.................................................................15

5.3 Renamed autoinstall logical groups must be manually changed in /etc/exports........................15

5.4 RHEL6.x diskless boot failure..............................................................................................15

5.5 Diskless unavailable on Ubuntu compute nodes....................................................................15

5.6 Red Hat 5 update 7 and 8 rsync bug impacts diskless...........................................................15

5.7 B110i RAID mode support..................................................................................................16

5.8 Cloning on large-size disks failure.......................................................................................16

5.9 The colplot HTML files are lost on HP Insight CMU rpm uninstall..............................................16

5.10 Backup and cloning of Windows images............................................................................16

5.11 Ubuntu autoinstall template modifications while using local repository.....................................17

5.12 Blacklist ahci module before attempting backup or clone of Dynamic Smart Arrays (B120i RAID

mode)...................................................................................................................................17

5.13 Harmless kernel stack trace printed on the compute node vsp while rebooting from HP Insight

CMU netboot environment.......................................................................................................17

5.14 Editing Windows backup images.......................................................................................18

5.15 External DHCP servers adversely affect HP Insight CMU provisioning of compute nodes............18

5.16 Increase timeout for clients with HP Dynamic Smart Array controllers (B120i, B320i).................18

5.17 autoinstall support for SLES11 SP3 on HP ProLiant m300 requires a special boot image.............18

5.18 "Administrator" user account is locked on nodes cloned with Windows images.......................19

5.19 Monitoring fails when an ACTION and ALERT are configured with the same name in the

ActionAndAlertsFile.txt file.......................................................................................................19

6 Support and other resources......................................................................20

6.1 Contacting HP..................................................................................................................20

6.1.1 Before you contact HP.................................................................................................20

6.1.2 HP contact information................................................................................................20

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