HP Matrix Operating Environment 7.1 Release Notes

◦ Provisioning using VM templates with data disks
◦ Adding arbitrary data disks to a service
◦ Removing a server from a service
See the HP Matrix OE Infrastructure Orchestration User Guide and the Cloud bursting with
HP CloudSystem Matrix infrastructure orchestration and HP Cloud Services or Amazon EC2
white paper at www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs for more information.
• Matrix OE recovery management (Windows CMS only)
Provides support for disaster recovery protected IO services◦
◦ Supports up to 2500 disaster recovery-protected logical servers in a two-site configuration.
The total of 2500 logical servers can include a combination of up to 500 physical (servers
with Virtual Connect) or virtual machines provisioned through Matrix OE logical server
management, and up to 2500 ESX virtual machines provisioned through Matrix OE
infrastructure orchestration services. Configurations using only Hyper-V virtual machines
provisioned through infrastructure orchestration services or in combination with ESX VMs
and/or other servers provisioned through logical server management are limited to a
total of 1500 disaster recovery-protected logical servers.
◦ Support for 3PAR storage, allowing for continental distances using asynchronous replication
in addition to synchronous replication
◦ Improved EVA asynchronous failover: eliminate vDisk full-copy during a planned failover
See the HP Matrix OE Recovery Management User Guide at www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/docs
for more information.
• Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) (Windows CMS only)
Improved usability through enhancements to SPM management of unmanaged SAN
configurations
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◦ Enhanced mechanism (using metadata logging onto HP devices) to help recover the SPM
state in a backup/recovery situation
See the HP Storage Provisioning Manager (SPM) User Guide at www.hp.com/go/matrixoe/
docs for more information.
• Global Workload Manager (gWLM) for Integrity
◦ Support for management of HP-UX vPars 6.0 and HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM 6.1
Fixes
The primary objectives of this release are to support of the latest HP hardware platforms, support
the latest revisions of already supported operating systems and hypervisors, add new functionality,
and fix software issues.
Several software updates improved performance in large scale environments.
Prerequisites
• Hardware, firmware, and software requirements for this release are listed in the HP Insight
Management 7.1 Support Matrix.
• Installation and upgrade prerequisites are documented in the HP Insight Management 7.1
Preinstallation Worksheet, HP Insight Management 7.1 Installation and Configuration Guide,
and HP Matrix Operating Environment Integrity CMS Installation and Configuration Guide.
Fixes 7