HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator (iSCSI-00) B.11.31.03f Release Notes (Edition 1)

1 HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator (iSCSI-00) overview
The HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator (iSCSI-00) is a software driver that allows HP-UX to access
SCSI mass storage devices, using TCP/IP on Ethernet networks. iSCSI is an abbreviation of Internet
Small Computer System Interface. The HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator is a software implementation
of the iSCSI protocol (RFC 3720) based on the HP-UX host TCP/IP stack. The iSCSI protocol defines
a mass storage transport wedge between TCP and the SCSI Services layer. The HP-UX iSCSI
Software Initiator is compliant with RFC 3720. To access the IETF iSCSI Specification RFC 3720,
go to the following web address:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3720.txt
The HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator consists of the following modules:
• iSCSI Transport Driver
The Session management module.
• iSCSI Software Interface Driver
The interface to the host-based TCP/IP module.
The HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator requires no changes to applications that access mass storage
devices.
For instructions on locating, downloading, and installing the HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator, see
the HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator Support Guide. This document is available at the following
website:
www.hp.com/go/hpux-iSCSI-docs
2 New and changed features in this release
2.1 New features
There are no new features included in HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator at the time of this publication.
2.2 Changed features
There are no changed features included in HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator at the time of this
publication.
3 Problems fixed in this release
Table 1 HP-UX 11i v3 April 2014 Fixes — HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator B.11.31.03f
DescriptionSR number
Driver error handling path is updated with ability to recover certain connection hang scenarios,
that can rarely occur during an iswd daemon hang. Subsequent ioscan(1M) would attempt
a recovery with this update.
QXCR1001265995
Driver behavior corrected to enable deletion of operational session using rmsf(1M).QXCR1001275819
iscsiutil(1M) -I command option enhanced to validate target IP address.QXCR1001276525
Additional checks added in iSCSI startup script to validate Device Special Files(DSF) for iSCSI
driver.
QXCR1001277819
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