HP VMA SAN Gateway for VMA-series Memory Arrays Release Notes - December 2012

CLI commands are case sensitive

All CLI commands are case sensitive and usually are all lower case. CLI commands are documented

in appendices of the user manuals.

Backing up VMA SAN Gateway configuration for recovery

For disaster recovery of the VMA SAN Gateway configuration file, you can create a copy of the

gateway configuration file and upload it to a production or maintenance server to be included in the

regular data backup of that server. When required to recover the gateway configuration file you can

restore it to the server and then from the gateway issue a ‘fetch’ to retrieve it back to the gateway.

First create a copy of the current active configuration on the VMA SAN Gateway to a configuration

file, using the configuration write command:

# configuration write to <file-name>

Next step is to copy the saved gateway configuration file to the production or maintenance server

using the configuration upload command so that it can be included in regularly scheduled data

backups:

# configuration upload <file-name> scp://<user-login>[:<password>]@<server IP>/<target-

directory>[/<file-name>]

When required to recover the gateway configuration file, you can retrieve the restored configuration

file from the production or maintenance server by issuing the configuration fetch command:

# configuration fetch scp://<user-login>[:<password>]@<server-IP>/<source-

directory>/<source-file-name> [<gateway-file-name>]

Data backup

As with any data storage device, array or system, data stored should always be protected with a

regular data backup schedule that is appropriate for the criticalness of the data stored. You can use

the HP Data Protector software or your chosen backup software utility to back up your data on the

VMA as done with other standard rotational disk-based storage systems.

Open known problems:

For a complete list of open known problems with this combined web release of VMA SAN Gateway

software OE version G5.5.1 and VMA Array firmware version A5.1.4, please refer to the separate

binary release notes for the gateway software OE and array firmware downloads. These can be

attained by going to the appropriate HP Support Download Drivers, Software and Firmware links

noted below:

VMA3210:

http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/psi/swdHome/?sp4ts.oid=5164074

VMA3205:

http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/psi/swdHome/?sp4ts.oid=5164071

SAN Gateway:

http://h20565.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/psi/swdHome/?sp4ts.oid=5263731