6.1.2 HP IBRIX X9000 Release Notes (AW549-96048, October 2012)

• Monitoring of chassis, storage, and server components on X9720/X9730 systems. You can
display component status on the GUI or with the ibrix_chassis, ibrix_pv, and
ibrix_health commands.
• Support for Antivirus software.
• New ibrix_evacuate command to move data from one segment to another. This feature was
previously provided with the ibrix_rebalance command.
• New upgrade60.sh utility to upgrade pre-6.0 file systems for software snapshots.
• CIFS enhancements:
LDAP can now be used as the primary authentication method for users accessing CIFS shares.
LDAP can be configured with the GUI or the ibrix_ldapconfig command.
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◦ LDAP ID mapping can now be used as a secondary lookup method to Active Directory for
users accessing CIFS shares. LDAP ID mapping can be configured with the GUI or the
ibrix_ldapidmapping command.
◦ Monitoring CIFS services on file serving nodes. This is done with the new
ibrix_cifsmonitor command.
◦ Share-level permissions for users or groups. You can assign share-level permissions on the
GUI or with the ibrix_cifsperms command.
• Data validation enhancements:
New data retention, utilization, and validation reports.◦
◦ New autocommit feature. Files that are not changed during the Autocommit period
automatically become WORM or WORM-retained when the period expires.
◦ Data retention can now be enabled on file systems created before the 6.0 release. After
upgrading the pre-6.0 file system with the upgrade60.sh utility, run the following command
on the file system to enable data retention:
ibrix_reten_adm -u -f FSNAME
See the user guide for information about configuring data retention features.
Implementation changes in the 6.1.1 release
• By default, file systems are now created in 64-bit mode. Note the following:
The ibrix_fs –o compat and ibrix_fs –o maxsegs commands are no longer
required or supported.
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◦ The same number of segments are now supported in 32-bit mode and 64-bit mode.
◦ If clients need to run 32-bit applications, you can enable 32-bit compatibility mode. This
option is applied to the file system at mount time. You can enable or disable 32-bit
compatibility mode at any time, using the Modify Filesystems Properties dialog box or the
following commands:
Enable 32-bit compatibility mode:
ibrix_fs_tune -c -e -f FSNAME
Disable 32-bit compatibility mode:
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