HP MPIO Full Featured DSM for P9000 family of Disk Arrays 4.02.00 Release Notes (AA-RVJ7M-TE, October 2010)

Supported storage systems

The HP MPIO P9000 DSM supports the following disk arrays:

• P9500

• XP48

• XP128

• XP512

• XP1024

• XP10000

• XP12000

• XP20000

• XP24000

Enhancements

Added support for P9500 disk arrays

Fixes

• Resolved an issue in a Windows Server 2003 environment, wherein continuous path failures res-

ulted in the cluster resource failing over to the alternate nodes.

• Resolved a possible path/device detection issue that resulted due to an incorrect buffer alignment.

Prerequisite drivers

HP StorageWorks RAID storage systems are generally installed with a Solution Software kit, such as

the Fibre Channel Installation kit. These kits install or update certain drivers necessary for using HP

StorageWorks products with Windows. For more information on Host Bus Adapter (HBA) drivers, see

http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html.

Configuration limits

Table 1 lists the configuration limits for HP MPIO P9000 DSM.

Table 1 Configuration limits

HP MPIO Full Featured DSM

for P9000 family of Disk Ar-

rays

Features

32Maximum number of paths per disk for P9000

AutofailbackFailback

YesLoad balancing

YesUser Interface