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From archive: September 2012

Host Attachment Kit 1.10.0 Released!

RoyRothenberg Tags: hak ibm xiv host ‎ 2 Comments ‎ 5,805 Views

Hello Everyone,

Once again, we are proud to announce the release of the latest IBM XIV Host Attachment Kit 1.10.0.

The main feature of this release is Windows Server 2012 support. From this version onward, HAK is fully compatible with your new & shiny installation of Windows Server 2012. Go ahead and take it for a spin!

As part of our ongoing efforts to improve ease of use, we have translated the Windows Installer of HAK to Japanese as well, for the benefit of our Japanese speaking users. More languages to follow.

In addition to the above, we have also resolved several bugs and known issues from previous versions, including among others:

Increased reliability in regard to volume size reporting in xiv_devlist
Improved stability during the configuration phase of iSCSI connections on Solaris
Path counts are reported more accurately in xiv_devlist on HP-UX
We have resolved a known issue in xiv_syslist on HP-UX, regarding XIV System modules and ports connected to the host
xiv_diag now runs more smoothly on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Suse Linux Enterprise Server distributions

Of course that's not all - You may read more about these improvements as well as the rest of the enhancements and fixes in the Release Notes.

We hope you will enjoy this new release of the Host Attachment Kit, at least as much as we enjoyed developing it!

Follow this link to download the installable or portable packages and access the release documentation.

If you have comments, questions or requests, please write to us in the comments section below. We'd love to hear from you.

The IBM Host Software Team

IBM Storage Enabler for Windows Failover Clustering 1.1.0 is out!

ZivKalmanovich ‎ 2,645 Views

Hi All,

We have just made the latest version of IBM Storage Enabler for Windows Fail-over Clustering publicly available on IBM Fix Central.

I would like to highlight some of the new features and improvements introduced in version 1.1.0:

Security-wise, the credentials for XIV systems utilized by the cluster are now stored in a secured keyring, as opposed to the plain-text registry keys in the previous versions
On the same note, from now on, you can store separate sets of credentials for each XIV system the cluster node is exposed to (upon upgrades, the registry stored single set credentials will be automatically stored in the encrypted keyring for each storage system)

Additional CLI commands were added for eased configurability, such as, the registry key controlling the forced-fail-over policy (previously known as the 'red-button') that now can be set from the command line directly
Verbosity was significantly enhanced, the '--install', '--uninstall' , '--deploy' commands now report every action performed to the console for better transparency
The '--report' command output has been enriched with additional information regarding the mirror status of the XIV volumes and more

Added Support for Windows Server 2012 Fail-over Clustering
The product code underwent major improvements to make the it both more stable and efficient

In addition several major issues were resolved, such as those related to deployments where XIV disks resided in the 'Available Storage' cluster group and issues related to XIV Mirror resource behavior upon Cluster Service failure.

The new version of the IBM Storage Enabler for Windows Fail-over Clustering and the related documentation can be found here.

Happy Clustering !

The IBM Host Software Group

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