IBM DS4000 Storage Manager v9.19 for Linux - IBM System Storage

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New IBM xSeries firmware and device driver file naming convention

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Last Update: 01/29/2007

26 Jan 2007 - Storage Manager Installer package version 09.19.35.12

• Support for the new Daylight Saving Time (DST) as required by the enactment of the United States Energy Policy Act of 2005 for DS4000 subsystem users in countries that observe United States DST. The Daylight Saving Time will begin at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and end at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of November instead of 2 a.m. on the first Sunday of April to 2 a.m. on the last Sunday of October. For year 2007, DST will start on March 11, 2007 and end on November 04, 2007. Please refer to section 1.3 Enhancements of the README file for more information on the new Daylight Savings Time support.
  
  
• Fix 114687: The disable and recreate FlashCopy logical drives can take up to 59 seconds. Changed Storage Manager client function used to handle disableFlashcopy and recreateFlashcopy commands. This performance improvement will reduce the execution time delay to around 10 seconds (CMVC 354503).
  
  
• Fix 114570: The Storage Manager SMmonitor service increments the number of Ethernet network handling threads for the DS4000 controller causing the maximum limit to be reached. The Ethernet network handling threads were not released by SMmonitor. The result is loss of SMagent connectivity to the DS4000 storage subsystem causing the storage subsystem to report "Not Responsive" error in the DS4000 Storage Manager Enterprise Management window.
  When the SMmonitor service is killed or the DS4000 controllers are rebooted, the number of available Ethernet network connections to the DS4000 controllers are restored resulting in normal management Ethernet connection to the storage subsystem (CMVC 355652).

25 Oct 2006 - Storage Manager Installer package version 09.19.A5.06

• Support for attachment of DS4000 EXP810 Storage Expansion to the DS4500 storage subsystems and DS4300 Standard Dual Controller or Turbo model
  storage subsystems with controller firmware 06.19.xx.xx installed.
• Fix C328075 104999/107459 - Failed drive is hot-spared to a smaller capacity drive. Starting with controller firmware 6.1x.xx.xx and later releases, the hot-spare drive selection logic uses the configured capacity of the logical drives that are created in the RAID array that had the failed drive instead of the capacity of the failed drive itself. This will result in cases that a smaller capacity hot-spare drive is hot-sparing for a failed drive in a RAID array that was defined using higher capacity drives. For example, if the configured capacity of all defined logical drives is less than 73GB in a RAID array that is made up with 146GB drives, a 73GB drive can spare for a failed drive in that array. Update was made to the online help reflecting with the new behavior.
• Fix C326241 105926 - Storage Manager client(SMClient) program version 9.16.xx.xx incorrectly dropped SMTP connection. When attempting to configure alerts to be sent out via email, an "Incorrect return code from SMTP command" error is returned for the validating an email address task. The problem is after opening the SMTP session, the SMClient program sent out commands to the SMTP server right away without waiting for the SMTP server to response back with the 220 "Service Ready" message. The SMClient code was modified to check for 220 "Service Ready"message before sending commands to the SMTP server.
• Fix C343686 110682 - The format of the email alerts sent by Storage Manager version 9.16.35.52 has been changed to include the words "Storage Subsystem" in between the Node ID tag and the subsystem hostname and as a result email alerts are no longer processed and service is not receiving the calls. The fix is to remove the words "Storage Subsystem" between the Node ID tag and the subsystem hostname.
• Fix C319208 102690 - If the server Regional Language setting was not 'English', the saved performance monitor data was delineated by "." instead of "," when it was collected using the Storage Manager SMCli command running in the server console(command Prompt) window. The problem did not exist if the server Regional Language setting was set to be 'English' or if the SMcli command is run in the Script Editor window of the Storage Manager Client program.
• Fix C335808 - the current wording about the enclosure ID settings in the Helpful Hints section of the Storage Manager host software readme file did not state the reccomendation on how to set the enclosure IDs for DS4000 products with the electronic enclosure ID switch instead of the mechanical enclosure ID switch.

28 Jul 2006 - Storage Manager Installer package version 09.16.A5.62

This is the re-released of the Storage Manager Installer package version 09.16.A5.62 to provide support for:

• New DS4200 Express Storage Subsystem models 7VA/H, which support the attachment of DS4000 EXP420 Storage Expansion Enclosures.
  
• New 500G SATA Enhanced Disk Drive Modules (E-DDMs) in the DS4000, DS4700 storage subsystems and the EXP810 Storage Expansion Enclosures.
  
• New 500G SATA Enhanced Value Disk Drive Modules (EV-DDMs) in the DS4000, DS4200 storage subsystem and the EXP420 Storage Expansion Enclosures.

17 Jul 2006 - Storage Manager Installer package version 09.16.A5.62

• Support for the DS4800 storage subsystem controller firmware version 06.15.24.00 or later

24 May 2006 - Storage Manager Installer package version 09.16.A5.44

• Support new DS4700 Storage Subsystem models 70A/H and 72A/H, which support the attachment of DS4000 EXP710 and EXP810 Storage Expansion
  Enclosures.
• Support new DS4800 Storage Subsystem Model 80A/H, which provides the same functionality as the DS4500 Storage Subsystem, with better performance.
• Support new 4Gbps Fibre Channel drives in the DS4000 EXP810 Storage Expansion Enclosure.
• Support new DS4000 FC 4Gbps single and dual port Fibre Channel Host bus adapter.
  

26 Mar 2006 - Storage Manager Installer package version 09.16.A5.09

• To correct the ambiguous warning statement in the pop-up window, that was displayed as part of the storage manager host software installer wizard. The existing warning statement might cause the customer to incorrectly interpret that he could not upgrade the controller firmware of the DS4000 controllers in a configuration with EXP100 enclosures after he installed the new storage manager host software. This change is for the storage manager SMIA installer package only. All of the storage manager host software components will have the same version as the ones that were released on 13 Feb 2006.

13 Feb 2006 - Storage Manager Installer package version 09.16.A5.08

• Support for attachment of DS4000 EXP810 Storage Expansion to the DS4800 storage subsystems with controller firmware 06.16.xx.xx installed.
• Supports automatic ESM firmware synchronization with the new EXP810 storage expansion enclosure. When you install a new ESM into an existing EXP810 that is attached to a DS4000 storage subsystem that supports automatic ESM firmware synchronization, this feature resolves firmware mismatch conditions by automatically synchronizing the firmware in the new ESM with the firmware in the existing ESM.
• Support for automatic EXP810 enclosure ID conflict resolution.

01 Dec 2005 - Storage Manager Installer package version 09.15.xx.x6

• Support the DS4100, DS4300, DS4400, DS4500 and DS4800 controller firmware versions that provide support for the new 400G SATA drive options and
  CRUs (P/Ns 39M4570 and 39M4575, respectively) in addition to the new 250G SATA drive CRUs (P/N 40K6837.) This new 250G SATA drive CRU is
  functionally equivalent to the previously-released CRUs (P/N 90P1349).
  
  Note: The drive enclosure EXP100 ESM must also be updated to version 9563 or later.
  
  
• Support controller firmware version 06.12.16.xx or higher on the DS4100 storage subsystem with Single Controller option
• The DS4100 storage subsystem with standard option is now supported the DS4000 Copy Services Remote Mirroring and VolumeCopy premium features.
• Fix defect C291078 (90136/89954) - when managing DS4000 controllers with firmware version 06.10.xx.xx or 06.12.xx.xx installed, highlighting the selected drive firmware update package will result in no drives being listed as compatible in the select drives for firmware updating window.
• Fix defect C290432 (91773) SM9_R3 MIB Naming violation causing compilation failure
• Fix defect 87085 (~86641) Unable to see free capacity node of a migrated logical drive/array
• Fix 87313 (~87099) RVM Repository Volume Cache States are missing from Array
• Add 87941 (~85376) Support Diagnostic Data Capture (DDC) functions in the DS4000 controller firmware
• Fix defect 88007 (~87397) (C273843) RVM logical drive status is inconsistent. The storage subsystem profile and RVM logical drive properties status
  can indicate "Not Available" when GUI fly-over status indicates optimal, mirror synchronized. Some RVM volumes update the status correctly over time while others don't appear to change from the "Not Available" state.
• Fix defect 89457 Create FlashCopy wizard Subsystem Management online help incorrect in some circumstances
• Fix defect 93883 Not Printing out Stack Trace in Diagnostic Data Capture

30 Aug 2005 - Storage Manager Installer package version 09.15.xx.02

• Re-release of the DS4000 storage manager host software version 9.15 for Linux operating system for the support of the AMD64 and EM64T servers
  running x86_64 versions of Linux SuSe SLES9-SP1 and RedHat RHEL4-u1 and RHEL3-u4 operating systems. In addition, the new model of the DS4800
  storage subsystem with 8G of cache per controller is also supported (model 88A/H.)
• Support for Linux RDAC capability with SLES 9 SP1 and Redhat 4 Update 1 (2.6 kernel) operating systems using the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager RDAC device driver version 9.01.B5.07.

28 Jun 2005 - Storage Manager Installer package version 09.15.xx.02

• Support the DS4800 storage subsystems with controller firmware version 06.15.11.xx. With this version of firmware, the DS4800 controllers utilize all of the available data cache memory installed in each controller blade for I/O caching. Previously with controller firmware version 06.15.xx.xx, the DS4800 controllers used only the first 1G bytes of the installed data cache memory per controller for I/O caching.
• Support for servers with Redhat 4 update 1 operating system installed.
• Support for Linux RDAC capability with SLES 9 SP1 and Redhat 4 Update 1 (2.6 kernel) operating systems using the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager RDAC device driver version 9.01.B5.04.

17 May 2005 - Storage Manager Installer package version 09.14.xx.05

• Support the DS4800 storage subsystem with controller firmware version 06.14.xx.xx
• Support the Enhanced Remote Mirroring feature option on the DS4100 storage subsystem with standard/base option and controller firmware version 06.12.xx.xx
• Support the FC/SATA intermix feature option on the DS4300 storage subsystem with standard/base option and controller firmware version 06.12.xx.xx
• Installation wizard package that enables a GUI interface used for installing the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager host software packages

18 Mar 2005 - Storage Manager Installer package version 09.12.xx.08

• Support the DS4000 storage subsystem controller firmware version 06.12.xx.xx
• Support the controller firmware version 06.12.xx.xx installed in the DS4100 storage subsystems with standard option
• Support FC/SATA intermix premium feature activation via premium key file
• Added wizard and task assistants in the Storage Manager Client to guide users through common DS4000 storage subsystem management tasks.
• Fix defect 268261 - Cannot create Arrays with < 6 drives when using full capacity with Storage Manager 9.10.G5.05
• Fix defect 261426 - Email alert notification mail does not conform to RFC 821 and 822 rules. Placement with a semi-colon at the end of email recipient address causes SMTP mail servers to reject the email as spam.

17 Jan 2005 - Storage Manager version 09.10.xx.05 (for DS4300 base option support)

• Support the controller firmware version 06.10.xx.xx or higher for the DS4300 storage subsystems with standard option. Support for the attachment of EXP710 drive enclosures to the DS4300 storage subsystems with standard option

24 Nov 2004 - Storage Manager version 09.10.xx.05

• Support for the DS4000 FC/SATA storage expansion enclosure intermix option
• Enhance the DS4000 Enhance Remote Mirroring Global Copy and Global mirroring functions
• Support for the attachment of EXP100 SATA storage expansion enclosures to the DS4400 storage subsystem
• Support the DS4100 storage subsystem with Single Controller option
• Support for the increase in the maximum number of EXP100 drive expansion enclosures that can be connected to a DS4100 storage subsystem. The maximum EXP100 drive enclosure that can be connected to DS4100 is now 7 instead of 4
• 254966 ( 81363) DS4000 controllers do not agree on configurations
• 256414 ( 81441) Cannot create new LUN using FSM 9.1 / FW 6.1
• 259611 ( 82674) Cannot install SM 9.10 because of a defect in Storage Manager host software uninstall
• 261681 download allenclosures firmware cmd not working correctly.
• hlpct_53466 ( 80833) tcp port scan causes controllers to reboot
• change MIB file name to SM9_10.MIB

31 Aug 2004 - Storage Manager version 9.10.xx.02

• Enhance Remote Mirroring support. Besides Metro Mirroring, IBM DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 also supports Global Copy and Global Mirroring Remote Mirror options.
• Parallel hard drive firmware download.
• Staged controller firmware download.
• Full command-line SMcli support.
• Improve DS4000 storage manager client Subsystem Management GUI
• Adding additional diagnostic features - Drive Channel status, hard drive sector failure list.

18 Jun 2004 - Storage Manager version 08.42.G5.00

• Support new DS4000 DS4100 storage subsystem.

20 May 2004 - Storage Manager version 08.41.G5.05

• Support new controller firmware in DS4300 and DS4500 and EXP100 ESM firmware to enable EXP100 full High-availability support.
• Support DS4000 Copy Services FlashCopy and VolumeCopy for DS4000 storage subsystems that are connected to EXP100 enclosure.
  
  Note: The DS4000 storage subsystem controller firmware version must be 05.41.5x.xx or higher. The EXP100 ESM firmware version must be 955x or higher.

05 Apr 2004 - Storage Manager version 08.41.G5.04

• Support controller firmware version 05.34.xx.xx for the DS4300 storage subsystem. With this firmware version, the standard DS4300 models support the following features:
• 1Gb support for fabric switch ports and host bus adapters (HBAs)
• FlashCopy premium feature

20 Dec 2003 - Storage Manager version 08.41.G5.01

• Initial release to support EXP100 connecting to DS4300 and DS4500 storage subsystem.