Server Administrator 8.5 Release Notes

With Chinese or Japanese language browser settings, using the Storage Management Service Advanced Create Virtual Disk Wizard may occasionally result in text overflowing to the bottom of the side-by-side blue text boxes.

View slot occupancy report shows 4 HDD slots on backplanes with just two HDD slots for any server.

Physical disk clear operation is not available on PERC 8 family of controllers.

Physical disk properties such as Manufacture day, Manufacture week, and Manufacture year are available for SAS drives only.

Creating many sliced span virtual disks using the spun-down drives through the command line or GUI result may be delayed.

Workaround: After creating one sliced span virtual disk, wait for some time to create the next sliced span virtual disk.

A Security Key Identifier can contain numerals, lowercase alphabets, uppercase alphabets, nonalphanumeric characters (except space), or a combination of any of these.

If Storage Management displays a path failure message for a Logical Connector after a reboot, use the Clear Redundant Path View, provided in the Change Controller Properties controller task, and restart the system.

In the VMware ESX 4.x and ESX 5.x environment, when you create a virtual disk using Storage Management, you may see an error message The task failed to complete: The create virtual disk task was successful, but the operating system may not be aware of the new virtual disk. However, the virtual disk is available for all operations on rebooting the system.

Patrol Read is not supported on SSD media. The Patrol Read feature fails for any controller that has SSD media on a virtual disk.

Hot plug of enclosures takes time to enumerate the enclosure and its components. During this time, there will be a delay in the response time of tasks, such as displaying the physical disks on the physical disk page and in the virtual disk selection page.

All virtual disks from the SAS/iR controller display the name IR Virtual Disk on the Preview page. On successful import, another name is assigned to these virtual disks and the "IR Virtual Disk" name is not displayed on the "Preview" page.

Storage Management does not permit connecting the first enclosure in single path and attaching the subsequent enclosures in multipath. All enclosures must be connected in multipath to enable the multipath view.

An error message may not appear when Import Foreign Configuration task is not successful.

Description: The Import Foreign Configuration task can only import virtual disks that have consistent data. A virtual disk with inconsistent data cannot be imported. When importing multiple virtual disks in a single operation, however, the Import Foreign Configuration task may report successful completion even when inconsistent virtual disks are present and have not been imported successfully.

DF60696: Storage Management responds slowly when using Internet Explorer 7.x, 8.x on a system with mixed SAS and SATA physical disks.

Description: When using the Create Virtual Disk wizard from the Storage Management graphical user interface (GUI), you may notice decreased performance when using Internet Explorer 7.x, 8.x on a system with multiple PowerVault MD1000 storage enclosures that are heavily populated with mixed SAS and SATA physical disks.

Solution: Use a supported browser other than Internet Explorer 7.x, 8.x or use the Storage Management command line interface (CLI) to create the virtual disk. See the Server Administrator Release Notes for information on supported browsers. See the Storage Management online Help or the Server Administrator Command Line Interface User's Guide for information on using the Storage Management CLI.

DF152362: Storage Management may not display controllers installed with the Service and Diagnostics utility.

Description: Storage Management may not recognize devices that are installed after Storage Management is already running.

Solution: If Storage Management does not recognize a newly-added device and this problem has not been corrected with a Global Rescan, then reboot the system.

DF120475: Storage Management SNMP traps are not filtered by Server Administrator.

Description: Server Administrator allows you to filter SNMP traps that you do not want to receive. To implement SNMP trap filtering, select the System tree > Alert Management tab > SNMP Traps subtab. The SNMP Traps subtab has options for enabling and disabling SNMP traps based on severity or the component that generates the trap. Even when the SNMP traps are disabled, Storage Management generates SNMP traps.

Solution: SNMP trap filtering will be provided in a future release of Storage Management.

When issuing certain omconfig storage CLI commands with Power User privileges, the Error! User has insufficient privileges to run command: omconfig message may be displayed. You must be logged on as an Administrator to perform these actions.

Using the Storage Management Service Advanced Create Virtual Disk Wizard may occasionally result in a vertical scrollbar of less than normal width. If this occurs, resizing the Server Administrator window causes the vertical scrollbar to be redrawn correctly.

Using the GUI, if a virtual disk is renamed to a name containing multiple blank and consecutive spaces, the name is truncated to a single space after Apply is clicked.

BITS118226: The representation of NVMe devices residing on backplanes that attach to PCIe Extender cards is inaccurate on Storage Management. This is because Storage Management does not have a process to understand the mapping of the NVMe device, backplane, and the PCIe Extender card. This issue exists only on PowerEdge R920 servers and does not impact the operations on the NVMe device. Multiple backplanes on Server Administrator indicate the presence of multiple PCIe Extender cards on the system.

BITS124349: Firmware version for SAS 9207_8e, SAS 9206_16e, and SAS 9300_8e, will not be displayed on the Storage Management GUI and CLI.

BITS123999: SAS 9300_8e is not supported on systems running the VMware ESXi operating system.

BITS128355: The slot occupancy report displays single backplane ID and backplane name in the Storage Management GUI and CLI. The physical disk slot occupancy report for PCIe Subsystem displays NVMe devices present in two different PCIe backplanes under the same PCIe backplane on PowerEdge R920 servers. The NVMe devices connected to different PCIe backplanes are displayed correctly under Storage > PCIe-SSD Subsystem > PCIe-SSD Extender > Enclosure .

BITS146054: The enclosure automatically sets the critical and default warning thresholds. The user cannot set or reset any warning threshold to any temperature probe through the Storage Management GUI or CLI.

On a PowerEdge server with maximum configuration of 8 populated enclosures connected to the PERC hardware controller, the user can experience a delay in response. When Server Administrator storage commands such as Create Virtual Disk or Start check consistency are run, the delay in response can range from 10 — 30 minutes.

BITS148893: When creating a virtual disk on PERC S130 (software RAID) controller, if you do not select the first option under Assign Dedicated Hot Spare a message appears: DHS not assigned to VD. When you create a virtual disk on a software RAID controller using the Create Virtual Disk wizard, the GUI control only verifies the first available option under DHS, leaving the other options unverified even if it is selected.

Resolution: The Dedicated Hot Spare assignment can be performed through the following,

BITS161852: The limitation is observed when two enclosures are connected to two ports of PERC H830 controller. The limitation is not observed when the enclosures are connected in a daisy-chain configuration. In the Create Virtual Disk Advanced Wizard screen, enclosures and physical disks are listed together. The user must select only the physical disks and not the enclosures when creating a virtual disk using the Advanced Wizard option.

BITS140465: When the user tries to create another partial virtual disk of any RAID level, on an existing, but degraded disk group, Storage Management does not allow the user to perform this action. This limitation occurs because Storage Management does not support this functionality. However, this limitation is only observed on certain PERC 9 family of hardware controllers (PERC H330, H830, and H730).

Workaround: The user can create a partial virtual disk during system restart using the CTRL+R configuration utility.

JIT-3897 (BITS190786): For encrypted SED drive, omreport storage vdisk CLI command displays the Encrypted status as Not Applicable whereas the GUI displays the correct result.

BITS190283: Though Adaptive Read Ahead option appears on the Storage Management console (GUI), it is no longer supported on PERC 9 family of hardware controllers. Even if a user selects Adaptive Read Ahead on the Storage Management console, the PERC hardware controller automatically sets the option as Read Ahead.

JIT-10452 (BITS236815): Occasionally, the virtual disk creation process on PERC 9 hardware controllers may fail on GUI and CLI. Workaround: Restart the server to resolve this issue.

BITS055347: On systems running the ESXi 5.1 or later operating system, the “Device Name” for all virtual disks will be displayed as a blank. This is an expected behavior on systems running the ESXi 5.1 or later operating system.

JIT-8321 (BITS220411): Unable to create Partial Secure virtual disk using the GUI when all the available SEDs are selected. This operation will work if any other physical disk, which is not a part of any virtual disk, is connected.

JIT-11205 (BITS242664): When a physical disk, which is a part of multiple partial virtual disks, is reinserted into the system, the status of the partial virtual disks will be displayed on Storage Management after a short delay.

BITS268181: When a user creates a virtual disk using the GUI, physical disks are not listed under Dedicated Hot spare (DHS). So, the user will not be able to assign DHS while creating a virtual disk.

Workaround: After creating the virtual disk, the user can assign DHS using the Assign/Unassign Dedicated Hot spare virtual disk operation.

BITS271311: If you create RAID 50 or 60 configuration with 22 or 26 physical disks using the CLI, the operation is unsuccessful. This issue is observed on all the operating systems and is limited to only RAID 50 or 60 configuration with 22 or 26 physical disks.

Workaround: To resolve this issue, you can create RAID 50 or 60 configuration using the OMSS GUI.

JIT-16740: OMSS storage connector information for HBA330 Adaptor is incorrect. If connector A and B is connected to a corresponding backplane SAS-A & B port, OMSS is displaying all the physical disks under Connector-1 and none under Connector-0. This issue does not cause any functionality limitation.

JIT-4248: Inconsistent behavior while enumerating physical disks connected to MD3060e enclosure. MD3060e enclosure is unsupported by OMSS hence no need to show any drives exposed via 12 Gbps HBA.

JIT-31342: Virtual disk creation on Software RAID S130 controller with multiple Dedicated Hot Spare (DHS) assigned displays an error message. Assigning DHS is unsuccessful only when the user selects more than one DHS during virtual disk creation. There are no other issues observed during virtual disk creation.

Workaround: After the virtual disk is created, you can assign multiple DHS to the virtual disk by selecting the Assign Dedicated Hot Spare task from the Available Tasks drop-down menu of the virtual disk.

JIT-43557: In Split Mode, Slot occupancy report displays inaccurate empty slots when there are no drives connected to the backplane. The report shows the message empty slots interchanged between controller.

This issue occurs for the server with no drives attached to the backplane in split mode only. Slot occupancy report works fine as expected for servers with a minimum of one drive.

JIT-50416: OMSS freezes if LVM group name starts with nvme. This issue is occurs only on Linux platforms.

Workaround: Rename the LVM group with the command: vgrename /dev/nvme//dev/anything_that_does_not_start_with_the_letters_NVME!.

JIT-55404: The LED blink and unblink operations are not working with SATA SSDs on C6420.

JIT-54541: OMSS is not displaying the physical disks which is connected to HBA330(Adapter and Mini) controller on C6400 and C6420.

JIT-47971: After deleting one of the virtual disks, few of the virtual disk tasks are missing from the available virtual disk.

Work Around: If we execute any of the virtual disk tasks in available virtual disk, the missing tasks will be displayed.

JIT-49823: When BIOS NVMe setting is in non-RAID mode, OMSS displays the NVMe drives connected to S140 controller.