User manual QUANTUM PATHLIGHT VX 2.4.0 RELEASE NOTES 02-2006

[. . . ] Release Notes Product: Pathlight® VX 2. 4. 0 Date: February 2006 Contents Page 1 2 4 6 10 13 13 Topic Purpose of This Release New Features and Enhancements Compatibility Matrix Resolved Issues Known Issues Documentation Contacting ADIC Purpose of This Release Pathlight VX 2. 4. 0 includes several new features and enhancements that extend its capabilities. These release notes describe these new features and enhancements, as well as currently known issues and issues that were resolved for this release of the product. These notes also provide auxiliary firmware compatibility information. Visit www. adic. com for additional information about Pathlight VX and previous releases. © February 2006, ADIC® ADIC is a registered trademark of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. [. . . ] Emergency store policies failed and emergency truncates tried to run but had no candidates due to the failing store policies. This caused virtual mount failures due to lack of space in the file system. CR 46100 If media is removed from an attached physical library and then an export operation is started, Pathlight VX does not prompt the user to insert media in the library. Provide a test button in the Pathlight VX GUI for e-mail notification. CR 46394 SR 430890 SR 430000 6 © February 2006, ADIC Change Request Number CR 46635 CR 46810 CR 46870 CR 47334 CR 47657 CR 49909 CR 48123 CR 48131 CR 48152 CR 48153 CR 48265 CR 47653 CR 48437 Service Request Number SR 430806 SR 436252 SR 437380 SR 436956 SR 437208 SR 443650 N/A SR 439516 SR 447234 SR 446264 SR 430912 SR 448488 SR 446586 SR 449182 SR 449916 SR 485044 SR 489364 SR 447474 SR 447644 SR 451372 SR 390618 SR 426328 SR 440208 SR 443658 SR 431714 SR 455154 SR 455154 SR 455210 SR 494128 SR 496400 N/A Description Emergency space policy should cause a warning RAS event. Need a way to remove physical media in an unknown state that was added to the Pathlight VX accidentally. When the Pathlight VX is starting up, the FC blade sends incorrect data in response to an inquiry from the backup application. Virtual media stores to Disk Extension failed because the source disk class changes. Need the ability to update the port setting for port 6 on each FC blade. Specify a Scalar i2000 setting when used with the Pathlight VX. Enhance search for "920 Hard Media Error" on a Fibre Channel drive. Need a RAID Disk Drive Capacity Report so the customer can determine the disk drive capacity on the system. Fix mailbox timeout on FC blade. CR 51007 SR 469816 SR 472884 SR 480880 SR 491718 SR 491738 SR 496782 SR 447470 SR 471872 CR 51067 CR 51411 Improve Qlogic debug dump procedure. When Disk Extension media is removed and reintroduced as an Application media (Virtual Physical Present), realization of the Disk Extension media might fail. Performing Tools > Media > Move Media turns off extended barcode setting. Need increased security for Pathlight VX administrator accounts. WRITE command with zero transfer length not processed correctly. WRITE command with incorrect transfer length seen during realization process. CR 51555 CR 51829 CR 51843 CR 51868 SR 472094 SR 476310 SR 467426 SR 467426 8 © February 2006, ADIC Change Request Number CR 52072 CR 52128 CR 52255 CR 52328 CR 52389 Service Request Number SR 477118 SR 476468 SR 463964 SR 476468 SR 476468 SR 463964 SR 478012 SR 474918 SR 476912 SR 483252 SR 480612 SR 468780 SR 479310 SR 487644 SR 496184 N/A SR 488068 SR 485128 SR 483618 SR 487274 SR 488304 SR 467426 SR 467426 SR 474918 SR 476912 SR 483252 SR 490230 SR 495168 SR 490672 Description Write/read failed for frame/framegroup metadata due to FC blade path to RAID LUN port logout. Add manifest healthcheck and throw RAS event on errors. Verify /backup file system and create if necessary. Add the IP address to the fsnameserver file in the clm_config_raid. pl script instead of using the hostname. HP-UX host experienced communication problems with a virtual drive. CR 52556 Action Required not working for archived media after upgrade to 2. 3. 0. CR 52898 CR 53227 CR 53278 CR 53357 CR 53589 CR 53629 CR 52659 The firmware verification/update of the Utility Module Functional Firmware failed on Utility Module 1. Invalid disk map results in some files not being stored candidated. Need Pathlight VX to be able to run persistent reserve in and persistent reserve out SCSI commands. [. . . ] Possible Java errors with Microsoft patches for Windows XP that became available on December 13, 2005. Pathlight VX goes down after attempting to write to a writeprotected tape. Data Protector cannot move virtual media from the I/E station. The error reported is "medium removal prevented. " CR 50981 SR 468780 Manually update the media state using vmmDbMediaUtil to identical and then rerun the export. CR 51219 CR 51801 SR 470948 N/A Reboot the i2000 library. [. . . ]