Release Notes and Notices

DRDC1-21650

Huawei OceanStor and OceanStor Dorado System (REST): We now fully support Huawei OceanStor 5300 V5 via REST APIs.

DRDC1-21434

Tape Library: Added support for HP TapeLibrary (StoreOnce type) information with the HPE StoreOnce (REST) pattern.

DRDC1-14669

Huawei OceanStor and OceanStor Dorado System (REST): The pattern now discovers:

• vStores (virtual StorageSystem)
• Logical Ports (virtual Network Interfaces)

DRDC1-20802

Ceph Storage Systems: The pattern now handles the discovery of Ceph storage systems directly as a storage device using the Ceph API Access.

DRDC1-18977

IBM Spectrum Control Storage Systems (REST): Added support for IBM Spectrum Control storage system via IBM Spectrum Control (new pattern).

DRDC1-13916

NetApp StorageGRID Storage Systems (REST): Added support for NetApp StorageGRID storage systems via the StorageGRID Management API (new pattern).

DRDC1-21204

Storage pattern populating error message as Vendor & Model on disk Drive node

DRDC1-21184

HPE StoreOnce Storage Systems: The pattern now supports HPE StoreOnce version 4.x.

DRDC1-19671

Pure Storage FlashArray Storage Systems (REST): Added support for Pure Storage FlashArray storage systems via the REST API (new pattern).

DRDC1-21162

Dell EMC PowerMax Storage Systems: Added support for HSL. The pattern now also discovers and reports the NAA ID for storage volumes.

DRDC1-16176

The following patterns:

• EMC PowerMax Symmetrix 
• EMC_VNXe
• Fujitsu Eternus
• Hitachi VSP G Series
• Hitachi E, F, G Series
• HP 3PAR
• Huawei OceanStor Dorado V3 and V6 Storage Systems (WBEM)
• IBM DS6000 and DS8000 Storage Systems
• IBM SVC/Storwize Storage Systems
• Pure Storage FlashArray Storage Systems
• Hitachi Network Attached Storage HNAS
• Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) Storage Systems
• Synology
• HPE StoreOnce
• Dell EMC PowerVault
• IBM DS8000 Storage Systems REST
• InfiniBox
• NetApp Active IQ
• NetApp E-Series
• NetApp REST
• Nimble
• EMC VPLEX

now report 2 new attributes:

• Status: The operational status of the storage system. To simplify the reading, the status values are categorized as OK, Degraded, Failed, or Offline.
  
• Status Detail: The operational storage system status as exposed by the device's vendor.
  

DRDC1-20883

Cohesity Storage Systems (REST):

Storage System's names and models are now discovered and reported for all versions of Cohesity systems.

The discovered and reported information for File Systems now include:

• Used and Free size: calculated based on quota value.
• File system name: qualified with fs_name instead of ID.
• Quota Enabled: indicates if a quota is configured.
• Type: qualified with nfs, cifs, or mixed, based on the protocolAccess type.

DRDC1-21000

EMC Unity Storage Systems: The "Virtual" attribute is now set to "True" for Storage System nodes if the storage system type is "NAS Virtual Server". 

DRDC1-20625

Hitachi Storage Systems: A Virtual Network Interface has been created to link IP addresses that are related to virtual storage systems.

DRDC1-20818

IBM SVC/Storwize Storage Systems: The Storage Device's type is now set to "Storage".

DRDC1-20818

HP 3PAR Storage Systems: The Storage Device's type is now set to "Storage".

DRDC1-12124

NexentaStor Storage Systems (REST): Added support for NexentaStor storage systems (new pattern).

DRDC1-20418

Windows_Storage pattern update to properly extract naa.id identificator

DRDC1-18281/ DRDC1-20092

Huawei OceanStor and OceanStor Dorado System (REST): Added support for Huawei OceanStor and OceanStor Dorado storage systems via the embedded OceanStor DeviceManager RESTful APIs (new pattern).

DRDC1-20245

ExaGrid Tiered Backup Storage Systems: Added support for ExaGrid Tiered Backup storage systems (new pattern).

DRDC1-20349

Hitachi Storage Systems:

• Changed the storage device name in Hitachi REST heuristics
• Fixed broken link for displaying provenance page for the storage device in Hitachi REST pattern
• Changed vendor name from HITACHI to Hitachi in Hitachi and Hitachi-G-Series patterns

DRDC1-21508

Huawei OceanStor and OceanStor Dorado System (REST): FC ports are not discovered when the ID of the port's parent has not the expected format. Fixed.

DRDC1-21559

Pure Storage Systems: Connection timeout has been increased to allow the discovery of Pure storage systems via the WEB API.

DRDC1-21576

IBM DS8000 Storage Systems (REST): An ECA Error occurred when scanning a storage system for which no Managed Storage Systems Name is defined. Fixed.

DRDC1-21520

IBM DS8000 Storage Systems (REST): In some cases, the storage device was not created due to a timeout exception. Fixed.

DRDC1-21493

HPE StoreOnce Storage Systems: The Storage device was not created due to a timeout exception. Fixed.

DRDC1-21424

HPE StoreOnce Storage Systems: The pattern fails to report IP address when the REST query on the network does not return a value for interfaces. Fixed.

DRDC1-21323

NexentaStor Storage Systems (REST): The model information of the storage device is now populated. 

DRDC1-21206

Huawei OceanStor Dorado V3 and V6 Storage Systems (WBEM): Huawei OceanStor Dorado 6000 V6 and Huawei OceanStor Dorado 8000 V6 models are now fully supported.

DRDC1-21076

Dell Compellent storage systems: The storage system wasn't discovered even when the SMI-S was detected. A new process has been implemented to fix this issue.

DRDC1-21207

Dell EMC PowerMax Storage Systems: An ECA Error occurred when the port ID that exposes a volume was not found. Fixed.

DRDC1-21129

NetApp (REST) Storage Systems: The link between the remote file system and the exported file system was not created when the file system was mounted without the root path. Fixed.

DRDC1-21151

NetApp E-Series Storage Systems: The Storage Device was not created for NetApp E-series EF570. Fixed.

IBM SVC/Storwize: Disk drive nodes were not linked to their respective Hardware Container node or Storage System node. Fixed.

EMC Celerra/VNX (NAS) and eNAS Storage Systems: The "Virtual" attribute is now set to "True" for Storage System nodes if the storage system type is "NAS Virtual Server".

Hitachi Network Attached Storage HNAS: Fixed broken link for displaying provenance page for the Hitachi HNAS Storage Device.

IBM SVC/Storwize: All storage chassis and extension chassis are now discovered correctly and associated to the storage system. Disk drives are linked to their related chassis. Disk drives that are not part of a chassis are linked to the storage system node. 

Note: As the relationship between the storage system and the hardware container node has been changed, it is recommended to delete the older version of the IBM_StorWize_Storage.tpl pattern to remove any previous discovered information.

IBM SVC/Storwize: The storage system serial number now displays the ID of the system in accordance with the information reported in the IBM Storwize management console.

DRDC1-20075

Hitachi NAS Storage Systems: The pattern now creates a storage device for each scanned HNAS node.

DRDC1-20096

Synology Storage Systems (SNMP): The pattern now discovers all Synology models reported by the MIB.

DRDC1-20066

Brocade SAN Switches via SANnav: The IP address of the switch related to the Network Device node is represented using the IP Address node.

DRDC1-16933

Dell EMC PowerVault Storage Systems (REST): Added support for Dell EMC PowerVault Storage Systems via REST API (new pattern).

DRDC1-19831

Dell EMC PowerMax/Symmetrix (REST): The software instance "EMC Symmetrix Management Application Server" is now correctly created on UNIX hosts.

DRDC1-19928

Hitachi Storage Systems: An Hitachi REST Storage Device node is created even when the REST credentials are invalid. Fixed in the code.

DRDC1-19257

Links between Hyper-V VM and physical storage are not created.

DRDC1-19609

HPE Primera Storage Systems: The Disk Drive information is now displayed under the Hardware Container node instead of the Storage System node.

DRDC1-16931

EMC VMAX, VNX (SAN), Symmetrix and CLARiiON Storage Systems: The ETL reports two new attributes:

• Overall Efficiency Ratio To One Hundred
• Compression Ratio To One Hundred
  

for Storage System and Storage Resource Pool to provide information about data reduction.

DRDC1-19370

Cisco HyperFlex Storage Systems: Updated key for Cisco HyperFlex Storage System. Enhanced Cisco HyperFlex Storage Group data extraction. 

DRDC1-18629

Hitachi E, F, G Series Storage Systems (REST): Added support for Hitachi E, F, G Series storage systems (new pattern).

Brocade SAN Switches via SANnav: Added support for Brocade SAN Switches via SANnav (new pattern).

DRDC1-17139

Netapp Storage systems: The pattern now reports the Storage Pool's RAID status.

TKU 2022-May-1

DRDC1-12043

QNAP Storage Systems: Added support for TS-X53U and TS-EC1680U.

HPE StoreOnce Storage Systems: Added support for HPE StoreOnce storage systems (new pattern).

NetApp Storage Active IQ Unified Manager: Discovery of NetApp storage systems via Active IQ Unified Manager (new pattern).

HP StorageWorks StoreVirtual Storage Systems: Discovery of HP StorageWorks StoreVirtual storage systems and storage devices.

Synology Storage Device Life Cycle Pattern: The following models are now fully supported:

• DS218j
• DS216play
• RS815RP+
• DS212j
• DS216

Hitachi Storage Systems: The Storage Device was not created when the firmware version was not found. Fixed in the code.

Sun StorageTek Storage Systems: The pattern now discovers Sun StorageTek storage systems if the CAM software is installed on a UNIX host.

IBM XIV Storage Systems: The pattern fails to discover IBM FlashSystem A9000R models.

EMC Storage Systems: EMC VMAX 300 models are not properly discovered when linked to other remote VMAX array. Fixed in the code.

Note: TKU for Storage and TKU must be installed to benefit from this fix.

ESX_Storage pattern updated in order to create StorageUse links from VM Hosts to the physycal StorageVolumes/DiskDrives.

TKU-JUL-2017-1

Documentation for Host Side Linking for Solaris is now available.

Documentation for Host Side Linking for AIX is now available.

Documentation for Host Side Linking for ESX is now available.

Documentation for Host Side Linking for KVM is now available.

The EMC Isilon pattern now discovers the following parameters for File Systems:

• Size
• Free (space)
• Used (space)

The Hitachi Non-G-Series pattern has been optimized to improve the discovery of volumes in large environments.

The Hitachi G-Series pattern has been optimized to improve the discovery of volumes in large environments.

The IBM SVC/Storwise pattern has been optimized to improve the discovery of volumes in large environments.

The Pool ID is now discovered and reported for all EMC Isilon Storage Pools. 

TKU-2016-Mar-1

DRDC1-5601/
ESC084832/00055327

BMC Discovery scan failure on EMC Isilon device. Fixed in the code.

The locateCommands function declared in storage TPLs is now reported in:

_{//addm/tkn_main/tku_patterns/CORE/SupportingFiles/Common_Functions.tplpre}

and performed in any TPL when required.

The storage systems patterns now support the Host Side Linking for Solaris.

QNAP Storage Systems: Storage Systems are missing for self-contained NAS Storage Device (TS-h1683XU-RP).

Tintri Storage Systems: The Containment relationship between Ethernet port and processor has been replaced with the Device Interface relationship.

InfiniBox Storage Systems: The Containment Relationship between Ethernet ports and processor nodes has been removed.

EMC Isilon Storage Systems: The Smart Connect IP Address and the File System quota size were not discovered and calculated correctly on Isilon systems running OneFS version 8.3 and above. Fixed in the code.

Dell EMC PowerStore Storage Systems: The REST API calls between Hosts and Host Groups have been optimized to avoid multiple unnecessary requests that could lead to stopping the discovery process.

Dell EMC PowerMax Symmetrix (REST) Storage Systems: The pattern has been improved to avoid multiple unnecessary requests that could lead to stopping the discovery process.

All Storage Patterns: The CMDB now correctly synchronizes Network Interface nodes attached to Storage Processors.

Netapp Storage systems: The pattern reported duplicate Network Interface nodes with duplicate MAC addresses. Fixed in the code.

EMC XtremIO Storage Systems: Storage systems were not discovered in multi-cluster environments. Fixed in the code.

Dell EMC PowerStore Storage Systems: Some devices were erroneously identified as Dell EMC PowerStore devices. Fixed in the code.

EMC Symmetrix/Clariion Storage Systems: The pattern now display the DNS name of the SMIS for the storage device name.

NetApp (REST API) Storage Systems: The Junction Path is added to the file system alias name.

Fixed broken links to Configipedia Storage pattern pages.

EMC Unity Storage Systems: Some storage systems were not discovered when WBEM requests returned blank results. Fixed in the code.

NetApp Storage System (REST): The OS Version attribute for Storage Devices is now correctly reported.

Hitachi VSP G-Series Storage Systems: Volumes were not mapped when the pattern failed to discover disk drives.

Hitachi Storage Systems: Hitachi HUS Storage Devices are now correctly discovered and displayed.

All patters using Common_Network_Functions.tplpre: The Scope value was not set properly for the Subnet nodes. As a result, the Subnet nodes were related between multiple scope environment.

IBM DS6000 and DS8000 Storage Systems: IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC) v9 no longer supports the CIM Agent/WBEM protocol, which is used by our pattern to access the IBM DS8x systems.

• Storage Volume: Consumed From Pool

• Storage Pool: Consumed Capacity

The names of the EMC Isilon File Systems are now properly reported.

The Type of NetApp Qtree file systems is now properly discovered and reported.

Known Limitation: NetApp root filesystems Type cannot currently be discovered via SNMP.

Problem: ECA error in the Solaris_Storage pattern.

Resolution: Fixed in the code.

ISS04562350,
ISS04563179,
ISS04546537,
ISS04560974,
ISS04559213,
ISS04555801,
ISS04555820,
ISS04554019,
ISS04544904,
ISS04551975,
ISS04551855,
ISS04548813 /
DRDC1-5171

Problem: ECA error in the Windows_Storage pattern.

Resolution: Fixed in the code.

QM001888582 /
ISS04558503,
ISS04550922,
ISS04541531,
ISS04541984 /
DRDC1-5172

Problem: ECA error in the Linux_Storage pattern.

Resolution: Fixed in the code.

Problem: IBM Storwize pattern keryError.

Resolution: Fixed in the code.

Problem: ECA error in ESX storage Linkage.

Resolution: Fixed in the code.

ISS04521768 / QM001886335 / TKU 4747

Problem: When discovering volumes without multipath, we get an ECA Error message.

Resolution. Fixed in the code.

Problem: When trying to extract the disk size from some volumes, we get an ECA Error message.

Resolution: Fixed in the code.

Problem: When scanning IBM DS8000 storage device we get an ECA error message.

Resolution: Fixed in the code.

Problem: Netapp os_type is wrong

Resolution: Fixed in the code. Now correct OS is displayed for Netapp.

TKU 4254

Problem: Wrong Disk Array Size when multiple chassis are interconnected.

Resolution: Fixed. The pattern now takes into account the Primordial Imported Storage Pool.

TKU 2015-Jun-1

TKU 2432

Problem: WWNN for VNX35 is not displayed.

Resolution:  WWNN is now displayed for VNX and Clariion System.

TKU 2015-Apr-1

TKU 3524

Problem: The current status of HP2000 disk drives is not displayed.

Resolution: Fixed. The current status of HP2000 disk drives is now displayed.

 TKU 2015-Apr-1

TKU 3525

Problem: The current status of HP6000 disk drives is not displayed.

Resolution: Fixed. The current status of HP6000 disk drives is now displayed.

TKU 2015-Apr-1

TKU 3523

Problem: The current status of EMC disk drives is not displayed.

Resolution: Fixed. The current status of EMC disk drives is now displayed.

TKU 2015-Apr-1

TKU 3527

Problem: The current status of IBM SVC disk drives is not displayed.

Resolution: Fixed. The current status of IBM SVC disk drives is now displayed.

TKU 2015-Apr-1

TKU 3526

Problem: The current status of IBM DS disk drives is not displayed.

Resolution: Fixed. The current status of IBM DS disk drives is now displayed.

TKU 2015-Apr-1

TKU 3521

Problem: The current status of Hitachi disk drives is not displayed.

Resolution: Fixed. The current status of Hitachi disk drives is now displayed.

TKU 2015-Apr-1

QM001876012

Problem: Some parameters used to properly identify storage pools and volume types no longer exist in the latest version of the SMI-S provider embedded with EMC Solution Enabler v8.0.1.

Resolution: Fixed in the code. The product has been modified to comply with the SMI-S provider for EMC Solution Enabler v8.0.1.

TKU 2015-Mar-1

TKU-2435

Problem: EMC primordial storage pools should be hidden.

Resolution:  EMC primordial storage pools are no longer displayed.

TKU 2015-Mar-1

TKU-2436

Problem: HP P2000 primordial storage pools should be hidden.

Resolution:  HP P2000 primordial storage pools are no longer displayed.

TKU 2015-Mar-1  

TKU-2438

Problem: HP P6000 primordial storage pools should be hidden.

Resolution:  HP P6000 primordial storage pools are no longer displayed.

TKU 2015-Mar-1  

TKU-2439

Problem: Only IBM DS6000 series extend pools should be displayed.

Resolution:  Only IBM DS6000 series extend pools are now displayed.

TKU 2015-Mar-1  

TKU-2430

Problem: Some scanned IBM Storwize storage pools should be hidden.

Resolution: IBM Storwize primordial storage pools are no longer displayed.

TKU 2015-Mar-1  

TKU-3522

Problem: Hitachi primordial storage pools should be hidden.

Resolution: Hitachi primordial storage pools are no longer displayed.

TKU 2015-Mar-1  

QM001870592 / TKU-3021

Problem: Disk size is calculated incorrectly for the storage systems with sector size that is not equal to 4096.

Resolution: Code fix.

TKU 2015-Mar-1  

TKU-3022

Problem: Incorrect column is used when retrieving total_blocks in raidVTable.

Resolution: Code fix.

TKU 2015-Mar-1  

QM001874188 / TKU-3691

Problem: Storage discovery might cause an ECA error.

Resolution: Code fix.

TKU 2015-Mar-1  

QM001875191 / TKU-3725

Problem: The NetApp storage file system is not linked to the host file system, when the storage filesystem is s qtree.

Resolution: Code fix.

TKU 2015-Mar-1  

QM001876656 / TKU-3726

Problem: The NetApp storage file system is not linked to the host file system, when host filesystem has remote hostname as vfiler name.

Resolution: Code fix.

TKU 2015-Mar-1  

QM001871742

Problem: BMC Discovery does not discover all network interfaces on storage device.

Resolution: Fixed in the code. All network interfaces are discovered.

TKU 2015-Feb-1

QM001872042

Problem : Discovery access of a storage devices shows "UNKNOWN_PythonException" for =getNetworkInterfaces= resulting in "0 Discovered Network Interfaces found"

Resolution: Fixed in the code.Above failure is no more reported.

TKU 2015-Feb-1

TKU-2421

Problem: NAA ID is not correct on Hitachi systems.

Resolution: The disk array serial numbers used to generate the NAA ID are now shorten to 16bits to be properly handled by the TPL.

TKU 2015-Feb-1

TKU-2433

Problem: HP 3 PAR primordial storage pools should be hidden.

Resolution: HP 3 PAR primordial storage pools are no longer displayed.

TKU 2015-Feb-1

TKU-2440

Problem: Should show the current state of the HP 3 PAR disk drives.

Resolution: The Current State parameter is now available for all HP 3 PAR disk drives.

TKU 2015-Feb-1

TKU-2434

Problem: The "spindle name" was used for identifying disks on VMAX-1SE

Resolution: Fixed in the code. The product now relates on the ‘Disk ID.’

TKU 2015-Jan-1

QM001867146

Problem: NetApp_Storage.NetAppStorage pattern is giving ECA error when diskinfo speed is not a number

Resolution: NetApp_Storage.NetAppStorage pattern now checks speed is an integer

TKU 2015-Jan-1