Release Notes Contents

Release Notes Contents

These release notes cover the following major topics:

■What’s New, page 4

—SAN Extension Products, page 4

—Controller Firmware Upgrade Path, page 4

—Operating System and Fibre Channel Switch Support, page 5

■Common Platform Issues, page 8

—Performance Considerations—Adding Target Unit Back to Remote Copy Sets, page 8

—Performance Considerations—Full Copy Operation, page 8

—Performance Considerations—Write History Log Merge, page 8

—SWCC and OpenView Management Appliance Limitations, page 8

—Using Switch Zoning to Prevent Crashes When Using VTDPY Host Display, page 8

—Invalid VTDPY Percentages, page 8

—Using Switch Zoning to Prevent Crashes When the 96-Connection Limit Is Exceeded, page 9

—I/O Pause During Fabric Reconfiguration, page 9

—Controller Saturation, page 9

—RAID 5 Remote Copy Set Target Drop, page 9

—Required Delay Time Before Failback, page 10

—Removing Targets from the Proper Controller, page 10

—Startup of Only One Fabric at a Time, page 10

—Intermittent Double Normalization After a Full Failback or Failback to New Hardware Procedure, page 11

—Command Scripter Communication Loss Due to SCSI Error, page 11

—Waiting for Write History Logging Disks, page 11

—Association Sets, page 11

■Platform-Specific Issues, page 12

—HP HP-UX, page 12

—HP OpenVMS, page 12

—HP Tru64 UNIX, page 12

—IBM AIX, page 13

—Microsoft Windows 2000, page 13

—Microsoft Windows NT, page 15

—Novell NetWare, page 16

—Sun Solaris, page 18

Data Replication Manager HSG80 ACS Version 8.7P Release Notes

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