This README file contains the latest information about the IBM TotalStorage™ DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware version 06.12.03.xx for the DS4100 with Standard (base) option, the DS4300 with Standard (base) or Turbo options, the DS4400 and the DS4500 storage disk systems only. DO NOT download this controller firmware on any other DS4000 storage disk system models. ATTENTION: BEFORE UPGRADING THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE OF THE DS4100 WITH STANDARD DUAL CONTROLLER OPTION FROM VERSION 05.42.XX.00 TO VERSION 06.12.03.XX, YOU MUST RELOAD THE NVSRAM VERSION N17124F10R842V07 FIRST BEFORE ATTEMPTING THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE UPGRADE. See Section 3.0 Installation and Setup Instructions for more information. Refer to the IBM TotalStorage™ Support Web Site or CD for the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 (Intel or Unix Operating Systems) Installation and Support Guides for firmware and NVSRAM download instructions. For other related publications (refer to Related Publications in the installation and support guide) and the latest information and updated readme file. Last Update: 05/11/2005 Products Supported: ---------------------------------------------------------------- | New Model | Old Model | Machine Type | Model | |------------|-----------|--------------|------------------------| | DS4500 | FAStT 900 | 1742 | 90X, 90U | |------------|-----------|--------------|------------------------| | DS4400 | FAStT 700 | 1742 | 1RX, 1RU | |------------|-----------|--------------|------------------------| | DS4300 | FAStT 600 | 1722 | 60U, 60X | | Standard | | | (Base or Turbo | | or Turbo | | | option) | |------------|-----------|--------------|------------------------| | DS4100 | FAStT 100 | 1724 | 100 | | Standard | | | (Base Option) | ---------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: 1. The DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware version 06.12.xx.xx with its associated NVSRAM file ARE NOT AVAILABLE for the following DS4000 storage disk systems - DS4100 with Single Controller option (M/T 1724-1SC), FAStT200 (M/T 3542-all models), FAStT500 ( M/T 3552-all models) and DS4300 with Single Controller option (M/T 1722 models 6LU, 6LX). Please contact your IBM service representative or IBM resellers for availability of additional DS4000 storage disk system models support with controller firmware version 6.12.xx.xx in the future. 2. For the DS4100 storage disk systems with Single Controller option, the controller firmware version 05.42.xx.xx and its associated NVSRAM file must be used. Do not attempt to download the controller firmware version 06.1x.xx.xx into these DS4100 storage disk system with single controller option models. 3. For the DS4300 storage disk systems with Single Controller option, the controller firmware version 05.34.xx.xx and its associated NVSRAM file must be used. Do not attempt to download the controller firmware version 06.1x.xx.xx into these DS4300 storage disk system with single controller option models. ======================================================================= CONTENTS -------- 1.0 Overview 2.0 Change History 3.0 Installation and Setup Instructions 4.0 Configuration Information 5.0 Unattended Mode 6.0 Web Sites and Support Phone Number 7.0 Trademarks and Notices 8.0 Disclaimer ======================================================================= 1.0 Overview -------------- The IBM TotalStorage™ DS4000 Storage disk system controller firmware version 06.12.03.xx release includes the DS4000 Storage disk system controller firmware and NVSRAM files for upgrading the following IBM machine types - 1724 with standard (base) option (model 100), 1722 with Standard (base) or Turbo options (models 60X and 60U) and 1742 (all models). The IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 Installation and Support Guide for Windows 2000/Server 2003, Netware, ESX Server, and Linux or the IBM TotalStorage DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 Installation and Support Guide for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and Linux on Power are available on IBM's Support Web Site as a downloadable Portable Document Format (PDF) file. In addition, the DS4000 FC/SATA intermix premium features and the DS4000 Copy Services premium features - FlashCopy, VolumeCopy and Enhanced Remote Mirroring - are options purchased separately. The Copy Services premium features require a minimum level of DS4000 Storage disk system controller firmware installed. ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Premium Feature | Required controller firmware version | |--------------------------|---------------------------------------| | FlashCopy | 05.00.04.xx or higher | |--------------------------|---------------------------------------| | VolumeCopy | 05.40.xx.xx or higher | |--------------------------|---------------------------------------| | Enhanced Remote Mirror | 06.10.0x.xx or higher | |------------------------------------------------------------------| | FC/SATA intermix | 06.10.0x.xx or higher | ------------------------------------------------------------------ The DS4000 Storage partitioning premium feature is standard on all IBM DS4000 storage subsystems with the exception of the IBM DS4100 (machine type 1724 with Standard or Single Controller options) and the DS4300 (machine type 1722 with Standard or Single Controller options) storage subsystems. Please contact IBM Marketing representatives or IBM resellers if you want to purchase the IBM DS4000 Storage partitioning premium feature option for it. The Turbo option of the IBM DS4300 is shipped with the IBM DS4000 Storage partitioning premium feature enabled (8 partitions). The DS4000 Storage Controller firmware 06.12.xx.xx for this release is available for the IBM machine types 1724-100 (DS4100 with standard/base option), 1722-60X/60U (DS4300 with Standard/base or Turbo option), 1742- 1RX/1RU and 1742-90X/90U (DS4400 and DS4500) only. The DS4000 Storage Controller firmware 06.12.xx.xx for this release is not available for IBM machine types 3542, 3552, 1724-1SC (DS4100 with Single controller option) or 1722-6LX/6LU (DS4300 with Single controller option). However, the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager 9.12 host software for this release will manage all DS4000 Storage disk system with the controller firmware 04.01.xx.xx (05.xx.xx.xx in Microsoft Windows environment) or newer. But, any new features and updates that are introduced in this DS4000 Storage Manager version 9.12 will not be available for any DS4000 Storage disk system controllers without the controller firmware version 06.12.xx.xx installed. Refer to the IBM Support Web Site for the latest Firmware and NVSRAM files and DS4000 Storage Manager host software for the IBM DS4000 Storage Subsystems. http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/disk/ ======================================================================= 1.1 Limitations --------------------- IMPORTANT: The listed limitations are cumulative. However, they are listed by the DS4000 storage subsystem controller firmware and Storage Manager host software releases to indicate which controller firmware and Storage Manager host software release that they were first seen and documented. New limitations with version 06.12.03.xx release 1. ATTENTION: BEFORE UPGRADING THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE OF THE DS4100 WITH STANDARD DUAL CONTROLLER OPTION FROM VERSION 05.42.XX.00 TO VERSION 06.12.03.XX, YOU MUST RELOAD THE NVSRAM VERSION N17124F10R842V07 FIRST BEFORE ATTEMPTING THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE UPGRADE. If this NVSRAM version is not loaded into the DS4100 storage subsystem first before the loading of the controller firmware version 06.12.xx.xx, hard drive(s) might be locked out as uncertified drives, causing defined arrays/logical drives to degrade or fail. See Section 3.0 Installation and Setup Instructions for more DS4100 storage subsystem controller firmware upgrading information. 2. Do not cut and paste the information in the DS4000 Storage Manager online help into the DS4000 Storage Manager script command window or into the text file that will be used as input for the SMcli script engine. Extra space may be inserted in the required parameter names which will cause error(s) during the script command execution. (267873) 3. In the configuration that have both SATA-technology drives (EXP100) and Fibre-Channel technology drives (EXP700/EXP710/DS4100) behind the same DS4000 storage disk system, do not download drives firmware to both SATA-technology drives and Fibre-Channel(FC) technology drives at the same time. Download the drive firmware to drives of a single drive technology (either SATA or FC) at a time. 4. Currently, IBM does not support Gold key Premium Feature as a chargeable upgrade. The Gold key Premium Feature is enable or disable depending on the DS4000 storage disk system models. 5. The Asynchronous Remote Mirroring utility, asyncRVMUtil, is not supported. This utility is used to automatically synchronize the logical drives in the Remote Mirroring pairs. Please contact IBM representatives or resellers for the support of this utility in the future. New limitations with version 06.10.11.xx release 1. In MSCS configurations, the MSCS service must be stopped and set to manual start after server rebooting, the clusdisk driver must have to be set to offline and, then, the server must be rebooted before uninstalling the RDAC driver in the server. If the clusdisk driver is not set to offline and the MSCS service is not set to manual start, the MS cluster service will not start after the new RDAC driver is installed because it can not bring the Quorum disk resource online. The problem is caused by the changing of the disk signatures. The work around is stated in the first sentence of this paragraph. To recover from this problem, you must: 1. Look up the old disk signatures of the disk that are defined as cluster disk resources. They could be found either in the registry under the HKLM/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/Clusdisk/Parameters/Signatures registry key or in the cluster.log file. 2. Look up the new disk signatures of the disks that are defined as cluster disk resources using the dumpcfg utility that is packaged in the Microsoft Windows resource kit. 3. Compare the new and old disk signatures. If new disk signature did not match the old signature, you have to change the new disk signature to the old disk signature values by using the dumpcfg command. The syntax of the command is dumpcfg.exe -s For example, dumpcfg.exe -s 12345678 0 2. Before updating the RDAC driver in a server that is setting up as San-boot, one of the two Fibre Channel (FC) cables that are connected to the server must be disconnected. The server will bluescreened during the reboot after the un-installation of the RDAC driver if one of the FC cables was not removed. (258127 - PR 82146) 3. Do not update the DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware to version 06.1x.xx.xx from versions 05.4x.xx.xx or earlier if the EXP700 ESM firmware of the attached exp700 was not at 9326 or newer. If the EXP700 ESM firmware is earlier than the 9326 versions, the EXP700 enclosure and the installed drives may not be displayed in the DS4000 subsystem management window after the controller firmware is upgraded to 06.1x.xx.xx version. The work around is to update the EXP700 ESM firmware to the 9326 version first before upgrading the controller firmware to version 06.1x.xx.xx. (260160 - pr 82841) 4. When connecting the EXP100 drive expansion enclosures, one must set the single digit (X1) of the enclosure ID to unique values. This is to prevent the possibility that one of the drives in the EXP100 enclosures be assigned the same ALPA as the DS4000 controller blade under certain DS4000 storage subsystem reboot scenarios. (261188) New limitations with version 06.10.06.xx release 1. The DS4000 Copy Service RVM is not supported at this time for the DS4100 and the DS4300 storage disk system with Standard or Single Controller options. 2. In the Storage Manager version 9 client Subsystem Management window, the preferred owner of a defined logical drive can not be changed if the logical drive is not managed by the preferred owner/controller. The Storage Manager client will grey-out (not allowing one to select) the controller that is currently managing the logical drive in the selection of the new preferred owner/controller. One is allowed to only select the controller that is not managing the logical to be the new preferred owner. There is no work-around. 3. Concurrent firmware download (downloading firmware/NVSRAM to the DS4000 storage disk system controllers with IOs to the host servers) is not supported when upgrading the controller firmware from a 05.xx.xx.xx version to a 06.1x.xx.xx version. ALL IOs must be stopped during the version 06.1x.xx.xx controller firmware upgrade from a 05.xx.xx.xx version. 4. Do not pull or insert drives during the drive firmware download. In addition, ALL IOs must also be stopped during the drive firmware download. Otherwise, drives may be shown as missing, unavailable or failed. 5. Controller diagnostics will not run in a DS4000 Storage disk system with single controller. 6. When instructed to remove and reinsert or to replace a hard drive, wait at least 70 seconds before inserting either the removed existing drive or the new drive into the drive slot. Then, wait up to 3 minutes for the drive to be spined up, recognized by the DS4000 storage subsystem and displayed in the Subsystem Management window before repeating the process for another hard drive. There is no work-around. Similarly, wait at least 70 seconds before reinserting either the removed existing ESM module or the new ESM module into the empty ESM slot in the EXP drive expansion enclosure. Then, wait up to 3 minutes for the ESM CRU to be recognized by the DS4000 storage subsystem and displayed in the Subsystem Management window before repeating the process for another ESM. There is no work-around. 7. Staged firmware and NVSRAM download function is not available on the DS4400 (machine type 1742) models with firmware 06.1x.00.00 in conjunction with IBM Storage Manager 09.1x.xx.xx. Limitations with Storage Manager version 8.4x.xx.xx (and earlier) and DS4000 controller firmware version 05.4x.xx.xx (and earlier) releases 1. Auto LUN/Array Transfer is not enable for IBM AIX and SUN Solaris OS's. If a controller fails over arrays to the alternate controller and the failed controller is replaced and brought back online, the arrays do not automatically transfer to the preferred controller. This must be done manually by selecting the redistributing arrays menu option in the storage subsystem window of the IBM DS4000 Storage manager client program. 2. You must use the Add/Remove program function in the Control Panel window to uninstall or to disable the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager RDAC device. To re-install the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager RDAC device, follow the instructions in the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 Installation and Support Guide for Windows 2000/Server 2003, Netware, ESX Server, and Linux. 3. You must always uninstall IBM DS4000 Storage Manager RDAC before you uninstall the Host Bus Adapter driver. Failure to do so may result in system hung or blue-screen. 4. When creating a Remote Mirror of a base logical drive, in the case where a FlashCopy of the base logical drive has already been created, the following restriction applies. If the Remote Mirror relationship is created while the base logical drive is receiving I/O, the FlashCopy logical drive will be failed. The work around is to quiesce I/O to the base logical drive while you are creating the remote mirror relationship. Alternatively, if the Remote Mirror relationship is created before creating the FlashCopy logical drive, the FlashCopy logical drive will not be failed. 5. When alternately switching back and forth the roles of the logical drives in a remote mirrored relationship, Windows NT4, Windows 2000 and Server 2003 may cache the file(s) on the logical drive(disk) in memory and use these cached data instead of going out to the disk to get the data. This windows OS behavior may make the data look like it was not synchronized between logical drives in a remote mirrored relationship. The fix to the problem is to dismount the primary logical drive in the server before demoting it to secondary role. In Microsoft Windows environment, this is best done by shutting down the server that the primary logical drive is mapped to. Then, promote the secondary logical drive to the primary role and hot_add it to the appropriate server. If the logical drive is of "Dynamic Disk" type, there is a possible solution without requiring server to be shut down. First, in the server that has the primary logical drive, run the SMrepassist program in the DS4000 Storage Manager 8.xx/9.xx util directory with the -f option to flush the cached data to disk. Then, promote the secondary logical drive and hot_add it to the appropriate server. Before promoting the logical drive to primary role in the original server, force a failure to the disk, for example, by running a chkdsk on the disk. Then, promote the logical drive to primary role in the original server and hot_add it. One may have to reactivate the disk after it is hot_added to the server. If the server environment prevents the server from being rebooted and the logical drive is of "basic disk" type, you may use the following steps 1. In the server that has the primary logical drive, run the SMrepassist program in the DS4000 Storage Manager 8.3x util directory with the -f option to flush the cached data to disk. 2. Using the DS4000 Storage Manager to remove the LUN mapping of the logical drive that had the primary role from its server (host computer). 3. Promote the secondary role LUN to the primary role and hot_add it in the appropriate server assuming that the LUN mapping is already defined for this server in the DS4000 storage subsystem. 4. Before promoting the logical drive to primary role in the original server, run Hot_add program or initiate a Scan for Hardware Changes task in the original server. This is to remove the logical drive from the available disks. In W2K, you may see Unsafe Removal of Devices messages. 5. Using the DS4000 Storage Manager to add the LUN mapping of the logical drive that will be promoted to primary role to the original server(host computer). 6. Promote the Logical Drive to Primary role and hot_add it in the original server. If you are unable to hot_add the logical drive or the data still appears to be mismatched, you must reboot the server. 6. When the DS4000 Storage subsystem controller firmware is upgraded from any version 05.00.xx.xx or earlier to version 05.2x.xx.xx or later, all of the Windows 2000 servers that had LUNs mapped in this storage subsystem must be rebooted after the new DS4000 Storage subsystem controller firmware and NVSRAM are successfully applied. The reason is that when the new DS4000 Storage subsystem controller firmware is installed, the controller returns the first four bytes of the firmware revision in the Product Revision field of the SCSI LUN inquiry data. Windows 2000 uses the Product Revision data as part of the LUN identification. So, as the Product Revision data changes due to the new firmware revision level, Windows 2000 thinks that the LUNs with the old Product Revision data were removed from the server. When the 'scan for hardware changes' task is executed by running the DS4000 Storage manager hot_add utility or by selecting the Scan For Hardware Changes menu option of the Devices folder in the Computer Management window, Windows 2000 displays Unsafe Removal of Devices dialogs for these LUNs. The devices in these dialogs are RDAC Virtual Disks and xxxx SCSI devices where xxxx are either 1742, 3552 or 3542 depending on the model type of DS4000 Storage disk system(s) that the Windows 2000 server had LUNs mapped from. The Windows 2000 server will lose connectivity to the LUNs in the DS4000 Storage that has firmware updated. The server must be scanned again for hardware changes. If the logical drives are not added back to the server, one must reboot the server to reconnect to the logical drives. This problem will not occur when upgrading the DS4000 Storage subsystem controller firmware from version 05.20.xx.xx to version 05.3x.xx.xx or later because the product revision data field was fixed at 0520. 7. When the server HBA ports are directly connected to the DS4000 storage disk system controllers, do not download firmware and NVSRAM files to the controllers with IOs being generated to the LUNs in the DS4000 Storage disk system. There is no IOs restriction in SAN Fabric environment i.e. when the HBA port are connected to the DS4000 storage disk system controller ports via Fibre Channel switches. 8. The supplied SMrepassist utility did not utilize Microsoft Volume Shadow Services APIs to quiesce the LUNs. Appropriate steps are still need to shut down/quiesce the applications like MS Exchange and SQL Server before the FlashCopy logical drive can be made. 9. Uninstalling RDAC may cause Windows Dynamic disks to fail. After the new RDAC is installed and the server is rebooted, these disks must be reactivated and Chkdsk must be run. The work-around is to stop the applications and remove the drive letters or the mount points to these disks before uninstalling and reinstalling RDAC. 10. The current RDAC driver will coexist with Storport model driver as long as it is not the driver for the adapter that talks to the LUNs in the DS4000 Storage subsystems. Note: the current release drivers for all of the Fibre Channel host bus adapters that DS4000 storage disk systems support are based on the Scsiport model. 11. This following behavior applies for the direct Fibre Channel connection setup between the DS4300 storage disk system host ports and the server HBA ports only. If all DS4300 host ports are occupied, the DS4300 event log may show "host-side data rate negotiation failed" error when the server is booted up, this is normal error that were generated during the host rate negotiation routine inside the DS4300 storage disk system. 12. In a direct Fibre Channel connection between the DS4000 storage disk system and the HBAs in the host server, the system bluescreen may occur if the DS4000 storage disk system is powered off. The work around is to power down the server first before powering down the DS4000 storage disk system. 13. Only logical drives that are configured as "Basic Disks" in the Windows Disk Management folder can have FlashCopy made. The FlashCopy of a logical drive configured as "Dynamic Disk" type will always be failed by the DS4000 storage disk system when it is added to the host server. 14. There is not an IA-64 version of the DS4000 Management Suite Java (FAStT_MSJ). Use the 32-bit version of the FAStT Management Suite Java for the Windows Server 2003 64-bit edition. However, one should uninstall it once the diagnostic is completed. It could cause the server to bluescreen in heavy IO loads. 15. Veritas DMP is not supported at this time in Windows operating environment. Please contact IBM representatives or resellers for the availability of support. 16. When managing the DS4000 storage disk systems with firmware version 05.3x.xx.xx, the Help window of the Subsystem Management window may not be displayed correctly the topics that are listed as result of executing a full text search. 17. When migrating array(s) from a dual controller DS4000 storage disk system to a single controller DS4000 storage disk system, you must first set the preferred owner of the to-be-migrated array(s) to be controller A before inserting it into the drive slots of a single controller DS4000 storage disk system. Otherwise, the array(s) will not be added to the single controller DS4000 storage disk system correctly which might cause problems. 18. When managing a single controller DS4300 storage disk system model, do not use the menu option - Configuration->Automatic... - in the Subsystem Management window to create LUNs. You might not be able to access or manage LUNs that are created this way. 19. After you replace a controller with a new controller in the single controller models of DS4000 storage disk system, the premium features become unauthorized and are out of compliance. Any premium features not supported by the firmware of the new controller are unavailable. The work-around is to upgrade the firmware in the new controller to the same level as the removed controller and re-enable the premium features using the key files that you were provided when the premium feature was originally enabled. 20. When you migrating drive Customer Replaceable Units (CRUs) from multiple DS4000 storage disk systems into a single destination DS4000 storage disk system, all of the drive CRUs from the same DS4000 storage disk system should be moved as a ‘set’ into the new destination DS4000 storage disk system. Before moving the next ‘set’ of drive CRUs, ensure that all of the drive CRUs for a single ‘set’ have been moved to the destination DS4000 storage disk system. If drive CRUs are not moved as a ‘set’ to the destination DS4000 storage disk systems, the newly relocated array may not appear in the Subsystem Management window. 21. Enclosure IDs may be listed incorrectly in the Subsystem Management window, even if the Enclosure ID switch settings appear to be correct. This is because of the physical design and movement of the Enclosure ID switch, it is possible to leave the switch in a “dead zone” between ID numbers, which will return an incorrect Enclosure ID (this value is 0 in most cases) to the storage management software. When setting the Enclosure ID, ensure that the switch has actuated completely and has settled where the value is clearly visible in the viewing window. 22. To download controller firmware, you must select the drive where the firmware is located. If the drive you select does not respond, the File Selection dialog box will revert to the A: drive and display an error message that drive A: is not ready if there are no media in drive A:. 23. You must suspend all I/O while ESM firmware downloads if you select multiple enclosures for downloading ESM firmware. If you select only one enclosure for download at a time, you can download ESM firmware with I/Os. However, IBM recommends that you suspend all I/O activity to perform firmware upgrades. Furthermore, if the EXP100 ESM firmware version is 953x or earlier, no IOs are allowed during the duration that the EXP100 ESMs are being updated with new firmware, including clustering reservation checking IOs. 24. The DS4000 storage disk system when configured with the DS4000 EXP100 SATA Drive Expansion Unit is currently reporting a higher frequency of informational events such as Destination Driver Events (DDEs) and Fibre Channel link up/down events ... in the DS4000 Controller event log compared to the DS4000 storage disk system configured with Fibre Channel drives. Slower response times of SATA disk drives compared to Fibre Channel disk drives cause higher I/O retries from the DS4000 storage disk system controllers, resulting in a greater number of informational events logged. In addition, the number of information events reported in the DS4000 storage disk system event log will also grow in proportion to the increase in I/Os to the Logical Drives. In all cases, the DS4000 storage disk system controller will always successfully service the timeout I/O on the subsequent retries. 25. When saving the DS4000 storage disk system event log entries, it may take up to several minutes to save all entries in the event log depending on the DS4000 management workstation resources. However, the DS4000 Storage Manager client GUI will show the completion of the event log saving almost instantly. The work around is to check the file size of the file that the event log entries are saved periodically; if the file size does not change, the event log saving is completed. 26. Do not perform other storage management tasks, such as creating or deleting logical drives, reconstructing arrays, and so on, while downloading the DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware and DS4000 EXP ESM firmware. It is recommended that you close all storage management sessions (other than the session that you use to upgrade the firmware) to the DS4000 storage disk system that you plan to update. 27. Inter-operability with tape devices is supported on separate HBA and switch zones. ======================================================================= 1.2 Enhancements ----------------- IMPORTANT: New features that are introduced with the DS4000 Storage Manager version 9.12 host software will not be available for any DS4000 storage disk system controllers without the controller firmware version 06.12.xx.xx installed. The DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware version 6.12.xx.xx is available for the following DS4000 storage disk system only - the DS4100 with Standard option, the DS4300 with Standard or Turbo option, the DS4400 and the DS4500. Please contact your IBM service representative or IBM resellers for the availability of additional DS4000 storage disk system models support with controller firmware version 6.12.xx.xx in the future. A summary list of the new features that are introduced with the DS4000 Storage Manager version 9.12 host software in conjunction with the DS4000 storage subsystem controller firmware version 06.12.xx.xx is as followed: 1. Support for the FC/SATA intermix premium feature enable via a premium feature key file. A premium key file, instead of a NVSRAM file, is now required to enable the FC/SATA premium feature intermix in a DS4000 storage disk system. 2. Support for the DS4100 with standard(base) option with controller firmware v06.xx.xx.xx code thread. No new premium features are available at this time for the DS4100 storage disk system with the controller firmware version 6.12.xx.xx. 3. New DS4000 host-software installation wizard that will automatically install the appropriate host-software components depending on the select server type (i.e.. host or management-station.) 4. Serviceability Enhancement - the ability to extract SMART data for SATA-technology drives. 5. Usability Enhancement - Added Wizard to Storage Manager SMclient to aid users with Storage Partitioning creation with Hosts, Adapters, and mappings. Added Task Assistant to Storage Manager which helps guide users through common task wizards for both the Enterprise and Subsystem management tasks. 6. For HP-UX server configurations with LVM mirrored volume, a fix was implemented to prevent a possible occurrence of an AVT storm caused by the HP-UX server probing in the wrong order of available paths to the volume(s) when it detect server to LUN path failure. This fix requires the controller firmware and NVSRAM be at version 06.12.xx.xx or later. The fix is to disabling the DS4000 storage subsystem AVT requests for the HP-UX server specific read pattern of 2 blocks (1024 bytes) at LBA 8192. To disable this new DS4000 storage subsystem functionality in HP- UX server configurations without LVM mirrored volumes, please refer to the disable_ignoreAVT8192_HPUX.script script described in the 4.1 Configuration Settings section. Please contact IBM support for additional information, if required. Please refer to the New Features section of the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 Installation and Support Guide for the appropriate host server operating system environment for additional information about the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 enhancements. ======================================================================= 1.3 Prerequisites ------------------ The DS4000 controller firmware and NVSRAM file that are packaged with this web download file can ONLY be loaded in the following DS4000 storage subsystems: 1. DS4100 storage disk systems with Standard Option 2. DS4300 storage disk systems with Standard or Turbo Option 2. DS4400 storage disk systems 3. DS4500 storage disk systems ATTENTION: - DO NOT DOWNLOAD this controller firmware on any other DS4000 storage disk systems. There is not any checking for this restriction inside the DS4000 storage manager client program. In addition, the procedure to recover the DS4000 storage subsystem that was inadvertently loaded with this firmware file will require downtime to the DS4000 storage subsystem. - DO NOT ATTEMPT to download the controller firmware and NVSRAM that are packaged in this web download file to the DS4000 storage subsystems without reviewing and making sure that all of the dependencies that are mentioned in the section 1.4 Dependencies are met. ======================================================================= 1.4 Dependencies ----------------- ATTENTION: 1. BEFORE UPGRADING THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE OF THE DS4100 WITH STANDARD DUAL CONTROLLER OPTION FROM VERSION 05.42.XX.00 TO VERSION 06.12.03.XX, YOU MUST RELOAD THE NVSRAM VERSION N17124F10R842V07 FIRST BEFORE ATTEMPTING THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE UPGRADE. See Section 3.0 Installation and Setup Instructions for more information. 2. DS4000 STORAGE DISK SYSTEM CONTROLLER FIRMWARE VERSION 06.1X.XX.XX REQUIRES THAT THE FIRMWARE VERSION OF AN ATTACHED EXP700 ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE MODULE (ESM) BE AT VERSION 9326 OR HIGHER. IF THE EXP700 ESM FIRMWARE IS EARLIER THAN THE 9326 VERSIONS, THE EXP700 ENCLOSURE AND THE INSTALLED DRIVES MAY NOT BE DISPLAYED IN THE DS4000 SUBSYSTEM MANAGEMENT WINDOW AFTER THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE IS UPGRADED. 3. DS4000 STORAGE DISK SYSTEM CONTROLLER FIRMWARE VERSION 06.1X.XX.XX REQUIRES THAT THE FIRMWARE VERSION OF AN ATTACHED EXP100 ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICE MODULE (ESM) BE AT VERSION 955X OR HIGHER. IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO UPGRADE EXP100 ESM FIRMWARE VERSIONS THROUGH 953X TO VERSION 955X. TO DETERMINE THE FIRMWARE LEVEL OF AN EXP100 ESM, IDENTIFY THE PRODUCT LABEL LOCATED AT THE REAR OF THE EXP100 ENCLOSURE. ONLY LABELS ON WHICH THE FIELD REPLACEABLE UNIT (FRU) PART NUMBER READS 25R0156 POSITIVELY INDICATE THAT AN ESM MODULE IS RUNNING FIRMWARE VERSION 955X OR HIGHER. IF THERE IS NO LABEL OR THE PART NUMBER ON THE LABEL DOES NOT READ 25R0156, THE ESM MAY STILL HAVE THE FIRMWARE VERSION 955X OR HIGHER IF IT HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY UPGRADED. IF NECESSARY, CONTACT YOUR IBM REPRESENTATIVE, SUPPORT, OR RESELLER FOR ASSISTANCE. 4. CURRENTLY, THE ONLY DS4000 STORAGE DISK SYSTEMS THAT ARE SUPPORTED BY THE 06.1X.XX.XX CONTROLLER FIRMWARE VERSION ARE THE DS4100 WITH STANDARD OPTION, THE DS4300 WITH STANDARD OR TURBO OPTION, THE DS4400 AND THE DS4500. DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS CONTROLLER FIRMWARE ON ANY OTHER DS4000 STORAGE DISK SYSTEM. THERE IS NOT ANY CHECKING FOR THIS RESTRICTION INSIDE THE STORAGE MANAGER CLIENT PROGRAM. 5. THE DS4000 STORAGE MANAGER CLIENT PROGRAM VERSION 9.12.XX.XX MUST BE INSTALLED AND CONFIGURED TO MANAGE YOUR DS4000 STORAGE DISK SYSTEM. THIS PROGRAM IS INCLUDED IN THE APPROPRIATE DS4000 STORAGE MANAGER VERSION 9.12 HOST SOFTWARE PACKAGES FOR THE OPERATING SYSTEM OF YOUR DS4000 MANAGEMENT STATION. 6. If the managed DS4000 storage disk system had the FC/SATA intermix premium feature enable, do not upgrade the controller firmware from version 06.10.xx.xx to version 06.12.xx.xx until a FC/SATA intermix premium feature key file is generated and available. Once the controller firmware is upgraded to version 06.12.xx.xx, the FC/SATA intermix premium feature will be shown as out-of-compliance and the FC/SATA intermix premium feature key file is required to re-enable the feature. When the FC/SATA intermix premium feature is in out-of- compliance state, LUNs management functions like creations, deletions and modifications will not be operational. Please refer to the FC/SATA intermix premium feature activation card that was packaged with your FC/SATA intermix feature kit. IBM DS4000 Storage Manager host software version 09.1x.xx.xx provides full management support for IBM machine types 3552 and 3542 storage controllers that have at least firmware version 04.01.xx.xx (05.xx.xx.xx in Microsoft Windows environment), IBM Machine type 1742- 900 and 1742 storage controllers that have at least firmware version 05.00.04.xx or IBM Machine type 1722 storage controllers that have at least firmware version 05.3x.xx.xx. The only IBM DS4000 Storage Manager version 09.1x.xx.xx supported management function on controllers with non-supported controller firmware versions is controller firmware and NVSRAM download. ======================================================================= 2.0 Change History ----------------------------- ====================================================================== 2.1 Version History ----------------------------- This is the latest release of IBM DS4000 TotalStorage™ controller firmware/ NVSRAM for the following DS4000 storage disk system models - the DS4100 with Standard option, the DS4300 with Standard or Turbo options, the DS4400 and the DS4500. Version 06.12.03.xx, 3/18/2005 for the DS4100 with Standard option, the DS4300 with Standard or Turbo option, the DS4400, and the DS4500 - Support the DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware version 06.12.xx.xx - Support the controller firmware version 06.12.xx.xx installed in the DS4100 storage disk systems 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 disk system management tasks. - Fix a potential HP-UX LVM AVT storm defect in HP-UX server configurations with LVM mirrored volumes (9-24-04) - Fix 269285 - Placement of userdata.txt is inconsistent causing event monitor to not send userdata.txt and profile information with the email alert - Fix hlpct_53446 - Free space decreased after deletion of logical volume Version 06.10.11.xx, 1/17/2005 for the DS4300 with Standard or Turbo option, DS4400, and DS4500 - Support the controller firmware version 06.10.xx.xx or higher for the DS4300 storage disk systems with standard option. Support for the attachment of EXP710 drive enclosures to the DS4300 storage disk systems with standard option Version 06.10.11.xx, 11/24/2004 for the DS4300 Turbo, DS4400, and DS4500 This is a maintenance DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware release for the 06.10.xx.xx firmware version. The new feature list is as follows: - 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 disk system - 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 Version 06.10.06.xx, 8/31/2004 for the DS4300 Turbo, DS4400, and DS4500 This is a major DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware release. The new feature list is as follows: - Enhance Remote Mirroring support. Besides Metro Mirroring, IBM DS4000 Storage Manager version 9 also supports Global Copy and Global Mirroring Remote Minor 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. - Support for the DS4000 EXP710 drive expansion enclosure (10/15/2004). Version 05.40.15.00, 7/29/2004 for the DS4300 Turbo, DS4400, and DS4500. This is the controller firmware maintenance release. The fix list for DS4400 and DS4500 models is as follows: 76687 Memory fault while running sysReboot with Cluster 74957 Error encountered after Heavy Mirror Xor Traffic Phase, and RV 75268 Ancient I/0 aborted while running switch port fail (volume copy, snapshot 75682 Controller returns reservation conflict while running switch port fail test. 78203 (#78004) 242386 - RAID1 remained degraded after a drive pull/replace 78339 (#69661) Assigned drives of RAID1 VG came back as "offline" 78347 (#77338) Fatal vproc after replacing drive 78354 (#76490) C238953 - Host IO Read Errors in multiple configurations 78606 (#78357) disk array became unmanageable in benchmark 74117 (#70794) One volume never finishes reconstruction when co 74700 (#74488) (#74483) Continuous resets on Tachyon chip - 5884 contr 75324 (#74431) C224711 Timeout occurs on the client during a request to 75598 Panic: Assertion failed : registration = 0, file presReservableVolume. 76017 (#75805) Incomplete transfer of host information during v 76104 (#75661) Controller reboot due to ancient IO during sysRe 76109 (#75755) CMVC: 237648 Configuration loss of RAID 0 volume (SATA) 76181 (#75746) Ancient I/O (mode select I/O) during 2 second po 76269 (#75283) C236739 I/O error during controller offline testing with S 76727 (#75055) DCE operation on RAID 1 volume invalidates tray loss prote 76951 (#76881) IAF process hangs if multiple IAFs in progress on same volume 76965 (#76936) Unable to re-initiate volume group initialization after th 77501 (#77464) Controllers did not agree on the state of a spindown drive 77510 (#71143) Defragmentation fails 77555 (#75895) Request for ctlr resets to be blocked by ctlr du 77632 (#76702) Volume state not consistent between the controllers after 78048 (#74681) Mapping exceeds 32-lun limit for default host ty The fix list for DS4300 Turbo models is as follows: 78203 (#78004) 242386 - RAID1 remained degraded after a drive pull/replace 78339 (#69661) Assigned drives of RAID1 VG came back as "offline" 78347 (#77338) Fatal vproc after replacing drive 78354 (#76490) C238953 - Host IO Read Errors in multiple configurations 78606 (#78357) disk array became unmanageable in benchmark 74117 (#70794) One volume never finishes reconstruction when co 74700 (#74488) (#74483) Continuous resets on Tachyon chip - 5884 contr 75324 (#74431) C224711 Timeout occurs on the client during a request to 76017 (#75805) Incomplete transfer of host information during v 76104 (#75661) Controller reboot due to ancient IO during sysRe 76109 (#75755) CMVC: 237648 Configuration loss of RAID 0 volume (SATA) 76181 (#75746) Ancient I/O (mode select I/O) during 2 second po 76251 (#76148) Controller assertion when validateCmdInfo routine calls cf 76269 (#75283) C236739 I/O error during controller offline testing with S 76727 (#75055) DCE operation on RAID 1 volume invalidates tray loss prote 76951 (#76881) IAF process hangs if multiple IAFs in progress on same volume 76965 (#76936) Unable to re-initiate volume group initialization after th 77501 (#77464) Controllers did not agree on the state of a spindown drive 77510 (#71143) Defragmentation fails 77537 (#75629) MEMORY FAULT in "symPrepareAltControllerInfo" 77555 (#75895) Request for ctlr resets to be blocked by ctlr du 77632 (#76702) Volume state not consistent between the controllers after 78048 (#74681) Mapping exceeds 32-lun limit for default host ty Version 05.40.11.0x, 4/31/2004 for the DS4300 Turbo, DS4400, and DS4500. Fixed a problem with cache mirroring that caused the controller to disable the cache. The result was severe performance degradation. For DS4400 and DS4500, the controller firmware version was 05.40.11.03. For the DS4300 Turbo, the new controller firmware version was 05.40.11.04. Version 05.40.11.01, 4/09/2004 for the DS4300 Turbo, DS4400, and DS4500. This is the controller firmware and NVSRAM maintenance release. The fix list for DS4400 and DS4500 models is as follows: 75567 (#75479) Memory leak beginning in 5.40.xx.xx. 69629 Downloading controller firmware with offline volumes causes unfinished download pr 69872 (#69467) TD_PT1086 RLS baseline date after new device insertion is incorrect. 70891 (#70586) TD_PT1277 Drive size reported incorrectly for a closed drive 71206 tray number reported incorrectly during discovery 70561 (#68445) C219318 CMVC 217537: Data miscompare while doing online controller firmware downloads 70772 (#68894) Analysis of a MEL log shows Dacstore Scrub is repeating on a volume group 71782 (#68268) (#67670) Can't create volume if drive sizes are similar 72339 CMVC-hlpct_42401 Error importing a 7.3 Gig FlashCopy LUN 72676 (#70100) SMclient GUI reports array needs attention, but guru reports 72712 (#72672) TD_PT1461 Ancient I/O during sysReboots 72768 (#72449) controllers repeatedly panic during M1 -> S3 FW upgrade 69052 Drives not assigned to proper loop on 2882 69204 (#68807) Profile not reporting correct unconfigured capacity on volume group Modify the NVSRAM file to disable Cache Sync in the W2K het host region. The fix list for DS4300 Turbo models is as follows: 75567 (#75479) Memory leak beginning in 5.40.xx.xx. 69629 Downloading controller firmware with offline volumes causes unfinished download pr 69872 (#69467) TD_PT1086 RLS baseline date after new device insertion is incorrect. 70105 (#70048) TD_PT1195 Diagnostic path to controller report down falsely 70891 (#70586) TD_PT1277 Drive size reported incorrectly for a closed drive 71206 tray number reported incorrectly during discovery 70561 (#68445) C219318 CMVC 217537: Data miscompare while doing online controller firmware downloads 70772 (#68894) Analysis of a MEL log shows Dacstore Scrub is repeating on a volume group 71782 (RW #68268) (#67670) Can't create volume if drive sizes are similar 72339 CMVC-hlpct_42401 Error importing a 7.3 Gig FlashCopy LUN 72676 (#70100) SMclient GUI reports array needs attention, but guru reports 72712 (#72672) TD_PT1461 Ancient I/O during sysReboots 72768 (#72449) controllers repeatedly panic during M1 -> S3 FW upgrade 69052 Drives not assigned to proper loop on 2882 69204 (#68807) Profile not reporting correct unconfigured capacity on volume group Modify the NVSRAM file to disable Cache Sync in the W2K het host region. Version 05.40.06.01, 12/19/2004 for the DS4400 and DS4500. Version 05.40.07.01, 12/19/2004 for the DS4300 Turbo. First Maintenance Release Version 05.40.03.05, 9/21/2004 for the DS4300 Turbo, DS4400, and DS4500. This is the initial release of the DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware for the 05.40.xx.xx code thread. A list of new features are as follows: - Support for IBM TotalStorage DS4300 Turbo - Support for VolumeCopy copy service premium feature - 256 logical drives per storage mapping partition - Persistent reservations - User control of network parameters. The user can now change the controller IP addresses via the Subsystem Management window interface. - Support for larger than 2TB arrays. The maximum logical drive size is still 2TB. - Support for the creation of logical drives with a segment size of 512K using the script engines or SMcli ======================================================================= 2.4 Code levels at time of release are as follows ------------------------------------------------- 1. Storage Controller Firmware versions: a. DS4500: FW_06120300_06100400 b. DS4400: FW_06120300_06100400 c. DS4300 Standard: SNAP_288X_06120300 d. DS4300 Turbo : SNAP_288X_06120300 e. DS4100 Standard: SNAP_282X_06120300 2. Storage Controller NVSRAM versions: ATTENTION: The DS4000 storage subsystem controller firmware version 06.12.xx.xx uses the FC/SATA intermix premium key file to enable the FC/SATA intermix functionality. It does not rely on a certain version of the NVSRAM file like the controller firmware version 06.10.xx.xx. Do not apply this version 06.12.xx.xx of the firmware until a FC/SATA intermix premium feature key file is generated and available. a. DS4500: N1742F900R912V06 b. DS4400: N1742F700R912V05 c. DS4300 Standard: N1722F600R912V05 (for EXP700/EXP710 ONLY attachment or when FC/SATA intermix premium feature is enabled) d. DS4300 Turbo : N1722F600R912V05 (for EXP700/EXP710 ONLY attachment or when FC/SATA intermix premium feature is enabled) e. DS4300 Standard: N1722F600R28enc2 (for EXP100 ONLY attachment) f. DS4300 Turbo : N1722F600R28enc2 (for EXP100 ONLY attachment) ATTENTION: DO NOT LOAD THIS NVSRAM FILE - N1722F600R18enc2 - INTO ANY OF THE DS4300 STORAGE SUBSYSTEMS THAT HAVE DRIVES IN THE DS4300 CHASSIS DRIVE SLOTS. THIS WILL CAUSE THE DS4300 STORAGE DISK SYSTEM NOT RECOGNIZING ANY OF THE DRIVES IN THE DS4300 CHASSIS. THIS COULD RESULT IN THE DEGRADATION OF THE DEFINED RAID ARRAY OR A LOSS OF ACCESS TO DATA. IF THIS NVSRAM FILE IS LOADED INTO A DS4300 STORAGE DISK SYSTEM WITHOUT ANY DRIVE EXPANSION ENCLOSURES ATTACHED, IT WILL PREVENT THE STORAGE DISK SYSTEM FROM COMPLETING THE BOOT PROCESS THAT IS INITIATED TO ACTIVATE THE NEW NVSRAM SETTINGS, WHICH MIGHT RESULT IN LOST OF MANAGEMENT ACCESS TO the DS4300 STORAGE DISK SYSTEM. THERE IS NO SAFETY MECHANISM TO PREVENT THE UNINTENTIONAL LOADING OF THIS NVSRAM FILE. IN ADDITION, DO NOT USE THIS NVSRAM FILE IN THE DS4300 STORAGE SUBSYSTEMS WITH FC/SATA INTERMIX PREMIUM FEATURE ENABLE. g. DS4100 Standard: N1724F100R912V05 A previous version (N1724F100R842V07) of the DS4100 NVSRAM file is also provided in the ...\NVSRAM\DS4100_FAStT100\PreReq_NVSRAM_for_DS4100 directory for downloading into the DS4100 storage subsystems before the upgrading of the DS4100 controller firmware to version 06.12.xx.xx. Refer to the following IBM TotalStorage™ Disk Storage Systems Technical Support web site for the latest released code levels. http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/disk/ ======================================================================= 3.0 Installation and Setup Instructions ----------------------------------------- ATTENTION: If you have not already done so, please check the Dependencies section for ANY MINIMUM FIRMWARE REQUIREMENTS for the DS4000 storage disk system controllers, the drive expansion enclosure ESMs and the hard drives in the DS4000 configurations before upgrading the controller firmware. Make any firmware updates as required BEFORE proceeding to upgrade the DS4000 controller with the firmware and NVSRAM files packaged with this README file. FAILURE to observe the minimum firmware requirement might cause your DS4000 storage disk system to be OUT-OF-SERVICE. 3.1 BEFORE UPGRADING THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE OF THE DS4100 WITH STANDARD DUAL CONTROLLER OPTION FROM VERSION 05.42.XX.00 TO VERSION 06.12.03.XX, YOU MUST RELOAD THE NVSRAM VERSION N17124F10R842V07 FIRST BEFORE ATTEMPTING THE CONTROLLER FIRMWARE UPGRADE. To reload the NVSRAM version N17124F100R842V07 into the DS4100 storage subsystem, do the following: a. Open the Subsystem Management window. b. Click Storage Subsystem => Download => NVSRAM. Follow the online instructions. 3.2 Updated the firmware of the ESMs in the attached drive expansion enclosures to latest levels before the upgrading the controller firmware. Specifically, if the to-be-updated controller is attached to any EXP700 drive expansion enclosures, the EXP700 ESM firmware must be updated to version 9326 or later before the 06.1x.xx.xx controller firmware is downloaded into the DS4000 storage disk system controllers. Otherwise, the installed drives in the exp700 drive expansion enclosures may not be displayed in the DS4000 subsystem management window after the controller firmware is upgraded. In addition, if the ESM firmware of any attached EXP100 drive expansion enclosures must be at version 955x or higher before updating the DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware to version 06.1x.xx.xx or higher. To download drive expansion ESM firmware, do the following: a. Open the Subsystem Management window. b. Click Advanced => Download => Environmental(ESM) Card Firmware. Follow the online instructions. Note: If the existing controller firmware in the DS4000 storage disk system is of version 05.30.xx.xx or higher, the drive expansion enclosure ESM firmware can be updated online with no downtime if both ESMs in each of the drive expansion enclosures are functional and one (and ONLY one) drive expansion enclosure is selected in the ESM firmware download window for ESM firmware updating at a time. Note: The latest ESM firmware versions for EXP100, EXP700 and EXP710 drive expansion enclosures are 9554, 9327 and 9629, respectively. 3.3 If the managed DS4000 storage subsystem with controller firmware version 06.10.xx.xx installed had the FC/SATA intermix premium feature enable, do not continue with the next step until a FC/SATA intermix premium feature key file is generated and available. Once the controller firmware is upgraded to version 06.12.xx.xx, the FC/SATA intermix premium feature will be shown as out-of-compliance and the FC/SATA intermix premium feature key file is required to re-enable the feature. When the FC/SATA intermix premium feature is in out-of- compliance state, LUNs management functions like creations, deletions and modifications will not be operational. Please refer to the FC/SATA intermix premium feature activation card that was shipped with the FC/SATA intermix premium feature kit for instructions to generate the required premium key file. 3.4 Important: You must install the firmware update prior to downloading the NVSRAM update. To download firmware, do the following: a. Open the Subsystem Management window. b. Click Storage Subsystem => Download => Firmware. Follow the online instructions. To download NVSRAM, do the following: a. Open the Subsystem Management window. b. Click Storage Subsystem => Download => NVSRAM. Follow the online instructions. 3.5 (if applicable) Re-enable the FC/SATA intermix premium feature using the premium key file. 3.6 After the controller firmware and NVSRAM is updated, consider checking the IBM TotalStorage™ Disk Storage Systems Technical Support web site for the latest released hard drive firmware. To download hard disk drive firmware, do the following: a. Schedule down time because the drive firmware upgrades require that there are no HOST IOs to be sent to the DS4000 controllers. b. Open the Subsystem Management window. c. Click Advanced => Download => Drive Firmware. Follow the online instructions. Note: with controller firmware version 06.1x.xx.xx or later, multiple drives from up to four different drive types can be updated at the same time. ======================================================================= 3.2 Helpful Hints ------------------ 1. If you are unable to see the maximum number of drives during Automatic Configuration, you should be able to use Manual Configuration to select individual drives and select the maximum number of drives allowed. 2. Depending on the storage subsystem that you have purchased, you may have to purchase the DS4000 storage partitioning premium feature option or an option to upgrade the number of supported partitions in a storage subsystem. Please see IBM Marketing representatives or IBM resellers for more information. - IBM DS4100 storage subsystem (machine type 1724): The standard and single controller configuration does not have the DS4000 storage partitioning premium enabled. Four partition, eight partition, sixteen and an upgrade from four to eight partition storage partitioning premium feature options can be purchased. - IBM DS4300 storage subsystem (machine type 1722): The standard and single controller configuration does not have the DS4000 storage partitioning premium enabled. Four partition, eight partition, sixteen and an upgrade from four to eight partition storage partitioning premium feature options can be purchased. The IBM DS4300 with Turbo option comes with 8 partition storage partitioning premium option installed. An upgrade to 64 partitions can be purchased for the IBM DS4300 with Turbo option. - IBM DS4400 storage subsystems (machine type 1742 - models 1RU and 1RX): The standard configuration has 64 partitions storage partitioning premium option installed. No additional storage partitioning premium feature options can be purchased for these storage subsystems. - IBM DS4500 storage subsystem (machine type 1742 - models 90X and 90U): The standard configuration has 16 partition storage partitioning premium option installed. An upgrade from 16 to 64 partition storage partitioning premium feature option can be purchased. 3. When making serial connections to the DS4000 Storage controller, the baud rate is recommended to be set at either 38200 or 57600. Note: Do not make any connections to the DS4000 Storage disk system serial ports unless it is instructed by IBM Support. Incorrect use of the serial port might result in lost of configuration, and possibly, data. 4. Fabric topology zoning requirement. To avoid possible problem at the host level, it is best practice that all Fibre Channel (FC) Switches must be zoned such that a single FC host bus adapter can only access one controller per storage array. In addition, this zoning requirement also ensures the maximum number of host connections can be seen and log into the controller FC host port. This is because if a FC HBA port is seen by both controller A and B host ports, it will be counted as two host connections to the storage subsystem - one for controller A port and one for controller B port. Note: The DS4000 storage disk systems DS4500, DS4400 and FAStT500 (IBM machine type 1742 and 3552) have two ports per controller - one per minihub slot. The DS4000 storage disk system DS4300 (IBM machine type 1722) and DS4100 (IBM machine type 1724) have two ports per controller. The DS4000 storage disk system FAStT200 (IBM machine type 3542) has only one port per controller. 5. All drive enclosures on any given loop should have complete unique ID's assigned to them. For example, in a maximum configured DS4500 storage disk system, enclosures on one redundant drive loop should be assigned with id's 10-17 and enclosures on the second drive loop should be assigned with id's 20-27. Enclosures id's 00 ~ 09 should not be used and enclosure id's with the same single digit such as 11 and 21 should not be used on the same drive loop. 6. The ideal configuration for SATA drives is one drive in each EXP per array, one logical drive per array and one OS disk partition per logical drive. This configuration minimizes the random head movements that increase stress on the SATA drives. As the number of drive locations to which the heads have to move increases, application performance and drive reliability may be impacted. If more logical drives are configured, but not all of them used simultaneously, some of the randomness can be avoided. SATA drives are best used for long sequential reads and writes. 7. IBM recommends at least one hot spare per EXP100 drive expansion enclosure. A total of 15 hot-spares can be defined per DS4000 storage disk system configuration. 8. Starting with the DS4000 Storage Manager (SM) host software version 9.12 or later, the Storage Manager client script window looks for the files with the file type of ".script" as the possible script command files. In the previous versions of the DS4000 Storage Manager host software, the script window looks for the file type ".scr" instead. (i.e. enableAVT.script for 9.12 or later vs. enableAVT.scr for pre-9.12) ======================================================================= 4.0 Configuration Information ----------------------------- 4.1 Configuration Settings -------------------------- 1. By default the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager 9.12 firmware does not automatically map logical drives if storage partitioning feature is enabled. This means that the logical drives are not automatically presented to host systems. For a new installation, after creating new arrays and logical drives; a. If your host type is not Windows NT, create a partition with your host type and map the logical drives to this partition. b. If your host type is Windows NT, you can map your logical drives to the "Default Host Group" or create a partition with a NT host type. When upgrading from previous versions of IBM DS4000 Storage Manager to version 9.12. a. If upgrading with no partitions created and you have an operating system other than Windows NT, you will need to create a partition with your host type and map the logical drives from the "Default Host Group" to this partition. b. If upgrading with Storage Partitions and an operating system other than Windows NT is accessing the default host group, you will need to change the default host type. After upgrading, the default host type is reset to Windows NT. Refer to the IBM DS4000 Storage Manager online help to learn more about creating storage partitions and changing host types. 2. When you are configuring IBM machine type 1722, 1742, 3542 or 3552 storage subsystems as boot devices, contact IBM support for supported configurations and instructions for configuring LUNs in the IBM storage subsystems as boot devices. 3. Running script files for specific configurations. Apply the appropriate scripts to your subsystem based on the instructions you have read in the publications or any instructions in the operating system readme file. A description of each script is shown below. - SameWWN.scr: Setup RAID controllers to have the same World Wide Names. The World Wide Names (node) will be the same for each controller pair. The NVSRAM default sets the RAID controllers to have the same World Wide Names. - DifferentWWN.scr: Setup RAID controllers to have different World Wide Names. The World Wide Names (node) will be different for each controller pair. The NVSRAM default sets the RAID controllers to have the same World Wide Names. - EnableDriveMigration.scr: The Enable drive migration script scans the drives for configurations when they are added to a storage system and will also attempt to use configurations found on the newly added drives. The NVSRAM default will enable drive migration. - DisableDriveMigration.scr: The disable drive migration script allows the addition of disk drives while the system is running. In addition, it identifies the drives as unused capacity regardless of past drive configuration. The NVSRAM default will enable drive migration. - EnableAVT_W2K_S2003_noncluster.scr: The script will enable automatic logical drive transfer (AVT/ADT) for the Windows 2000/Server 2003 non- cluster heterogenous host region. The default setting is to disable AVT for this heterogenous host region. This setting is one of the requirements for setting up the remote boot or SAN-boot. Do not use this script unless it is specifically mentioned in the applicable instructions. (This script can be used for other host type if modifications are made in the script, replacing the Windows 2000/Server 2003 non-cluster host type with the appropriate host type that needs to have AVT/ADT enabled) - DisableAVT_W2K_S2003_noncluster.scr: The script will disable the automatic logical drive transfer (AVT) for the Windows 2000/Server 2003 non-cluster heterogenous host region. This script will reset the Windows 2000/Server 2003 non-cluster AVT setting to the default. (This script can be used for other host type if modifications are made in the script, replacing the Windows 2000/Server 2003 non-cluster host type with the appropriate host type that needs to have AVT/ADT disabled) - EnableAVT_Linux.scr: The script will enable automatic logical drive transfer (AVT) for the Linux heterogenous host region. Do not use this script unless it is specifically mentioned in the applicable instructions. - DisableAVT_Linux.scr: The script will disable the automatic logical drive transfer (AVT) for the Linux heterogenous host region. Do not use this script unless it is specifically mentioned in the applicable instructions. - disable_ignoreAVT8192_HPUX.script: This script will disable the DS4000 storage subsystem ignoring of AVT requests for the HP-UX server specific read pattern of 2 blocks at LBA 8192. The AVT ignoring request for the LBA 8192 reads was implemented to prevent a possible occurrence of an AVT storm caused by the HP-UX server probing in the wrong order of available paths to the volume(s) when it detect server to LUN path failure. Use this script only when you do not have defined LVM mirrored volumes using the mapped logical drives from the DS4000 storage subsystems. Please contact IBM support for additional information, if required. - enable_ignoreAVT8192_HPUX.script: This script will enable the DS4000 storage subsystem ignoring of AVT requests for the HP-UX server specific read pattern of 2 blocks at LBA 8192. The AVT ignoring request for the LBA 8192 reads was implemented to prevent a possible occurrence of an AVT storm caused by the HP-UX server probing in the wrong order of available paths to the volume(s) when it detect server to LUN path failure. Use this script only when you do have defined LVM mirrored volumes using the mapped logical drives from the DS4000 storage subsystems. Please contact IBM support for additional information, if required. 4. When you are configuring IBM machine type 1742 or 3552 storage controllers in host cluster Remote Mirror configurations, contact IBM support for supported host cluster configurations and instructions for configuring IBM storage controllers in clustered Remote Mirror configurations. ======================================================================= 4.2 Unsupported configurations ------------------------------ The following lists configurations that are currently not being supported with IBM DS4000 Storage Manager 9.12. 1. The DS4100 (machine type 1724) storage disk system does not support the attachment of the DS4000 EXP710 and EXP700 (FC) drive expansion enclosure. Please contact IBM representatives or resellers for the availability of such support in the future. 2. The DS4100 with Single Controller option does not support the attachment of the DS4000 EXP100 drive expansion enclosures. 3. The DS4300 storage disk system with Single Controller option does not support the controller firmware version 06.1x.xx.xx. The correct firmware version for these DS4300 storage disk system models is 05.34.xx.xx. 4. The DS4100 storage disk system with Single Controller option does not support the controller firmware version 06.1x.xx.xx. The correct firmware version for these DS4300 storage disk systems models is 05.42.xx.xx. 5. Fibre Channel loop environments with the IBM Fibre Channel Hub, machine type 3523 and 3534, in conjunction with the IBM Fibre Channel Switch, machine types 2109-S16, 2109-F16 or 2109-S8. In this configuration, the hub is connected between the switch and the IBM Fibre Channel RAID Controllers. 6. The IBM Fibre Channel Hub, machine type 3523, connected to IBM machine type 1722, 1742, 3542 and 3552. 7. A configuration in which a server with only one FC host bus adapter connects directly to any DS4000 storage disk system with dual controllers is not supported. The supported configuration is the one in which the server with only one FC host bus adapter connects to both controller ports of any DS4000 storage disk system with dual controllers via Fibre Channel (FC) switch (SAN-attached configuration.) ======================================================================= 5.0 Unattended Mode --------------------- N/A ======================================================================= 6.0 WEB Sites and Support Phone Number ---------------------------------------- 6.1 IBM TotalStorage™ Disk Storage Systems Technical Support web site: http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/disk/ 6.2 IBM TotalStorage™ Marketing Web Site: http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/disk 6.3 If you have any questions about this update, or problem applying the update go to the following HelpCenter World Telephone Numbers URL: http://www.ibm.com/planetwide IMPORTANT: You should download the latest version of the DS4000 Storage Manager host software, the DS4000 storage disk system controller firmware, the DS4000 drive expansion enclosure ESM firmware and the drive firmware at the time of the initial installation and when product updates become available. To be notified of important product updates, you must first register at the IBM Support and Download Web site: www-1.ibm.com/servers/storage/disk/ Perform the following steps to register at the IBM Support and Download Web site: 1. Click on My Support in the Additional Support box in the right side of the DS4000 Support web page. 2. The Sign In window displays. Either enter your IBM ID and Password in the sign in area to sign in and proceed to step 6 or, if you are not currently registered with the site, click Register Now. 3. The My IBM Registration window Step 1 of 2 opens. Enter the appropriate information and click Continue to get to the second My IBM Registration window. 4. In the My IBM Registration window Step 2 of 2, enter the appropriate information and click Submit to register. 5. The My IBM Registration windows opens with the following message, “Thank you for registering with ibm.com. Continue to explore ibm.com as a registered user.” Click Edit Profile in the My IBM box on the right side of the window. 6. The My Support window opens. Click Add Products to add products to your profile. 7. Use the pull-down menus to choose the appropriate DS4000 storage disk system and expansion enclosures that you want to add to your profile. To add the product to your profile, select the appropriate box or boxes next to the product names and click Add Product. 8. Once the product or products are added to your profile, click Subscribe to Email folder tab 9. Select Storage in the pull down menu. Select Please send these documents by weekly email and select Downloads and drivers and Flashes to receive important information about product updates. Click Updates. 10. 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