Supported Hardware; Operating System - HP StorageWorks NAS 8000 - Version 1.6.X Release Note

These release notes appear in the following main categories:
Product Changes and Improvements (Versions 1.6.2 and 1.6.3)
Release Notes
Operating System and NAS Web Interface
Applications
NAS Data Path Manager
Product Changes and Improvements (Versions 1.6.2 and
1.6.3)

Operating System

High Availability
Modifications to HA failover timeouts to reduce the chance of premature package failovers.
Modifications to HA configuration caching to eliminate cache coherency problems that would
block HA packages from failing over successfully.
Eliminate a problem with the rmtab file in HA systems.
Ensure consistent User Mappings between cluster nodes.
Networking
Updated driver for the NC7770 copper Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC).
Security
Modifications to Samba to close a potential security hole identified by the Open Source
Community.
Snapshots
Eliminate a problem that would occasionally prevent the user from successfully creating a
snapshot.
Eliminate a problem that would occasionally cause snapshots to hang under heavy load.
Eliminate a problem caused when creating a snapshot of the Disaster Recovery Volume.
Backup
NAS 8000 release 1.6.3 contains the new Data Protector 5.1 agent. For more information, see
the Backup section.
Upgrades
Correct several registry problems introduced when upgrading from version 1.4.X to 1.5.0 and
from 1.5.0 to 1.6.X.
Command View NAS Web Interface
Improved GUI performance, particularly when configuring storage.

Supported Hardware

Support for VA7110 in both dedicated storage and SAN configurations.
HP StorageWorks NAS 8000
Version 1.6.3 Release Notes 2