From the HP release notes: – here are the new features:
The 9.0 release is a comprehensive release that includes enhancements in the following areas:
- New global configurations — Email, SNMP, DNS, remote syslog, and upgrades are done at the management group
- Automated online upgrade management — Identifies, downloads, and applies updates more easily
- Alarms and Events enhancements — Reduced quantity, configured globally, new severity levels
- Storage system alarms
- Network RAID 5 and 6 enhancements — No longer require snapshots, Network RAID 5 on clusters of three or more, Network RAID 6 on clusters of five or more
- VMware VAAI vStorage offloads — Full copy, Block Zeroing, and Hardware Assisted Locking for faster VM deployment and less load on ESX servers
- New Best Practice Analyzer rules — Checks for consistent RAID and network settings
- P4000 Centralized Management Console enhancements — More map views, new volume icons that represent status and RAID, reduced numbers of pop ups, user ability to change CMC font sizes and default names
- Host server cluster management — Automated assignment of volumes to many servers that make up an application cluster
- Server aware sites — Servers and server clusters can be assigned to sites to improve load balancing
- HP Insight Remote Support replaces LeftHand Service Console
- HP SIM monitoring support (6.2)
- Localization for Japan, China, and Korea
- MPIO improvements — Host network load balancing in DSM for MPIO and native windows MPIO support
- iSCSI session management improvements — Sessions are automatically rebalanced after systems come back online and when systems are added. Sessions are automatically disconnected when volumes are unassigned from servers
- Improved PGR / Microsoft Failover Cluster scalability — Up to 256 iSCSI sessions per volume with Microsoft Failover Clusters utilizing PGR
- Cross-Version Remote Copy — Release 9.0 SAN/iQ software can remote copy to and from version 8.5, 8.1, and 8.0 management groups
- Remote Copy bandwidth — Now managed independently of management group bandwidth
- CLI improvements — New commands to manage schedules, SNMP, and servers
- Application-Managed Snapshots support Microsoft Windows CSV
Here is the link to the new download.
https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=P4000SW
Thanks for the great news!
thanks,
Do you also see no more servers in your cmc< or must i upgrade the nodes to v9?
Version 9 of the CMC can see and manage nodes using 8.x
I have upgraded eleven P4500 G2 nodes from 8.5 to 9.0 without a single issue
thamk you, i had serious problems during upgrade,it was scary, but all is ok now
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Do you know how to upgrade each nodes one by one? The 9.0 CMC require me to upgrade the whole Management Group.
I don’t believe there is any publicly known way (from the CMC or the CLI of a node) to upgrade one node at a time.
I do however hear rumors that if you contact support, they can tell you how to activate a hidden feature of the CMC to do this.