New Features
| • | New operation: The expand-storage-pool operation allows administrators to increase the available size of an existing storage pool. |
| • | New operation: The add-port-to-storage-group operation allows administrators to add a target port to a storage group (or masking view). |
| • | New operation: The remove-port-from-storage-group operation allows administrators to remove a target port from a storage group (or masking view) |
| • | New operation: The refresh-storage-system operation allows administrators to force the SMI-S Provider to take into account recent configuration changes in the storage systems. |
| • | This version of the adapter fully supports the provisioning of storage for iSCSI based hosts. |
Changes and Improvements
| • | create-storage-pool operation: Additional input options allow administrators to specify RAID level, drive type and number of disks for a new storage pool. |
| • | The EMC actor adapter can be uploaded on the BAO grid with an empty configuration. In this case, the connection information needs to be provided at the request level. |
| • | get-job operation: Additional job-specific information about the job completion status has been added in the adapter response (for example: ID of the LUN that has been created) |
| • | EMC Symmetrix DMX and V-Max are now fully supported |
Fixed Issues
| • | More descriptive error message is added in the adapter response, if the adapter request have failed, especially when input parameters are found to be invalid. |
| • | The get-storage-pool operation returned information about all the available RAID groups and thin pools even though a specific RAID group or thin pool is requested. |
| • | The get-storage-pool operation did not provide RAID level information for thin pools. |
| • | The get-lun operation returned information about all the available LUNs present in all the Storage Pools even though a specific storage pool was specified in the Adapter request. |
| • | The Adapter response for the add lun-to-storage-group operation did not contain the Storage group name element. |
| • | The Adapter response for the remove-lun-from-storage-group operation did not contain the Storage group name element. |
| • | The get-storage-group operation returned information about all the available Storage groups present, even though a specific WWN or LUN was specified in the Adapter request. |
| • | The get-storage-pool operation reported RAID Level 3 pools as RAID Level 5. |
Known Issue
Limitations in the expand-lun operation
Due to various issues and limitations in the EMC SMI-S Provider and the EMC Clariion and Symmetrix firmware, the expand-lun operation may not work in specific cases as described below.
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Expanding a traditional LUN on Clariion
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Fully supported (both stripe and concatenate)
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Expanding a thin LUN on Clariion
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Not supported
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Expanding a regular device on Symmetrix
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Fully supported with EMC Solution Enabler v7.3.04. (both stripe and concatenate)
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Expanding a thin device on Symmetrix
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Not supported
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Limitations in the create-storage-pool operation
Due to an acknowledged issue with the EMC SMI-S Provider on Symmetrix storage systems, the create-storage-pool operation may fail to take into account the user-defined disk type (SSD, FC or SATA).
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