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1. SANBlaze Technology August 13 2012 Version 1 0 4 Release Notes Document Revision 2 0 SB ATCA1000 Copyright 2010 2012 SANBlaze Technology Inc All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America AdvancedTCA MicrolTCA and Advanced Mezzanine Card are registered trademarks of PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group All other products mentioned in this document are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders SANS aze Technology Inc SANBlaze SB ATCA1000 Release Notes Thank you for choosing products from SANBlaze Technology This document contains important information about this product release that may not appear in the standard product documentation We encourage you to read these notes before installing this product Identifying the correct firmware image Code release file name ATCA1000 V1 0 4 tar gz This is the latest firmware for the ATCA1000 SANBlaze distributes the code as gunu zip gz file The distribution will contain the following three files Description Rootfs ext gz uboot compressed file system firmware image file version denoted by timestamp Compressed linux kernel firmware image U boot bin Compressed u boot firmware code image Identifying the correct hardware This code release is compatible with certain ATCA1000 products marked as version 0002 or greater Before proceeding Use the web GUI and check the version shown on the Mai2. Software Update dev shm ATCA1000_VXXrexx ulmage_ 2 6 23 lv dev shm ATCA1000 VXXrexx rootfs v Export System Backup backup nvdisk tar gz Step 4 A Pop up window notifies the user when the flash update completes The new software becomes active at next reboot Step 5 optional Perform Factory Reset Issue this command at any time to restore blade defaults Recommended if your current version is RC4 or older NOTICE This command will erase all existing blade configurations network settings volumes shares etc but guarantees proper installation of the upgrade i Login into shell window as admin username admin password admin SB ATCA1000 Release Notes Version 1 0 4 Page 3 of 16 ii At console prompt type atca blade set factory 1 Y2Y3Y4Y Step 6 A blade reboot button is available on the ATCA Status menu or via shell console prompt as root using reboot CLI tool update procedure details Please See ATCA user manual SB ATCA1000 Release Notes Version 1 0 4 Page 4 of 16 Resignaturing VMware ESX volumes If upgrading blade firmware that was V1 0 1 or older existing iSCSI datastores are assigned new LUN ID UUID or serial numbers VMware ESX may subsequently report these datastores as disabled or unexpectedly missing because the LUN ID is used to help identify a datastore In this case you must resignature these datastores using the following rescan procedure The procedure is executed only one time
3. ance menu Import Software Update No File chosen tems new Add iSCSI filter to allow or deny initiators per target Description users may limit access to a specific list of initiators and or block specific initiators from accessing an iSCSI target device ltem 4 fix Add iSCSI filter to allow or deny initiators per LUN Description Fix windows explorer file name issue which would cause import update to fail SB ATCA1000 Release Notes Version 1 0 4 Page 9 of 16 ltem 5 fix Quick Start command line tool Description Fix CLI tool named qguickstart sh for IPV6 compatibility lt is intended to simplify initial configuration of the blades 5 Ethernet ports New firmware features and Errata fixes rc92 tem 4 fix Support RAIDS and RAID6 volumes greater than 2TB Description This version of firmware properly handles software RAID volumes that exceed 2TB size With this enhancement users may create very large RAID5 or RAID6 volumes example 12TB and then divide this capacity into multiple logical volumes Each logical volume can be any size up to 1800GB Item 2 new IPv6 support Description This firmware adds IPv6 128 bit IP address support in addition to IPv4 32 bit IP address While the majority of today s ATCA backplanes still run IPv4 this feature will ensure the storage blade is ready when deployments require it GUI changes The GUI will continue to show IPv4 network fiel
4. and is non destructive Step 1 Power off all virtual machines stored on the affected volume s Step 2 Log into each host and execute the following four commands echo 1 gt proc vmware config LVM EnableResignature vmkfstools V echo 0 gt proc vmware config LVM EnableResignature vmkfstools V Step 3 Reinventory the virtual machines a Open VI Client to the VCenter Server The affected virtual machines will show as Unknown inaccessible b Right click on a virtual machine and click Remove From Inventory B Power On Ghi 6 192 168 100 117 Mware Infrastructure Client Power Off ere ioj x File Edit View Inventory Administration Plugins or Io Suspend Gtr z Reset R _ lt lt xis 7 a P l A Shut Down Guest Inventory Administration 7 E gt PANA w i b amp gt Snapshot 7 aS SYS E E E localhost localdomain Fa Add Permission Cp Lnknonn ETA GY bnon 7 maccesrht en Gh tntoown 2 finaccesniive Gd Untnown 3 finaccesnbve Open Console Send Gtr Alt pel Answer DUESO Report Performance l PUG p Instal Upgrade VMware Tools a Tasks gt rot z N Edit Settings 4 N i KA Paname _ i lt _ Remove From Inventory TER c A popup appears Click Yes to confirm removal d With the lo al host highlighted click Configuration Storage Adapters and Rescan 4 N N l 3 192 168 100 117 VMwar
5. ca Hardware RAID Physical Disks EIS Maintenance TT a TT TT A New Network Shelf I O Status CPU Status ATCA Item 10 new Web tool browser tab reflects active menu name Description This release prints the active web tool page name in both the browsers title bar and browsers tab as a means of identifying what menu page is active fix Web tool Some browsers would auto complete fields ltem 11 unintentionally filling username and passwords Description Browsers with auto complete features would often auto fill iscsi username password This release includes a fix to add autocomplete off to all web tool menu pages tem 12 fix Web tool no mechanism to prevent multiple logins Description Add host tracking to prevent simultaneous web management logins from multiple systems Item 13 fix CLI tool backspace key functionality fix Description When making text entries with atca_blade tool the keyboard backspace key now operates properly SB ATCA1000 Release Notes Version 1 0 4 Page 13 of 16 fix CLI tool menu item renamed to match function ltem 14 Description The release renames a sub menu item shown by the atca_blade CLI 9 Web gui enable set_gui menu option Old Allow CLI Access while Web GUI in use New Enable CLI Override This new description more accurately describes the function which permits a user to launch the CLI tool ev
6. ds which are used to set addresses using dotted decimal entries like this 192 168 100 33 The GUI will also show new IPv6 network fields which are used to set addresses using any of the following hexadecimal syntax entries 2001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 C0A8 6421 2001 192 168 100 33 2001 COA8 6421 The IPv6 service running n the storage blade automatically assigns unique address values to each Ethernet port tt ttt t t t 4 t CLI changes The firmware additions include new CLI command ping6 to send ICMP echo requests on IPv6 network ltem 3 fix Corrected task abort set implementation Description When processing large I O gt 1MB previous firmware versions could reply to an initiator s task management request abort_task or abort_task_set with success but then later complete a command which should have been included amongst the aborted SB ATCA1000 Release Notes Version 1 0 4 Page 10 of 16 tasks In this event an initiator might then incorrectly associate returned data with a new active _T_L Nexus overwriting good data em new Quick Start command line tool Description A new CLI tool named guickstart sh_ is available It is intended to simplify initial configuration of the blades 5 Ethernet ports ltem 5 new Quick start Wizard GUI web tool Description The HTML web management tool includes a quick start wizard to more easily and rapidly configure storage services on th
7. e Infrastructure Client File Edit view Inventory Adfinistration Plugins Help H localhost localdomain E New virtual Machine 1 Getting Started Summam Wirtual Machines Resource Allocation Performance gD inknown 3 aC CESS Hardware Storage Adapters Rescan amp Device SAN Identifier 4 iSCSI Software Adapter j vmhba32 ign 1998 01 com ymy Health Status Processors Memory Storage Networking Storage Adapters lt q Network Adapters SB ATCA1000 Release Notes Version 1 0 4 Page 5 of 16 e With the local host highlighted click the Summary tab L 7 7 Y 192 168 100 117 VMware Infrastructure Client File Edit View Inventory Administration Plugins Help H localhost localdomain GA Unknown inaccessible GA Unknown 1 finaccessible CEEE Summary Gh Unknown 2 finaccesnbie General Manufacturer Intel Corporation Model 55520HC Processors 2 CPU x 1 599 GHz Processor Type InteR Xeon R CPU E5504 2 00GHz Hyperthreading Inactive localhost localdomain Mware ESX Server 3 5 0 207095 Evaluation 60 day s remaining Virtual Machines Resource Allocation Performance Configuration Users amp Groups Events Permissic 7 Resources CPU usage 10 MHz Browse Datastore Memory usage 756 00 MB duuh 6 7 Rename Number of NICs 2 Data
8. e blade SANS a Technology Inc FY SANBlaze ATCA1000 EN Quick Start Wizard Network WS Volume Group Storage Services iSCSI A nfs A smb Shares A LYM2 1 MD RAID Hardware RAID Physical Disks Maintenance VINNY ANNIE LUI ltem 6 new Quick Start Language Options Description User may select a different default language for the Wizard tools With this wizard you can perform the following tasks e Set up anew blade assign Ethernet networking information including address DNS and NIS information e Create storage Volume Groups including disk members and RAID properties e Create storage services including iSCSI NFS andCIFS tJ SB ATCA1000 Release Notes Version 1 0 4 Page 11 of 16 ltem 7 new Export System log files for diagnostic purposes Description Diagnostic information for the software running on your blade is kept on your blade in the form of system log files and error reports This feature gathers all relevant files and bundles them into a single download archive file Users may then send this archive file to a support contact to help diagnose and fix a problem Note These message and log files contain no user data information that may be stored on iSCSI NFS or CIF Samba volumes Added to Maintenance tool page Epor System Log Files Hdevishmvlogfiletar gz export J VY ltem 8 new Active Directory AD integration Descripti
9. en if there is an active web tool session Remote web tool access is suspended while the CLI session is active SB ATCA1000 Release Notes Version 1 0 4 Page 14 of 16 Known Issues with Blade firmware The following issues are known to exist at the time of this release E key settings on 10Gb speed for zone 2 XAUI ports ltem 1 sometimes ignored Description The blade assigns an E key option for the XAUI ports at 10G only DTI and other model 10Gb switch blades sometimes attempt to auto negotiate 10Gb effectively ignoring the E key setting to operate at 10G only These switches must be manually set to operate the fabric connections at 10Gb rather than AUTO Work around preferred 1 Ensure your DTI switch has firmware 1 2 1 0 or greater The new firmware enables you to select 10G only from the normal user interface and save it in the system configuration Work around for older firmware Procedure required at each boot or power cycle 1 Establish a RS232 console connection to the DTI switch 2 Reboot the switch 3 Press 2 when prompted to get to the pre boot shell 4 Press b to get into the Broadcom shell 5 issue this command to force the ports to 10Gb port xe autoneg off speed 10000 Known Issues with the command line configuration tool The following issues were known to exist at the time of this release tem 1 CLI does not enforce maximum logical volume size of 1 8TB Description Users may create
10. initiate an assemble and rebuild if necessary New firmware features and Errata fixes V1 0 2 fix Various optimizations to meet VMware VMready ltem 3 i ae certification requirments Description This firmware version makes subtle changes that enable the firmware to pass VMReady certification requirements For example the number of supported NAS shares was increased from 40 to 256 New firmware features and Errata fixes V1 0 1 SB ATCA1000 Release Notes Version 1 0 4 Page 8 of 16 ema fix iSCSI task management Description This firmware version corrects the response to a SCSI task management sequence used in the iSCSI stack The symptom was that as disks were heated to 55C for extended periods the iSCSI targets would go offline on some systems A blade reset was required to re establish connection Item 2 fix Active Domain join Description This firmware corrects a bug which sometimes prevented the blade from registering and joining with an Active Domain AD server New firmware features and Errata fixes V1 0 ltem 1 Info Revision identifier Description This firmware version identifier string will now show as V1 0 ltem 2 new Ability to set GUI inactivity timeout auto logout Description This feature lets users adjust the inactivity period threshold before forcing a user logout When shipped from the factory the default threshold is 600 seconds 5 minutes of inactivity This feature appears on the mainten
11. into each host and execute the following four commands esxcfg advcfg s 1 LVM EnableResignature vmkfstools V esxcfg advcfg s 0 LVM EnableResignature vmkfstools V Step 3 Follow the same steps shown in step 3 of Resignaturing VMware ESX volumes SB ATCA1000 Release Notes Version 1 0 4 Page 7 of 16 New firmware features and Errata fixes V1 0 4 ltem 1 new Solaris Long SCSI names Description This firmware offers the ability to use long scsi names when communicating with iSCSI targets created on the storage blade For example Old name dev dsk c3t1d0s7 New name dev dsk c4t600110D03B18A2B40000000100000000d0s7 The new naming scheme is achieved by activating the solaris ssd driver SAN SCSI disk This driver is a more modern driver with capabilities to complement newer networked devices like iSCSI Activation is enabled by executing the following CLI sequence following the firmware upgrade SU root mkdir etco iert touch etc iet force alua on OF H reboot Note1 If a user wishes to use short names the above sequence is not necessary Note2 If a user issues a factory reset the blade reverts to using short names The above sequence must be completed again if the user wants to use long names instead New firmware features and Errata fixes V1 0 3 ltem 2 new Auto Rebuild Offline RAID set Description This firmware can detect the presence of an offline RAID set during boot and automatically
12. irtual machine highlighted Right click the virtual machine file extension vmx or template file extension vmtx Click Add to Inventory and follow the wizard When the wizard completes the virtual will appear correctly under the local host Repeat step 3 for all additional re scanned datastore s Y 192 168 100 117 VMware Infrastructure Client File Edit Yiew Inventory Administration Plugins Help H JocalhestJacaldamsin _ _ Z New Virtual Machine L localhost localdomain Mware ESX Server 3 5 0 207095 Evaluation 60 day s remaining r Getting Started Summar Ee a Resource Allocation Performance Configuration Users amp Groups E Permissic Resources CPU usage 11 MHz WOM laccesanwe Manufacturer Intel Corporation Model 55520HC Prorescenrs TPliw 1 599 hH 2 x 1 599 GHz SB ATCA1000 Release Notes Version 1 0 4 Page 6 of 16 Resignaturing VMware ESXi volumes If upgrading blade firmware that was V1 0 1 or older existing iSCSI datastores are assigned new LUN ID UUID or serial numbers VMware ESXi may subsequently report these datastores as disabled or unexpectedly missing because the LUN ID is used to help identify a datastore In this case you must resignature these datastores using the following rescan procedure The procedure is executed only one time and is non destructive Step 1 Power off all virtual machines stored on the affected volume s Step 2 Log
13. large RAID volumes that exceed 2TB and subsequently split this Capacity into smaller logical volumes This firmware release supports a maximum logical volume size of size of 1800GB 1 8TB The CLI tool does not enforce this size limit and any volumes that exceed this limit will operate incorrectly Work around 1 Use the GUI tool to create logical volumes GUI enforces the maximum LV size 2 Ensure that neither user nor user scripts limit logical volume size of 1 8TB Known Issues with the web configuration tool The following issues were known to exist at the time of this release Web tool menu screen does not re draw when new disks are ltem 1 live inserted Description Physical drives such as AMC disk cards to not automatically appear in the physical disk SB ATCA1000 Release Notes Version 1 0 4 Page 15 of 16 window The user must manually click the re draw button for these resources to appear Work around The user must manually click the re draw button for these resources to appear ltem 2 Disks may display incorrectly following RAID config Description Hardware RAID will alter the number name and order of disks available to the OS In some cases Linux may not properly pickup dev sdx devices and thus configuration menus may display erroneous information Reboot to rectify this Item 3 I O performance monitor shows Zero following RAID config Description Hardware RAID will alter the number name a
14. nd order of disks available to the OS In some cases Linux may not properly pickup dev sdx devices and thus configuration menus may display erroneous information Reboot to rectify this tem Cannot delete NFS sharename exceeding 10 Characters Description Normally the webtool will suggest a share name such as share0 but allow the user to assign an alternate name If a user assigns a sharename exceeding 10 characters they are unable to later delete the sharename This issue is caused because the longer name when combined with other path info exceeds one of the string compares in the webtool code Work around 1 If assigning a new sharename ensure it does do not exceed 10 characters 2 Manually remove lt long sharename gt rm rf mnt shr file lvc0O longsharename rm rf export nfs longsharename rm rf export smb longsharename You MUST be careful that there is no data in the shares files SB ATCA1000 Release Notes Version 1 0 4 Page 16 of 16
15. ntenance gt ATCA_ Status page Vendor IANAID Name HW Revision HB FW Revision IPMIRev Model Serial _ SANBlaze Technology Inc ATCA1000 0002 01 10 01 50 SB ATCA1000 100LYMMSSSS as Alternatively the IPMI command GetDevicelD command can be issued to determine compatibility specifically inspect the response for board device revision byte 3 of the GetDevicelD response GetDevicelD board device Description revision Please contact SANBlaze before upgrading Hardware is compatible You may upgrade the blade SB ATCA1000 Release Notes Version 1 0 4 Page 2 of 16 Web flash tool update procedure details SANBlaze offers the ability to update the carrier firmware using secure html connections The user must establish Web access to use this utility The following procedure is a detailed description of the web based flash update procedure VvV Upgrade firmware procedure FileName Revision Revision 1 189 2 1 a impor Seconds Min 60 Max 7200 V Follow these instructions to flash new firmware Step 1 Click the Choose File button navigate to find the new gz firmware file Step 2 Click the Import button The import can take to 5 minutes the user must wait and not navigate away from the open browser window Step 3 The following screen will appear Click the software component s to upgrade and click the Update button dev shm ATCA1000_VXXrexx u boot Apply
16. on This service enables a windows server to authenticate user logins to SB ATCA1000 CIF samba volumes It is included as part of the Network Wizard tool with additional advanced options appearing under the Maintenance menu Volume Group Storage Services HA iSCSI AE nfs H smb H Shares LVM2 MD RAID Hardware RAID HC Physical Disks EI Maintenance 5 Nej yhel I O Status CPU Status ATCA mj Gu Gu ET SB ATCA1000 Release Notes Version 1 0 4 Page 12 of 16 ltem 9 new Web tool Create Ethernet bond Description This release of code includes the ability to define bonds using the GUI Previously bond creation required CLI command configurations Bonding 802 3AD trunking allows you to aggregate multiple Ethernet ports into a single group effectively combining the bandwidth into a single connection For example you can aggregate the ATCA base channel ports 1 Gb s each into a bond providing 2Gb s cumulative bandwidth fault tolerance and optional load balancing FSI SANBlaze ATCA1000 wt Start Wizard Submit All Network Changes C Add NewVLAN 0 VLAN Index Interfac _ Add bondo a j Shares LVM2 MD RAID fs 5 b f i Time osname DomainName Date Time TimeZone Nameservers NTP Server List as source Active tick usask ca i StorBlade99 domain com 4 6 2009 08 51 59 New_York 0 0 0 0 ntp Settings tock usask
17. store 7 Properties snap 2F62df1b TargetO_Lun1 lt F State connected snap 1e673590 TargetO_Lun3 a Remove Virtual Machines 3 E snap 71951e6e Target0_Lun0 E yMotion Enabled N A E snap 1a7c0d9d Target0_Lun2 S i i Refresh Kia Tae E snap 3ed093c1 Target1_Lun5 a snap 7a61a85c Targeti_Lun6 219 B F snap 04c9af76 Target1_Lun4 199 75 GB Fammi ande f Rescanned datastores appear under the Resources menu You will notice a text prefix was added to each datastore name snap abcd1234 If desired right click the datastore to rename and remove this prefix g Again right click each Datastore and select Browse Datastore to bring up this browser menu Datastore Browser BETAAL Sele gt ACE Be xX Folders Search TargetO_Lun1 New Yirtual Mach ain h Size Type Modified EP New Virtual Machine 1 Prea 2 02 K5 Virtual Machine 3 10 2012 11 40 33 AM y New virtual Machine 1 vmdk a A Le 18 00 KB Virtual Disk q 10 2012 11 50 33 AM New Virtual Machine 1 nvram SS SA KB Non volatile memory File 9 10 2012 12 44 07 PM yinware O log Cut 32 09 KB Virtual Machine log File W1Of201l2 9 50 08 AM vmware log Copy 24 73 KB Virtual Machine log File QM1Of2012 12 44 09 PM E New Virtual Machine 1 wmxF Paste O27 KB File W1Of201le 11 39 22 4M E New Virtual Machine 1 wmsd O 00KB File gi10 2012 6 18 59 AM Download Move to 1 object selected 7 02 KB Rename Hew Folder Delete From Disk h With a v
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