OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Release Notes
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1. The OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter does not load in the VMware web client when IE 10 or later browsers are used The OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter User Manual s Troubleshooting section includes procedures to accept blocked content as a temporary remedy for certificate or insecure content warnings for Internet Explorer Chrome and Firefox The Internet Explorer procedure in the user manual is correct for IE9 or earlier browser versions To accept blocked content for IE10 and later browser versions use the same procedure for Chrome and Firefox a Load the plug in URL in a separate tab or window The plug in URL format is https lt plugin server gt lt https port gt elxveplugin For example https pluginserverhostFQDN 443 elxvcplugin Note You can extract the plug in server IP address host name and port number from the browser warning message b Confirm or accept the certificate warning c Refresh the vSphere web client tab or window Technical Tips 1 The Emulex VMware driver Firmware and CIM Provider must be from the same release as that of the OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter for the OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter to function properly If the ESXi image driver or firmware is downloaded from the VMware website use the corresponding CIM Provider and OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter from the Emulex website Also ensure that downloaded drivers firmware CIM Provider and OneCommand Manager f2. Professional Java Programming ISBN 1 871003 82 X by Brett Spell OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Release Notes 7 P0010090 01A Rev A
3. gt S EMULEX OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Release Notes Version 10 2 348 20 Date September 2014 Purpose and Contact Information These release notes describe resolved known issues and current known issues associated with this OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter release For the latest product documentation go to www Emulex com If you have questions or require additional information contact an authorized Emulex technical support representative at tech support emulex com 800 854 7112 US Canada toll free 1 714 885 3402 US International or 44 1189 772929 Europe Middle East and Africa New Features e Supports up to four functions per port on 4 port OCe14000 series adapters when Alternate routing ID interpretation ARI is available e Supports ExpressLane also known as FOF priority queueing e Supports iSCSI Boot firmware table iBFT e Supports Diagnostic port D_Port also known as ClearLink for LPe16000 series adapters e Supports Quality of Service QoS on LPe16000 series and OCe15000 series adapters e Supports concurrent storage iSCSI and Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE on an OCe14000 series adapter port Resolved Issues 1 Update firmware succeeds for an LPe11002 E adapter with the file zf282a4 all Known Issues 1 Known Issues in regards to updating firmware 1 Firmware version 10 2 370 19 includes new features that required new flash regions to support them Firmware versions ea
4. notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer Redistribution in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and or other materials provided with the distribution Neither the name of Sun Microsystems Inc or the names of contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission This software is provided AS IS without a warranty of any kind ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NONINFRINGEMENT ARE HEREBY EXCLUDED SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC SUN AND ITS LICENSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED BY LICENSFE AS A RESULT OF USING MODIFYING OR DISTRIBUTING THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS DERIVATIVES IN NO EVENT WILL SUN OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOST REVENUE PROFIT OR DATA OR FOR DIRECT INDIRECT SPECIAL CONSEQUENTIAL INCIDENTAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES HOWEVER CAUSED AND REGARDLESS OF THE THEORY OF LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SOFTWARE EVEN IF SUN HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES You acknowledge that this software is not designed licensed or intended for use in the design construction operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility Copyright 2000 Apress Publishing Inc All rights reserved
5. update If you updated the firmware from a version earlier than 10 0 803 37 you must perform the update process twice using a version 10 2 management application or firmware update utility You must reboot the system after each firmware update 2 Enabling or disabling boot on LPe16000 series adapters may show an error message When enabling or disabling boot from the OneCommand Manager application GUI or CLI an error message may be displayed Workaround The error message can be ignored The boot state is changed even though the error message is displayed 3 For LPe16000 series adapters the OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter CLI firmwareupdate command does not work when all is specified Workaround To update firmware do one of the following e Use OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter e Individually specify the port WWN when using the OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter CLI firmwareupdate command 4 PFC priority based flow control active priority information is incorrect OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter shows incorrect information in the PFC Properties area on the DCB tab If the PFC Properties state is disabled the Active Priority field shows a value It should show N A The OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter CLI getpginfo and getdcbparams commands also show a value for the PFC Priority field if the PFC State is disabled Workaround None 5 If Expresslane LUNs exist whose targets are no longer discovered yo
6. From the Assigned Role list in the right pane select a role with the required privileges Refer to the OneCommand Manager Application User Manual for the list of privileges required Refer to the OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Manual for more information on role management d From the Users and Groups section on the left click Add The Assign Permissions window is displayed e Onthe Assign Permissions window select the user or the group to which the user belongs and click Add f Click OK to exit the Assign Permissions window g Register OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter 5 If the Emulex OneCommand tab in the vSphere console shows Loading or is blank a Right click and check whether the message Movie not loaded is present in the context menu b If the message is present and you are using an IE browser click Tools gt Internet Options c Click the Advanced tab d From the Security list clear the Do not save encrypted pages to disk checkbox e Restart the vSphere Console 6 To view online help using the Google Chrome browser you must disable Chrome s security check using the allow file access from files option a Create a copy of the Chrome shortcut on the desktop and rename it to RH Chrome Local or something similar b Right click on the new Chrome icon and select Properties c Add the text allow file access from files to the end of the path appearing in Target You must leave a spa
7. ce between the original string and the tag you are adding d Click OK to save your settings e Close any open instances of Chrome f To open a local copy of the online help use the new shortcut to open Chrome press lt Ctrl Open gt and browse to the start page Alternatively open Chrome with the new shortcut right click the start page and click Open With gt Google Chrome OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Release Notes 6 P0010090 01A Rev A gt lt EMULEX Copyright 2013 2014 Emulex All rights reserved worldwide This document refers to various companies and products by their trade names In most if not all cases their respective companies claim these designations as trademarks or registered trademarks This information is provided for reference only Although this information is believed to be accurate and reliable at the time of publication Emulex assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions Emulex reserves the right to make changes or corrections without notice This report is the property of Emulex and may not be duplicated without permission from the Company Note References to OCe11100 series products also apply to OCe1100R series products Copyright 2002 Sun Microsystems Inc All Rights Reserved Redistribution and use in source and binary forms with or without modification are permitted provided that the following conditions are met Redistribution of source code must retain the above copyright
8. ion in the command line interface using the core option and specifying an FC world wide port name WWPN to indicate which adapter to dump the command fails if the adapter is in a down state Workaround When specifying parameters for the dump command always use the MAC address for one of the NIC ports on the adapter One or more hosts may not be discovered in the Cluster level view Workaround Ensure that the following conditions are met e CIM Interaction privilege is assigned to either the user or the user group e No host in the cluster is in a Not responding state as shown in the VMware inventory tree If unresponsive hosts are present corrective action should be taken to bring them back to a stable state or you must remove the unresponsive host from the inventory before starting any operations in OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter while in the cluster view Firmware update fails with MAL error when using on ESXi 5 1 inbox drivers Workaround Upgrade to the latest certified NIC driver Link Up and Link Down events are not logged in Tasks Events tab in OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Release Notes 4 P0010090 01A Rev A 19 20 gt EMULEX Workaround Close the existing vSphere session window and reopen a new session The Link Up and Link Down events are updated The DMA loopback test is supported only on the OneConnect adapters Workaround None
9. or VMware vCenter are all from either Emulex branded pages or from the same OEM specific download pages The response time for OCM for VMware vCenter may be slow To achieve the best performance Emulex recommends that the system s hosting the OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter be on the same network as the vCenter server with a minimal number of network hops For OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter to support IPv6 the IPv6 protocol must be installed To enable the IPv6 protocol in a Windows Server machine a From the desktop click Start gt Control Panel b Double click Network Connections The Network Connections window is displayed c Right click any local area connection then select Properties The Local Area Connection Properties window is displayed OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Release Notes 5 P0010090 01A Rev A gt EMULEX d Click Install The Select Network Components window is displayed e Inthe Network Protocol list select Protocol and click Add f Select Microsoft TCP IP version 6 and click OK 4 Registering the OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter with the vCenter server fails with the error User has no privileges The user is not listed in the Datacenter Follow these steps to ensure the user has the required privileges a Inthe vSphere console select any parent node of the host or cluster in the inventory tree and click the Permissions tab b Right click and select Add Permission c
10. rlier than 10 0 803 37 did not have the ability to configure the flash regions to support these new features If you are updating from a firmware version earlier than 10 0 803 37 use one of these methods to update the firmware to 10 2 370 19 e Use the ISO flash tool e Use the released 10 2 version of OneCommand for VMware vCenter You must perform the firmware update procedure twice to ensure that the flash regions are properly configured and you must reboot the system after each firmware update OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Release Notes 1 P0010090 01A Rev A gt G EMULEX Note After you have updated the firmware you must not downgrade the firmware to a version earlier than 10 0 803 37 If you are updating from firmware version 10 0 803 37 or later use one of these methods to update the firmware to 10 2 370 19 e Use the ISO flash tool e Use the released 10 2 version of OneCommand for VMware vCenter and reboot the system after the firmware update It is not necessary to perform the firmware update process twice Note After you have updated the firmware you must not downgrade the firmware to a version earlier than 10 0 803 37 2 If iBFT boot is non functional and version 10 2 370 19 or later firmware is installed you must update the firmware to version 10 2 370 19 using the ISO flash image or using a version 10 2 management application or firmware update utility You must reboot the system after the firmware
11. s not support D_Port the port remains in D_Port mode Workaround Manually reset the port On the Channel Management tab OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter always shows the permanent MAC address for each channel Workaround To correlate the permanent MAC address with the current MAC address view the Port Information tab The Port Information tab always shows the current user settable MAC address and the permanent MAC address OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Release Notes 3 P0010090 01A Rev A 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 gt G EMULEX In Windows 7 using OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter CLI audit commands shows irrelevant error messages For Windows 7 the C disk is highly protected even an administrator has limited privileges For example the contents in the C Program Files directory have no write privileges or full control privileges Workaround Do one of the following e Assign your account write privileges and full control privileges to the C Program Files directory e Install OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter on another disk such as D For the iSCSI personality the Target Portal tab is not available Workaround Use the OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter client to login to iSCSI targets For the NIC personality IP attributes are not available Workaround None Performing a dump command may fail if the WWPN is specified When performing a dump operat
12. u may see inconsistent behavior while configuring Expresslane for any newly discovered LUNs OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter Release Notes 2 P0010090 01A Rev A 10 11 gt G EMULEX Workaround On the VMware host run the following command esxcfg module s lpfc and restart the cimserver with following commands etc init d sfcbd watchdog stop etc init d sfcbd watchdog start On ESXi 5 5 hosts running an external loopback test results in the following error WBEMException CIM ERR ACCESS DENIED HTTP 401 Unauthorized Error on ESXi55 platform Workaround None On ESXi 5 5 hosts a loopback test fails intermittently giving a general error after approximately 3000 cycles Workaround None For OCe14000 series adapters on the Physical Port Info tab the Set Speed button may be grayed out Workaround None For the LPe16000 series adapters if an external loopback plug is connected to the system a D_Port test runs but does not stop running This issue exists for OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter GUI and the OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter CLI DportTest command Workaround Do not install an external loopback plug before running the D_Port test The D_Port test can only run if the port is connected to an appropriate switch For the LPe16000 series adapters if a diagnostic test OQneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter GUI or OneCommand Manager for VMware vCenter CLI determines that the switch doe
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