Release Note for systems built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize


This is the release note for the 8.3 release and details the issues resolved in all Program Temporary Fixes (PTFs) between 8.3.0.0 and 8.3.0.3. This document will be updated with additional information whenever a PTF is released.

This document was last updated on 10 September 2021.

  1. New Features
  2. Known Issues and Restrictions
  3. Issues Resolved
    1. Security Issues Resolved
    2. APARs Resolved
  4. Useful Links
Note. Detailed build version numbers are included in the Update Matrices in the Useful Links section

1. New Features

The following new features have been introduced in the 8.3.0 release:

2. Known Issues and Restrictions

Note: For clarity, the terms "node" and "canister" are used interchangeably.
Details Introduced

Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud v8.3.0.2 and v8.3.0.3 are not available.

Customers wishing to upgrade their Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud cluster from v8.3.0.1, or earlier, should plan to go to v8.3.1.1 or later.

8.3.0.2

Customers with systems running v8.3.0.0, or earlier, using deduplication cannot upgrade to v8.3.0.1, or later, due to APAR HU02162.

Please contact Support for an ifix to enable upgrade.

This is a known issue that will be lifted in a future PTF.

8.3.0.1

SRA does not work after changing SSH node method from password to key on AWS.

This is a known issue that may be lifted in a future PTF.

8.3.0.0

Customers using iSER attached hosts, with Mellanox 25G adapters, should be aware that IPv6 sessions will not failover, for example, during a cluster upgrade.

This is a known issue that may be lifted in a future PTF.

8.3.0.0

Due to an issue in the automatic upgrade process, customers with 32GB DH8 systems, running v8.2.1.4 or v8.2.1.5, cannot upgrade to v8.2.1.6 or later.

There is a manual upgrade option for these systems. Affected customers, wishing to use this option, should contact IBM Support for assistance quoting APAR HU02032

This is a restriction that may be lifted in a future PTF.

8.2.1.5

Customers upgrading systems with more than 64GB of RAM to v8.1 or later will need to run chnodehw to enable access to the extra memory above 64GB.

Under some circumstances it may also be necessary to remove and re-add each node in turn.

8.1.0.0

Validation in the Upload Support Package feature will reject the new case number format in the PMR field.

This is a known issue that may be lifted in a future PTF. The fix can be tracked using APAR HU02392.

7.8.1.0

Systems, with NPIV enabled, presenting storage to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) hosts running the ibmvfc driver on IBM Power can experience path loss or read-only file system events.

This is cause by issues within the ibmvfc driver and VIOS code.

Refer to this troubleshooting page for more information.

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If an update stalls or fails then contact IBM Support for further assistance n/a
The following restrictions were valid but have now been lifted

Customers with 32GB DH8 systems cannot upgrade to v8.3 or later.

This is a restriction that has been lifted in a PTF.

8.3.0.0

3. Issues Resolved

This release contains all of the fixes included in the 8.2.1.4 release, plus the following additional fixes.

A release may contain fixes for security issues, fixes for APARs or both. Consult both tables below to understand the complete set of fixes included in the release.

3.1 Security Issues Resolved

Security issues are documented using a reference number provided by "Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures" (CVE).
CVE Identifier Link for additional Information Resolved in
CVE-2019-5544 6250889 8.3.0.2
CVE-2019-2964 6250887 8.3.0.2
CVE-2019-2989 6250887 8.3.0.2
CVE-2018-12404 6250885 8.3.0.2
CVE-2019-11477 1164286 8.3.0.0
CVE-2019-11478 1164286 8.3.0.0
CVE-2019-11479 1164286 8.3.0.0
CVE-2019-2602 1073958 8.3.0.0

3.2 APARs Resolved

Show details for all APARs
APAR Affected Products Severity Description Resolved in Feature Tags
HU02143 All High Importance The performance profile, for some enterprise tier drives, may not correctly match the drives capabilities leading to that tier being overdriven (show details)
Symptom Performance
Environment Systems running v8.2 or later using EasyTier. Note: This issue does not affect DRAID 5 arrays with stripe width of 8 or 9, or DRAID6 arrays with stripe width of 10 or 12.
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.3 EasyTier
HU02104 All HIPER An issue in the RAID component, in the presence of very high I/O workload and the exhaustion of cache resources, can see a deadlock condition occurring which prevents further I/O processing. The system detects this issue and takes the storage pool offline for a six minute period, to clear the problem. The pool is then brought online automatically, and normal operation resumes. For more details refer to this Flash (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems running v8.2.1 or later
Trigger None
Workaround Consider using a pool throttle to limit the I/O throughput
8.3.0.2 RAID
HU02237 All HIPER Under a rare and complicated set of conditions, a RAID 1 or RAID 10 array may drop a write, causing undetected data corruption. For more details refer to this Flash (show details)
Symptom Data Integrity Loss
Environment Systems using RAID 1 or RAID 10 arrays
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.2 RAID
HU02238 All HIPER Force-stopping a FlashCopy map, where the source volume is a Metro or Global Mirror target volume, may cause other FlashCopy maps to return invalid data if they are not 100% copied, in specific configurations. For more details refer to this Flash (show details)
Symptom Data Integrity Loss
Environment Systems using FlashCopy
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.2 FlashCopy, Global Mirror, Metro Mirror
HU02109 All Critical Free extents may not be unmapped after volume deletion, or migration, resulting in out-of-space conditions on backend controllers (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems running v8.3.0 or later
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.2 Backend Storage, SCSI Unmap
HU02115 All Critical Attempting to upgrade all drive firmware, with an inadequate drive package, may lead to multiple node warmstarts, with the possibility of a loss of access to data (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems running v8.3.0 or later
Trigger Use the applydrivesoftware -all CLI command, or the GUI drive firmware upgrade function, to upgrade all drives in the presence of >32 drives, for which the drive package has no related firmware. Then take a further configuration action, such as failing a drive.
Workaround Use the utilitydriveupgrade tool to upgrade multiple drives
8.3.0.2 Drives
HU02114 FS5000, FS9100, V7000 High Importance Upgrading FCM firmware on multiple I/O group systems can cause a drive to become stuck at 0% sync with the corresponding array in a 'syncing' state (show details)
Symptom Performance
Environment Multiple I/O group systems with Flash Core Modules
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.2 Drives
HU02062 All Suggested An issue, with node index numbers for I/O groups, when using 32Gb HBAs may result in host ports incorrectly being reported offline (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment Systems running v8.3.0 or later using 32Gb HBAs
Trigger Change I/O group layout by removing/adding nodes
Workaround None
8.3.0.2 Hosts
HU02102 All Suggested Excessive processing time required for FlashCopy bitmap operations, associated with large (> 20TB) Global Mirror change volumes, may lead to a node warmstart (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems using Global Mirror with Change Volumes where some GMCV volumes are >20TB
Trigger None
Workaround Limit GMCV volume capacity to 20TB or less
8.3.0.2 Global Mirror with Change Volumes
HU01998 All HIPER All SCSI command types can set volumes as busy resulting in I/O timeouts and multiple node warmstarts, with the possibility of an offline I/O group. For more details refer to this Flash (show details)
Symptom Multiple Node Warmstarts
Environment All systems
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 Hosts
HU02014 SVC HIPER After a loss of power, where a node has a dead CMOS battery, it will fail to restart correctly. It is possible for both nodes in an I/O group to experience this issue (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment SVC systems using SV1 model nodes
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 Reliability Availability Serviceability
HU02064 SVC, V7000 HIPER An issue in the firmware for compression accelerator cards can cause offline compressed volumes. For more details refer to this Flash (show details)
Symptom Offline Volumes
Environment Systems running v8.2.1.x, or later, using hardware compression
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 Compression
HU02083 All HIPER During DRAID rebuilds, an issue in the handling of memory buffers can lead to multiple node warmstarts and a loss of access to data. For more details refer to this Flash (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems running v8.2.1.6 or v8.3.0.0 using DRAID. Probability is highest for systems with an exact multiple of 48 drives and a stripe width of 16
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 Distributed RAID
HU01924 All Critical Migrating extents to an MDisk, that is not a member of an MDisk group, may result in a Tier 2 recovery (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment All systems
Trigger Migrate extents to an MDisk, that is not a member of an MDisk group
Workaround Only specify a target MDisk that is part of the same MDisk group as the volume copy having extents migrated
8.3.0.1 Thin Provisioning
HU02016 SVC Critical A memory leak in the component that handles thin-provisioned MDisks can lead to an adverse performance impact with the possibility of offline MDisks. For more details refer to this Flash (show details)
Symptom Offline Volumes
Environment SVC systems
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 Backend Storage
HU02036 All Critical It is possible for commands, that alter pool-level extent reservations (i.e. migratevdisk or rmmdisk), to conflict with an ongoing EasyTier migration, resulting in a Tier 2 recovery (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems running v8.2 or later with EasyTier enabled
Trigger None
Workaround Disable EasyTier on the source pool; Wait 10 minutes, so that any ongoing EasyTier requests complete; Issue the migratevdisk/rmmdisk command; Enable EasyTier on the source pool.
8.3.0.1 EasyTier
HU02043 All Critical Collecting a snap can cause nodes to run out of boot drive space and go offline with node error 565 (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment All systems
Trigger Taking many snap data collections on the same config node
Workaround Manually delete unneeded snaps from the boot drive
8.3.0.1 Support Data Collection
HU02044 All Critical Multiple DRAID arrays can, where one is performing a rebuild, be exposed to a RAID deadlock condition resulting in multiple node warmstarts and a loss of access to data (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems using Distributed RAID with Data Reduction Pools
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 Data Reduction Pools, Distributed RAID
HU02045 All Critical When a node is removed from the cluster, using CLI, it may still be shown as online in the GUI. If an attempt is made to shutdown this node, from the GUI, whilst it appears to be online, then the whole cluster will shutdown (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment All systems
Trigger Remove a node from the cluster using CLI. With the node showing as online, use the GUI to shut it down
Workaround Manually refresh GUI browser page, after removing a node via CLI
8.3.0.1 Graphical User Interface
HU02050 FS9100, V7000, V5000 Critical Compression hardware can have an issue processing certain types of data resulting in node reboots and marking the compression hardware as faulty even though it is serviceable (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment FlashSystem 9100, Storwize V5100 and V7000 Gen 3 systems
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 Compression
HU02077 All Critical A node upgrading to v8.2.1 or later will lose access to controllers directly-attached to its FC ports and the upgrade will stall (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems that are FC direct-attached to backend storage controllers
Trigger System upgrade
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 Backend Storage
HU02086 All Critical An issue, in IP Quorum, may cause a Tier 2 recovery, during initial connection to a candidate device (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems running v8.2.1.0 or later that are using IP Quorum
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 IP Quorum
HU02089 All Critical Due to changes to quorum management, during an upgrade to v8.2.x, or later, there may be multiple warmstarts, with the possibility of a loss of access to data (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems running v8.1.3 or earlier with normal configurations of more than 6 nodes, or multi-site configurations of more than 4 nodes, and no external shared MDisks
Trigger Upgrading to v8.2.x or later
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 System Update
HU02097 All Critical Workloads, with data that is highly suited to deduplication, can provoke high CPU utilisation, as multiple destinations try to dedupe to one source. This adversely impacts performance with the possibility of offline MDisk groups (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems using Data Reduction Pools
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 Data Reduction Pools
IT30595 All Critical A resource shortage in the RAID component can cause MDisks to be taken offline (show details)
Symptom Offline Volumes
Environment Systems running v8.1 or later
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 RAID
HU02006 All High Importance Garbage collection behaviour can become overzealous, adversely affect performance (show details)
Symptom Performance
Environment Systems using Data Reduction Pools
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 Data Reduction Pools
HU02053 FS9100, V7000, V5100 High Importance An issue with canister BIOS update can stall system upgrades (show details)
Symptom Loss of Redundancy
Environment FS9100, V7000 Gen 3 and V5100 systems
Trigger Upgrade to v8.3.0
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 System Update
HU02055 All High Importance Creating a FlashCopy snapshot, in the GUI, does not set the same preferred node for both source and target volumes. This may adversely impact performance (show details)
Symptom Performance
Environment Systems using FlashCopy
Trigger None
Workaround Use the movevdisk command to manually set the same preferred node for both the source and target volumes in the FC map
8.3.0.1 FlashCopy
HU02072 All High Importance An issue in the handling of email transmission can write a large file to the node boot drive. If this causes the boot drive to become full, the node will go offline with error 565 (show details)
Symptom Loss of Redundancy
Environment Systems running v8.2.1 or later
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 System Monitoring
HU02080 All High Importance When a Data Reduction Pool is running low on free space, the credit allocation algorithm, for garbage collection, can be exposed to a race condition, adversely affecting performance (show details)
Symptom Performance
Environment Systems using Data Reduction Pools
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 Data Reduction Pools
HU02130 V7000, V5000 High Importance An issue with the RAID scrub process can overload Nearline SAS drives causing premature failures (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Storwize systems running v8.2.1, or later, using Nearline SAS drives
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 Drives
IT29975 All High Importance During Ethernet port configuration, netmask validation will only accept a fourth octet of zero. Non-zero values will cause the interface to remain inactive (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment Systems running v8.3.0 or later
Trigger Set the fourth octet of the netmask to a non-zero value
Workaround Set the fourth octet of the netmask to zero
8.3.0.1 iSCSI
HU02067 All Suggested If multiple recipients are specified, for callhome emails, then no callhome emails will be sent (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Systems running v8.2.1.5 or later
Trigger Specify multiple recipients for callhome email messages
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 System Monitoring
HU02073 All Suggested Detection of an invalid list entry in the parity handling process can lead to a node warmstart (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment All systems
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 RAID
HU02079 All Suggested Starting a FlashCopy mapping, within a Data Reduction Pool, a large number of times may cause a node warmstart (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems using Data Reduction Pools with FlashCopy
Trigger Start a FlashCopy mapping, in a Data Reduction Pool, approximately 65,000 times
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 Data Reduction Pools, FlashCopy
HU02084 FS9100, V7000, V5000 Suggested If a node goes offline, after the firmware of multiple NVMe drives has been upgraded, then incorrect 3090/90021 errors may be seen in the Event Log (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Systems running v8.3.0.0 with NVMe drives
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 Drives
HU02087 All Suggested LDAP users with SSH keys cannot create volumes after upgrading to 8.3.0.0 (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Systems with LDAP user accounts that have SSH keys
Trigger Login as a LDAP user with SSH keys
Workaround Use an LDAP user without an SSH key, or a locally-authenticated user, to create volumes
8.3.0.1 LDAP
HU02126 SVC, V7000, V5000 Suggested There is a low probability that excessive SSH connections may trigger a single node warmstart on the configuration node (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems with Gen 1 and 2 hardware
Trigger More than one SSH connection attempt per second might occasionally cause the config node to warmstart
Workaround Reduce frequency of SSH connections
8.3.0.1 Command Line Interface
HU02129 All Suggested GUI drive filtering fails with An error occurred loading table data (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Systems running v8.2.1 or later
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 Graphical User Interface
HU02131 All Suggested When changing DRAID configuration, for an array with an active workload, a deadlock condition can occur resulting in a single node warmstart (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems running v8.2.1, or later, using DRAID
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 Distributed RAID
IT30448 All Suggested If an IP Quorum app is killed, during the commit phase of a code upgrade, then that offline IP Quorum device cannot be removed, post upgrade (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment Systems running v8.1.3, or earlier, using IP Quorum
Trigger Upgrade to v8.2.0 or later, kill an IP Quorum app during the commit phase
Workaround None
8.3.0.1 IP Quorum
HU02007 All HIPER During volume migration an issue, in the handling of old to new extents transfer, can lead to cluster-wide warmstarts (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment All systems
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Storage Virtualisation
HU01888 & HU01997 All Critical An issue with restore mappings, in the FlashCopy component, can cause an I/O group to warmstart (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment All systems
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 FlashCopy
HU01909 All Critical Upgrading a system with Read-Intensive drives to 8.2, or later, may result in node warmstarts (show details)
Symptom Multiple Nodes Warmstarts
Environment Systems using DRAID with Read-Intensive drives
Trigger Upgrade to v8.2 or later
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 System Update, Distributed RAID, Drives
HU01921 All Critical Where FlashCopy mapping targets are also in remote copy relationships there may be node warmstarts with a temporary loss of access to data (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems using FlashCopy with remote copy
Trigger None
Workaround If one reverse FlashCopy mapping has been stopped and another FlashCopy mapping, to the same target, is to be started, then delete the first reverse FlashCopy mapping before starting the second
8.3.0.0 FlashCopy, Global Mirror, Metro Mirror
HU01933 All Critical Under rare circumstances the Data Reduction Pool deduplication rehoming process can become truncated. Subsequent detection of inconsistent metadata can lead to offline Data Reduction Pools (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems running v8.1.3 or later using Deduplication
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Data Reduction Pools, Deduplication
HU01985 All Critical As a consequence of a Data Reduction Pool recovery, bad metadata may be created. When the region of disk associated with the bad metadata is accessed there may be an I/O group warmstarts (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems using Data Reduction Pools
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Data Reduction Pools
HU01989 All Critical For large drives, bitmap scanning, during an array rebuild, can timeout resulting in multiple node warmstarts, possibly leading to offline I/O groups (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems using DRAID with drives of 8TB or more
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Distributed RAID
HU01990 All Critical Bad return codes from the partnership compression component can cause multiple node warmstarts taking nodes offline (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems running v7.8 or later using remote copy with compression
Trigger None
Workaround Disable partnership compression
8.3.0.0 Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, Global Mirror with Change Volumes
HU02005 All Critical An issue in the background copy process prevents grains, above a 128TB limit, from being cleaned properly. As a consequence there may be multiple node warmstarts with the potential for a loss of access to data (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems using remote copy
Trigger Volumes greater than 128TB being added to remote copy relationships
Workaround The maximum size of volumes in remote copy relationships should be limited to 128TB
8.3.0.0 Global Mirror, Global Mirror with Change Volumes, Metro Mirror
HU02009 All Critical Systems which are using Data Reduction Pools, with the maximum possible extent size of 8GB, and which experience a very specific I/O workload, may experience an issue due to garbage collection. This can cause repeated node warmstarts and loss of access to data (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems using Data Reduction Pools
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Data Reduction Pools
HU02027 All Critical Fabric congestion can cause internal resource constraints, in 16Gb HBAs, leading to lease expiries (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems using 16Gb HBAs
Trigger Fabric congestion affecting local node-node traffic
Workaround Prevent fabric congestion that might affect local node-node connectivity
8.3.0.0 Reliability Availability Serviceability
HU02121 All Critical When the system changes from copyback to rebuild a failure to clear related metadata can cause multiple node warmstarts, with the possibility of a loss of access (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems running v8.2.1.x, or later, that are using DRAID
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Distributed RAID
HU02275 All Critical Performing any sort of hardware maintenance during an upgrade may cause a cluster to destroy itself, with nodes entering candidate or service state 550 (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment All systems
Trigger Perform hardware maintenance during an upgrade
Workaround Avoid hardware maintenance during code upgrades
8.3.0.0 System Update
IT25367 All Critical A T2 recovery may occur when an attempt is made to upgrade, or downgrade, the firmware for an unsupported drive type (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment All systems
Trigger Attempt to upgrade/downgrade the firmware for an unsupported drive type
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Drives
IT26257 All Critical Starting a relationship, when the remote volume is offline, may result in a T2 recovery (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems using Hyperswap
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 HyperSwap
HU01836 All High Importance When an auxiliary volume is moved an issue with pausing the master volume can lead to node warmstarts (show details)
Symptom Multiple Node Warmstarts
Environment Systems using Hyperswap
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 HyperSwap
HU01904 All High Importance A timing issue can cause a remote copy relationship to become stuck, in a pausing state, resulting in a node warmstart (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems using remote copy
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Global Mirror, Global Mirror with Change Volumes, Metro Mirror
HU01919 FS9100, V7000 High Importance During an upgrade some components may take too long to initialise causing node warmstarts (show details)
Symptom Multiple Node Warmstarts
Environment FS9100 and V7000 Gen 3 systems
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 System Update
HU01942 FS9100, V7000, V5000 High Importance NVMe drive ports can go offline, for a very short time, when an upgrade of that drives firmware commences (show details)
Symptom None
Environment FlashSystem 9100, Storwize V7000 Gen 3 and Storwize V5100 systems
Trigger Start a NVMe drive firmware upgrade
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Drives
HU01969 All High Importance It is possible, after an rmrcrelationship command is run, that the connection to the remote cluster may be lost (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems using remote copy
Trigger None
Workaround Two workarounds are: Run the delete rmrcrelationship command on the system that is currently the primary for that volume; Stop the relationship before deleting it.
8.3.0.0 Global Mirror, Global Mirror with Change Volumes, Metro Mirror
HU02011 All High Importance When a node warmstart occurs on a system using Data Reduction Pools, there is a small possibility that the node will not automatically return online. If the partner node is also offline, this can cause temporary loss of access to data (show details)
Symptom Loss of Redundancy
Environment Systems using Data Reduction Pools
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Data Reduction Pools
HU02012 All High Importance Under certain I/O workloads the garbage collection process can adversely impact volume write response times (show details)
Symptom Performance
Environment Systems using Data Reduction Pools
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Data Reduction Pools
HU02051 All High Importance If unexpected actions are taken during node replacement, node warmstarts and temporary loss of access to data may occur. This issue can only occur if a node is replaced, and then the old node is re-added to the cluster (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems with two nodes
Trigger Replacing a node, and then re-adding the old node to the system
Workaround Remove cluster data from the old node before adding the new node
8.3.0.0 Reliability Availability Serviceability
HU02123 All High Importance For direct-attached hosts, a race condition between the FLOGI and Link UP processes can result in FC ports not coming online (show details)
Symptom Loss of Redundancy
Environment Systems with direct-attached hosts
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Hosts
HU02133 FS9100, V7000, V5000 High Importance NVMe drives may become degraded after a drive reseat or node reboot (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Systems with NVMe drives
Trigger Drive reseat or node reboot
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Drives
HU02149 SVC High Importance When an Enhanced Stretch Cluster is using NPIV, in transitional mode, the path priority is not being reported correctly to some hosts (show details)
Symptom Performance
Environment Systems in an Enhanced Stretch Cluster topology that are using NPIV in its transitional mode
Trigger None
Workaround Manually set the preferred path if possible within the host's MPIO settings. Run NPIV in enabled or disabled mode
8.3.0.0 Hosts
HU02288 All High Importance A node might fail to come online after a reboot or warmstart such as during an upgrade (show details)
Symptom Loss of Redundancy
Environment Systems in a Stretched or HyperSwap topology
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Reliability Availability Serviceability
HU02318 All High Importance An issue in the handling of iSCSI host I/O may cause a node to kernel panic and go into service with error 578 (show details)
Symptom Loss of Redundancy
Environment Systems running v8.2 or later with iSCSI connected hosts
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 iSCSI
HU01777 All Suggested Where not all I/O groups have NPIV enabled, hosts may be shown as Degraded with an incorrect count of node logins (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment Systems using NPIV
Trigger None
Workaround Enable NPIV on all I/O groups
8.3.0.0 Command Line Interface
HU01843 All Suggested A node hardware issue can cause a CLI command to timeout resulting in a node warmstart (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems running v8.1 or later
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Command Line Interface
HU01868 All Suggested After deleting an encrypted external MDisk, it is possible for the encrypted status of volumes to change to no, even though all remaining MDisks are encrypted (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Systems using encryption
Trigger Delete an encrypted external MDisk
Workaround Ensure that all MDisks in the MDisk group are encrypted - this will ensure that data is encrypted
8.3.0.0 Encryption
HU01872 All Suggested An issue with cache partition fairness can favour small IOs over large ones leading to a node warmstart (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment All systems
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Cache
HU01880 All Suggested When a write, to a secondary volume, becomes stalled, a node at the primary site may warmstart (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems using remote copy
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Global Mirror, Global Mirror with Change Volumes, Metro Mirror
HU01892 All Suggested LUNs of greater than 2TB, presented by HP XP7 storage controllers, are not supported (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment Systems with HP XP7 backend controllers
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Backend Storage
HU01917 All Suggested Chrome browser support requires a self-signed certificate to include subject alternate name (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Systems accessed using the Chrome browser
Trigger None
Workaround Accept invalid certificate
8.3.0.0 Graphical User Interface
HU01936 All Suggested When shrinking a volume, that has host mappings, there may be recurring node warmstarts (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems running v8.1 or later
Trigger Shrink a volume while it is mapped to a host
Workaround Remove all host mappings, for a volume, before performing shrinkvdisksize
8.3.0.0 Cache
HU01955 All Suggested The presence of unsupported configurations, in a Spectrum Virtualize environment, can cause a mishandling of unsupported commands leading to a node warmstart (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems running v8.1 or later
Trigger Unsupported configurations (e.g. replication partners running EOS code levels)
Workaround Correct unsupported configurations in the Spectrum Virtualize environment
8.3.0.0 Reliability Availability Serviceability
HU01956 All Suggested The output from a lsdrive command shows the write endurance usage, for new read-intensive SSDs, as blank rather than 0% (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Systems using read-intensive SSDs
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Drives
HU01963 All Suggested A deadlock condition in the deduplication component can lead to a node warmstart (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems running v8.1.3 or later
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Deduplication
HU01974 All Suggested With all Remote Support Assistant connections closed, the GUI may show that a connection is still in progress (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Systems running v8.1 or later using Remote Support Assistance
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 System Monitoring
HU01978 All Suggested Unable to create HyperSwap volumes. The mkvolume command fails with CMMVC7050E error (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Systems running v8.2 or later using HyperSwap
Trigger None
Workaround Use the early (pre mkvolume) procedure for creating HyperSwap volumes
8.3.0.0 HyperSwap
HU01979 All Suggested The figure for used_virtualization, in the output of a lslicense command, may be unexpectedly large (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Systems running v8.1 or later
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Command Line Interface
HU01982 All Suggested In an environment, with multiple IP Quorum servers, if the quorum component encounters a duplicate UID then a node may warmstart (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems running v8.2.1 or later running IP quorum
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 IP Quorum
HU01983 All Suggested Improve debug data capture to assist in determining the reason for a Data Reduction Pool to be taken offline (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Systems using Data Reduction Pools
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Data Reduction Pools
HU01986 All Suggested An accounting issue in the FlashCopy component may cause node warmstarts (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems using FlashCopy
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 FlashCopy
HU01991 All Suggested An issue in the handling of extent allocation, in the Data Reduction Pool component, can cause a node warmstart (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems using Data Reduction Pools
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Data Reduction Pools
HU02020 FS9100, V7000, V5000 Suggested An internal hardware bus, running at the incorrect speed, may give rise to spurious DIMM over-temperature errors (show details)
Symptom None
Environment FlashSystem 9100, Storwize V7000 Gen 3 and Storwize V5100 systems
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Reliability Availability Serviceability
HU02029 All Suggested An issue with the SSMTP process may result in failed callhome, inventory reporting and user notifications. A testemail command will fail with a CMMVC9051E error (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Systems running v8.2.1 or later
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 System Monitoring
HU02039 All Suggested An issue in the management steps of Data Reduction Pool recovery may lead to a node warmstart (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems using Data Reduction Pools
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Data Reduction Pools
HU02059 All Suggested Event Log may display quorum errors even though quorum devices are available (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Systems running v8.2.1
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 Quorum
HU02090 FS9100, V7000, V5000 Suggested When a failing drive experiences an error, RAID may mishandle it, resulting in a node warmstart (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment FlashSystem 9100 and Storwize systems
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.3.0.0 RAID
HU02134 All Suggested A timing issue, in handling chquorum CLI commands, can result in fewer than three quorum devices being available (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment Systems running v8.2 or later
Trigger None
Workaround Issue a chquorum CLI command to re-select the missing quorum device
8.3.0.0 Quorum

4. Useful Links

Description Link
Support Websites
Update Matrices, including detailed build version
Support Information pages providing links to the following information:
  • Interoperability information
  • Product documentation
  • Limitations and restrictions, including maximum configuration limits
Spectrum Virtualize Family of Products Inter-System Metro Mirror and Global Mirror Compatibility Cross Reference
Software Upgrade Test Utility
Software Upgrade Planning