Release Note for systems built with IBM Storage Virtualize


This is the release note for the 8.6.2 release and details the issues resolved between 8.6.2.0 and 8.6.2.1. This document will be updated with additional information whenever a PTF is released.

Note: This release is a Non-Long Term Support (Non-LTS) release. Non-LTS code levels will not receive regular fix packs. Fixes for issues introduced in a Non-LTS release will be delivered in a subsequent Non-LTS or LTS release. If issues are encountered the only resolution is likely to be upgrade to a later LTS or Non-LTS release.

This document was last updated on 28 October 2024.

  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 8.6.2.1 release: The following new features have been introduced in the 8.6.2 release:

2. Known Issues and Restrictions

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

The three site orchestrator is not compatible with the new SSH security level 4.This will be resolved in a future release of the orchestrator.

8.6.2.1

Removing a vVol child pool is currently not supported. Contact IBM Support if you have a requirement to delete a vVol child pool.

8.6.2.0

Due to a known issue, array expansion of DRAID1 arrays is not supported on this code level.

8.6.2.0

VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) are not supported using IBM Spectrum Connect on 8.6.1 or later.

Systems using Spectrum Connect must migrate to use the embedded VASA provider on version 8.6.0 before upgrading to 8.6.1 or later.

8.6.1.0

Systems using VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) may require reconfiguration before updating to 8.6.1 or later.

Refer to Updating to Storage Virtualize 8.6.1 or later using VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols)

8.6.1.0

All IO groups must be configured with FC target port mode set to 'enabled' before upgrading to 8.6.1.0 or later.

Enabling the FC target port mode configures multiple WWPNs per port (using the Fibre Channel NPIV technology), and separates the host traffic from all other traffic on different WWPNs

Important: Changing this setting is likely to require changes to zoning, and rescanning LUNs in all applications.

The product documentation contains topics called 'Enabling NPIV on an existing system' and 'Enabling NPIV on a new system' which contains details about how to make the changes.

8.6.1.0

IBM i is not supported as a host operating system when connected using directly attached Fibre Channel to FlashSystem or SAN Volume Controller systems running 8.6.1.0 or later versions.

IBM i is supported as a host operating system when connected to FlashSystem or SAN Volume Controller systems via a Fibre Channel switch

8.6.1.0

8.6.1 removes support for the CIM protocol. Applications that connect using the CIM protocol should be upgraded to use a supported interface, such as the REST interface.

IBM recommends that any product teams currently using CIM protocol comment on this Idea and IBM will contact you with more details about how to use a supported interface.

8.6.1.0

Systems using 3-site orchestrator cannot upgrade to 8.7.0.0

8.6.1.0

The following restrictions were valid but have now been lifted

Remote Support Assistance (RSA) cannot be enabled on FS9500 systems with MTM 4983-AH8. Attempting to enable RSA will fail with: CMMVC8292E The command failed because the feature is not supported on this platform.

This restriction has been lifted by SVAPAR-106693

8.6.0.0

Upgrading to 8.5.1 or higher was not supported on systems with Data Reduction Pools.

This restriction has been lifted by SVAPAR-105430

8.6.2.0

8.6.1 introduced support for policy-based High Availability, using two storage systems. Asynchronous policy-based Replication is not supported in this release and systems requiring this feature should use 8.6.0.

8.6.2.0

Mapping more than 512 volumes to a single host might fail with CMMVC5876E after upgrading to 8.6.1.0, even if the configuration is supported

8.6.2.0

Systems with RoCE adapters could not configure an MTU of greater than 1500 with 8.6.0 and 8.6.1 software.

8.6.2.0

3. Issues Resolved

This release contains all of the fixes included in the 8.6.0.0 and 8.6.1.0 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-2023-48795 7154643 8.6.2.1
CVE-2023-22081 7114770 8.6.2.0
CVE-2023-22067 7114770 8.6.2.0
CVE-2023-5676 7114770 8.6.2.0
CVE-2023-43042 7064976 8.6.2.0
CVE-2023-46589 7114769 8.6.2.0
CVE-2023-45648 7114769 8.6.2.0
CVE-2023-42795 7114769 8.6.2.0
CVE-2024-21733 7114769 8.6.2.0
CVE-2023-47700 7114767 8.6.2.0
CVE-2023-34396 7065010 8.6.2.0
CVE-2023-50164 7114768 8.6.2.0
CVE-2023-21930 7065011 8.6.2.0
CVE-2023-21937 7065011 8.6.2.0
CVE-2023-21938 7065011 8.6.2.0

3.2 APARs Resolved

Show details for all APARs
APAR Affected Products Severity Description Resolved in Feature Tags
SVAPAR-117738 All HIPER The configuration node may go offline with node error 565, due to a full /tmp partition on the boot drive. (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems running 8.6.2
Trigger None
Workaround Reboot the node to bring it online.
8.6.2.1 Reliability Availability Serviceability
SVAPAR-105861 SVC HIPER A cluster recovery may occur when an attempt is made to create a mirrored snapshot with insufficient volume mirroring bitmap space in the IO group (show details)
Symptom Multiple Node Warmstarts
Environment Systems using mirrored snapshots, including safeguarded snapshots
Trigger Attempting to create a mirrored snapshot without sufficient volume mirroring bitmap space
Workaround Adjust snapshot policy configuration to ensure that the maximum bitmap space is sufficient
8.6.2.0 FlashCopy, Safeguarded Copy & Safeguarded Snapshots, Volume Mirroring
SVAPAR-104533 All Critical Systems that encounter multiple node asserts, followed by a system T3 recovery, may experience errors repairing Data Reduction Pools (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems using Data Reduction Pools
Trigger Multiple node asserts followed by a system T3 recovery
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Data Reduction Pools
SVAPAR-105430 All Critical When hardware compression is suspended mid IO to a DRP compressed volume, it may cause the IO to hang until an internal timeout is hit and a node warmstarts. (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment GEN3 or later hardware with DRP compressed volumes.
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Compression, Data Reduction Pools
SVAPAR-107270 All Critical If an upgrade from a level below 8.6.x, to 8.6.0 or 8.6.1 commits, whilst FlashCopy is preparing to start a map, a bad state is introduced that prevents the FlashCopy maps from starting. (show details)
Symptom Loss of Redundancy
Environment Systems using Global Mirror with Change Volumes or Policy-based Replication
Trigger Upgrade commit
Workaround Stop replication, or the partnership before starting the upgrade
8.6.2.0 Global Mirror With Change Volumes, Policy-based Replication
SVAPAR-107547 All Critical If there are more than 64 logins to a single Fibre Channel port, and a switch zoning change is made, a single node warmstart may occur. (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems with Fibre Channel adapters
Trigger Switch zoning change with more than 64 logins to a single storage system port.
Workaround Reduce the number of logins to a single storage system port
8.6.2.0 Reliability Availability Serviceability
SVAPAR-107734 All Critical When issuing IO to an incremental fcmap volume that is in a stopped state, but has recently been expanded, and it also has a partner fcmap, may cause the nodes to go into a restart. (show details)
Symptom Multiple Node Warmstarts
Environment Systems configured with Incremental flashcopy and reverse fcmap
Trigger Resizing volumes in an incremental partnered fcmaps
Workaround Ensure that both incremental partnered fcmaps are deleted, and then re-create a new pair if you need to resize the volumes.
8.6.2.0 FlashCopy
SVAPAR-110735 All Critical Additional policing has been introduced to ensure that FlashCopy target volumes are not used with policy-based replication. Commands 'chvolumegroup -replicationpolicy' will fail if any volume in the group is the target of a FlashCopy map. 'chvdisk -volumegroup' will fail if the volume is the target of a FlashCopy map, and the volume group has a replication policy. (show details)
Symptom Multiple Node Warmstarts
Environment None
Trigger Running either the 'chvolumegroup -replicationpolicy' or 'chvdisk -volumegroup' commands.
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 FlashCopy, Policy-based Replication
SVAPAR-111257 All Critical If many drive firmware upgrades are performed in quick succession, multiple nodes may go offline with node error 565 due to a full boot drive. (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment Systems running 8.5.5, 8.6.0 or 8.6.1 software, with SAS drives. NVMe drives are not affected by this issue.
Trigger Performing many individual drive firmware upgrades in quick succession. This issue does not occur if a drive firmware upgrade is applied to all drives at once.
Workaround Upgrade all drives at once, instead of upgrading individual drives one at a time.
8.6.2.0 Drives
SVAPAR-111705 All Critical If a Volume Group Snapshot fails and the system has 'snapshotpreserveparent' set to 'yes', this may trigger multiple node warmstarts. (show details)
Symptom Multiple Node Warmstarts
Environment Systems using Volume Group Snapshot and have 'snapshotpreserveparent' set to 'yes'.
Trigger An addsnapshot failure.
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 FlashCopy
SVAPAR-111994 All Critical Certain writes to deduplicated and compressed DRP vdisks may return a mismatch, leading to a DRP pool going offline. (show details)
Symptom Loss of Redundancy
Environment DRP with deduplification and compression.
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Compression, Data Reduction Pools, Deduplication
SVAPAR-112007 All Critical Running the 'chsystemlimits' command with no parameters can cause multiple node warmstarts. (show details)
Symptom Multiple Node Warmstarts
Environment None
Trigger Running the 'chsystemlimits' command without any parameters
Workaround Avoid running the 'chsystemlimits' command without any parameters.
8.6.2.0 Command Line Interface
SVAPAR-112107 FS9500, SVC Critical There is an issue that affects PSU firmware upgrades in FS9500 and SV3 systems that can cause an outage. This happens when one PSU fails to download the firmware and another PSU starts to download the firmware. It is a very rare timing window that can be triggered if two PSUs are reseated close in time during the firmware upgrade process. (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment FS9500 or SV3
Trigger Two PSUs are reseated close in time during the firmware upgrade process
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 System Update
SVAPAR-93709 FS9500 Critical A problem with NVMe drives may impact node to node communication over the PCIe bus. This may lead to a temporary array offline. (show details)
Symptom Loss of Access to Data
Environment None
Trigger Failing NVMe drive
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Drives, RAID
SVAPAR-104159 All High Importance Nodes configured with 32GB or less of RAM, and specific 25Gb ethernet adapters, under some circumstances may run out of memory. This can cause a single node warmstart. (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Nodes running 8.6.0.0 with 32GB or less of RAM, and specific 25Gb ethernet adapters
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Reliability Availability Serviceability
SVAPAR-104250 All High Importance There is an issue whereby NVMe CaW (Compare and Write) commands can incorrectly go into an invalid state, thereby causing the node to assert to clear the bad condition (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Any host running NVMe
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Hosts, NVMe
SVAPAR-105727 All High Importance An upgrade within the 8.5.0 release stream from 8.5.0.5 or below, to 8.5.0.6 or above, can cause an assert of down-level nodes during the upgrade, if volume mirroring is heavily utilised (show details)
Symptom Multiple Node Warmstarts
Environment Any system running volume mirroring with either a large number of volumes or high syncrate
Trigger Upgrading from 8.5.0.5 or below to 8.5.0.6 or above with heavy volume mirroring workload
Workaround Disable mirroring, or reduce syncrate to a low value during the upgrade process
8.6.2.0 Volume Mirroring
SVAPAR-106874 FS5200, FS7200, FS7300, FS9100, FS9200, FS9500, SVC High Importance A timing window may cause a single node warmstart, while recording debug information about a replicated host write. This can only happen on a system using Policy Based Replication. (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems running PBR and code 8.6.0.0 or 8.6.0.1
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Policy-based Replication
SVAPAR-107815 All High Importance There is an issue between 3-Site, whilst adding snapshots on the auxfar site, that causes the node to warmstart (show details)
Symptom Multiple Node Warmstarts
Environment Any system that is running 8.6.0.0 with 3-Site configured
Trigger adding snapshots on the auxfar site when 3-Site is configured
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 3-Site using HyperSwap or Metro Mirror
SVAPAR-107866 & SVAPAR-110742 All High Importance A System is unable to send email to email server because the password contains a hash '#' character. (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Configured email server requires username and password for authentication.
Trigger Password contains hash characters
Workaround Update the user password to remove any hash characters.
8.6.2.0
SVAPAR-108715 All High Importance The Service Assistant GUI on 8.5.0.0 and above incorrectly performs actions on the local node instead of the node selected in the GUI. (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment None
Trigger None
Workaround The work around is to perform Service Assistant GUI actions using the Service Assistant CLI instead. Alternatively, In the Service Assistant GUI, select a node that you are not on to perform a Service Assistant action, then when you submit the command, the action will be performed on the local node instead.
8.6.2.0 Graphical User Interface
SVAPAR-108831 FS9500, SVC High Importance FS9500 and SV3 nodes may not boot with the minimum configuration consisting of at least 2 DIMMS. (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment FS9500 or SV3 nodes with 2 DIMMS in the node.
Trigger FS9500 or SV3 nodes that are configure with 2 DIMMS.
Workaround Ensure that the node has a minimum of 8 DIMMS installed
8.6.2.0 Reliability Availability Serviceability
SVAPAR-110426 All High Importance When a security admin other than superuser runs security patch related commands 'lspatch' and 'lssystempatches' this can cause a node to warmstart (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment None
Trigger Any user that is not Superuser running a security patch command
Workaround Use superuser for security patching commands.
8.6.2.0 Security
SVAPAR-110743 All High Importance Email becoming stuck in the mail queue caused a delay in the 'upgrade commit was finished' message being sent, therefore causing 3 out of 4 nodes to warmstart, and then rejoin the cluster automatically within less than three minutes. (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment None
Trigger Email stuck in the mail queue causing a delay in the 'upgrade commit was finished' message being sent.
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 System Update
SVAPAR-110765 All High Importance In a 3-Site configuration, the Config node can be lost if the 'stopfcmap or 'stopfcconsistgrp ' commands are run with the '-force' parameter (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Any cluster with 3-Site configuration
Trigger Running 'stopfcmap' or 'stopfcconsistgrp' with '-force' on the flash copy maps with vdisk in 3-site configuration.
Workaround Do not use the '-force' parameter when running either the 'stopfcmap' or 'stopfcconsistgrp' commands.
8.6.2.0 3-Site using HyperSwap or Metro Mirror
SVAPAR-110819 & SVAPAR-113122 All High Importance A single-node warmstart may occur when a Fibre Channel port is disconnected from one fabric, and added to another. This is caused by a timing window in the FDMI discovery process. (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment There are more than one fc switches connected to same Flash system cluster
Trigger Disconnected a Fibre Channel port from one switch, and connecting it to another switch.
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Fibre Channel
SVAPAR-111996 FS9500, SVC High Importance After upgrading to a level which contains new battery firmware, the battery may be offline after the upgrade. (show details)
Symptom Loss of Redundancy
Environment FS9500 or SV3 only
Trigger Upgrading to 8.5.0.8+ or 8.6.0.0+
Workaround We have a utility to allow us to fix this in the field.
8.6.2.0 Reliability Availability Serviceability, System Update
SVAPAR-112119 All High Importance Volumes can go offline due to out of space issues. This can cause the node to warmstart. (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment None
Trigger Out of space condition
Workaround None
8.6.2.0
SVAPAR-112203 All High Importance A node warmstart may occur when removing a volume from a volume group which uses policy-based Replication. (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems with policy-based Replication
Trigger Removing a volume from a volume group which uses policy-based Replication.
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Policy-based Replication
SVAPAR-112525 All High Importance A node assert can occur due to a resource allocation issue in a small timing window when using Remote Copy (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems using Hyperswap, Metro Mirror, Global Mirror, or Global Mirror with Change Volumes
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Global Mirror, Global Mirror With Change Volumes, HyperSwap, Metro Mirror
SVAPAR-99175 All High Importance A node may warmstart due to an invalid queuing mechanism in cache. This can cause IO in cache to be in the same processing queue more than once. (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Any cluster on code below 8.6.1
Trigger Can happen when IO in cache is being processed
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Cache
SVAPAR-99354 All High Importance Missing policing in the 'startfcconsistgrp' command for volumes using volume group snapshots, resulting in node warmstarts when creating a new volume group snapshot (show details)
Symptom Multiple Node Warmstarts
Environment Any system configured with Volume Group Snapshot and FlashCopy
Trigger Adding a Volume Group Snapshot when a downstream legacy FlashCopy map exists.
Workaround Only create a Volume Group Snapshot if a downstream legacy FlashCopy map does not exist
8.6.2.0 FlashCopy
SVAPAR-100924 FS9500, SVC Suggested After the battery firmware is updated, either using the utility or by upgrading to a version with newer firmware, the battery LED may be falsely illuminated. (show details)
Symptom None
Environment SV3 or FS9500 systems
Trigger Battery firmware update
Workaround Manually toggle the battery LED with the following commands. 'satask chnodeled -on -battery <ID>' and 'satask chnodeled -off -battery <ID>'
8.6.2.0
SVAPAR-102382 All Suggested Fibre Channel Read Diagnostic Parameters (RDP) indicates that a short wave SFP is installed when infact an long wave SFP is installed. (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment Systems with long wave SFPs running 8.5.2.0 or higher.
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 System Monitoring
SVAPAR-106693 FS9500 Suggested Remote Support Assistance (RSA) cannot be enabled on FS9500 systems with MTM 4983-AH8 (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment FS9500 systems with MTM 4983-AH8
Trigger Trying to enable RSA on MTM 4983-AH8
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Support Remote Assist
SVAPAR-107558 All Suggested A Volume Group Snapshot (VGS) trigger may collide with a GMCV or Policy based Replication cycle causing the VGS trigger to fail. (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment Volume Group Snapshots with GMCV or Policy Based Replication
Trigger Trigger a Volume Group Snapshot
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 FlashCopy, Global Mirror With Change Volumes, Policy-based Replication
SVAPAR-107733 All Suggested The 'mksnmpserver' command fails with 'CMMVC5711E [####] is not valid data' if auth passphrase contains special characters, such as '!' (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment Any system running on or after v8.3.1.9, v8.4.0.10, or v8.5.0.7
Trigger Using an auth passphrase containing special characters to execute the 'mksnmpserver' command
Workaround Do not include special characters in the auth passphrase
8.6.2.0
SVAPAR-107852 All Suggested A Policy-Based High Availability node may warmstart during IP quorum disconnect and reconnect operations. (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems using Policy-Based High Availability and IP quorum
Trigger IP quorum disconnecting and reconnecting
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 IP Quorum
SVAPAR-108469 All Suggested A single node warmstart may occur on nodes configure to use a secured IP partnership (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems with a secured IP partnership
Trigger Service Association goes down
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 IP Replication
SVAPAR-108476 All Suggested Remote users with public SSH keys configured cannot failback to password authentication. (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment Systems that have remote users configured that use public SSH keys
Trigger Remote users configured with public SSH keys
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Security
SVAPAR-108551 All Suggested An expired token in the GUI file upload process can cause the upgrade to not start automatically after the file is successfully uploaded. (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment None
Trigger Start a code upgrade via GUI
Workaround Upgrade via the CLI. The other option is to log out from the GUI, then log back in to re-authenticate, then go back to the Update System view. On the Test and Update modal, select the test utility and update image files that are already on the system from the previous upload (without selecting to upload them again)
8.6.2.0 System Update
SVAPAR-109289 All Suggested Buffer overflow may occur when handling the maximum length of 55 characters for either Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) or Single Sign On (SSO) client secrets (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment Systems that use MFA or SSO
Trigger Using a client secret with > 55 characters
Workaround Use less then 55 characters for the client secret
8.6.2.0 Backend Storage
SVAPAR-110059 All Suggested When using Storage Insights without a data collector, an attempt to collect a snap using Storage Insights may fail. (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Storage Virtualize system running 8.5.4 or higher and using Storage Insights without a data collector
Trigger Initiating a Support Package collection using Storage Insights
Workaround Disable then re-enble the Cloud Callhome service using the 'svctask chcloudcallhome -disable' and 'svctask chcloudcallhome -enable'. This will function until the next time the configuration node fails over
8.6.2.0 Support Data Collection
SVAPAR-110745 All Suggested Policy-based Replication (PBR) snapshots and Change Volumes are factored into the preferred node assignment. This can lead to a perceived imbalance of the distribution of preferred node assignments. (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment Any system running policy-based Replication
Trigger Policy-based Replication enabled
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Policy-based Replication
SVAPAR-110749 All Suggested There is an issue when configuring volumes using the wizard, the underlying command that is called is the 'mkvolume' command rather than the previous 'mkvdisk' command. With 'mkvdisk' it was possible to format the volumes, whereas with 'mkvolume' it is not possible (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment Definition of multiple volumes
Trigger Defining volumes via management GUI.
Workaround Run the 'mkvdisk' command manually.
8.6.2.0
SVAPAR-111021 All Suggested Unable to load resource page in GUI if the IO group ID:0 does not have any nodes. (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Any systems that have no nodes in IO group ID:0.
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 System Monitoring
SVAPAR-111187 All Suggested There is an issue if the browser language is set to French, that can cause the SNMP server creation wizard not to be displayed. (show details)
Symptom None
Environment Any system where the browser language is set to French
Trigger None
Workaround Switching the browser language to English, or use the CLI to configure SNMP
8.6.2.0 System Monitoring
SVAPAR-111239 All Suggested In rare situations it is possible for a node running Global Mirror with Change Volumes (GMCV) to assert (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Systems running GMCV
Trigger Any system running GMCV
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Global Mirror With Change Volumes
SVAPAR-111989 All Suggested Downloading software with a Fix ID longer than 64 characters fails with an error (show details)
Symptom None
Environment None
Trigger Downloading a software package from Fix Central that has a Fix ID greater than 64 characters long
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Support Remote Assist
SVAPAR-111991 All Suggested Attempting to create a truststore fails with a CMMVC5711E error if the certificate file does not end with a newline character (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment Systems using policy-based Replication, secured IP partnerships or VASA.
Trigger Attempting to create a truststore
Workaround Ensure the certificate file ends with a newline character
8.6.2.0 IP Replication, Policy-based Replication, vVols
SVAPAR-111992 All Suggested Unable to configure policy-based Replication using the GUI, if truststore contains blank lines or CRLF line endings (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment Systems configured with policy-based Replication
Trigger Attempting to configure policy-based Replication
Workaround Ensure the certificate file used to create the truststore contains no blank lines and uses LF line endings instead of CRLF line endings.
8.6.2.0 Graphical User Interface, Policy-based Replication
SVAPAR-112243 All Suggested Prior to 8.4.0 NTP was used. After 8.4.0 this was changed to 'chronyd'. When upgrading from a lower level to 8.4 or higher, systems may experience compatibility issues. (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment Systems that have upgrade to 8.4 or higher
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.6.2.0
SVAPAR-112711 All Suggested IBM Storage Virtualize user interface code will not respond to a malformed HTTP POST with expected HTTP 401 message. (show details)
Symptom None
Environment IBM Storage Virtualize GUI
Trigger Malformed HTTP POST
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Graphical User Interface
SVAPAR-114081 All Suggested The lsfabric command may show FC port logins which no longer exist. In large environments with many devices attached to the SAN, this may result in an incorrect 1800 error being reported, indicating that a node has too many logins. (show details)
Symptom Configuration
Environment None
Trigger None
Workaround Warmstart each node in turn, to remove the invalid entries from lsfabric.
8.6.2.0 Reliability Availability Serviceability
SVAPAR-96952 All Suggested A single node warmstart may occur when updating the login counts associated with a backend controller. (show details)
Symptom Single Node Warmstart
Environment Any system with backend external controllers.
Trigger None
Workaround None
8.6.2.0 Backend Storage

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Storage Virtualize Family of Products Inter-System Metro Mirror and Global Mirror Compatibility Cross Reference
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