HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center Release Notes (v 8.2 and 8.2.1)

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1 Center Release Notes (v 8.2 and 8.2.1) Part Number: a Published: April 2017 Edition: 2

2 Contents Center Release Notes (v 8.2 and 8.2.1)... 4 Description...4 Update recommendation... 4 Supersedes... 4 Operating systems and devices... 4 What s new... 4 Prerequisites...5 Installation instructions... 5 Compatibility matrix of Center with HPE OneView versions... 6 Supported Center and HPE OneView versions...6 Center and HPE OneView Upgrade Compatibility... 7 HPE installers... 8 HPE OneView SCOM Integration Kit (v 3.2)...8 HPE OneView SCVMM Integration Kit (v 3.2.1)... 9 HPE ProLiant SCCM Integration Kit (v )... 9 HPE ProLiant SCVMM Integration Kit (v )... 9 HPE SCOM Integration Kit (x86/x64) (v 3.4)... 9 HPE Storage SCOM Integration Kit (v 4.4)...9 HPE ProLiant Updates Catalog (v )... 9 Issues and suggested actions HPE OneView components Add Capacity or Expand Cluster wizard will fail to assign HPE OneView server profile when UEFI boot mode is selected...10 Deployment jobs may fail if 2 or more Add Capacity Wizards are launched inadvertently...10 Object discovery override error when using the HPE OneView Server Management Pack Unable to access HPE SSA...10 Unable to authorize the SCVMM server, if the SCVMM Server IP is changed Contents

3 2017 Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Development Company, L.P. Confidential computer software. Valid license from HPE required for possession, use or copying. Consistent with FAR and , Commercial Computer Software, Computer Software Documentation, and Technical Data for Commercial Items are licensed to the U.S. Government under vendor's standard commercial license. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HPE products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HPE shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein. Acknowledgments Microsoft and Windows are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.

4 Center Release Notes (v 8.2 and 8.2.1) Description Center v 8.2 and is a fully integrated product that unifies the management of physical and virtual IT environments, including servers, PCs, storage, networking devices, and software. It combines an integrated set of HPE extensions with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012/2012 R2/2016, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP2/R2 SP1/Current Branch and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2 / 2016 to bring native manageability of HPE hardware to Microsoft System Center environments. To learn more about this product, see the Center website: Update recommendation Recommended Includes new enhancements and features. HPE recommends that all customers install this update. Supersedes Center v 8.1. Operating systems and devices Complete information on supported hardware and software is included in the respective feature user guides. These documents are available on the Center documentation website: What s new release The release of Center includes: Display of latest storage system information on the Storage Summary and Storage Details pages of HPE Fabric Management Add-in, whenever the deduplication ratio or compression ratio reaches > release The 8.2 release of Center includes: Support for HPE OneView 2.0 and 3.0 HPE OneView Management Pack for SCOM Supports a new health dashboard in OneView Management Pack Supports a single folder for Enclosure state, Device Bay State, Interconnect State, and for Health Collection State under HPE OneView Enclosure Management Pack. Support for OneView 3.0 Support for HPE Synergy D3940 Storage Module Support for HPE Synergy 12Gb SAS Connection Module 4 Center Release Notes (v 8.2 and 8.2.1)

5 Removal of C7000 and Synergy folder structures within the HPE OneView Enclosure Management pack. Enhancement to the Alert processing mechanism. In addition to the already existing alerts, HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center obtains alerts from OneView and provides a detailed listing of them in SCOM. Enhancement in Diagram View for HPE Storage. Now the Snapshots will be shown in parallel to Volumes under Storage Pool Single integrated HPE SCVMM Fabric Management Add-in Supports Synergy Supports backward compatibility with HPE OneView 2.0 API Removed support for VCM Changes in Virtual Machine Creation wizard to use HPE 3PAR StoreServ/HPE StoreVirtual Storage for provisioning instead of OneView resources. HPE Storage Management Pack for SCOM Support for monitoring the logical components of HPE StoreOnce storage Removed support for following devices: HPE StoreEasy 5000 Storage HPE E5000 Messaging system HP EVA P6000 Support for the following versions of service packs with HPE ProLiant SCCM Integration Kit and HPE ProLiant Updates Catalog: SCCM 1511, 1602, 1606, and 1610 Supports Synergy Support for the following version of SCVMM with HPE ProLiant SCVMM Integration kit and HPE ProLiant Updates Catalog: SCVMM2016 Nano server Support for HPE Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) Updates to SCCM and SCVMM Integration kits with latest drivers. Prerequisites IMPORTANT: HPE OneView SCOM Integration Kit requires.net Framework 4.5. If.NET 4.5 is not installed, a dialog box opens with a prerequisite absence error message. Complete information on supported hardware and software is included in the respective feature user guides. These documents are available on the Center documentation website: Installation instructions Center is a fully integrated product that unifies the management of physical and virtual IT environments, including servers, PCs, storage, networking devices and software. It combines an integrated set of HPE extensions with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to bring native manageability of HPE hardware to Microsoft System Center environments. Prerequisites 5

6 There are separate user guides for each of the features in Center. For a complete set of documentation for the current release of this product, see the HPE Enterprise Information Library at Compatibility matrix of Center with HPE OneView versions The following sections explain the compatibility of Center with HPE OneView versions as well as the upgrade compatibility. Supported Center and HPE OneView versions Compatibility of Center versions with HPE OneView versions table lists the compatibility of Center versions with OneView versions. Table 1: Compatibility of Center versions with HPE OneView versions HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center Version HPE OneView Version Supported Remarks Center 7.4 Center Center Center 7.5 Center Center 7.6 Center to This release support only 1.10 releases or later patches are not supported to This release support only 1.10 releases or later patches are not supported or later This release support only 1.10 releases. This release added support for or later patches to This release support only 1.20 releases or later patches are not supported or later This release support only 1.20 releases. This release added support for or later patches or later This release support only 1.20 releases or later patches are supported or later and 2.0 This release added support for 2.0 and backward compatibility support for Table Continued 6 Compatibility matrix of Center with HPE OneView versions

7 HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center Version HPE OneView Version Supported Remarks Center 8.1 Center 8.2 and or later and 3.00 This release added support for 3.0 and backward compatibility support for or later, 3.0, and This release supports HPE OneView version 3.0 and backward compatibility support for 2.0 Center and HPE OneView Upgrade Compatibility Upgrade compatibility of Center and HPE OneView table lists the upgrade compatibility of Center and HPE OneView versions. Table 2: Upgrade compatibility of Center and HPE OneView Center Upgrade Center 7.4.x to 8.0 Center 7.5.x to 8.0 Center 7.6 to 8.0 Center 8.0 to 8.1 Center 8.1 to 8.2 and HPE OneView Version Supported with HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center 1.20 and and and and , 3.00, and IMPORTANT: HPE requires that you first upgrade to the latest version of HPE OneView before upgrading to HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center version 8.2. Center 7.6 or earlier versions of the plug-in do not work with HPE OneView 2.0 or later. If you are using 7.6 or an earlier version of the plug-in, update your plugin to version 8.2 to support HPE OneView 3.0. Ensure that you have the supported version of Center available, before upgrading to the latest version of HPE OneView. It is not recommended to use the unsupported versions of Center, after you upgrade to the latest version of HPE OneView. Center and HPE OneView Upgrade Compatibility 7

8 HPE installers This image shows clickable product labels that link to the installers that deploy and configure HPE extensions to Microsoft System Center. To install and configure each product, see the HPE OneView for Microsoft System Center documentation at You may need to install Java software to have the autorun.hta function correctly. The autorun contains self-extracting kits which extracts the content into the current directory by default. To show the clickable product labels correctly, HPE recommends to extract these kits outside the current directory and not within the image extracted folder. HPE OneView SCOM Integration Kit (v 3.2) This kit includes HPE OneView Management Packs that integrate alert processing, state monitoring, and hardware resource lifecycle management with information specifically designed for HP servers (G6 to Gen9), HPE Virtual Connect, HPE BladeSystem enclosures, HPE Synergy, and HPE Storage Systems that are managed by HPE OneView. The HPE OneView Management Packs require that the HPE OneView Event Manager be installed on each SCOM management server in the resource pool for alert processing. 8 HPE installers

9 Download this kit if you want to monitor the health of HP servers (G6 to Gen9), BladeSystem enclosures, Synergy enclosures, HPE Virtual Connect, and HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage that are being managed by HPE OneView. For more information, see Managing Mixed Environments with HPE SCOM Management Packs white paper. HPE OneView SCVMM Integration Kit (v 3.2.1) This kit contains HPE Fabric Management Add-in for SCVMM that provides a consolidated view of Server and Storage fabric that use HPE OneView or HPE Virtual Connect Manager. When used with HPE OneView, it provides enhanced server provisioning, ability to expand clusters using HPE OneView server profiles, and the ability to deploy Virtual Machines on the HPE OneView managed hosts by utilizing the HPE OneView resources for storage and its fibre channel connections. It enables the SCVMM administrators to view information, events and alerts from HPE Storage portfolio, and deploy the HPE StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance. Add Capacity/Expand Cluster deployment feature requires the installation of the HPE ProLiant SCVMM 2012 Integration Kit (v ). HPE ProLiant SCCM Integration Kit (v ) Download this kit if you want to deploy Operating System using SCCM. The kit provides drivers and driver packages for deploying ProLiant servers and Synergy. This kit includes HPE Inventory Tool for collecting extended inventory data about ProLiant windows servers. HPE ProLiant SCVMM Integration Kit (v ) Download this kit if you want to deploy Operating System using SCVMM. The kit assists with SCVMM 2012R2/2016 bare metal OS deployment. It puts HPE drivers needed for deploying ProLiant servers and Synergy into the SCVMM library share, which can then be used by the SCVMM deployment process. The same set of drivers can also be included in the WinPE images. HPE SCOM Integration Kit (x86/x64) (v 3.4) Download this management pack if you do not manage HPE ProLiant Servers, HPE BladeSystem enclosures and HPE Virtual Connects by HPE OneView. This kit installs HPE Management Packs, tools, HPE Device monitor service, and HPE Device monitor console. These Management Packs integrate alert processing, state monitoring, and hardware resource lifecycle management with information specifically designed for HPE ProLiant Windows Server, HPE BladeSystem Enclosure, HPE Virtual Connect, HPE ProLiant Linux Server, HPE ProLiant VMware Server, and HPE ProLiant Agentless Server. Instead, use the HPE OneView SCOM Integration Kit. For more information, see the Managing Mixed Environments with HPE SCOM Management Packs white paper. HPE Storage SCOM Integration Kit (v 4.4) Download this kit if you want to monitor the health of all HPE Storage Systems. This kit includes more advanced health management of HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage and it is recommended to install the HPE 3PAR StoreServ Management Pack along with HPE OneView SCOM Integration Kit. This kit installs HPE Storage Management Packs and the User Configuration Tool. It is designed to receive alerts, events, topology, capacity, and health information from the HPE Storage portfolio. This information is displayed in the Operations Manager under different views. For the HPE Storage support matrix, see the HPE SPOCK website at HPE ProLiant Updates Catalog (v ) The HPE catalog delivers an integrated software and firmware update experience for HPE ProLiant customers using Microsoft SCCM 2012 R2SP1/SP2/Current branch or SCVMM 2012R2/2016 to manage their server infrastructure. The HPE ProLiant Updates Catalog is not installed from this image. This catalog is registered in the standard Microsoft third party Partner Catalog List as "HPE ProLiant Updates Catalog" and HPE OneView SCVMM Integration Kit (v 3.2.1) 9

10 can be selected in System Center Updates Publisher (SCUP). See the HPE ProLiant Updates Catalog User Guide for important information regarding recent HPE catalog changes. Issues and suggested actions HPE OneView components HPE OneView components will not work if HPE OneView is not present. Add Capacity or Expand Cluster wizard will fail to assign HPE OneView server profile when UEFI boot mode is selected If you see a warning in your server profile, Unable to manage boot order in UEFI or UEFI Optimized mode with the current server ROM, you don't have the appropriate ROM version. To resolve this issue, do one of the following: If available, update the supported ROM version Manage the UEFI boot order manually using RBSU Set boot mode to Legacy BIOS See the HPE OneView Release Notes for more details. Deployment jobs may fail if 2 or more Add Capacity Wizards are launched inadvertently Deployment jobs may fail and cause the SCVMM console to crash when multiple Add Capacity Wizards are launched inadvertently. To resolve this issue, restart the SCVMM console and the SCVMM service to clean up the hung or failed jobs. Object discovery override error when using the HPE OneView Server Management Pack Attempts to apply object discovery overrides to HPE Server Collection Discovery and HPE OneView Proliant Server Discovery results in issues where the override values gets saved in the selected Management Pack having the overrides, instead of displaying them in the Override Properties window. The Override Summary page also displays the Microsoft.NET framework unhandled exception message. HPE recommends that you do not apply overrides to these object discovery rules. To resolve the issue, delete the existing overrides and reset the values to default. To delete the overrides: 1. Export the Management Pack having the overrides from the SCOM console. 2. Delete the override configurations specific to the HPE Server Collection Discovery and HPE OneView Proliant Server Discovery rules. 3. Re-import the Management Pack to the SCOM console. Unable to access HPE SSA Symptom Cannot access HPE SSA from systems supporting SATA RAID operating in Legacy BIOS Boot Mode. Cause Dynamic Smart Array (B140i) works only in UEFI Boot Mode. 10 Issues and suggested actions

11 Action Procedure 1. To access HPE SSA in Legacy BIOS Boot Mode, switch the SATA Controller (in RBSU) to SATA AHCI mode from Dynamic Smart Array mode. Unable to authorize the SCVMM server, if the SCVMM Server IP is changed This issue may occur if the user authorized the SCVMM server in the Add-in settings page prior to the SCVMM Server IP change. In case the SCVMM Server IP change is anticipated, it is recommended to unauthorize the SCVMM server from the Add-in Settings page before changing the SCVMM server IP. Also, if the SCVMM Server is authorized in the Add-in Settings page and the SCVMM Server IP is changed, uninstall and re-install the Add-in. Unable to authorize the SCVMM server, if the SCVMM Server IP is changed 11