Hitachi Data Center Analytics v7.0 Release Notes

Hitachi Data Center Analytics v7.0 Release Notes Contents About this document... 2 Intended audience... 2 Getting help... 2 About this release... 2 New features and important enhancements... 3 Distribution formats... 4 Upgrading from an earlier version of Data Center Analytics... 5 Resolved problems... 9 Known problems... 10 Documentation... 14 Copyrights and licenses... 15 2016 Hitachi, Ltd. All rights reserved. 1

About this document About this document This document RN-96HDCA000-07, October 2016 is an upgrade from Hitachi Data Center Analytics versions prior to v7.0. This document provides late-breaking information about Hitachi Data Center Analytics v7.0. It includes information that was not available at the time the technical documentation for this product was published, as well as a list of known problems and solutions. Intended audience This document is intended for customers and Hitachi Data Systems partners who license and use Hitachi Data Center Analytics. Getting help Hitachi Data Systems Support Connect is the destination for technical support of products and solutions sold by Hitachi Data Systems. To contact technical support, log on to Hitachi Data Systems Support Connect for contact information: https://support.hds.com/en_us/contact-us.html. Hitachi Data Systems Community is a global online community for HDS customers, partners, independent software vendors, employees, and prospects. It is the destination to get answers, discover insights, and make connections. Join the conversation today! Go to community.hds.com, register, and complete your profile. About this release This release is a major release that adds new features and resolves multiple known problems. 2016 Hitachi, Ltd. All rights reserved. 2

New features and important enhancements New features and important enhancements Global Tree Search The Global Tree search helps you to locate a particular resource type in the HDCA Server. This is useful in large data centers where resources could be categorized in custom groups. Search filters in tabular reports You can filter the values in a tabular report using the built in search feature in to the column. Tabular reports show the Filter icon on tables that contain more than 10 rows. This is applicable for columns that typically contain resource names or any other identifying values. Export Reports Batch The Export Reports feature allows you to export all the reports for a tree node with a single click. The exported batch contains all reports for the selected node. The reports are exported in a compressed file with png and Excel reports. The Export Reports functionality is available only on the Configuration and Performance tabs. Export, Import, and Reset Indicator Thresholds You can export the indicator thresholds from the Data Center Analytics server and import it into other Data Center Analytics servers. This makes it easy to copy the thresholds that are already defined on one Data Center Analytics server to multiple Data Center Analytics servers. Support for VSP G1500 storage systems Hitachi Enterprise Storage probe can now collect metrics from VSP G1500 storage systems. End Device Summary report Summary report is added for Cisco switch instance level. Support to collect new metrics Metrics for FMC, ESW, and SPM for VSP family, VSP G series, and VSP F series is now supported. Note: To collect the ESW metrics, the RAID Agent instance must be added using the command device and TCP/IP connection. Metrics for the capacity saving function deduplication and compression are now supported. 2016 Hitachi, Ltd. All rights reserved. 3

Distribution formats RPM installation on Oracle Enterprise Linux 7.0 (64 bit) You can install the Data Center Analytics server and probe on a machine running Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) from a rpm file. Distribution formats Data Center Analytics server The Data Center Analytics server consists of the following files: Server OVA : hdca-server-7.0-16092213.ova Server VHD : hdca-server-7.0-16092213_vhd.zip Server RPM : hdca-server-7.0-16092213.x86_64.rpm Server Patch : The upgrade patch consists of two files, zip and hash: o ZIP: hdca-server-7.0-16092213.zip o Hash: hdca-server-7.0-16092213.zip.hash Data Center Analytics probe The Data Center Analytics probe consists of the following files: Probe OVA : hdca-probe-7.0-16092215.ova Probe VHD : hdca-probe-7.0-16092215_vhd.zip Probe RPM : hdca-probe-7.0-16092213.x86_64.rpm Probe Patch: The upgrade patch consists of the two files, zip and hash: o o ZIP: hdca-probe-7.0-16092215.zip Hash: hdca-probe-7.0-16092215.zip.hash Data Center Analytics Windows-based probe The Data Center Analytics Windows-based probe consists of the following file: Windows-based probe installer: HDCA_Windows_Probe_7.0_2016-09-08.exe 2016 Hitachi, Ltd. All rights reserved. 4

Upgrading from an earlier version of Data Center Analytics Upgrading from an earlier version of Data Center Analytics You can upgrade Data Center Analytics to v7.0 from v6.1 but not from an earlier version. If you are using an earlier version, first upgrade the Data Center Analytics setup to v6.1. See the v6.1 Release Notes for upgrade instructions. Note: If you have configured Active Directory users, then you must save the Active Directory properties before the upgrade. Saving the Active Directory property To save the non-default settings for Active Directory users you need to perform the following steps on Data Center Analytics: 1. Log on to the Data Center Analytics through a SSH client (like PuTTY). Default login credential for server: Username: root Password: megha.jeos Default login credentials for probe: Username: root Password: app.jeos 2. Verify the default settings, using the command: cat /usr/local/megha/conf/sys/ad.properties Default properties: ad.ssl.port=636 ad.non.ssl.port=389 ad.base.dn= ad.auth.type=simple Take note if any of these property values have changed. Example, ad.ssl.port=123 Note: If the default property value is not changed, then you can skip step 3 to step 10. 3. Go to the directory: cd /usr/local/megha/conf 4. Create a new directory custom using the following command: mkdir custom 2016 Hitachi, Ltd. All rights reserved. 5

Upgrading from an earlier version of Data Center Analytics 5. Navigate to the directory custom using the following command: cd /usr/local/megha/conf/custom 6. Create a file custom.properties at the following location: /usr/local/megha/conf/custom. 7. In custom.properties add the property that needs to be saved. For example, ad.ssl.port=123 8. Change the owner of new files and folders using the following command: chown R megha:megha /usr/local/megha/conf/custom 9. Stop the megha service using the following command: /usr/local/megha/bin/megha-jetty.sh stop 10. Confirm the stopped status of megha service using the following command: /usr/local/megha/bin/megha-jetty.sh status 11. Start the megha service using the following command: /usr/local/megha/bin/megha-jetty.sh start 12. Proceed with upgrade steps. 2016 Hitachi, Ltd. All rights reserved. 6

Upgrading from an earlier version of Data Center Analytics Upgrading from an earlier version of Data Center Analytics server The Data Center Analytics server upgrade package consists of the following files: Server RPM: hdca-server-7.0-16092213.x86_64.rpm Server Patch (for OVA and VHD setups): The upgrade patch consists of the two files, zip and hash: o o ZIP: hdca-server-7.0-16092213.zip Hash: hdca-server-7.0-16092213.zip.hash Upgrading the server OVA and VHD setup To upgrade the Data Center Analytics server, do the following: 1. Log on to the Data Center Analytics server console. 2. In the application bar area click. The Manage window appears. 3. In the Manage window, in the Administration section, click Upgrade Server. 4. Upload the zip and hash file and click OK. Upgrading the RPM setup You can upgrade the Data Center Analytics server RPM setup from v6.1. To upgrade the Data Center Analytics sever RPM setup, do the following: 1. Copy the rpm file to a folder on the Linux machine. 2. Run the following command: rpm -U hdca-server-7.0-16092213.x86_64.rpm 3. Run the following script: sh /usr/local/megha_installer/upgrade.sh 4. Log on to the Data Center Analytics server UI. 2016 Hitachi, Ltd. All rights reserved. 7

Resolved problems Upgrading from an earlier version of Data Center Analytics probe The Data Center Analytics probe upgrade package consist of the following files: Probe RPM : hdca-probe-7.0-16092213.x86_64.rpm Probe Patch: The upgrade patch consists of the following two files, zip and hash: o o ZIP: hdca-probe-7.0-16092215.zip Hash: hdca-probe-7.0-16092215.zip.hash Upgrading the probe OVA and VHD setup 1. To upgrade Data Center Analytics probe, log on to the Data Center Analytics probe UI. 2. In the application bar area, click the Manage link. 3. In the Manage window, in the Administration section, click Upgrade Probe. 4. Upload the zip and hash file and click OK. Upgrading the RPM setup You can upgrade the Data Center Analytics probe RPM setup from v6.1. To upgrade the Data Center Analytics server RPM setup, do the following: 1. Copy the rpm file to a folder on the Linux machine. 2. Run the following command: rpm -U hdca-probe-7.0-16092213.x86_64.rpm 3. Run the following script: sh /usr/local/megha_installer/upgrade.sh 4. Log on to the Data Center Analytics probe UI. Upgrading from an earlier version of Windows-based probe To upgrade the Data Center Analytics Windows-based probe: 1. Download the Windows-based probe installer to your machine. 2. Double-click on the Windows-based probe installer, and then follow the instructions. 2016 Hitachi, Ltd. All rights reserved. 8

Resolved problems Resolved problems Resolved problems for Data Center Analytics server The following table lists the problems that are resolved in this release by defect ID. Defect ID Problem 15432 You cannot reset the password if you upload the multiple licenses with different keys. 16817 After upgrading the Data Center Analytics server, the Zone Member Summary is showing NA value. 16832 The dashboard indicators are not calculated for specific time duration for Synthetic Attributes. 17444 After uploading new license, current usage of Base Node/Capacity is not updated. 17952 The Dashboard is not showing the total number of IOPS count for the Pool. 17976 Dashboard indicators and Alerts are present for the metrics and are removed after upgrading the Data Center Analytics server. 17980 An error message Error in getting alert violations is displayed while accessing the Alert Violations tab. 18255 You cannot delete the Active Directory user group. When you try to delete the Active Directory user group, the success message appears, but the group is not deleted. 18270 Wrong message appears for 6 successive attempts for wrong user name or Password. 18274 After upgrading to v6.1, the combined capacity is not working properly for NetApp probe. 2016 Hitachi, Ltd. All rights reserved. 9

Known problems Resolved problems for Data Center Analytics probe The following table lists the problems that are resolved in this release by defect ID. Defect ID Problem 15432 You cannot reset the password if you upload multiple licenses with different keys. 17861 For Brocade Network Advisor probe, the Port Traffic data is not reported for some of the ports. 17788 Data of RaidGroup and LU is not showing for some of the HUS 1x0 storage systems. 18017 The data from Hitachi Enterprise Storage probe is showing the data holes in the chart report, if the two Perf files with the same time stamp are collected. 18255 You cannot delete the Active Directory user group. When you try to delete the Active Directory user group, the success message appears, but the group is not deleted. Known problems Known problems for Data Center Analytics server The following table lists the known problems in the current release of Data Center Analytics server by defect ID. Defect ID Problem Workaround/Comments 14858 Cisco DCNM switch shows the wrong details for CPU and Memory Utilization. 15588 You cannot download the diagnostic data from the Data Center Analytics server after upgrading from base version 5.0 to any later versions. 16309 Alerts created for VSP/HUS-VM resources are also applied on VSP G1000/Gx00 resources. 16842 On the Alert Violation tab, in the alert details the Triggered At field displays the wrong time if the machine time zone is set other than GMT. The wrong CPU and Memory Utilization values are collected from the Cisco API. Log on to an SSH client like PuTTY. Run the following command: $ sudo /usr/local/megha/bin/diag.sh It collects the diagnostic dump and saves it in the following location: /usr/local/megha/tmp with the following name: diag_20160503070628.gz 2016 Hitachi, Ltd. All rights reserved. 10

Known problems Defect ID Problem Workaround/Comments 17537 The user from the Active Directory group can login using the user@domain format; however, cannot login using the domain\username format. 18272 After upgrade, the plug-in key license type can display Commercial instead of Trial. 18382 A chart report is not exported if the chart type is Stack and scale is Logarithmic. 18449 While adding a new indicator, when the user clicks the Cancel button, the Add Alert popup that appears does not display Yes and No options to cancel the operation. 18492 While adding an alert or indicator, the drop-down list can display duplicate metric entries. 18612 In the Global Search, entering a space displays all resources from all tree nodes. 18656 While adding the alert, in the Alert Notification section, an error is shown in the following scenario: If the email address after the @ contains a period, then the special character and numbers are not allowed after this period. Examples of email ids that are allowed: abc-xyz@abc-xyz.abc abc-xyz@abc-xyz.abc.xyz abc-xyz@abcxyz.abc abc@xyz2.rte4.com This does not affect the data processing and report generation. Change the plot, scale type for that report, and perform the Batch Export. This issue is observed only on Chrome browser version 52.0.2743.116 Examples of the email IDs that are not allowed: abc-xyz@abc-xyz.abc-xyz.abc abc@xyz2.rte4.com2 18668 The Import threshold is not working on Internet Explorer browser. Supported browsers are: Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. 2016 Hitachi, Ltd. All rights reserved. 11

Known problems Defect ID Problem Workaround/Comments 18697 The Global Search does not search by switch IP address for Brocade Network Advisor and for VM clusters. 2016 Hitachi, Ltd. All rights reserved. 12

Known problems Known problems for Data Center Analytics probe The following table lists known problems in the current release of Data Center Analytics probe by defect ID. Defect ID Problem Workaround/Comments 17537 The user from the Active Directory group can login using the user@domain format; however, cannot login using the domain\username format. 17974 In Summary report, some of the values are shown as NA for Cisco SAN Switches. 18298 For EMC VMAX probe, Unisphere version 8.2 performance data of the Port Group is not collected. 18659 While adding the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS) probe, an invalid message is displayed. In the following location: /usr/local/megha/logs/ams in the in utl*.inf files, comment the entry of the registered AMS using #. Known problems for Data Center Analytics Windows-based probe The following table lists known problems in the current release of Data Center Analytics Windows-based probe by defect ID. Defect ID Problem Workaround/Comments 18491 FTP to HDCA Server does not work after upgrade of Windows-based probe when FIPS compliance is enabled. 2016 Hitachi, Ltd. All rights reserved. 13

Documentation Documentation Available documents This section lists the Data Center Analytics user documentation that is available on Hitachi Data Systems Support Connect: https://knowledge.hds.com/documents Check this site for the most current documentation, including important updates that may have been made after the release of the product. Document name Hitachi Data Center Analytics Deployment Guide Hitachi Data Center Analytics User Guide Hitachi Data Center Analytics Query Language User Guide Hitachi Data Center Analytics REST API Reference Guide Hitachi Data Center Analytics v6.0 Release Notes Hitachi Data Center Analytics v6.0.1 Release Notes Hitachi Data Center Analytics v6.0.2 Release Notes Hitachi Data Center Analytics v6.1 Release Notes Hitachi Data Center Analytics v7.0 Release Notes Document number MK-96HDCA001-06 MK-96HDCA002-05 MK-96HDCA005-02 MK-96HDCA006-04 RN-96HDCA000-02 RN-96HDCA000-04 RN-96HDCA000-05 RN-96HDCA000-06 RN-96HDCA000-07 (this document) 2016 Hitachi, Ltd. All rights reserved. 14

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