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4 Support and other resources
Release history
HP P6000 SmartStart releases:
New features
Version
Release
See
4.2
2012 (Oct)
•
Installation of individual HP P6000 Command View
components—Individual HP P6000 Command View
components can be added using HP P6000 SmartStart
(Windows).
4.1
2012 (Jun)
4.0
2011 (Aug)
•
VMware VMDirectPath support—If VMDirectPath is
installed, HP P6000 SmartStart can be used to configure
an FC application server and provision storage to the
server.
•
HP P6000 Command View installer launched
interactively—This enables you to customize the
installation of P6000 Command View.
3.4
2011 (Feb)
•
Product name. Changed. The product name is changed
from HP StorageWorks SmartStart EVA Storage to HP
P6000 SmartStart. Note that P6000 is the HP storage
platform family name; it does not refer to a specific
model.
•
HP P6000 Command View. Updated. HP P6000
SmartStart installs version 9.4 of server-based
on Windows–based
•
HP P6000 models and controller software support.
Enhanced. Support is expanded to cover more HP P6000
models and versions of controller software. See the HP
P6000 Enterprise Virtual Array Compatibility Reference.
•
Improved usability for application storage provisioning.
The steps for provisioning and mounting application
storage volumes have been moved from the Fibre
Channel and iSCSI configuration options to an option
called Add storage to an application server.
•
Component software for configuring Windows servers.
Updated. Refer to the HP P6000 SmartStart Release
Notes for details.
HP P6000 SmartStart can check for the presence of
supported HBA drivers on servers, but does not install
the drivers. HP recommends that you use
to install drivers for HP server hardware,
or follow the vendor’s process for non-HP servers.
•
HP Command View EVA. Updated. HP SmartStart EVA
Storage installs version 9.3 of server-based
on Windows–based
•
Component software for configuring Windows servers.
Updated. Refer to the HP StorageWorks SmartStart EVA
Storage Release Notes for details (see
There are no new features or support for Linux application
servers in HP SmartStart EVA Storage version 3.3.
3.3
2010 (Aug)
3.2
2010 (Feb)
•
Linux application server support. Support is added for
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