EVA VCS V.3.028

[SAKET_5]

Hey All,

Just letting you all know that I have come across some news about VCS V3.028 being released in a couple of weeks. New (newer than HP05) EVA Disk firmware is expected to come around the same time too.....

Anyone got more info on this to share here....

Cheers,
Saket.

[Uwe Zessin]

Some fixes for VMware ESX users. There was a customer advisory, but I don't have the link handy right now.

[Tom Keck]

We experienced the bug that is fixed in VCS 3.028 and it was first diagnosed by hp at our site. The adivsory is attached.

OI050627_CW01 REVISION: 0
Advisory: SCSI I/Os Greater Than 256 Blocks Plus SCSI Reservation Change May Create Low Memory Access Violation on EVA 3000/5000

[SAKET_5]

G'day Tom,

Although I am aware of the issue, we do not have any VMware ESX Server in our environment.

Could you please elaborate on the issue you faced.

Thanks,
Saket.

[john_347]

Hi, all

We're using ESX 2.5 & 2.5.1 servers on an EVA 5000 VCS 3.020, Can't say we had many problems, so far, had it since Xmas 04.

Tom,

What sort of loading was the EVA experiencing when these errors occurred.

regards

John

[Uwe Zessin]

My guess is that Tom has an environment where at least one shared VMFS (VMware File System) with heavy meta data updates is used.

VMFS uses a SCSI reserve unit to allow meta data updates without a distributed lock manager. It's nothing what you would see on other operating systems.

[Tom Keck]

We only experienced the bug during the process of copying multiple ESX EVA Vdisks from one EVA array to another. We have used ESX with EVA under normal load without problems for over a year.

[john_347]

Guys,


Thanks for the info.. I can sleep better now. Currently we have a single EVA.

regards to all

[Tom Keck]

FYI - I've attached the VCS 3.028 announcement advisory. There's more in it than just the VMware related bugfix and CV 4.1 is required. CV 4.1 is now available for download via ITRC if you have a linked support agreeement.

[Scott M. Harrison]

This issue can also effect a single EVA. We were one of the pioneers who experienced the problem - on a single EVA 5000.

[SAKET_5]

I have now upgraded a few EVA5000s with VCS3.028 and satisfied with the response I got on the forum.