OmniStack v4.1.1 released

[Ryan_Hardy]

Thanks for the reminder! Well, yes, seems we found the issue. Some weeks ago I have moved 2 VMs to another host (and other storage). SimpliVity seems to have kept old backup points of these VMs. After the update, it began to realize that there are backups with no according VMs and this could have cause the error. I have deleted the backups, set the error as resolved in vCenter and it has not reappeared again since. So, looks like a GO for 4.1.1U1.

[ErwinH]

Thanks for your response, glad it was a relatively minor issue. I'm going to upgrade this weekend

[ErwinH]

Hi all, for those who are interested! Last weekend 2 clusters of 3 hosts each upgraded to the latest version of Simplivity (4.1.1U1), ESXi 7.0U2d and the firmware SVTSP-2021_1201.02. Everything went well except the firmware on 3 hosts, I got the message 'failed' in the Upgrade manager. At that moment I looked in the ilo and saw that the firmware upgrade was still in progress and so I let it finish neatly. No sooner said than that, after this everything started properly, all versions in the ilo were also upgraded compared to the interoperability guide. However, when I run a new inventory via the upgrade manager I still see the old versions with the status 'ready to upgrade'. I have created a case and HPE now asks me to manually upgrade the firmware on all three hosts. I'll give it a try, but I think it's a bit of a waste of time. Has anyone experienced something similar?

[Erik Wattnem]

   I don't think it's just a 4.1.1 problem.  When I went from 3.7.10 to 4.1 and I tried using the firmware upgrade via the upgrade manager.  It was a very bad experience for me.  I had to open a case and HPE had to replace a system board.  After that I did the firmware manually and it worked fine.  Everything else in the Upgrade Manager went well.  I just won't use that firmware option again.

[zummy430]

i went thorugh a successfull upgrade last week.  Only issue I ran into was after the upgrade i ran into this:  

Document - Advisory: (Revision) HPE Smart Array SR Gen10 Controllers - Additional Disks Are Displayed In ESXi /vCenter GUI and smx-provider Errors Are Logged On Platforms Configured With Controllers With FW v3.53 (Or Later) | HPE Support

unfortunately the provided fix in the article did not work and I didn't think it would be in my best interest to downgrade the firmware on a SimpliVity Platform.  

[ErwinH]

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Hello Zummy430, I have the same errors and you mentioned that the supplied advisory didn't solved the issue. Did you receive the advisory through Simplivity support, other words, is the advisory approved by Simplivity?

[Kipp_Glover]

To close out this discussion "RE: OmniStack v4.1.1 released", OmniStack version 4.1.1 has been removed from the HPE Support Center.  The 4.1.1 release was only available/supported for the DL385 Gen10 Plus V2.  Now with the general availability of 4.1.1U1 (released on Jan 31, 2022), all other hardware platforms are supported (see 4.1.1U1 Interop for details).  A future release of the SimpliVity Interoperability Guide will also remove all references to 4.1.1.

Cheers!
/Kipp