Hp NetServer AA 6200 Release Notes

HP NetServer AA 6200

Solution

Release Notes

(Release 3.0 Service Pack 1)

HP Part Number 5971-0814

Printed in October 2000

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SOFTWARE REVISION

The revision of the s of tware that this document supports is Revision 3.0.1–SP.EA.

Contents

About This Product. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

HP NetServer AA Solution Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Additional Documentation on the Customer Support Web Site . . . . . . . 2

Platform Support and System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

CE Dual Processor Support and CPU Requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Platform Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Motherboard Requirement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Memory Requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Marathon Interface Card (MIC) Requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Operating System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

HP NetServer AA Solution Enhancements in Release 3.0 Service Pack 1 . . . 5

Support for 4 Gigabytes of Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Endurance_APP_DATA Environment Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Installation Verification Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Endurance Manager Support for Windows 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Redirected Gigabit Ethernet Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Endurance Performance Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Operating the Endurance Performance Monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Redirected Ethernet Card Replacement without Server Reboot . . . . . . 7

Acrobat Reader Version 4 Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

New Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

MtcCEX Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

MtcMon Fault Handler Status Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

MtcMon Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

IVP Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Changed Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

MtcEthP Status Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

MtcMon FRU Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

MtcScsiP Status Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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Contents

Maintenance Improvements – Release 3.0 Service Pack 1 . . . . . . . . . . 11

Features Introduced in HP NetServer AA Solution Release 3.0 . . . . . . . . 12

CE Dual Processor Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Extended BIOS and Embedded Testing Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Redirected Video Support and the CE Desktop Application. . . . . . . . 12

Point-to-point Fiber Interconnects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Endurance Manager Support for Windows 95/98 Clients . . . . . . . . . 13

Endurance Manager Non-privileged Operational Mode . . . . . . . . . . 13

Automatic Derivation of MAC Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Operational Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Service Pack Installation Requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

General Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Known Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

General Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Known Third-Party Vendor and Application Limitations . . . . . . . . . . 16

Documentation Errata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

HP NetServer AA Solution Release Notes

About This Product

These Release Notes document HP NetServer AA Release 3.0 Service Pack 1. This Service Pack is a complete HP NetServer AA Solution software kit, containing all files needed to perform an HP NetServer AA Solution server installation.

The following revisions are associated with this Service Pack.

Component Description

Hardware MIC Adapter Revision 4.2 Firmware MIC BIOS Revision 4.0.53–SP

MIC MicroCode Revisio n 4. 0. 81–SP MIC FPGA Revision 4.2.53–SP

Software English versions: Endurance Software Revisio n 3. 0. 1–SP.EA *

Japanese versions: Endurance Software Revision 3.0.1–SP.JA *

* To confirm the revision of your software, from Enduranc e Manager select View Revision Le vels.

Endurance Manager Revisi on 3. 0. 52 –SP.EA

HP NetServer AA Solution Documentation

HP NetServer AA Solution Release 3.0 Service Pack 1 documentation is available in both online and hardcopy format, with selected d ocuments available in one format or the other, while other documents are available in both formats. The online documentation is located in the \ directory on the HP NetServer AA Solution CD. Use Acrobat Reader to read and/or print it.

If you currently have HP NetServer AA Solution Release 3.0 installed at your site and plan to upgrade to Release 3.0 Service Pack 1, first install the latest HP NetServer AA Solution online documentation located on the CD from which you will install your software. Once the online documentation is installed, you can view (and/or print) the Upgrade and Downgrade Procedures or, if you are reading this document online, access them by clicking on the link in Table 1-1.

Docs

HP NetServer AA Solution Release Notes

The complete documentation for HP NetServer AA Solution Release 3.0 Service Pack 1 includes the following:

Table 1-1 HP NetServer AA Solution Documentation

Document or Manual Format Release

README.txt Online only Release 3.0 Service Pack 1

HP NetServer AA 6200 Solution Release Notes (Release 3.0 Service Pack 1)

HP NetServer AA Solution Administrator’s Guide

HP NetServer AA Solution Instal la tion Guide

HP NetServer AA Solution Messages Online only Release 3.0 Service Pack 1

HP NetServer AA Solution Upgrade/ Downgrade Procedures (Release 3.0 Service Pack 1)

Glossary Online and hardcopy in

Online Help Online only Release 3.0

†

This documentation applies to Release 3.0 and Release 3.0 Service Pack 1.

Online and hardcopy Release 3.0 Service Pack 1

Online and hardcopy Release 3.0

Online only, as well as on the HP NetServer Web site

HP NetServer AA Solution Administrator’s Guide

Release 3.0 Service Pack 1

Release 3.0

†

Additional Documentation on the Customer Support Web Site

This document contains comple te and timely information ab out the product as of its pub lication. However, you should consult the HP NetServer AA Solution Web page at

http://netserver.hp.com/netserver/products/highlights_assured_avail.asp

to obtain the most recent updates to information about the release.

HP NetServer AA Solution Release Notes

Platform Support and System Requirements

CE Dual Processor Support and CPU Requirement

Release 3.0 of the HP NetServer AA Solution server introduced support for the use of two processors in the CEs, which are required for the server to boot. If your server is configured with only one CPU in the CEs, the server will not boot. Also, use of the

boot.ini file has no effect; even if you set this switch, your server will boot both CPUs in the

CE. In addition, all processors in the CEs must be the same model (for example, Pentium

Pentium III Xeon

) and speed. These requirements also apply to Release 3.0 Service Pack 1.

Platform Support

Starting with Release 3.0, the HP NetServer AA Solution server includes s upport for Pentium III or Pentium III Xeon process ors on the CEs and IOPs. However, use of the P entium III seri al number (PSN) is not supported in applications on the CEs.

Motherboard Requirement

/onecpu switch in the

III or

Starting with HP NetServer AA Solution Release 3.0, the motherboards on all computers (CEs and IOPs) must be capable of supporting two or more processors.

Memory Requirement

Starting with Release 3.0, the HP NetServer AA Solution server requires a minimum of 256 MB of memory in the CEs and IOPs. In addition, starting with Release 3.0 Service Pack 1, HP NetServer AA Solution server can support up to 4 gigabytes of memory in the CEs.

Marathon Interface Card (MIC) Requirement

Starting with Release 3.0, the HP NetServer AA Solution server requires th e new hig h performance version of the Maratho n I nterface Car d ( MIC) : vers ion 4. 2. For best performance in the IOPs, HP recommends configuri ng the MIC with its own i nterrupt if possi ble, rather than sharing an interrupt. Also, you should install the MIC in a primary PCI bus, and not on a secondary bridge chip.

HP NetServer AA Solution Release Notes

Operating System Requirements

In addition to the installation requirements listed in the HP NetServer AA Solution Installation

Guide, the operating system versions that can be used for HP NetServer AA Solution 3.0

Service Pack 1 are restricted to those des cribed in Table 1-2 . Note that international customers other than those in J apan should use the Englis h version of H P NetServer A A Solution so ftware (HP NetServer AA Solution software revision 3.0.1-SP.EA).

Table 1-2 HP NetServer AA Solution Release 3.0 Service Pack 1 Supported Operating

System Versions

HP NetServer AA

Windows NT® Version

Solution Component

English Language Version — HP NetServer AA Solution Software and Documentation

Windows NT Server 4.0 (US and language variations)

Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition (US and language variat ions)

Windows NT Server, Terminal Server Edition (US and language va ria ti ons)

Japanese Language Version of Windows NT and HP NetServer AA Solution Documentation

Windows NT Server 4.0 CEs and IOPs Windows NT Service Pack 6a

Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition CEs and IOPs Windows NT Service Pack 6a

Windows NT Server, Terminal Server Edition

CEs and IOPs Windows NT Service Pack 6 and 6a

CEs and IOPs Windows NT Terminal Server Edition

Required Windows NT Service Packs

Service Pack 5 and 6

Service Pack 4 and 5

Note: HP concurs with Microsoft in recommending the use of Service Pack 6a, which

includes the latest updates to Windows NT 4.0.

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