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ETERNUS SF Express V16.9 / Storage Cruiser V16.9 / AdvancedCopy Manager V16.9 Release Notes
FUJITSU Storage

Preface

Purpose of This Manual

This manual describes the update information of the following products:

Intended Readers

This manual is intended for users who plan or perform the upgrade to this version from a previous version of these software products, or who perform the upgrade process (mainly for system administrators).

Structure of This Manual

The structure of this manual is as follows.

Chapter 1 Overview of New Functions

This chapter describes the overview of new functions and improved functions provided in this version.

Chapter 2 Compatibility Information

This chapter describes the contents changed from the previous version.

Chapter 3 Upgrade Information

This chapter describes the possibility of an upgrade from previous versions and notes for when combining different versions.

Chapter 4 Program Fix List

This chapter describes the overview of applied fixes in this version.

Conventions

This manual abides by the conventions listed in "Conventions" in the FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS SF Express / Storage Cruiser / AdvancedCopy Manager Documentation Road Map.

Export Controls

Exportation/release of this document may require necessary procedures in accordance with the regulations of your resident country and/or US export control laws.

Trademarks

Revision History

Date of Publication

Revision

Document Part Number

PDF

HTML

May 2022

10.3

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November 2021

10.2

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October 2021

10.1

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August 2021

10

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October 2020

9.4

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July 2020

9.3

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March 2020

9.2

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January 2020

9.1

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November 2019

9

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April 2019

8.1

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December 2018

8

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December 2017

7

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May 2017

6

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October 2016

5

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June 2016

4.4

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April 2016

4.3

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February 2016

4.2

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December 2015

4.1

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October 2015

4

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July 2015

3.2

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March 2015

3.1

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January 2015

3

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July 2014

2.1

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June 2014

2

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May 2014

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December 2013

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Notes

Copyright Notice

Copyright 2013-2022 FUJITSU LIMITED

Update History

Content of Update

Updated Section

Revision

The overview of new function that is supported with this version has been described.

1.1.1.4

10.3

[Note] has been added.

1.1.3.1.1

The overview of new function that is supported with this version has been described.

1.1.3.2.2

10.2

The overview of new functions that are supported with this version has been described.

1.1.2.1, 1.1.3.1.2

10.1

Information related to the following storage devices has been added.

  • ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series (excluding the ETERNUS DX8900 S4), ETERNUS AF S2 series, AF series, or ETERNUS DX200F that has firmware version V10L90-1000 or later

1.1.3.2.1, 2.3.56

The overview of new functions that are supported with this version has been described.

Chapter 1

10

Incompatible information has been described.

2.3.55, 2.3.56, 2.5.24

The title of the section has been changed.

2.5.10

An annotation has been added in the figure "Possibility of Combining Manager Programs and Agent Programs".

3.2

A new section has been added.

3.3

The program bugs fixed with this version have been described.

Chapter 4

The overview of new functions that are supported with this version has been described.

1.1.1.1, 1.1.1.2, 1.1.1.4, 1.1.2.2, 1.1.2.3, 1.1.3.1.2, 1.1.3.1.4

9.4

[Note] has been deleted.

1.1.1.2

The overview of new functions that are supported with this version has been described.

1.1.1.4, 1.1.1.5, 1.1.3.1.1, 1.1.4.3

9.3

The overview of new functions that are supported with this version has been described.

1.1.1.3, 1.1.3.1.3

9.2

[Point] has been added.

1.1.2.1, 1.1.3.1.1, 1.1.4.1

9.1

The explanation has been modified.

1.1.2.2, 1.1.3.1.2

The description for Conventions has been changed so that the FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS SF Express / Storage Cruiser / AdvancedCopy Manager Documentation Road Map is referenced.

"Conventions" in Preface

9

The "Manual Organization and Reading Suggestions" section has been deleted from Preface.

Preface

The description about new functions and modified functions with this version has been added.

Chapter 1

The order of the chapters has been changed.

Chapter 2 and 3

Incompatible information has been described.

2.2.1 - 2.2.3, 2.3.10 - 2.3.13, 2.4.6 - 2.4.10

The titles for the chapter and sections have been changed.

Chapter 3

Information indicating that version 14.x cannot be upgraded to this version has been added.

3.1

Information indicating that this version is incompatible with version 13.x or 14.x has been added.

3.2

The program bugs fixed with this version have been described.

Chapter 4

Information related to Microsoft Windows Server 2019 has been added.

"Notation" and "Others" in Preface

8.1

The overview of new functions that are supported with this version has been described.

1.1.2, 1.2.1, 1.3.1.1, 1.3.1.2

Information related to the ETERNUS DX8900 S4 has been added.

"Notation" in Preface

8

The overview of new functions that are supported with this version has been described.

Chapter 1

Incompatible information has been described.

3.5.23

The program bugs fixed with this version have been described.

Chapter 4

Information related to Solaris 9 has been deleted.

"Notation" in Preface

7

Information related to the ETERNUS DX500 S4/DX600 S4 has been added.

"Notation" in Preface

Information related to the ETERNUS AF250 S2/AF650 S2 has been added.

"Notation" in Preface

The overview of new functions that are supported with this version has been described.

Chapter 1

Incompatible information has been described.

3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.3.11, 3.4.7

The program bugs fixed with this version have been described.

Chapter 4

Information related to Microsoft Windows Server 2016 has been added.

"Notation" and "Others" in Preface

6

Information related to Windows Vista has been deleted.

"Notation" in Preface

Information related to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 has been deleted and information related to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 for AMD64 & Intel64 has been added.

"Notation" in Preface

Information related to the ETERNUS DX60 S4/DX100 S4/DX200 S4 has been added.

"Notation" in Preface

The overview of new functions that are supported with this version has been described.

Chapter 1

A new chapter has been added.

Chapter 2

Incompatible information has been described.

3.3.11, 3.3.52, 3.4.7, 3.4.35

The reference destination related to the combination of the manager program and the agent program has been changed.

3.3.13, 3.4.9

The program bugs fixed with this version have been described.

Chapter 4

Information related to HP-UX 11i v1/v2 has been deleted.

"Notation" in Preface

5

Information related to VMware vSphere 4 has been deleted.

"Notation" in Preface

Information related to the ETERNUS DX80/DX90 has been deleted.

"Notation" in Preface

Information related to the ETERNUS AF250/AF650 has been added.

"Notation" and "Others" in Preface

The overview of new functions that are supported with this version has been described.

Chapter 1

Incompatible information has been described.

2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.3.10 - 2.3.12, 2.3.51, 2.4.6 - 2.4.8, 2.4.10, 2.5.22

The program bugs fixed with this version have been described.

Chapter 3

The overview of new features has been described.

1.2.3, 1.3.4, 1.5.1

4.4

The overview of new features has been described.

1.2.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.5, 1.4.2

4.3

The overview of new features has been described.

1.1.2

4.2

The overview of new features has been described.

1.2.1, 1.2.3, 1.3.2, 1.3.4

4.1

The description of the inter-box backup of a NAS volume has been added.

1.5.1

Incompatible information has been described.

2.5.21

Information related to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 has been deleted.

"Notation" in Preface

4

Information related to Windows 10 has been added.

"Notation" in Preface

The overview of new features supported with this version has been described.

Chapter 1

Incompatible information has been modified.

2.2.18, 2.3.11, 2.3.49, 2.3.50, 2.4.7, 2.5.18 - 2.5.20

The program bugs fixed with this version have been described.

Chapter 3

Information related to the ETERNUS DX8700 S3/DX8900 S3 has been added.

"Notation" in Preface, 1.3.2, 1.4.1, 1.7.2

3.2

Information related to the NetApp FAS Series and V-Series has been added.

"Notation" in Preface, 1.3.2

The term "VMware Virtual Volumes" has been changed to "VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes" according to the terms used by VMware, Inc.

Throughout this manual

3.1

Information related to VMware vSphere(R) 6 has been added.

"Notation" in Preface

Incompatible information has been modified.

2.3.46

Information related to the ETERNUS DX200F has been modified or added.

"Others" in Preface, 2.5.15

3

The overview of new features supported with this version has been described.

Chapter 1

Incompatible information has been modified.

2.3.7, 2.3.21, 2.3.23, 2.4.24, 2.4.34, 2.5.5

Information that Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) AS v.4 and Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux(R) ES v.4 are no longer supported has been described.

2.3.11, 2.4.7

The incompatible information from previous version has been described.

2.2.16 - 2.2.18, 2.3.42 - 2.3.49, 2.5.17

The program bugs fixed with this version have been described.

Chapter 3

Incompatible information has been modified.

2.4.34

2.1

The overview of new features supported with this version has been described.

Chapter 1

2

The incompatible information from previous version has been described.

2.2.4, 2.2.15, 2.3.33, 2.3.34, 2.3.36 - 2.3.41, 2.4.10, 2.4.26 - 2.4.34, 2.5.14 - 2.5.16

The program bugs fixed with this version have been described.

Chapter 3

Information related to the ETERNUS DX200F has been added.

"Others" in Preface, 1.1.2, 1.2.3

1.1