This document was last updated on 20 August 2020.
Note. Detailed build version numbers are included in the Update Matrices in the Useful Links section| Details | Introduced |
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Systems using Internet Explorer 11 may receive an erroneous "The software version is not supported" message when viewing the "Update System" panel in the GUI. Internet Explorer 10 and Firefox do not experience this issue. |
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If using IP replication, please review the set of restrictions published in the Configuration Limits and Restrictions document for your product. |
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Windows 2008 host paths may become unavailable following a node replacement procedure. Refer to this flash for more information on this restriction |
6.4.0.0 |
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Intra-System Global Mirror not supported. Refer to this flash for more information on this restriction |
6.1.0.0 |
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Host Disconnects Using VMware vSphere 5.5.0 Update 2 and vSphere 6.0. |
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If an update stalls or fails then Contact IBM Support for Further Assistance |
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A release may contain fixes for security issues, fixes for APARs/FLASHs or both. Consult both tables below to understand the complete set of fixes included in the release.
| CVE Identifier | Link for additional Information | Resolved in |
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| CVE-2016-5385 | ssg1S1009581 | 7.7.0.4 |
| CVE-2016-5386 | ssg1S1009581 | 7.7.0.4 |
| CVE-2016-5387 | ssg1S1009581 | 7.7.0.4 |
| CVE-2016-5388 | ssg1S1009581 | 7.7.0.4 |
| CVE-2016-4461 | ssg1S1010883 | 7.7.0.3 |
| CVE-2016-4430 | ssg1S1009282 | 7.7.0.3 |
| CVE-2016-4431 | ssg1S1009282 | 7.7.0.3 |
| CVE-2016-4433 | ssg1S1009282 | 7.7.0.3 |
| CVE-2016-4436 | ssg1S1009282 | 7.7.0.3 |
| CVE-2016-3092 | ssg1S1009284 | 7.7.0.3 |
| CVE-2017-6056 | ssg1S1010022 | 7.7.0.0 |
| CVE-2016-1978 | ssg1S1009280 | 7.7.0.0 |
| CVE-2015-5345 | ssg1S1005846 | 7.7.0.0 |
| CVE-2015-5346 | ssg1S1005846 | 7.7.0.0 |
| CVE-2015-5351 | ssg1S1005846 | 7.7.0.0 |
| CVE-2016-0706 | ssg1S1005846 | 7.7.0.0 |
| CVE-2016-0714 | ssg1S1005846 | 7.7.0.0 |
| CVE-2016-0763 | ssg1S1005846 | 7.7.0.0 |
| CVE-2015-5174 | ssg1S1005846 | 7.7.0.0 |
| CVE-2016-0797 | ssg1S1005848 | 7.7.0.0 |
| CVE-2016-0705 | ssg1S1005848 | 7.7.0.0 |
| CVE-2016-0785 | ssg1S1005849 | 7.7.0.0 |
| CVE-2016-2162 | ssg1S1005849 | 7.7.0.0 |
| Reference | Severity | Description | Resolved in | Feature Tags |
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| HU01193 | S1 | HIPER (Highly Pervasive): A drive failure whilst an array rebuild is in progress can lead to both nodes in an I/O group warmstarting | 7.7.0.5 | Distributed RAID |
| HU01447 | S1 | HIPER (Highly Pervasive): The management of FlashCopy grains during a restore process can miss some IOs | 7.7.0.5 | FlashCopy |
| HU01340 | S1 | A port translation issue between v7.5 or earlier and v7.7.0 or later requires a T2 recovery to complete an upgrade | 7.7.0.5 | System Update |
| HU01109 | S2 | Multiple nodes can experience a lease expiry when a FC port is having communications issues | 7.7.0.5 | |
| HU01184 | S2 | When removing multiple MDisks a T2 may occur | 7.7.0.5 | |
| HU01185 | S2 | iSCSI target closes connection when there is a mismatch in sequence number | 7.7.0.5 | iSCSI |
| HU01219 | S2 | Single node warmstart due to an issue in the handling of ECC errors within 16G HBA firmware | 7.7.0.5 | |
| HU01221 | S2 | Node warmstarts due to an issue with the state machine transition in 16Gb HBA firmware | 7.7.0.5 | |
| HU01223 | S2 | The handling of a rebooted node's return to the cluster can occasionally become delayed resulting in a stoppage of inter cluster relationships | 7.7.0.5 | Metro Mirror |
| HU01226 | S2 | Changing max replication delay from the default to a small non-zero number can cause hung IOs leading to multiple node warmstarts and a loss of access | 7.7.0.5 | Global Mirror |
| IT16012 | S2 | Internal node boot drive RAID scrub process at 1am every Sunday can impact system performance | 7.7.0.5 | Performance |
| HU01017 | S3 | The result of CLI commands are sometimes not promptly presented in the GUI | 7.7.0.5 | Graphical User Interface |
| HU01050 | S3 | DRAID rebuild incorrectly reports event code 988300 | 7.7.0.5 | Distributed RAID |
| HU01187 | S3 | Circumstances can arise where more than one array rebuild operation can share the same CPU core resulting in extended completion times | 7.7.0.5 | |
| HU01198 | S3 | Running the Comprestimator svctask analyzevdiskbysystem command may cause the config node to warmstart | 7.7.0.5 | Comprestimator |
| HU01213 | S3 | The LDAP password is visible in the auditlog | 7.7.0.5 | LDAP |
| HU01214 | S3 | GUI and snap missing EasyTier heat map information | 7.7.0.5 | Support Data Collection |
| HU01227 | S3 | High volumes of events may cause the email notifications to become stalled | 7.7.0.5 | System Monitoring |
| HU01234 | S3 | After upgrade to 7.6 or later iSCSI hosts may incorrectly be shown as offline in the CLI | 7.7.0.5 | iSCSI |
| HU01247 | S3 | When a FlashCopy consistency group is stopped more than once in rapid succession a node warmstart may result | 7.7.0.5 | FlashCopy |
| HU01269 | S3 | A rare timing conflict between two process may lead to a node warmstart | 7.7.0.5 | |
| HU01292 | S3 | Under some circumstances the re-calculation of grains to clean can take too long after a "FlashCopy done" event has been sent resulting in a node warmstart | 7.7.0.5 | FlashCopy |
| HU01374 | S3 | Where an issue with Global Mirror causes excessive I/O delay, a timeout may not function resulting in a node warmstart | 7.7.0.5 | Global Mirror |
| HU01399 | S3 | For certain config nodes the CLI Help commands may not work | 7.7.0.5 | Command Line Interface |
| HU01405 | S3 | SSD drives with vendor ID IBM-C050 and IBM-C051 are showing up as not being supported | 7.7.0.5 | |
| IT16337 | S2 | Hardware offloading in four-port 16G FC adapters has introduced a deadlock condition that causes many driver commands to time out leading to a node warmstart. For more details refer to the following Flash | 7.7.0.4 | |
| HU01258 | S3 | A compressed volume copy will result in an unexpected 1862 message when site/node fails over in a stretched cluster configuration | 7.7.0.4 | Compression |
| IT17102 | S3 | Where the maximum number of I/O requests for a FC port has been exceeded, if a SCSI command, with an unsupported opcode, is received from a host then the node may warmstart | 7.7.0.4 | |
| HU00271 | S2 | An extremely rare timing window condition in the way GM handles write sequencing may cause multiple node warmstarts | 7.7.0.3 | Global Mirror |
| HU01141 | S2 | Node warmstart, possibly due to a network problem, when a CLI mkippartnership is issued. This may lead to loss of the config node, requiring a T2 recovery | 7.7.0.3 | IP Replication |
| HU01182 | S2 | Node warmstart due to 16Gb HBA firmware receiving an invalid SCSI TUR command | 7.7.0.3 | |
| HU01194 | S3 | A single node warmstart may occur if CLI commands are received from the VASA provider in very rapid succession. This is caused by a deadlock condition which prevents the subsequent CLI command from completing | 7.7.0.3 | VVols |
| HU01212 | S3 | GUI displays an incorrect timezone description for Moscow | 7.7.0.3 | Graphical User Interface |
| FLASH-19098 | S3 | V9000 AE2 systems show email_state is disabled after CCL | 7.7.0.3 | System Update |
| FLASH-19273 | S4 | After flash module replacement and boot upgrade, lsdrive output shows incorrect firmware version | 7.7.0.3 | System Update |
| HU01208 | S1 | After upgrading to v7.7 and later from v7.5 and earlier, and then creating a DRAID array with a node reset, the system may encounter repeated node warmstarts which will require a T3 recovery | 7.7.0.2 | Distributed RAID |
| FLASH-16342 | S1 | Improve internal Flash checking to prevent access loss | 7.7.0.1 | |
| HU00719 | S2 | After a power failure both nodes may repeatedly warmstart and then attempt an auto-node rescue. This will remove hardened data and require a T3 data recovery | 7.7.0.1 | |
| HU00897 | S2 | Spectrum Virtualize iSCSI target ignores maxrecvdatasegmentlength leading to host I/O error | 7.7.0.1 | iSCSI |
| HU01007 | S2 | When a node warmstart occurs on one node in an I/O group, that is the primary site for GMCV relationships, due to an issue within FlashCopy, then the other node in that I/O group may also warmstart | 7.7.0.1 | FlashCopy |
| HU01039 | S2 | When volumes, which are still in a relationship, are forcefully removed then a node may experience warmstarts | 7.7.0.1 | HyperSwap |
| HU01062 | S2 | T2 recovery may occur when max replication delay is used and remote copy I/O is delayed | 7.7.0.1 | Global Mirror |
| HU01067 | S2 | In a HyperSwap topology, where host I/O to a volume is being directed to both volume copies, for specific workload characteristics, I/O received within a small timing window could cause warmstarts on two nodes within separate I/O groups | 7.7.0.1 | |
| HU01186 | S2 | Volumes going offline briefly may disrupt the operation of Remote Copy leading to a loss of access by hosts | 7.7.0.1 | Global Mirror |
| HU01188 | S2 | Quorum lease times are not set correctly impacting system availability | 7.7.0.1 | |
| HU01189 | S2 | Improvement to DRAID dependency calculation when handling multiple drive failures | 7.7.0.1 | Distributed RAID |
| HU00521 | S3 | Remote Copy relationships may be stopped and lose synch when a single node warmstart occurs at the secondary site | 7.7.0.1 | Global Mirror |
| HU00910 | S3 | Handling of I/O to compressed volumes can result in a timeout condition that is resolved by a node warmstart | 7.7.0.1 | Compression |
| HU00928 | S3 | For certain I/O patterns a SAS firmware issue may lead to transport errors that become so prevalent that they cause a drive to become failed | 7.7.0.1 | |
| HU01003 | S3 | An extremely rapid increase in read IOs on a single volume can make it difficult for the cache component to free sufficient memory quickly enough to keep up, resulting in a single node warmstart | 7.7.0.1 | |
| HU01059 | S3 | When a tier in a storage pool runs out of free extents Easy Tier can adversely affect performance | 7.7.0.1 | EasyTier |
| HU01069 | S3 | After upgrade from v7.5 or earlier to v7.6.0.1-3 all nodes may warmstart at the same time resulting in a T2 data recovery | 7.7.0.1 | System Update |
| HU01074 | S3 | An unresponsive testemail command, possible due to a congested network, may result in a single node warmstart | 7.7.0.1 | |
| HU01075 | S3 | Multiple node warmstarts can occur due to an unstable Remote Copy domain after an upgrade to v7.6.0 | 7.7.0.1 | Global Mirror |
| HU01089 | S3 | svcconfig backup fails when an I/O group name contains a hyphen | 7.7.0.1 | |
| HU01110 | S3 | V9000 supports SSH connections using RC4 based ciphers | 7.7.0.1 | |
| HU01156 | S3 | Single node warmstart due to an invalid FCoE frame from a HP-UX host | 7.7.0.1 | Hosts |
| HU01274 | S3 | DRAID lsarraysyncprogress command may appear to show array synchronisation stuck at 99% | 7.7.0.1 | Distributed RAID |
| FLASH-15888 | S3 | During a Concurrent Code Upgrade (CCU) from version 7.6.0.2 to 7.6.0.3 there is a 50 second I/O (input/output) stall | 7.7.0.1 | System Update |
| FLASH-16887 | S3 | An internal error is raised from a controller node during a CCU from version 7.4.1.4 to 7.6.1.1 | 7.7.0.1 | System Update |
| FLASH-16414 | S4 | An OK button in the GUI user properties panel is clickable before a password is entered | 7.7.0.1 | Graphical User Interface |
| FLASH-14460 | S5 | Tool tips on the Access Audit Log GUI panel hinder access to control functions | 7.7.0.1 | Graphical User Interface |
| FLASH-16415 | S5 | Comment field in the GUI email event notifications setup is in the wrong section | 7.7.0.1 | Graphical User Interface |
| FLASH-17562 | S5 | Comment field in the GUI system setup is in the wrong section | 7.7.0.1 | Graphical User Interface |
Please refer to the Concurrent Compatibility and Code Cross Reference for Spectrum Virtualize page for guidance when planning a system upgrade.
| Description | Link |
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| Support Website | IBM Knowledge Center |
| IBM FlashSystem Fix Central | V9000 |
| Updating the system | IBM Knowledge Center |
| IBM Redbooks | Redbooks |
| Contacts | IBM Planetwide |