Release 06.02.02 of the Oracle Flash Storage System is a general availability release.
The overall system functions that are provided in this release are similar to the functions that are available in release 06.02.00. The 06.02.02 release, however, provides an improvement in system efficiency and in system robustness. The 06.02.02 release includes a roll-up of all of the defects that have been fixed in customer patches up to and including release 06.02.00.
Enhanced drive failure prediction and protection using Oracle Pre-Emptive Copy. (Sometimes referred to as copyaway.)
Sector repair using background media scan across the entire surface of the drives for any bad sectors.
Write coalescing optimization that groups multiple, small write operations to a particular stripe into a single write operation. This optimization particularly benefits RAID 5 and RAID 6 storage arrays and auto-tiered LUNs.
Automatic computation of the next LUN number. Used with the clone_lun, hostmap, and lun commands.
Separation of the -prepare and -commit requests when making LUN clones or LUN copies to allow time-coordinated copies of multiple LUNs.
Creation of a LUN with an exact size as presented to a SAN client through the use of the -exactCapacity flag. Used to support Oracle Database 12.1.0.2, Oracle MaxRep, and other SAN clients that require this feature.
A new feature of Guided Maintenance that provides non-disruptive, systematic, cable-by-cable instructions for new Drive Enclosures added to the system.
In a system-down chassis replacement (where there is physical movement of the drives with data intact to a new Drive Enclosure), the system rebinds the drives to the new Drive Enclosure. This enhancement provides the ability to replace a Drive Enclosure and move the drives with data intact from the old enclosure to the new enclosure. This operation is disruptive.
ILOM firmware has been updated.
The service processor has been updated.
The Pilot Linux OS has been updated to version 6.6.
Beginning with Version 6.2.0, Oracle FS System prevents the creation of volumes with single parity (RAID 5) on the Capacity Disk Storage Classes. All new volumes are created with double parity (RAID 6) for added data protection in the event of a drive failure. Existing volumes that were created with single parity are not affected. However, if these single parity volumes undergo maintenance, such as being unmapped and then remapped, the system will automatically migrate them to double parity as well.
Contact your Oracle Account Representative for more information.
For this product release, the following guides have been localized.
Oracle Flash Storage System Administrator’s Guide
Oracle MaxRep for SAN User’s Guide
Oracle Enterprise Manager for Oracle Flash Storage Systems User’s Guide
Oracle FS Data Protection Manager User's Guide
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