Release Notes

EMC® Data Domain® Management Center

Release number 1.4

Release Notes
302-002-108
REV 01

December, 2015

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l Revision history......................................................................................................... 2
l New features of Data Domain Management Center 1.4............................................... 2
l Environment and system requirements of DDMC 1.4.................................................. 3
l Security updates in DDMC 1.4.................................................................................... 4
l Fixed issues in DDMC 1.4........................................................................................... 4
l Known issues and limitations in DDMC 1.4................................................................ 5
l Upgrading to DDMC 1.4..............................................................................................6
l Special upgrade addendum for DDMC 1.0 to DDMC 1.2..............................................6
l Open source software in DDMC 1.4............................................................................ 7
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Revision history
The following table presents the revision history of this document.

Table 1 Revision history

Revision Date Description

01 November 2015 Published for the Data Domain Management Center
1.4 release.

New features of Data Domain Management Center 1.4

Data Domain Management Center provides comprehensive management, monitoring,
and control of Data Domain Protection storage.
The DDMC 1.4 release includes the following new functionality:
Physical Capacity Measurement (PCM)
Scheduling PCM:
l Creating, reading, updating, and deleting of PCM schedules
l Assigning of PCM schedules
l Starting one-time measurements
l Monitoring measurement tasks
Showing and reporting of PCM details:
l Physical space used
l Compression
l Widgets
l Reports
Enhanced Secure Multitenancy features
l Managing a Tenant Object
l Managing fully, and viewing, mutually exclusive data access users
l Assigning and unassigning of vDisk and VTL pools
l Creating, reading, updating, and deleting of DD Boost hard stream limits
l Assigning and unassigning management IP addresses
l Assigning security mode
Capacity Projections
l Improved graphics and capabilities
l Selection of specific ranges
l Projections based on subset of data
Enhanced system updates and upgrades, ConnectEMC
l “Add system” process simplified and streamlined
l DD system upgrade process simplified and clarified

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l Full configuration and monitoring of ConnectEMC

The following publications, which are available on the EMC Online Support site, have
been updated for the DDMC 1.4 release:
l EMC Data Domain Management Center Initial Configuration Guide
l EMC Data Domain Management Center User Guide
l EMC Data Domain Management Center Version Support Matrix

Environment and system requirements of DDMC 1.4

For compatibility with this release of Data Domain Management Center, make sure your
Data Domain system and client system tools meet the following environment and system
requirements.

Supported Data Domain Systems

Data Domain Management Center 1.4 supports management of the following Data
Domain systems, running DD OS 5.5 or later:
DD9500, DD990, DD7200, DD890, DD880, DD4500, DD860, DD690, DD4200, DD670,
DD660, DD2500, DD2200, DD640, DD630, DD620, DD610, DD565, DD160, DD140

Supported ESXi versions

Data Domain Management Center 1.4 supports the following VMware ESXi versions:
l VMware ESXi 5.1
l VMware ESXi 5.5
l VMware ESXi 6.0

Supported browsers
Data Domain Management Center 1.4 supports the following browsers:
l Apple OS X – Mozilla Firefox 30 and higher, Google Chrome
l Microsoft Windows – Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, 10, and 11; Mozilla Firefox 30 and
higher; Google Chrome
Other browser versions may also work; these particular versions have been validated.

Showing a prompt dialog in Internet Explorer

To enable file downloads to show a prompt dialog in Internet Explorer, it is recommended
that the Security Zone, in which the Data Domain Management Center host name or IP
address belongs, has the Automatic prompting for file downloads option set to Enabled
for that Security Zone.
Procedure
1. In Internet Explorer, select Tools > Internet Options to see the Internet Options dialog.
2. Select the Security tab, then select the security zone that applies to Data Domain
Management Center.
3. Select the Custom level... button to open the Security Settings dialog, then scroll to
the Downloads section.
4. For the Automatic prompting for downloads option, select the Enabled button, then
select OK.

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5. If a prompt appears asking if you are sure you want to change the settings for this
security zone, select Yes.
6. Select OK again to exit the Internet Options dialog.

Supported Flash versions

Data Domain Management Center 1.4 supports the following Adobe Flash versions:
l Adobe Flash 9+
l Adobe Flash 10+

Security updates in DDMC 1.4

For the 1.4 release of Data Domain Management Center, the OpenSSL implementation
was updated to resolve the following vulnerabilities:
l CVE-2015-0209
l CVE-2015-0286
l CVE-2015-0287
l CVE-2015-0288
l CVE-2015-0289
l CVE-2015-0293

Note

For more information about any of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs)
mentioned here, consult the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) at http://
nvd.nist.gov/home.cfm. To search for a particular CVE, use the database’s search utility
at http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search.

Fixed issues in DDMC 1.4

This release of Data Domain Management Center includes many fixed issues, which are
listed here by the specific release in which they were resolved.

Fixed in version 1.4.0.1-514045

The following fixes were made in version 1.4.0.1-514045.

Table 2 Fixed in version 1.4.0.1-514045

Bug # Description
85972 Port names are now filtered before being added to historical data (specifically,
hd_perf_nets).

137769 Several CVEs against OpenSSL were resolved.

140492 Restricted ports are now documented in the DDMC User Guide.

145314 The System Capacity “Report Time Zone” value is now displayed correctly.

145533 The DD Management Center database now correctly updates the time zone.

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Known issues and limitations in DDMC 1.4

l Space usage is incorrectly displayed as zero, in some Capacity Utilization reports.
l When a DD system is being registered, its state is “unknown” up to a point, and then
its state is set to “adding”. If an “adding” task is running, and DNS changes are
made, the task is killed (not cancelled). The result is that the state of that DD system
is still “adding”, and because the task is inactive, the DD state cannot be changed.
You cannot delete the DD (its in the “adding” state), and there is no task to cancel
because the DNS changes killed the process. The result is that there is a record of a
DD system in DD Management Center that cannot be removed.
l A Storage Unit may show as unresolved when it is on a DD system running DD OS
5.4.3.0
l When a local user is deleted, reports are not transferred to the administrator, and
they stop running.
l When upgrading DD systems using DDMC, it can appear that unselected systems are
being upgraded. The confusion stems from the fact that the selection of the systems
is done on the “Inventory Systems” page before you open the “Upgrade Systems”
dialog. Then, the checkboxes on the “Upgrade Systems” dialog are intended only to
let you delete from the table any systems that you do not want to be upgraded. This
procedure will be improved in a future release.
l In the following situations, you may not be able to select the most recent data point
in a chart: (1) You adjust the visible range of the chart by clicking and dragging within
the chart. When dragged back to show recent data, you cannot select the most recent
data point. (2) An auto-refresh has occurred, and a new data point has been added to
the chart. The new data is visible in the chart, but you cannot select the actual data
point. In both cases, to see the new data, update the range of the chart by moving the
navigator bar at the top of the chart.
l Report generation fails when the max report limit of 500 is reached.
l DD Management Center cannot support a Data Domain system running 5.5.0.4. You
must upgrade this system to 5.5.0.6 or later. See the Data Domain Management
Center Version Support Matrix for more information.
l During an upgrade, you may get the error, “Unknown registry key:
group.upgrade.skip_ver_check”, which you may safely ignore. This group does not
exist on DD Management Center.
l If a Data Domain system has virtual network interfaces configured, the System
Details Network Throughput Chart for that system might show graph lines for network
interfaces that do not really exist. These graph lines should be ignored. The names of
these non-existent interfaces will begin with “eth” followed by 1 to 4 numbers. For
example, a graph line for “eth1” might be shown when “eth1” does not exist on the
Data Domain system.
l After configuring Windows authentication, enable CIFS authentication from the DD
Management Center command line by using the following command:
adminaccess authentication add cifs
l If you run the full replication report on a DD Management Center configured for a large
number of Data Domain systems, such as 100, the report may take several minutes to
run. If the time exceeds five minutes, a “Bad Gateway” error may appear. The error
is innocuous; simply dismiss it, and the report will continue running to normal
completion.

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l If you navigate to the DD Replication page and click on the Lag button to open the
filter and then press Backspace on the keyboard, the navigation occurs as expected,
but the filter stays open.
l If you are upgrading from DD Management Center 1.0 to DD Management Center 1.2,
you must modify the VMware server SCSI controller type in order for the upgrade to
succeed. See Special upgrade addendum for DDMC 1.0 to DDMC 1.2 on page 6.
l A Data Domain system periodically sends historical data to the DD Management
Center. If there is an issue transmitting this data due to network problems, the Data
Domain system may issue an alert (“historical data file transfer
failed”). The DD Management Center will not report the Data Domain system as
unreachable until there have been multiple transmission failures. If you occasionally
receive these alerts from your Data Domain system, you may want investigate for
network irregularities.
l You cannot log in to the DD Management Center if the /ddr/var/ partition (also
known as /ddvar) is full, or nearly full, and the monitored Data Domain systems use
several different DD OS versions. The workaround is to log in using the CLI or else
wait 5-10 minutes before logging in with the GUI. (For information on how to free up
space on the /ddr/var/ partition, see the EMC Data Domain Operating System
Administration Guide for your version of the DD OS.)
l Do not rename any software installation or upgrade package that you received for
your Data Domain system and its licensed features, including the DD Management
Center. Installation and upgrade processes and procedures rely on the exact names
of the software packages. Renaming a software package will cause the installation or
upgrade process to fail.

Upgrading to DDMC 1.4

You can upgrade to Data Domain Management Center 1.4 only from a DDMC running
release family 1.2 or 1.3.
EMC supports upgrading DDMC by only up to two release families at a time (1.0 to 1.1 or
1.2; 1.1 to 1.2 or 1.3; 1.2 to 1.3 or 1.4; 1.3 to 1.4; and so on).
To upgrade to DDMC 1.4 from a release family earlier than 1.2, you will need to upgrade
in steps.
For the exact upgrade steps for your DDMC, see the DDMC Release Notes appropriate to
your release, which you can find on the EMC Online Support site.

Special upgrade addendum for DDMC 1.0 to DDMC 1.2

You must run an additional procedure to complete an upgrade from Data Domain
Management Center 1.0 to Data Domain Management Center 1.2.
During this particular upgrade, when you reboot DDMC, the VM will get a kernel panic, as
shown in the following image:

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After you get this kernel panic, you must modify the VMware server SCSI controller type
for the upgrade to succeed.
The procedures are slightly different, depending on whether you are using vSphere Client
or vSphere Web Access.

For vSphere Client

Procedure
1. Locate and select your DDMC VM.
2. Do a left-mouse click, and select Power > Power Off.
3. Do a left-mouse click, and select Edit Settings to display the Virtual Machine
Properties dialog.
4. Select SCSI controller 0, and select Change Type … in SCSI Controller Type.
5. Select VMware Paravirtual, and select OK.
6. Select OK to close the Virtual Machine Properties dialog.
7. Do a left-mouse click, and select Power > Power On.

For vSphere Web Access

Procedure
1. Locate and select your DDMC VM.
2. Select Power Off in the Commands box.
3. Select SCSI control 0 > Edit in the Hardware box.
4. Select SCSI controller 0, and select Change Type … in SCSI Controller Type.
5. In the SCSI controller 0 dialog, select the Modify device type link.
6. Change the Device to VMware Accelerated SCSI, and select OK.
7. Select Power to power on the VM.

Open source software in DDMC 1.4

Data Domain Management Center software may be distributed with open source code,
licensed to you in accordance with the applicable open source license.
If you would like a copy of any such source code, EMC will provide a copy of the source
code, which is required to be made available in accordance with the applicable open
source license.
EMC may charge reasonable shipping and handling charges for such distribution.

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Direct requests in writing to:

EMC Legal
Attention: Open Source Program Office
176 South Street
Hopkinton, MA 01748

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