Rev.

A03
Release Date: March 2024

Release Notes
for the Dell Unity ™ Family
These release notes contain supplemental information about this Unity release.
Current Release Version: 5.4.0.0.5.094
Release Type: Minor (MI)

Topics:
Revision history ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 1
Product description ................................................................................................................................................................................ 2
Resolved issues ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Known issues ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
Limitations ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 17
Environment and system requirements .............................................................................................................................................. 18
Software media, organization, and files .............................................................................................................................................. 18
Obtain and install product licenses ...................................................................................................................................................... 19
Firmware ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 20
Documentation ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 21
Where to get help .................................................................................................................................................................................. 21

Revision history
This section provides a description of document changes.

Table 1. Revision history

Document revision Date Description
A00 February 2024 Release 5.4.0.0.5.094

A01 February 2024 Adds additional information on new features

A02 March 2024 Adds information on disable write cache feature

A03 March 2024 Clarifies Unity APL expiration

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Product description
Dell Unity is targeted for midsized deployments, remote or branch offices, and cost-sensitive mixed workloads. Unity
systems are designed for all-Flash, deliver the best value in the market, and are available in purpose-built (all Flash or hybrid
Flash), converged deployment options (through VxBlock), and a software-defined virtual edition.

The Dell Unity Family consists of:

• Unity (purpose built): A modern midrange storage solution, engineered from the ground-up to meet market demands
for Flash, affordability, and incredible simplicity. The Unity XT Family consists of 4 Hybrid Flash configurations
(380/480/680/880) and 4 All Flash configurations (380F/480F/680F/880F) models.

• VxBlock (converged): Unity storage options are also available in Dell VxBlock System 1000.

• UnityVSA (virtual): The Unity Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) allows the advanced unified storage and data
management features of the Unity family to be easily deployed on VMware ESXi servers, for a ‘software defined’
approach. UnityVSA is available in two editions:
 Community Edition is a free downloadable 4 TB solution recommended for non-production use.
 Professional Edition is a licensed subscription-based offering available at capacity levels of 10 TB, 25 TB, 50 TB,
and 350 TB. The subscription includes access to online support resources, EMC Secure Remote Services
(ESRS), and on-call software- and systems-related support.
All three Unity, UnityVSA, and Unity-based VxBlock deployment options enjoy one architecture, one interface with consistent
features and rich data services.

Unity is Redefining Storage Simplicity and Value

Here are some of the features and supporting statements that allows Unity to redefine midrange storage:

• Simple: Simplified ordering, all-inclusive software, rack-and-stack in less than 2 minutes, customer installable, a new
slick HTML5 user interface, proactive assist, and CloudIQ internet-enabled monitoring.

• Modern: Unity is designed to support the latest dense Flash drives such as 3D TLC NAND with a Linux-based
architecture, new Intel Haswell, Broadwell, and Skylake multicore processors, up to 440K IOPS, 2U dense
configurations, scalable 64bit file system & file system shrink, unified snapshots & replication, Data-at-Rest-
Encryption (D@RE), support for public and private cloud access, deep ecosystem integration with VMware (native
vVols) and Microsoft, and much more.

• Affordable: Unity delivers the best midrange Flash economics with a great entry price and overall TCO. Unity All
Flash configurations start under $15K and Unity Hybrid Flash configurations start under $10K. UnityVSA allows
anyone to get started for free and upgrade into the supported virtual edition, a purpose-built hybrid or all-Flash
system, or into converged infrastructure.

• Flexible: You can meet any storage deployment requirement with Unity from virtual to purpose-built to converged
infrastructure. All deployment options support the same data unified data services (SAN/NAS and vVols) to support
any workload with traditional file (file consolidation, VDI user data, home directories) as well as transactional
workloads for both file and block on both all Flash and hybrid configurations (Oracle, Exchange, SQL Server,
SharePoint, SAP, VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V).

Unity XT Platform (380/F, 480/F, 680/F, 880/F series)

The Unity Next Generation Platform refresh, also known as the Unity XT Series, consists of 8 hardware models, including 4
Hybrid Flash and 4 All Flash configurations—the Dell Unity 380, 380F, 480, 480F, 680, 680F, 880, and 880F. The XT series
increases performance of I/O, maximizes storage efficiency features like Advanced Data Reduction with inline deduplication,
and supports a 25Gb interface card.
The Unity 380(F) is based on the existing platform today for the 350F model, but with additional memory (64GBs per SP).

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The Unity 480/F, 680/F, and 880/F are built on an Intel Skylake platform. For more information, see the Unity 380/F,
480/F, 680/F, and 880/F Hardware Information Guide.
The Unity XT series supports Advanced Data Reduction in both dynamic and traditional pools in All Flash (F) models, and All
Flash pools in Hybrid models.
Unity software OE version 5.x and later supports the new x80 series models, in addition to all existing x00 and x50 series
models.
Note: The Unity XT 480/F, 680/F, and 880/F are available for both high-line (200v-240v) and low-line (100v-120v) power
environments, but you must select the appropriate option when ordering your system. Low-line is used in a select countries
that supply 100-120V, typically through a wall outlet, while high-line is used in environments that supply 200-240V.
Country-specific cables are available for plugging a Unity system directly into a wall outlet that either supplies 100-120V or
200-240V. If supplying 100-120V to a Unity XT 880/F, a step-up transformer is required.

New features
Functional area Feature description Summary of benefits
Hardware 7.68TB SSDs and 7.68TB and 15.36TB 1WPD SSDs can be used in Hybrid Flash Array (HFA)
15.36TB SSDs are systems and hybrid pools. Using these SSDs decreases the cost per GB, allows
allowed in HFA larger pool capacity, and provides more flash tier space for data.
systems

Notifications and Alerts Hardware-related OK Allows all hardware-related informational OK messages to be sent home. If a
messages are sent hardware issue initially connects home with an error alert and then the fault
home clears, these systems generate a second connecthome message stating the
hardware is OK.

This feature supports the following hardware types:

• Disk Processor Enclosure (DPE) including battery, cooling module

(fan), memory, power supply, and drives.
• Storage Processor (SP), including SLICs (I/O modules), Ethernet, FC
and SAS ports, and System Status Card (SSC).
• Disk Array Enclosure (DAE), including LCC (Link Control Cards), and
power supplies.

Notifications and Alerts Metadata space Automatically balances the metadata space and the storage space with every
expands automatically incoming write. This allows full capacity utilization and avoids performance
and sends alerts issues.
regarding limits

Notifications and alerts An alert has been Allows you to identify an issue with blocked threads that would impact
provided through performance on the array. This gives you time to identify and correct the issue
Unisphere so that a before the impact of blocked threads to system operation grows.
user can identify an
issue with blocked
threads

Security New password Password length for Unisphere users has been increased to support a 64-
complexity character length alphanumeric in compliance with the latest US federal
requirement has been requirement OMB M-22-09. The password requirement is:
implemented
• 8 to 64 characters in length
• Contains at least one upper case letter
• Contains at least one lower case letter
• Contains at least one numeric

Special characters are not required in the password.

Security Unity APL expiration Unity APL expires in March 2024.

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 Functional area Feature description Summary of benefits
Security Disable SMB2 at the This option enables you to disable SMB2 at the NAS level by using the
NAS server level svc_nas service command. This protects your system from known
vulnerabilites associated with the SMB2 protocol.

Serviceability Write cache is Unity systems automatically disable write cache whenever an SP enters service
automatically disabled mode to prevent potential cache loss.

Serviceability The RSC (Remote Users cannot disable RSC option in Unisphere once remote connectivity and
Secure Credentials) RSC has been enabled.
option in Unisphere
does not appear when
remote connectivity
and RSC is already
enabled

Serviceability Enable user-selected A new option is provided to transfer user selected files back to Dell using the
file transfer using the Managed File Transfer (MFT) transport channel, which is one of the
Managed File Transfer SupportAssist (on physical Unity) or ESRS (on UnityVSA) functionalities. Users
(MFT) transport can directly send the specified file, either a service Information file or core
channel dump, back to Dell if SupportAssist or ESRS, whichever is applicable, is enabled.
This will improve support efficiency.

Serviceability Critical alert is Helps ensure that users update the sender email address to their company
provided that directs domain so that the user receives Dell support and Dell receives the user’s data
users to change the properly.
sender email address
from a Unity system
to match that of the
user’s company email
domain

Storage - File Restrict SMB exports You can configure host access to SMB shares, setting access to either
Read/Write to allow the host to access the share or No Access to prevent a
host from accessing an SMB share.

System Management Set the NTP stratum The NTP orphan rank can be set to the highest support stratum, allowing you to
higher set the stratum without service intervention.

System Management Quickly restart New service command options enable you to restart uDoctor and Apache
uDoctor and Apache without root access.

Unisphere CLI Adds and remove Using the command line interface, you can add hosts and remove hosts from
hosts LUNs, LUN groups, VMFS datastores, vVols, and file systems.

Unisphere UI Sort datastores by the Enables you to see a list of SP owners on the DataStores tab. You can also sort
SP owner datastores and other VMware resources by clicking the SP Owner column.

Changed features
Functional area Feature description Summary of benefits
Hardware New support for drive Drive firmware version 21 is included in the 5.4 software OE bundle and can be
firmware installed at the end of the Software Upgrade wizard. For more information on
the impacted drives and models for this firmware, see Knowledgebase article
000021322.

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Resolved issues
This table lists the issues fixed in this release. For all issues fixed in previous releases, refer to the release notes for that
specific Unity OE.

Table 2. Resolved issues in product version

Issue ID Functional area Description
UNITYD- Common Event The Unity system cannot connect to a CEPA server using the Microsoft RPC
69519/UNITYD-69152 Enabler protocol.

UNITYD- Connectivity - Hosts A rare internal timing condition results in an unexpected SP reboot.
69517/UNITYD-65128
UNITYD- Connectivity - Hosts In rare cases, a single SP might reboot when more than 2,000 LUNs or
66961/UNITYD-66270 snapshots are attached to or detached from a large number of ESXi hosts in a
short time span.

UNITYD-61047/60145 Connectivity - An SP may unexpectedly reboot if you use the tool "hostconfcli" to display some
Networks configurations.

UNITYD- Connectivity - If a NAS server is configured to reflect IP packets and you mount an NFSv3
60971/UNITYD-60790 Networks share using the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), read requests larger than the
MTU get no response.

UNITYD- Data mobility If a snapshot is created on the destination side during a NAS sync replication
68810/UNITYD-64088 session, it is periodically refreshed to get the NAS configuration from the source
side. When the snapshot is refreshed, the system creates a new snapshot and
mounts it before removing the old one. The old snapshot is not deleted when
mounting the new snapshot fails.

UNITYD- Data mobility If the management network communication is unstable, remote replication host
66236/UNITYD-64703 "communication lost" alerts are reported intermittently.

UNITYD- Data mobility After an SP reboots unexpectedly, sync replication sessions might take a few
62740/UNITYD-59364 hours to return to a consistent status.

UNITYD- Data mobility UEMCLI shows duplicated replication sessions when the configuration of the
62194/UNITYD-61679 remote replication interface changes.

UNITYD- Data mobility When the configured bandwidth increased, a small delay in replication between
61433/UNITYD-60856 the time when a transfer should have started and when the transfer actually
began was noticed in the Unisphere Performance Dashboard.

UNITYD- Data mobility A replication session remained syncing when an offline user snapshot was found
60997/UNITYD-60573 and did not transfer data for that offline snapshot.

UNITYD- Data protection An SP sometimes reboots when unmounting a read-only snapshot.

60695/UNITYD-58578

UNITYD- Import In rare situations during IMT cutover, the IMT session can hang
61572/UNITYD-62741
UNITYD-61977 Import Unity's capacity is calculated in TiB/GiB/MiB/KiB (Base-2) but displayed as
TB/GB/MB/KB (Base-10) in Unisphere.

UNITYD- Import A filename containing emoji characters can result in an IMT import session
61944/UNITYD-61391 failing to import data during incremental copy.

UNITYD- Import If the internal IP address of the SP is used to create a FileService interface or a
61600/UNITYD-60469 NetworkService interface, the SP may reboot.

UNITYD-69652 Other The severity of the alert for receiving the uDoctor package is Info when it
should Warning.

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 Issue ID Functional area Description
UNITYD-67797 Other Some call home alerts might not be sent if too many call home alerts are
reported at the same time.

UNITYD-61171/UNITYD- Other The customized banner does not display at the UEMCLI login after OE upgrades
60684 but does display in Unisphere.

UNITYD- Other A storage processor reboot can occur when there are a number of failed data
60993/UNITYD-59265 uploads.

UNITYD- Security A problem with either the network or KDC server may cause an SP to reboot if
70502/UNITYD-69003 Kerberos is used to change a NAS server password.

UNITYD- Security When STIG and user account settings are enabled, the NMI button reset of the
61483/UNITYD-61061 admin password fails.

UNITYD- Serviceability A replication session cannot be resumed when session issues cause inconsistent
61682/UNITYD-58860 size settings in the internal components of the destination system.

UNITYD- Software install and After a non-disruptive upgrade to Unity OE version 5.3, a single SP might
63537/UNITYD-62954 upgrade reboot due to an internal data-persistence synchronization issue.

UNITYD- Storage - Block The Data Relocated value that is shown after you run the UEMCLI fastvp
70988/UNITYD-70580 show command is not accurate if there is data imbalance within a RAID Group.

UNITYD- Storage – Block An internal operation is handled incorrectly, resulting in a single SP reboot.
70256/UNITYD-68546
UNITYD- Storage - Block After an SP unexpectedly shuts down or reboots, it might take a long time
63651/UNITYD-62768 (more than 15 minutes) to fail the VDM over to the peer SP.

UNITYD- Storage - Block In rare instances, a storage processor may reboot unexpectedly when
62608/UNITYD-59918 RecoverPoint is in use. In some cases, RecoverPoint services are not restarted
on the SP.

UNITYD- Storage - Block When an SP reboots before a RAID 5 RAID Group rebuild finishes and another
62310/UNITYD-61537 disk fails during the SP reboot that results in the RAID Group being in failure due
to a double fault, the related LUN results in ktrace log flooding, which may lead
to an SP boot-up failure.

UNITYD- Storage - File If you are running Unity OE versions 5.2.x or 5.3.x and many user quotas are
72454/UNITYD-68037 configured, an unexpected SP reboot might occur after the system has been
running for a long time.

UNITYD-71876/UNITYD- Storage – File If you migrate data between two file systems using the host tool, or if the file
61070 systems are experiencing high I/O, the file systems might go offline.

UNITYD- Storage - File Incorrect memory handling can result in an SP reboot when setting up LDAP
70592/UNITYD-69893 services.

UNITYD-70557 Storage - File You cannot enable a quota on a filesystem if the root directory currently has
alternate data streams (ADS). If you find files with filenames that are prefixed
with ":" in the root directory by running command "dir /r", the root directory has
ADS.

UNITYD- Storage - File The storage system might reboot during a filesystem remap operation.
69076/UNITYD-68948
UNITYD- Storage - File A virus checker resource leak causes a file system to go offline.
68729/UNITYD-68330
UNITYD- Storage - File Although setting up multichannel with a fail-safe networking (FSN) device
66160/UNITYD-63136 succeeds, multichannel does not work.

UNITYD- Storage - File If CIFS Kerberos is configured, an SP might reboot unexpectedly when a client
64832/UNITYD-64457 sends an invalid request.

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Issue ID Functional area Description
UNITYD- Storage - File When a VDM has both LDAP and Kerberos configured, an SP reboot might
63767/UNITYD-61973 occur if the LDAP reports too many errors persistently.

UNITYD- Storage – File An NFSv4.1 client might hang and have trouble accessing the NFS server.
62905/UNITYD-62382

UNITYD- Storage - File An SP might reboot unexpectedly if a client sends a large number of SMB2
62581/UNITYD-62046 connecting requests to the Unity system. The connecting request limit for an
SMB session is 64,770.

UNITYD- Storage - File When enabling NFS extended UNIX credential and NFSv4 delegation, you might
62449/UNITYD-61876 sometimes encounter a permission issue while accessing files.

UNITYD- Storage - File The SMB client cannot set file information with its named stream file.
62321/UNITYD-61127

UNITYD- Storage - File An SP reboot occurs during an internal SMB processing operation.
62168/UNITYD-62017

UNITYD- Storage - File If you are running OE version 5.x and use third-party middleware to create a file
61949/UNITYD-61521 or directory whose name length exceeds 256 bytes, the SP might unexpectedly
reboot due to lack of memory.

UNITYD- Storage - File A file system recovery cannot be completed sometimes.

61748/UNITYD-61592

UNITYD- Storage - File For the command "svc_nas -param -f nfs -I transChecksum -v", the output
61660/UNITYD-61559 shows "user_action = restart NAS Server". However, the SP must be rebooted
to make the change work.

UNITYD-61613/UNITYD- Storage - File Unity sometimes reboots unexpectedly when the connection to the LDAP
61400 server is not stable.

UNITYD- Storage - File The SP might reboot when there are errors with the LDAP servers configured in
61560/UNITYD-61139 the NAS server.

UNITYD- Storage - File File systems sometimes go offline when they are almost full, and users are
61503/UNITYD-60936 creating new files.

UNITYD-61482/ Storage - File You cannot mount an NFS export on the client.
UNITYD-61156

UNITYD- Unisphere CLI Some UEMCLI commands fail if the password contains a colon (:) character.
65247/UNITYD-64882 (UEMCLI)

UNITYD-67036 Unisphere UI After you change a password using the Unisphere preference menu, you are
logged out and must log in again to continue.

UNITYD- Unisphere UI Sometimes you cannot add an NTP server when the server has a limit on the
62166/UNITYD-61820 client request rate.

UNITYD- Unisphere UI If you sort a few columns, for example [used (%), Allocation (%)], and then hide
61984/UNITYD-61671 those columns and export them, the export screen does not show an error, but
the data is not exported.

UNITYD-61978 Unisphere UI The Online Help shows TB instead of TiB.

UNITYD- Unisphere UI Sometimes when creating a traditional pool fails, the returned error message is
61330/UNITYD-60158 misleading.

UNITYD- Unisphere UI To make the csv export functionality more secure, if these strings [,@], [,=],
59977/UNITYD-59328 [,+], [,-], [,"@], [,"=], [,"+], [,"-] (not including []) are found in the csv cell value, '
(single apostrophe) will be prepended to characters @ = + - . They are changed
to [,'@], [,'=], [,'+], [,'-], [,"'@], [,"'=], [,"'+], [,"'-].

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 Issue ID Functional area Description
UNITYD-61514/UNITYD- Virtualization Sometimes the VVOL page (STORAGE ->VMware ->Virtual Volumes) in
60783 Unisphere cannot be loaded normally.

UNITYD- Need functional area An SP might reboot when parsing a deleted local user in the mapping service.
61638/UNITYD-62580

Known issues
Table 3. Known issues in product version
Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Solution
869166 Common Event Enabler When a host is configured to use CAVA for Do not use CAVA/CEPA NAS servers
the CEPA server, there is a host IO error on for regular host IO.
SMB protocol with the following message in
the logs:
“Too many access from CAVA server
xx.xx.xx.xx without the EMC VirusChecking
privilege:>>> User credential (xx.xx.xx.xx
address of the host).”

UNITYD-50686 Connectivity - Hosts LED light may not be On when inserting Remove and reinsert the SFP card.
either a 32G or 16G SFP into a 4-port 32Gb
Fibre Channel I/O module slot.

UNITYD-60790 Connectivity - Networks After you mount an NFSv3 share using the There are two workarounds that you
User Datagram Protocol (UDP) to the NAS can use:
server, which is enabled to reflect IP
packets, large IO read requests (larger than 1. Mount an NFSv3 file system (FS)
the MTU) get no response. share using TCP.

2. Mount an NFSv3 FS share using

UDP, but disable the IP reflect packet
feature.

UNITYD-42194 Connectivity - Networks In rare cases, if a link aggregation or fail-safe First, modify the MTU speeds of the
network (FSN) link is composed of two or ports on the 4-port 1-GbE BaseT I/O
more ports on a 4-port 1-GbE BaseT I/O module to the expected values. Then,
module, changing the MTU speed for the link modify the MTU speed of the link
aggregation or FSN may cause an SP reboot. aggregation or FSN.

932347/ Connectivity - Networks Immediately upon creation, the Fail-Safe If all Ethernet ports participating in
UNITYD-5837 Network (FSN) appears in a "Link Down" this FSN port, either directly or using
state. An alert similar to the following is Link Aggregation, are connected
displayed. properly, the FSN port will
“System XXX has experienced one or more automatically recover from "Link
problems that have had a minor impact” Down" state within 30 seconds or less.
With a detailed description of It is also possible that FSN port
“The system has experienced one or more recovery goes through "Degraded"
minor failures. Check related alerts and fix state, for approximately 60 seconds
the underlying problems.” after the FSN creation. This alert can
be ignored, unless the FSN port fails
to enter the "Link Up" and "Health
OK" state approximately 60 seconds
after creation.

UNITYD- Data mobility A local consistency group replication session Use the "-elementPairs" option in the
62009/UNITYD- LUN member pairing is mismatched when Unisphere UEMCLI to create a local
61636 the session is created from the GUI. async CG replication session after

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Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Solution
provisioning the destination
consistency group.

UNITYD-54629 Data mobility Only the SMB1 protocol is supported for a If either the SMB2 or SMB3 protocol
Unified VNX (VNX1 or VNX2) storage is used on the VNX source system,
system as the source storage system in a the protocol must be changed to
VDM file migration. SMB1 before performing the
migration.

UNITYD-54862 Data mobility If you use an atypical advanced replication Before performing the planned
configuration, such as using asynchronous failover asynchronous replication
replication inbound and synchronous session, pause the synchronous
replication outbound, the synchronous replication session first. After the
replication destination NAS server planned failover asynchronous
sometimes becomes faulted during a planned replication session completes, resume
failover of asynchronous replication. the synchronous replication session.

UNITYD-51634 Data mobility In MetroSync when the MetroSync Manager Delete the synchronous session and
is configured, if the MetroSync Manager recreate it but note that a full
detects that the source pool is offline, it synchronization will occur.
initiates an unplanned failover. Even if the
unplanned failover succeeds, the source site
may not be cleaned up correctly, and the
subsequent failback may fail.

UNITYD-51288 Data mobility When deleting a synchronous replication of a Retry to delete the synchronous
NAS server, if the peer SP is rebooting replication operation.
gracefully, the delete operation may fail.

943734/ Data mobility The "Last sync time" of a replication session Wait about 2 minutes, then view the
UNITYD-4469 is updated, but "transfer remaining size" is replication session details again.
not zero.

906249/ Data mobility A request to create a replication session for Synchronize the NAS server
UNITYD-2788 VMware NFS datastore which resides in a replication session at least once prior
multiprotocol NAS server will fail until the to creating a replication session for a
first synchronization of the associated NAS VMware NFS datastore residing on
server replication session. the multiprotocol NAS server.

UNITYD-45110 Data protection When the system is configured with a large No manual operation needed.
number of replications (over 1000) and both The system will automatically recover
SPs are rebooted simultaneously, one after the reboot.
storage processor may experience an
additional reboot after system comes back
up.

UNITYD-36280 Data protection The snapshot schedule function failed to None.

create a scheduled snapshot of a
synchronous replication-protected file
system during the session failback operation.

UNITYD-31870 Data protection The snapshot schedule timer reset None.

(restarted from 0) after the Unity
management service was rebooted, or a new
resource was assigned to it. This leads to this
schedule being applied to existing resources.

981344/ Data protection There are three Arrays: A, B, C. The following 1. To prevent this issue, wait two
UNITYD-6289 scenario occurs: minutes after the failover, then
run the preserve operation.
1. Site A-B set up synchronous 2. If this issue occurs, rerun the
replication sessions. preserve operation.

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 Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Solution
2. Site A-C set up asynchronous
replication sessions.

3. Shut down site A and do a cabinet

failover on B.

4. Preserve all asynchronous

replication sessions immediately on
B.

Some asynchronous replication sessions are

not preserved. (No Error message in Site B.
The asynchronous replication sessions which
are not preserved will be "Lost
Communication" in Site C.)

949119/ UNITYD- Data protection If an NDMP restore restores a file which The administrator should manually
4769/ UNITYD- exceeds a quota hard limit, the file will be increase the quota limitation for the
5112 restored as owned by the root user. user and correct the file ownership.

821501 Data protection When a user runs a token-based incremental Add ATTEMPT_TBB=Y to Application
backup using Networker, a full backup is Information while configuring the
performed instead. NDMP client, or change the value in
the NDMP client properties.

875485 Data protection The following error could be returned when Reduce the number of parallel
multiple snap diff REST API requests were operations and try again.
sent in parallel.
“‘{ "error": { "created":
"2016-12-05T17:34:36.533Z",
"errorCode": 131149826,
"httpStatusCode": 503, "messages":
[ { "en-US": "The system is busy. Try again
later. If the problem persists, search for the
error code on the support website or
product forums, or contact your service
provider, if available. (Error Code:
0x7d13002)" } ] } }”

917298 Data protection NAS_A or NAS_B and related user VDMs After recovery, reboot the primary SP.
failed to recover due to error occurs in the After the SP reboot, system NAS
system VDM NAS_A or NAS_B, as seen in servers will be recovered successfully,
the Unisphere CLI or UI. allowing replication sessions to be
After following the recommended resolution recovered.
steps in the health details, the NAS servers
are recovered and go into a ready state.
However, the replication sessions on these
system VDMs and related user VDMs will no
longer be visible.

17379 Hardware In some Unity XT 480/F, 680/F, and 880/F Press the NMI button at an angle.
model DPEs, the Non-maskable Interrupt
(NMI) (hard reset) button is misaligned.

UNITYD-31523 Import When using a "UNIX" access policy, if a Change the owner to the correct
domain user belongs to "domain admin" or user.
the "administrators" group, files created by
the user will use "administrators" as owner,
which is expected behavior for Windows.

If using an NFS client to list these files, the

file owner is the user.

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Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Solution
After migration, the owner of the files from
the CIFS client will be the "administrator",
and the owner of files from NFS client will be
"2151678452". This may cause some files
created by the CIFS client before migration
cut over to be inaccessible by the NFS client
after migration cutting over.

938977/ Import When creating a remote system for file Delete and recreate the remote
UNITYD-4327 import, when the SANCopy connection is system. After re-creating the remote
created and the remote system is verified system, the SANCopy host can be
prior to starting a block import, the SANCopy created successfully.
host is not created, so the user cannot
create a block import session.

969495 Import If a pool out-of-space event occurs on a 1. Always plan to have enough
destination Unity array after a file migration space on the destination pool
session cutover from VNX to Unity, it is before starting a migration.
possible that some folders and files are lost Extra buffer space may be
on the Unity array. Although the migration needed if there might be
session can resume and complete after continuous large I/O during the
expanding the destination pool, no warning migration.
or error message will occur mentioning that 2. If a pool out-of-space event
data may be missing. does occur after cutover, cancel
the migration session, and start
again by creating a new session.
UNITYD-65663 Notifications and alerts If you upgrade from Unity OE version 4.3 or Ignore the 301:30000 alert.
earlier to version 4.4, the reboot alert
301:30000 uses a lower-case parameter
(spa/spb), and the reboot finish alert
301:30001 uses an upper-case parameter
(SPA/SPB). This leads to parameter
mismatch, and the 301:30000 alert is not
deactivated automatically.

952772/ Notifications and alerts A misleading alert Ignore the erroneous alert.
UNITYD-5971 “Unable to detect Ethernet port or link
aggregation for the network interface N/A
configured on NAS server %1.”
displays during NAS server deletion, even
though it completes successfully.

999112 Notifications and alerts The health description for Ethernet port is Bring up the ethernet port and then
incorrect; it shows that this port was not in the health status and description will
used, but in fact it was used for some file be updated.
interfaces.

UNITYD-71322 Other After a primary storage process re-image Manually delete all files under
operation, the UDoctor package fails to /opt/UDoctor/udoctor_packa
install at the selected time. ge/unhandled and restart the
management server.

UNITYD-71940/ Security After enabling KMIP, if you upgrade to a later Run the service command
UNITYD-66425 release, disable KMIP, and then try to load svc_restart_service
the certificates, you see a "failure to upload restart MGMT.
the client certificate" error.

UNITYD- Serviceability When using Config Capture, you might see Ignore the data and errors in the
71262/UNITYD- more than one value for a RESTful class in restMetrics table of the Config
71259 the restMetrics table of the Config Capture Capture result and initiate another
results as well as duplicated primary key Config Capture.
errors for the restMetrics object.

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 Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Solution
908930 Storage - Block Even when snap auto delete is disabled on Use the CLI to increase the pool
the storage pool, the storage pool may still space low water mark in order to
show a degraded state indicating it could not bring the pool back to normal state.
reach low water mark. For example:
uemcli -u xxx -p xxx /
stor/config/pool –id pool_97 set -
snapPoolFullLWM 40
UNITYD-72579 Storage - File Typically, when you perform a planned 1. Use the MluCli command
failover for a VDM synchronous session, the "MluCli.exe ufsspacemgmtcontrol -
filesystem that belongs to the VDM is also srvc_cmd -ufsid <id> resume" to
failed over. Sometimes, however, some enable the filesystem expansion.
filesystems cannot failed over with the VDM 2. Perform another VDM failover to
sync session. In this situation, the filesystem activate the filesystem expansion.
synchronous session and the VDM
synchronous session direction are not the
same. After that, if you perform a planned
failover again on the VDM synchronous
session, the filesystem whose direction is not
the same as the VDM synchronous session
cannot expand in size.

128333021/ Storage - File After upgrading to Unity OE version 5.1.x, Change the "cifs
UNITYD-52094/ the audit log path and size are reset to the userDefinedLogFiles" parameter to 0
UNITYD-53457 defaults. and restart the VDM. Refer to
Knowledge Base article 000193985
for more information.
UNITYD-51284 Storage - File When creating many asynchronous Delete any failed replication sessions
replication sessions concurrently by using from the destination system, and
automatic scripts, the sessions may partially reconfigure them one at a time.
fail.

119078191 / Storage - File When adding a new interface to a NAS Either make a specific interface to be
UNITYD-48904/ server, if the preferred interface has an the preferred interface, or make sure
UNITYD-53251 "auto" setting, the preferred interface is not the DNS servers added with the new
switched to the newly added one if it has interface are active before adding it.
same gateway availability and number of
routes as the currently active preferred
interface.

20199488/ Storage - File During specific circumstances when a file None.

UNITYD-45132/ system becomes full and is made Read-Only,
UNITYD-53297 the file cannot be deleted as expected.
However, the return code from Unity system
does not adhere to the RFC. There is no loss
of functionality.

855767/ Storage - File When you customize a list of CIFS Shares Ignore the value isACEEnabled=false
UNITYD-1261 Access Control Entries (ACEs) by either in this case. When ACEs are properly
making a REST API call, editing the share set, they are always enabled, despite
permission using the Windows MMC this value in the REST API attribute.
console, or by using the SMI-S API, A REST API request for list of ACEs
isACEEnabled might erroneously indicate will return the correct list of custom
false. ACEs for the share, and those ACEs
will all apply.
Alternatively, force a reload of the
management model for the share by
changing the share description, or for
the whole system by restarting the
management software.

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Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Solution
942923/ Storage - File If you have set different user quotas on a After remapping users to their Unix
UNITYD-7663 non-multiprotocol SMB file system that you user counterpart, re-issue the specific
are changing to a multiprotocol file system, User Quota settings.
the Remapping File Owner process will not
preserve the specific user quotas you had
set previously. If the user quotas are all the
same or (have default value), this issue does
not occur.

959208/ Storage - File If an LDAP user is configured before Configure LDAP and reboot the SP
UNITYD-5257 Directory Services (LDAP) is configured, and Then, add the LDAP user (role) again.
a local user account with the same name This will be allowed even if a local user
exists, the array will report that the LDAP with the same account name exists.
user already exists, instead of 'not found in
the LDAP database'.

974999 Storage - File When opening or deleting a locked file from This issue will not happen on NFS
an FLR-enabled file system on a Windows client, and it just generates some
client, sometimes there are several additional additional log events, which can be
log events generated in the FLR activity log. seen by administrator. Ignore these
log events.

975192 Storage - File When automatic file locking is enabled on an Use the FLR Toolkit to determine
FLR-enabled file system, a file on an SMB whether the file is automatically
share can be locked automatically. However, locked instead of the SMB client.
the file mode property might not be updated
and will not indicate the file is read-only even
though it is protected.

UNITYD-60279 SupportAssist When upgrading from old releases to Unity No workaround.

OE version 5.3, the automatic conversion
from integrated ESRS with proxy to the SupportAssist needs to be configured
latest SupportAssist will fail if the Unity manually to restore the connection to
system is in a private LAN. In this Dell backend services.
configuration, Unity has no direct network
connection to Dell backend services (esrs3-
core.emc.com).

There is a post-upgrade alert, 14:38004b

(Migration from Integrated ESRS to
SupportAssist failed. Configure
SupportAssist manually.)

UNITYD-58751 SupportAssist If SupportAssist is disabled when there is an Contact your service provider to close
active remote session in progress, the active the active session.
remote session may remain active.

UNITYD-52201 System management When trying to create or expand a traditional Use one of the following options to fix
pool with the following conditions, the listed the issue:
drive count available for a tier might be 0 due
to an internal timeout error (>10mins): • Use the CLI to expand the
pool.
1. RAID5 with maximum capacity
option. • Use either Unisphere or the
CLI to create a dynamic pool
2. The disk group for this tier has that contains some of the
500+ free drives. drives in the large disk
group, reducing the free
drive count in the disk group
to be less than 500. Then

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 Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Solution
use Unisphere to expand the
original traditional pool.

896002 System management If a Unity system uses NTP for In Unisphere, navigate to another
synchronization, when the time is adjusted to page and then return to the metrics
an earlier time from the current time, real- page, or log out of Unisphere and log
time system metrics do not appear, and the in again.
system generates “Query ID not found
(0x7d1400c)" errors.

973979 System management When you create a file system named \"\', Do not name file system \"\".
the SMB share page in the GUI does not
display the proper description for the shares
associated with file system named \"\' and
the UEMCLI does not display the proper
values for the shares associated with file
system named \"\'.

998582/ Unisphere UI When there are many storage resources Reload the Unisphere UI, then choose
UNITYD-7835 configured on the array, (for example, 6000 a more specific keyword that matches
LUNs and 2000 file systems), filtering the fewer LUNs, or do not use keyword
LUNs using a keyword for the LUN name in filters on large configurations.
the Unisphere UI may take over five minutes,
and then show an error message if there are
multiple matches (1500+ matches).

921511/ Unisphere UI Unisphere returns the following message: Confirm that the Unisphere login
UNITYD-3397 “Your security session has expired. You will account in use is still active has
be redirected to the login page.” Storage Admin privileges. Be sure to
close the active browser session
before logging with another account.

946287/ Unisphere UI When logging into Unisphere as one user and Restart the browser to log in
UNITYD-4572 then trying to log in as another user without successfully.
restarting the browser, some login
information is cached by the browser and
this will result in a failure.

968227/ Unisphere UI In rare circumstances, when a user creates a Ignore the error if the newly created
UNITYD-5636 snapshot by using the Unisphere UI, an snapshot appears.
unexpected error may occur. However, the
actual snapshot creation completed
successfully. The newly created snapshot will
display immediately.
The unexpected error occurs because the
REST API failed to fetch the snapshot ID.

849914 Unisphere UI The Job Details page in Unisphere does not There is no workaround for this issue.
display the name of a LUN group after it
failed to be deleted.

907158 Unisphere UI After upgrading from a system running Unity Clear browser cookies to and refresh
OE 4.0 or 4.1, the Unisphere UI did not allow Unisphere.
the NAS server SP owner to be changed

995936 Unisphere UI Incorrect drive health information may 1. Identify the primary SP in
display in the Unisphere UI if switching a Unisphere under Service 
UNITYD-7474
SAS cable from an onboard SAS port to Service tasks.
backend SLIC port. FBE show these drives 2. Reboot the primary SP using
as “OK” while Unisphere shows these drives the “svc_shutdown -r” service
as faulted. command.
For example, if switching the SAS cable from
SAS port 0 to backend SLIC port 0, then

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Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Solution
DAE 0_0 becomes DAE 2_0, and the related
disks change from Disk 0_0_X to Disk
2_0_X . Unisphere will display these drives
as faulted.

895052 UnityVSA SSH is disabled after a single-Storage After performing a Unity OE upgrade,
Processor UnityVSA upgrade. re-enable SSH using Unisphere or the
Unisphere service command “svc_ssh
-e”.

945773 UnityVSA The following error displays on the UnityVSA: When upgrading the UnityVSA to
Unity 4.3 or deploying a new 4.3
“Error : <CPU of the physical server UnityVSA on an older server that does
hosting UnityVSA does not meet the CPU not support CPU instruction set
instruction set minimum requirement SSE4.2, migrate the VSA offline to
(SSE4.2 or greater) for upgrading to this another VMware ESXi server or
release or later.> Action: Migrate the cluster.
UnityVSA to a server with a CPU that If the upgrade fails on the ESXi cluster
supports SSE4.2 or greater, or deploy a and that cluster contains any servers
new UnityVSA on a CPU that supports that do not support CPU instruction
SSE4.2 or greater. Then retry the set SSE4.2, modify the Enhanced
upgrade.” vMotion Capability (EVC) settings
within the VMware cluster to disallow
vMotion from the newer servers that
support SSE4.2 to the older servers.

Remove the older servers from their

cluster. Power cycle the UnityVSA
and retry the upgrade.

933016 UnityVSA The system reports an alert that the network None.
heartbeat is questionable on the peer when
the local physical network cable is broken.

This occurs when:

1. UnityVSA SPA runs in the physical server

#1, UnityVSA SPB runs in the physical server
#2.

2. The physical network cable #1 connects

the uplink #1 of server #1 and the physical
switch.

3. The physical network cable #2 connects

the uplink #2 of server #2 and the physical
switch.

4. The physical network cable #3 connects

the uplink #1 of server #1 and the physical
switch.

5. The physical network cable #4 connects

the uplink #2 of server #2 and the physical
switch.

6. When one of the physical network cables

#1 or #2 is broken or pulled out, the system
reports the alert. But if you pull out cable #1,
the alert would be reported on SPB. If you
pull out the cable #2, the alert would be
reported on SPA.

7. When one of the physical network cables

#3 or #4 is broken or pulled out, the system
would report alert. But if you pull out cable

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 Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Solution
#3, the alert would be reported on SPB. If
you pull out the cable #4, the alert would be
reported on SPA.

This happens because the UnityVSA vNIC #1

is connected to the port group #1 and NIC
#2 to the port group #2. Also, by the
VMware teaming function, port group #1 has
been bound to uplink #1 and port group #2 to
uplink #2. It is expected that after pulling out
cable #1 (the physical uplink #1 is down), the
traffic going through NIC #1, port group #1,
uplink #1 should be cut off. However,
because of a VMware limitation, the teaming
only controls the egress, but not the ingress.
The traffic sent from NIC #1 is truly cut off,
but the traffic from the peer's port group #1
still comes through the physical uplink #2
and is routed to the port group #1.

801368/ UnityVSA The storage system restarts unexpectedly It is recommended that user storage
802226 with a monitor timeout or software be on a separate data store than the
watchdog timeout. This occurs when the system data store where UnityVSA is
system and user data share the same deployed.
datastores (physical disks) and the system is
overloaded with aggressive I/O workloads. If that is not possible, ensure that
there are no more than four virtual
For example, a system can become disks on the system data store. If user
overloaded when the workload includes data is allocated on the system data
heavy sequential write block I/O mixed with store, it can be migrated to a different
random file read and write I/O. data store. See the vSphere
documentation for details. For
UnityVSA deployment considerations,
see the UnityVSA Installation Guide.

809371 UnityVSA When configuring a NAS server for Choose SP A when replicating to a
replication from a Unity system to a single-SP UnityVSA.
UnityVSA system, the user can choose a
storage processor on the destination,
although a single-SP UnityVSA has only one
storage processor (SP A). Choosing SP B
and continuing to create the session results
in an error.

UNITYD-44726 Virtualization If a VMware traditional datastore is extended Delete the VMware datastore and
which does not have any host access, then recreate it. A datastore that has never
host access cannot be added later. had any host access is supposed to be
a clean datastore with no data.

940223 / Virtualization A VM migration (using vMotion) to or from Manually restart the vMotion
945505 / NFS3-NFS4 datastore sporadically fails when migration when the SP is back online.
UNITYD-4468 an SP is rebooted during migration.

811020 Virtualization When there are no datastores enabled for Manually configure iSCSI target
access to a target ESXi host during discovery of the storage systems
replication, the storage system iSCSI targets iSCSI addresses on the ESXi hosts.
are not registered on the target ESXi server.
When the Storage Replication Adapter
(SRA) requests that the storage system
enable Snaps-Only access to the target ESXi
server, the operation succeeds, but rescan
does not discover the snapshots.

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 Issue ID Functional area Description Workaround/Solution
987324 Virtualization With multiple VM clones from the same To work around the issue in ESXi 5.0
source VM, part of clone could fail. or later, increase the number of times
vCenter Server reports events similar to: to retry opening the disk:
Unable to access file xxx.vmdk since it is
1. Log in to the ESXi host with root
locked. credentials.
2. Open the /etc/vmware/config file
using a text editor.
3. Add this line to the end of the file:
diskLib.openRetries=xx
[Where xx depends on the number
of virtual machines being deployed
in the vApp. VMware recommends
a value between 20 and 50.]
4. Save and close the file.
5. Reboot the host for the changes
to take effect.

988933 Virtualization When using Dell Virtual Storage Integrator The issue is fixed in VSI 8.1. Refer to
(VSI), VMware datastore creation fails on the following Knowledgebase articles
Unity All Flash and UnityVSA systems. for details:
• UnityVSA: KB# 163429
• Unity All Flash: KB# 36884
989789 Virtualization When a VM migration in VMware vSphere is Do not perform a synchronous
in progress, a planned failover of the replication planned failover on Unity
underlying synchronous replication file while migrating a VM on VMware
system on Unity at the same time may cause vSphere at the same time. If the error
VM migration failure on vSphere. occurs, wait until planned failover
completes and retry the VM migration
in VMware vSphere.

Limitations
Learn about limitations in Unity.

Table 4. Limitations in product version

Limitation First affected Limitation lifted
release
In a replication cascading topology from an asynchronous replication 5.2.0.0.5.173 Still in effect.
session to a synchronous replication session, the synchronous
replication destination data integration is not integrated.

Moving drives between Unity x80/F models and non-x80/F models is 5.1.0.0.5.394 Still in effect.
not supported. This ensures that the drives are qualified and
configured for the correct platform and will provide optimal
performance and longevity.

After a failover, the UNIX and Windows names may not display 5.1.0.0.5.394 Still in effect.
immediately and could take up to 24 hours to display. You can
manually refresh the username for a UID or wait until the next system
refresh to see the correct names.

A large thick file system (TB level) takes time to provision, even after All versions Still in effect.
the operation returns a success message in Unisphere. While the
provisioning operation is in progress, many operations, such as
asynchronous replication creation, cannot be run and will fail due to
timing out. Operating on a newly-created thick file system after a

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release
certain amount of time is recommended. Run a query to check the
status of the operation.

When replicating VMware VMFS datastores, they are treated like All versions Still in effect.
Consistency Groups in that they are subject to the same replication
limits as CGs (for example, the maximum number of replication
sessions for CGs is 64, which also applies to VMFS datastores).

Using VSI 7.4 or VSI 8.0 to create a VMFS Datastore on a Unity all All versions Still in effect.
Flash array or UnityVSA will fail. It is recommended to always
provision VMFS datastores and vVols through the Unity Unisphere UI
or CLI.

VMware vSphere 6.5 is not supported on the UnityVSA 4.1.x. 4.1.0.8940590 4.2.0.9392909

When setting I/O limit policies, observe the following restrictions: 4.0.0.7329527 Still in effect.

• For a shared KBPS I/O limit policy, set the limit to be at least
2048 KBPS.

• For a non-shared KBPS I/O limit policy, set the limit to be at

least 1024 KBPS.

• The IOPS I/O limit policy's minimum is 100 IOPS.

The current Unity vVol implementation has not yet been fully certified 4.0.0.7329527 Still in effect.
for use with VMware Horizon View. Although it may work, it is
recommended that you do not deploy VDI desktops using Unity vVol
datastores. Support and issue resolution will not be available for this
integration.

Environment and system requirements

In order for your Unity Family system to function properly, ensure that your environment meets these minimal requirements.

Support matrix
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Refer to the Unity Support Matrix on the support website for compatibility and interoperability information.

Screen size
35B

The minimum resolution for using the Unisphere GUI is 1024 x 768 pixels. Smaller screens may be able to display the GUI in
full screen mode.

SupportAssist and DHCP

36B

Do not use dynamic IP addresses (DHCP) for any components of the Secure Connect Gateway servers or managed devices
unless they are configured with the FQDN of the Secure Connect Gateway server.

An IP address is not needed for a SupportAssist configuration with a connection type of direct connect. If you use
DHCP to assign IP addresses to any SupportAssist components (Secure Connect Gateway servers or managed devices),
they must have static IP addresses. Leases for the IP addresses that those devices use cannot be set to expire. It is
recommended that you assign static IP addresses to those devices you plan to have managed by SupportAssist. For a
SupportAssist configuration with a connection type of connect through a gateway, FQDNs can be configured instead of IP
addresses.

Software media, organization, and files

Learn about software media, organization, and files required for the Unity Family.

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Required update
37B

It is recommended that you keep your Unity Family system up to date by upgrading to the latest software version at your
earliest opportunity.

Problems downloading this release

38B

If you have difficulty downloading this release using Microsoft Internet Explorer version 7, try using a newer version of
Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox version 4 or greater.

Obtain and install product licenses

Before you begin:

• Register your product. This provides you instant access to easy-to-use tools to plan, install, maintain, and service
your product. It also entitles you to software updates, installation tools, and more.

• Ensure that you have the following:

 License authorization code (LAC)—The LAC is sent by email from Dell.
 The system serial number (physical systems) or the system UUID (virtual systems).
Before you can create storage, you must install product and feature licenses on your system.

Initial Configuration
1. On the Unisphere Licenses page of the Initial Configuration wizard, select Get License Online.
2. Follow the instructions on the licensing website and download the license file locally.
Note: Do not change the name of the license file.
3. Select Install License and use Chose File to browse to the license file you downloaded locally.
4. Select Open.
The Results page will confirm the license was successfully installed.

Obtaining and installing additional licenses after initial configuration

1. In Unisphere, select the Settings icon, and then select Software and Licenses > License Information.
2. Select a product license from the list to display a description of that license.
3. To obtain a product license, select Get License Online.
a. Use the link provided in the LAC email or access the product page on the support website, and download
the license file locally.
Note: Do not change the name of the license file.
b. Transfer the license file to a computer that has access to the storage system, or connect the computer you
used to obtain the license file to the same subnet of the storage system.
4. To upload a product license, select Install License.
a. Review the Software License and Maintenance Agreement and select Accept license agreement.
b. Locate the license file, select it, and select Open to install the license file on the storage system.

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The license file is installed on the storage system.
For sites with restricted internet access, or for more information on obtaining your license, go to the Unity Info Hub at
dell.com/unitydocs.

Unique identifier for UnityVSA

For UnityVSA, use the License Activation Key instead of the serial number or UUID as the unique identifier for setting up
EMC Secure Remote Services (ESRS) and for obtaining customer support (professional editions).

Installing and enabling language packs

To install a language pack:
1. Review the considerations included in the Software Media, Organization, and Files section.
2. In Unisphere, select the Settings icon, and then select Software and Licenses > Language Packs.
3. Select Obtain Language Pack Online and enter your Support credentials when prompted.
4. Download the appropriate language pack file to your local system.
5. Return to Unisphere and select Install Language Pack to launch the Install Language Pack wizard.
6. Select Choose File and then select the language pack you want to upload.
7. Select Next to begin the installation of the language pack onto your system.
8. Select Finish.
9. Once language package installation completes, view the results and close.
To enable a language pack on your system:
1. In Unisphere, select the My Account icon and select Preferences.
2. Select the preferred language from the Language list.
3. Select OK.

Firmware
Drive firmware bundle version 21 is included in this software OE bundle. Once the software OE installation has completed, a
prompt appears if updates are available. However, it is recommended to upgrade to the latest drive firmware prior to a
software upgrade to help mitigate any non-disruptive upgrade issues. For a list of all drive firmware and their respective
drives, refer to Knowledge Base article 000021322 (previously article 000490700).
Online disk firmware updates (ODFU) occur automatically to update the drive firmware after you update to OE version 5.4.
The system runs a preupgrade health check before upgrading the drive firmware. In addition, the system automatically dials
home if a firmware upgrade failure occurs.
You can manually enable or disable ODFU using the “svc_change_hw_config” service command or use that command to see
the current status of the feature.
The following firmware variants are included with this release:

• If a lower revision is installed, the firmware is automatically upgraded to the revision contained in this version.

• If a higher revision is running, the firmware is not downgraded to the revision contained in this version.
Note: The common data environment (CDE) for Unity OE 5.4 is 2.38.11, the same as the CDE for Unity OE 5.3.

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 Enclosure Type Firmware
3U, 15-drive DAE 2.38.11

2U, 25-drive DAE 2.38.11

3U, 80-drive DAE 2.38.11

DPE expander 2.38.11

Platform Type BIOS BMC Post

Firmware
2U, 25-drive DPE 60.04 25.00 34.60

2U, 12-drive DPE 60.04 25.00 34.60

2U, 25-drive DPE 66.82 25.23 52.74

Unity XT 480/F,
680/F, and 880/F

Documentation
Unity Family Info Hubs
Additional relevant documentation can be obtained from the Unity Family Info Hub. Visit the Info Hub for your Unity Family
product to access helpful utilities, videos, and other guides and https://www.dell.com/unitydocs.

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A valid support contract and account might be required to access all the available information about a specific Dell
Technologies product or service.

Advisories
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For information on an individual technical or security advisory, go to the Online Support website and search by using the DSA
number or “Dell Security Advisories” as the keyword.
You can also select an option to receive alerts for Dell Technical Advisories (DTAs) and Dell Security Advisories (DSAs) to
stay informed of critical issues and prevent potential impact to your environment. Go to your account settings and
preferences in Online Support, type the name of an individual product, click to select it from the list, and then click Add Alert.
For the individual product or All Dell Products, enable the DTA’s and/or DSA’s toggle.

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