Release Notes

EMC Data Domain Management Center

Version 1.4.5.2

Release Notes
302-002-108
REV 05
June 2016
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Revision history......................................................................................................... 2
New features of Data Domain Management Center 1.4............................................... 2
Environment and system requirements of DDMC 1.4.................................................. 3
Security updates in DDMC 1.4.................................................................................... 4
Fixed issues in DDMC 1.4........................................................................................... 5
Known issues and limitations in DDMC 1.4................................................................ 6
Upgrading to DDMC 1.4..............................................................................................8
Open source software in DDMC 1.4............................................................................ 8

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Revision history
The following table presents the revision history of this document.
Table 1 Revision history

Revision

Date

Description

05

May 2016

Published for the Data Domain Management Center

1.4.5 release.

04

March 2016

Streamlined list of fixed bugs, and updated the

Known issues and limitations section to account for
bug fixes.

03

February 2016

Released version 1.4.0.2 with miscellaneous bug

fixes.

02

January 2016

Updated the Known issues and limitations section.

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 1.4.5 release includes the following new functionality:
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High availability (HA) support: DDMC recognizes DD HA devices, and shows DD HA

configuration details and failover status.

Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) support: DDMC can manage physical Data
Domain systems or virtual data protection appliances.

DDMC settings: The Settings page was re-designed to provide an improved user
experience. There is also new functionality to re-assign or delete report templates
when the username that owns them is deleted.

The DDMC 1.4 release includes the following new functionality:

Physical Capacity Measurement (PCM)
Scheduling PCM:
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Creating, reading, updating, and deleting of PCM schedules

Assigning of PCM schedules

Starting one-time measurements

Monitoring measurement tasks

Showing and reporting of PCM details:

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Physical space used

Compression

Widgets

Reports

Enhanced Secure Multitenancy features

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Managing a Tenant Object

Managing fully, and viewing, mutually exclusive data access users

Assigning and unassigning of vDisk and VTL pools

Creating, reading, updating, and deleting of DD Boost hard stream limits

Assigning and unassigning management IP addresses

Assigning security mode

Capacity Projections
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Improved graphics and capabilities

Selection of specific ranges

Projections based on subset of data

Enhanced system updates and upgrades, ConnectEMC

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Add system process simplified and streamlined

DD system upgrade process simplified and clarified

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:
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EMC Data Domain Management Center Initial Configuration Guide

EMC Data Domain Management Center User Guide

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:
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VMware ESXi 5.1

VMware ESXi 5.5

VMware ESXi 6.0

Supported browsers
Data Domain Management Center 1.4 supports the following browsers:
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Apple OS X Mozilla Firefox 30 and higher, Google Chrome

Microsoft Windows Microsoft Internet Explorer 9, 10, and 11; Mozilla Firefox 30 and
higher; Google Chrome
Environment and system requirements of DDMC 1.4

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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.
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:
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Adobe Flash 9+

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:
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CVE-2015-0209

CVE-2015-0286

CVE-2015-0287

CVE-2015-0288

CVE-2015-0289

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 databases search utility
at http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/search.

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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.X

The following fixes were made in the DDMC version 1.4.X family.
Fixed in version 1.4.5.2-535679
The following fixes were made in version 1.4.5.2-535679.
Table 2 Fixed in version 1.4.5.2-535679

Bug #

Description

139557

When a local user is deleted, reports owned by that user can be transferred to the
default administrator account to continue running.

145732

DDMC no longer experiences SQL errors on DDMC instances that were upgraded to
1.4.5.2 after previously being upgraded to 1.3.0.2.

146296

DDMC no longer creates a record of a Data Domain system that cannot be deleted if
the task to add a system is killed without being cancelled.

146673

DDMC instances will no longer reboot unexpectedly due to an error in the virtual
SCSI adapter.

147082

Capacity Utilization reports no longer incorrectly display space usage as zero.

148733

Information is no longer missing from DDMC logs due to split entities in the DDMC
database.

151927

On systems with high memory consumption, DDMC no longer suffers a memory

corruption due to a workflow being deleted from memory before it completes.

156211

DDMC 1.4.X now correctly collect and display CPU statistics.

159726

DDMC no longer crashes due to bad information in the DDMC database after an SMS
core dump.

162703

DDMC no longer crashes because of null values in the DDMC database.

163441

When a report is renamed and saved, it now correctly displays as scheduled.

163463

DDMC system location information can now be updated to include special

characters from the GUI.

163927

The Settings > Network > Routes dialog no longer displays an error when no
default gateways are provided.

163952

Replication topologies now display correctly in Data Domain System Manager when
it is launched from DDMC.

163965

Projected capacity reports now display correctly from the Capacity > Projected
dialog.

164108

Users can now navigate away from the Network > DNS dialog when no domain
name is specified.

Fixed issues in DDMC 1.4

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Fixed in version 1.4.0.2-521429

The following fixes were made in version 1.4.0.2- 521429.
Table 3 Fixed in version 1.4.0.2- 521429

Bug #

Description

130494

Users upgrading from DDMC 1.1 are now able to see their managed systems in the
DDMC web interface.

153456

Users will continue to be able to add Active Directory groups to DDMC after
upgrading from DDMC 1.3 to DDMC 1.4.

154203

DDMC 1.4 now correctly reports space usage for /ddr/var.

Fixed in version 1.4.0.1-514045.

The following fixes were made in version 1.4.0.1-514045.
Table 4 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.

Known issues and limitations in DDMC 1.4

DDMC 1.4.5 does not support the ability to perform DD OS upgrades on systems in an
HA pair.

DDMC may incorrectly report an alert that a DD OS upgrade is in progress after a

DDMC upgrade was run and completed.

When logging into an HA pair from DDMC, one node may report a lockout while the
other node disregards the login attempt.

Navigating to another tab and back after initiating a failover in an HA pair may result
in the banner on the HA tab displaying that the system is failing over to the incorrect
node. This does not impact the failover process, and the display will correct itself
after several minutes.

Physical Capacity Management schedules may fail with the error There was an
exception retrieving data.Please view your log files when
attempting to view the schedule for a system running DD OS 5.7 with Extended
Retention.

Launching Data Domain System Manager may fail with the error Invalid user
"<username>" for a system running DD OS 5.7 with Extended Retention.

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

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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.
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Report generation fails when the max report limit of 500 is reached.

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.

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.

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.

After configuring Windows authentication, enable CIFS authentication from the DD

Management Center command line by using the following command:
adminaccess authentication add cifs

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.

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.

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 GUID-96579778-4093-4A2C-95B2-65DD4773D1D2.

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.

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.)

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.

Known issues and limitations in DDMC 1.4

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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.
DDMC 1.4.5 only supports the large configuration from previous DDMC releases. When
upgrading to DDMC 1.4.5 from a small or medium deployment of a previous version,
power off the DDMC virtual machine and increase the system resources to the required
levels before performing the upgrade.
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.

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.
Direct requests in writing to:
EMC Legal
Attention: Open Source Program Office
176 South Street
Hopkinton, MA 01748

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