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Hotfixes

This section describes all of the available hotfixes for this release. Make sure that your grid is updated with the mandatory hotfixes to ensure a properly working grid. If a hotfix requires a grid reboot it will be marked as such.

Mandatory Hotfixes

• hf9467 : Resolves both an issue where 'comp start' may result in a controller crash and OpenSSL security vulnerabilities.
• hf9466 : Resolves the metering server collecting and reporting data to the configured metering server. This hotfix modifies files on the grid controller and removes all metering log files currently residing on the grid controller.
• hf9184: Resolves a number of Xen security vulnerabilities.
• hf8368: Resolves an issue where regular users with a valid login can access a CA AppLogic® grid and elevate their permissions.
• hf8975: Resolves several device support, security and stability issues (for new grids).
• hf7596: Resolves an issue in CA AppLogic® 3.5.19 where servers with very large data volumes can fail on reboot or upgrade due to a filesystem check running the server out of memory (SCR 7596).
• hf8096: Resolves the following: SCR 8096: Product: Xen: HVM guest freezes during heavy I/O. Also resolves Xen Security Advisories.
• hf8114: Resolves the following: SCR 8114 - Product: lost access to the grid controller while managing a windows volume and copying a file to it from the impex volume. SCR 7673 - Xen netback driver crashes when receiving large packets.
• hf7791: Upgrades the HP Smart Array Controller driver hpsa to the latest version 3.1.0-7.
• hf7694: Resolves several device support, security and stability issues (for existing grids).

Recommended Hotfixes

• hf8751: Resolves performance issues with relatively new CPUs that support Extended Page Tables (EPT).

Optional Hotfixes

• hf9414: Fixes a guest VM network shutdown that can also be accompanied by a dom0 kernel crash that occurs with some network cards that support TCP segmentation offload.
• hf9259: Resolves an issue where grid users cannot access the web shell from the CA AppLogic UI when using Google Chrome web browser (version 28 and above).
• hf9042: Resolves an issue in CA AppLogic® 3.5.19 and 3.7.14 where applications containing a swap volume cannot be migrated (SCR 9042).
• hf8315: Resolves SCR 8315 - Product: SAN ESX grid upgrade failure to CA AppLogic® 3.7.
• hf7781: Resolves SCR 7781 - heartbeat logs fill filesystem on dom0 (which may cause a server to fail to boot).
• hf7906: Resolves an issue where applications open slowly (~2 minutes) in the infrastructure editor when opened by a user who is a member of a large number of groups (SCR 7906).
• e7748: Provides an enhancement to CA AppLogic® where it automatically restarts an appliance when CA AppLogic® loses connection to the VM agent running within the appliance.
• hf7720: Resolves an issue where importing a class/catalog from a URL does not work (SCR 7720).
• e7330: Resolves an issue where migrating applications is slow between grids that are geographically separated (SCR 7330).

Language Pack Hotfixes (Internationalization for the CA AppLogic® grid)

• lp4631: Japanese
• lp4632: French
• lp4633: Chinese
• lp4634: Spanish
• lp4635: German
• lp5501: Italian

Obsolete Hotfixes

These hotfixes are now obsolete with the release of df7588 and hf7694 and should not be used:

• df7588: Resolves several device support, security and stability issues (for new grid installations).
• hf8017: Resolves Xen Security Advisories (XSAs) 6 - 31.
• hf8003: Resolves SCR 7673 - Xen netback driver crashes when receiving large packets.
• hf7759: Resolves Xen Security Advisory XSA-25, where an Out-of-memory error can occur due to a malicious kernel/ramdisk.
• hf7611: Resolves Xen Security Advisories.
• hf6169: Fixes an issue where Windows appliances fail to start after their hostname has been changed.
• hf7516: Fixes an issue where the link state for an Emulex 10G NIC is wrongly reported as unknown or down due to the bug in the Emulex NIC driver be2net.

Notes:

• You can now control the Native Command Queuing (NCQ) for hard disks by using the grid set command (grid set disk_ncq_enable). This is used for hard disks where NCQ must be turned off due to possible stability issues. In a future release, you will also be able to also control other settings such as bandwidth oversubscription.
• You can now control the volume repair speed using the grid set command (grid set vol_repair_speed).