Novell PlateSpin Recon 3.7.4 Release Notes

April 2012

1.0 Overview

The information in this Release Notes document pertains to Novell PlateSpin Recon 3.7.4.

For instructions on downloading and upgrading to PlateSpin Recon 3.7.4, see Upgrading to PlateSpin Recon 3.7.4 in the Novell PlateSpin Recon 3.7.4 Getting Started Guide.

For administrative tasks, see the Novell Platespin Recon 3.7.4 User Guide.

This product contains undocumented utilities that Novell Support might use to diagnose or correct problems.

2.0 New Features in This Release

PlateSpin Recon 3.7.4 includes the following new features and enhancements:

3.0 Product Issues

3.1 Issues Resolved by PlateSpin Recon 3.7.4

The following issues that were discovered in previous releases of PlateSpin Recon have been resolved in this release:

Unable to unpin workloads during the creation of consolidation scenarios

Issue: During the creation of consolidation scenarios, the workloads are not unpinned even if you have deselected the Pinned Workloads option.

Fix: You can now unpin workloads while creating the consolidation scenarios.

inventory of the host machine fails if duplicate SMBIOS UUID is encountered

Issue: During the inventory of a host machine, if a duplicate SMBIOS UUID is encountered, the inventory fails.

Fix: If a duplicate SMBIOS UUID is encountered during the inventory of a host machine, the inventory continues by skipping the VM that has duplicate SMBIOS UUID and logs a warning message.

3.2 Continuing Issues in PlateSpin Recon 3.7.4

Some of the issues that were discovered in the original shipping version of PlateSpin Recon 3.7, PlateSpin Recon 3.7.1, and PlateSpin Recon 3.7.2 have not yet been resolved. For continuing issues, review the following:

3.3 Known Issues in PlateSpin Recon 3.7.4

There are no known issues in PlateSpin Recon 3.7.4 at the time of the release.