I’m in the process right now of upgrading our ECC installation from UB12 to UB14. I’ll be making another post soon with the steps I took to complete the upgrade. Below is a list of all the new features in UB14.
- Added support for Oracle 11g.
- Added Oracle 64-bit support in ControlCenter for 64-bit operating systems.
- Added support for VMAX 1.5 and CKD devices.
- Added support for Solutions Enabler 7.5.
- Added support to discover and display new Federated Tiered Storage (FTS).
- Added support for EMC CentraStar® 4.2.2.
- Added support for Java 1.7 update 7.
- Added support for HDS WLA by using JRE 1.7.
- Added support for the availability of pool compression information in STS query builder while generating custom reports.
- Added support for Mixed RAID types in VNX storage pool.
- Added a new memory check during installation to verify if 4GB of RAM is available to install/upgrade UB14 in an all-in-one setup.
- Added a new memory check during installation to verify if 3GB of RAM is available to install/upgrade UB14 in a distributed setup.
- Added a new disk space check during installation to verify if minimum disk space is available for UB14 upgrade in both all-in-one and distributed setups and notify users if the requirement is not met.
- Added support to export/import database to/from an external drive.
- Added new free disk space availability alert.
- Removed support for Symmetrix, SDM, and CLARiiON agents on HP-UX and AIX operating systems.
- EMC Ionix ControlCenter 6.1 Update Bundle 14 Read Me 3
- Removed support for Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0.
- Added support to discover or rediscover Managed Objects through NAS, CLARiiON, Symmetrix, and Host Agents using DefaultHiddenDCP feature.
- Added support to change the fully qualified domain name of non-infrastructure hosts or platforms.
- Added support to remove virtual machines marked as Deleted on the console automatically using a scheduled job that runs every day.
- Added support to reserve connections for WLA communications.
- Added support to optimize the mechanism of sending MOLIST for Brocade switches.
- Added support to optimize performance statistics collection for WLA.
- Added support to optimize provider calls for switch and fabric discovery.
- Added support to optimize logging and error handling in agent.
- Added support to start processing opcode only after the agent INITX initialization.
- Added virtual provisioning support for CLARiiON FLARE 28.
- Added support to edit MessageReplyTimeout value in Gateway agent ini file.
- Improved error messages in console for action.
- Improved Store log to simplify root cause determination of issues.
- Reduced Integration Gateway agent crashes.
