25 Revision History

The revision history describes the changes that were implemented in the document. The changes are listed by revision, starting with the most current publication.


Revision	Date	Description
M	08/2025	The following is a summary of changes in revision M of this document: Removed ESXi7 support from Installing on ESXi 8.x Added a note about performing manual space consolidation after deleting a middle logical device when the controllers do not support automatic space consolidation in Deleting an Array or Logical Drive Updated Deleting an Array or Logical Drive
L	03/2025	The following is a summary of changes in revision L of this document: Updated Display Properties of a Controller, Array, Logical Device, and a Physical Device
K	11/2024	The following is a summary of changes in revision K of this document: Added Changing the Maximum PHY Link Rate Settings Added Changing the Maximum PCIe Data Rate Settings Added Working with Connectors Updated Display Properties of a Controller, Array, Logical Device, and a Physical Device
J	05/2024	The following is a summary of changes in revision J of this document: Added Delete Host from maxView Plugin for vSphere7 HTML Client topic Added Deleting Host from maxView Plugin for vSphere 8 HTML Client Updated Display Properties of a Controller, Array, Logical Device, and a Physical Device Updated Hot Spare Limitations
H	01/2024	The following is a summary of changes in revision H of this document: Added a Note stating that the duplicate logical device names are not allowed. Added a Note that the Spin down Spares Policy is supported only in RAID and Mixed Mode in Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Storage Space Removed the Monitor and Performance Delay property from Table 23-1 and Optimizing Controller Performance Updated the images for controller firmware upgrade depending on the options that are displayed for respective controllers based on the support for flashing active and backup image in Updating the Controller Firmware Added Sending Events to the Windows Action Center
G	10/2023	The following is a summary of changes in revision G of this document: Added Spindown Spares Policy details in Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Storage Space and Display Properties of a Controller, Array, Logical Device, and a Physical Device Added a warning for Software handling around 'FW rollback prevention' feature set in Updating the Controller Firmware Added SMART data details for NVMe drives in Viewing SMART Statistics Added UBM Controller ID, firmware version properties of Summary tab of Backplane in Viewing Component Status in the Storage Dashboard Updated screenshots for UBM Backplane Firmware in Updating the UBM Backplane Firmware
F	06/2023	The following is a summary of changes in revision F of this document: Added Working with Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM) Added Installing the maxView Plugin for vSphere 8 HTML5 Client Added Updating the UBM Backplane Firmware Added support for Remote key management mode in Working with Self Encrypting Drive (SED) Based Encryption Added CPLD revision and Platform image revision in Display Properties of a Controller, Array, Logical Device, and a Physical Device chapter Added Supercap temperature and voltage information in Display Properties of a Controller, Array, Logical Device, and a Physical Device chapter
E	01/2023	The following is a summary of changes in revision E of this document: Added Desktop maxView Web Application support Added MPS and MRRS configuration support Added Multi Actuator drive support Added option to prevent halting boot process on UEFI driver health Deprecated Minimum Power mode support
D	10/2022	The following is a summary of changes in revision D of this document: Updated Installing on VMware 7.x and ESXi 8.x section with VMware (ESXi 8) support Updated The Ribbon section with Classic and Simplified Ribbon View support Added Remote Key Management Mode support Added Changing the Persistent Event Log Policy Setting topic Added Storage Inventory support Removed Using the maxView Plugin for VMware vSphere Web Client chapter Added Using the maxView Plugin for VMware vSphere 8 HTML5 chapter Updated Display Properties of a Controller, Array, Logical Device, and a Physical Device chapter with the following changes: Added Persistent Event Log Policy Added Volatile Key and Volatile Key with Backup Added Consistency Check Status, Last Consistency Check Completion Time and Last Consistency Check Duration
C	06/2022	The following is a summary of changes in revision C of this document: Added Working with Self Encrypting Drive (SED) Based Encryption Updated Controller Support for SED
B	02/2022	The following is a summary of changes in revision B of this document: Added Event Log and Task Log details in Checking System Status from the Main Window Added "Recover Cache Module" option in Enabling Cache Optimizations
A	10/2021	The following is a summary of changes in revision A of this document: The document was updated to latest Microchip template. The document number was changed from PMC-2153109 to DS00004219A. Added section Installing on VMware 7.x and Uninstalling from VMware 7.x.