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Veritas Access 7.3 Release Notes
Last Published:
2019-04-04
Product(s):
Access (7.3)
Platform: Linux
- Overview of Veritas Access
- About this release
- Important release information
- Changes in this release
- Changes to the GUI
- Additional cloud providers
- Scale-out file system enhancements
- Installer enhancements
- Multi-protocol support for NFS with S3
- Support for kernel-based NFS version 4
- Managing application I/O workloads using maximum IOPS settings
- Veritas Access sync replication
- WORM storage for Enterprise Vault archiving
- Creation of Partition Secure Notification (PSN) file for Enterprise Vault archiving
- Changing firewall settings
- Setting retention in files
- Not supported in this release
- Technical preview features
- Fixed issues
- Software limitations
- Limitations on using shared LUNs
- Flexible Storage Sharing limitations
- Limitations related to installation and upgrade
- Limitations in the Backup mode
- Veritas Access IPv6 limitations
- FTP create_homedirs limitation
- Samba ACL performance-related issues
- Veritas Access language support
- Limitations on using InfiniBand NICs in the Veritas Access cluster
- Limitation on using Veritas Access in a virtual machine environment
- NFS-Ganesha limitations
- Kernel-based NFS v4 limitations
- File system limitation
- Veritas Access S3 server limitation
- LTR limitations
- Known issues
- Veritas Access known issues
- AWS issues
- Backup issues
- CIFS issues
- Cannot enable the quota on a file system that is appended or added to the list of homedir (3853674)
- Deleting a CIFS share resets the default owner and group permissions for other CIFS shares on the same file system (3824576, 3836861)
- Default CIFS share has owner other than root (IA-4771)
- Listing of CIFS shares created on a Veritas Access cluster fails on Windows server or client
- Deduplication issues
- Enterprise Vault Attach known issues
- FTP issues
- GUI issues
- When both volume-level and file system replication links are set up in Veritas Access 7.3, provisioning of storage using High Availability and Data Protection policies does not work (IA-7646)
- When a new node is added or when a new cluster is installed and configured, the GUI may not start on the console node after a failover
- When an earlier version of the Veritas Access cluster is upgraded, the GUI shows stale and incomplete data (IA-7127)
- Installation and configuration issues
- After you restart a node that uses RDMA LLT, LLT does not work, or the gabconifg - a command shows the jeopardy state (IA-1796)
- Running individual Veritas Access scripts may return inconsistent return codes (3796864)
- Configuring Veritas Access with the installer fails when the SSH connection is lost (3794964)
- Excluding PCIs from the configuration fails when you configure Veritas Access using a response file (3686704)
- Installer does not list the initialized disks immediately after initializing the disks during I/O fencing configuration (3659716)
- If the same driver node is used for two installations at the same time, then the second installation shows the status of progress of the first installation (IA-3446)
- If the same driver node is used for two or more installations at the same time, then the first installation session is terminated (IA-3436)
- If you run the Cluster> show command when a slave node is in the restart, shutdown, or crash state, the slave node throws an exception (IA-900)
- If duplicate PCI IDs are added for the PCI exclusion, the Cluster> add node name command fails (IA-1850)
- If installing using a response file is started from the cluster node, then the installation session gets terminated after the configuring NICs section (IA-3570)
- After finishing system verification checks, the installer displays a warning message about missing third-party RPMs (IA-3611)
- Installer appears to hang when you use the installaccess command to install and configure the product from a node of the cluster (IA-5300)
- Phantomgroup for the VLAN device does not come online if you create another VLAN device from CLISH after cluster configuration is done (IA-6671)
- Rolling upgrade fails to bring the cfsmount resources online when you perform an upgrade from 7.2.1 version (IA-7388)
- Rolling upgrade is not allowed if the scale-out file system is online and being used by the NFS or S3 server
- Veritas Access fails to install if LDAP or the autofs home directories are preconfigured on the system
- Networking issues
- CVM service group goes into faulted state unexpectedly (3793413)
- In a mixed IPv4 and IPv6 VIP network setup, the IP balancing does not consider IP type (3616561)
- The netgroup search does not continue to search in NIS if the entry is not found in LDAP (3559219)
- VIP and PIP hosted on an interface that is not the current IPv6 default gateway interface are not reachable outside the current IPv6 subnet (3596284)
- NFS issues
- Slow performance with Solaris 10 clients with NFS-Ganesha version 4 (IA-1302)
- Random-write performance drop of NFS-Ganesha with Linux clients (IA-1304)
- Latest directory content of server is not visible to the client if time is not synchronized across the nodes (IA-1002)
- NFS> share show may list the shares as faulted for some time if you restart the cluster node (IA-1838)
- NFS-Ganesha shares faults after the NFS configuration is imported(IA-849)
- NFS-Ganesha shares may not come online when the number of shares are more than 500 (IA-1844)
- Exporting a single path to multiple clients through multiple exports does not work with NFS-Ganesha (3816074, 3819836)
- For the NFS-Ganesha server, bringing a large number of shares online or offline takes a long time (3847271)
- NFS client application may fail with the stale file handle error on node reboot (3828442)
- NFS> share show command does not distinguish offline versus online shares (IA-2758)
- Difference in output between NFS> share show and Linux showmount commands (IA-1938)
- NFS mount on client is stalled after you switch the NFS server (IA-6629)
- Kernel NFS v4 lock failover does not happen correctly in case of a node crash (IA-5083)
- Kernel NFS v4 export mount for Netgroup does not work correctly (IA-6672)
- ObjectAccess issues
- ObjectAccess server goes in to faulted state while doing multi-part upload of a 10-GB file with a chunk size of 5 MB (IA-1943)
- When trying to connect to the S3 server over SSLS3, the client application may give a warning like "SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed" (IA-5378)
- If you have upgraded to Veritas Access 7.3 from an earlier release, access to S3 server fails if the cluster name has upper case letters (IA-5628)
- If the cluster name does not follow the DNS hostname restrictions, you cannot work with ObjectAccess service in Veritas Access (IA-5631)
- ObjectAccess operations do not work correctly in virtual hosted-style addressing when SSL is enabled (IA-5737)
- ObjectAccess server enable operation fails on a single node (IA-5704)
- ObjectAccess (S3) service goes OFFLINE when the node is restarted (IA-6282)
- Bucket creation may fail with "Timed out Error" (IA-7432)
- Temporary objects may be present in the bucket in case of multi-part upload (IA-7434)
- Bucket CreationDate is incorrect if the bucket is created by mapping the filesystem path (IA-7227)
- Group configuration does not work in ObjectAccess if the group name contains a space (IA-7407)
- An erasure coded file system may show mirrored layout in the Storage> fs list command (IA-7266)
- Accessing a bucket or object in the S3 server fails with S3 internal errors
- OpenDedup issues
- OpenStack issues
- Replication issues
- Running replication and dedup over the same source, the replication file system fails in certain scenarios (3804751)
- The System> config import command does not import replication keys and jobs (3822515)
- The job uses the schedule on the target after replication failover (3668957)
- Replication fails with error "connection reset by peer" if the target node fails over (IA-3290)
- Synchronous replication shows file system layout as mirrored in case of simple and striped file system (IA-7308)
- Synchronous replication is unable to come in replicating state if the Storage Replicated Log becomes full
- If you restart any node in the primary or secondary cluster, replication may go into PAUSED state (IA-7567)
- Sync replication failback does not work (IA-7524)
- Replication jobs created in Veritas Access 7.2.1.1 or earlier versions are not recognized after upgrade to 7.3 version (IA-7597)
- Setting the bandwidth through the GUI is not enabled for replication (IA- 7295)
- Sync replication fails when the 'had' daemon is restarted on the target manually (IA-7357)
- SmartIO issues
- Storage issues
- Snapshot mount can fail if the snapshot quota is set (IA-1542)
- Sometimes the Storage> pool rmdisk command does not print a message (IA-1733)
- The Storage> Pool rmdisk command sometimes can give an error where the file system name is not printed (IA-1639)
- Not able to enable quota for file system that is newly added in the list of CIFS home directories (IA-1851)
- Destroying the file system may not remove the /etc/mtab entry for the mount point (3801216)
- The Storage> fs online command returns an error, but the file system is online after several minutes (3650635)
- Removing disks from the pool fails if a DCO exists (3452098)
- Scale-out file system returns an ENOSPC error even if the df command shows there is space available in the file system (IA-3545)
- Rollback refresh fails when running it after running Storage> fs growby or growto commands (3588248)
- If an exported DAS disk is in error state, it shows ERR on the local node and NOT_CONN on the remote nodes in Storage> list (IA-3269)
- Inconsistent cluster state with management service down when disabling I/O fencing (IA-3427)
- Storage> tier move command failover of node is not working (IA-3091)
- Rollback service group goes in faulted state when respective cache object is full and there is no way to clear the state (IA-3251)
- Event messages are not generated when cache objects get full (IA-3239)
- Storage device fails with SIGBUS signal causing the abnormal termination of the scale-out file system daemon (IA-2915)
- Storage> tier move list command fails if one of the cluster nodes is rebooted (IA-3241)
- When a policy run completes after issuing Storage> fs policy resume, the total data and total files count might not match the moved data and files count as shown in Storage> fs policy status (IA-3398)
- Storage> fs addcolumn operation fails but error notification is not sent (IA-5434)
- Unable to create space-optimized rollback when tiering is present (IA-5690)
- Enabling fencing on a setup with volume manager objects present fails to import the disk group (IA-7219)
- For the rollback cache growto and growby operations, the cache size values cannot be specified in terms of g/G, m/M or k/K (IA-7473)
- File system creation fails when the pool contains only one disk (IA-7515)
- After starting the backup service, BackupGrp goes into FAULTED state on some nodes (IA-7174)
- A scale-out file system created with a simple layout using thin LUNs may show layered layout in the Storage> fs list command (IA-7604)
- A file system created with a largefs-striped or largefs-mirrored-stripe layout may show incorrect number of columns in the Storage> fs list command (IA-7628)
- Veritas Access known issues
- Getting help
Rolling upgrade is not allowed if the scale-out file system is online and being used by the NFS or S3 server
Rolling upgrade is not supported in scale-out file systems if the file systems are online and are being used by the NFS or S3 server.
Workaround:
If you want to perform a rolling upgrade from 7.2.1.1 to 7.3, you have to perform the following set of operations to bring some of the services down before you start rolling upgrade and offline the scale-out file systems. This leads to downtime for the applications using the scale-out file systems.
Log on to CLISH and run the following commands
- If scale-out file system is NFS shared using the Ganesha server, then unmount the NFS share from the client and stop the NFS service on the Veritas Access management cluster node.
CLISH> nfs server stop
- If a bucket is created over the scale-out file system, then stop the ObjectAccess service on the Veritas Access management cluster node.
CLISH> objectaccess server stop
- List the file systems.
CLISH> storage fs list
Make a note of all the scale-out file systems with layout as 'largefs-simple', 'largefs-mirrored', 'largefs-mirrored-stripe', 'largefs-striped', and 'largefs-striped-mirror'.
- Offline all the scale-out file systems of type 'largefs'.
CLISH> storage fs offline <scaleout filesystem name>
- Confirm if the scale-out file systems are offline.
CLISH> storage fs list
Log on to any Veritas Access cluster node using the root/support user credentials and run the following command
- Offline the VCS group for scale-out file system.
# hagrp -offline vrts_tfs_infra -any -clus <Veritas Access cluster name>.
After rolling upgrade procedure is complete, you have to run the following commands to bring all the services online on the Veritas Access cluster nodes.
Log on to any Veritas Access cluster node using the root/support user credentials and run the following commands
- Enable NFS v4 support.
# /opt/VRTSnas/scripts/nfs/nfs_agent.sh install
- Run the following command on all the nodes in the cluster.
# echo "no" > /opt/VRTSnas/conf/nfs_force_stop
Log on to CLISH and run the following commands
- Online all the scale-out file systems.
CLISH> storage fs online <scaleout filesystem name>
- Confirm if the scale-out file systems are online.
CLISH> storage fs list
- Start the NFS server and remount the NFS shares on the client.
CLISH> nfs server start
- Verify that the NFS server has started.
CLISH> nfs server status
- Start the S3 ObjectAccess server.
CLISH> objectaccess server start
- Verify that the S3 ObjectAccess server has started.
CLISH> objectaccess server status