Veritas InfoScale™ 7.0.1 Release Notes - Linux
- Important release information
- About the Veritas InfoScale product suite
- Licensing Veritas InfoScale Availability
- About Veritas Services and Operations Readiness Tools
- Changes introduced in 7.0.1
- Licensing changes for InfoScale 7.0.1
- Changes to Dynamic Multi-Pathing in this release
- Changes to InfoScale Availability in this release
- Not supported in this release
- System requirements
- Fixed Issues
- Known Issues
- Issues related to installation and upgrade
- Storage Foundation known issues
- Dynamic Multi-Pathing known issues
- Veritas Volume Manager known issues
- Virtualization known issues
- Veritas File System known issues
- Replication known issues
- Cluster Server known issues
- Operational issues for VCS
- Issues related to the VCS engine
- Issues related to the bundled agents
- Issues related to the VCS database agents
- Issues related to the agent framework
- Cluster Server agents for Volume Replicator known issues
- Issues related to Intelligent Monitoring Framework (IMF)
- Issues related to global clusters
- Issues related to the Cluster Manager (Java Console)
- VCS Cluster Configuration wizard issues
- LLT known issues
- I/O fencing known issues
- GAB known issues
- Operational issues for VCS
- Storage Foundation and High Availability known issues
- Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability known issues
- Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC known issues
- Oracle RAC known issues
- Storage Foundation Oracle RAC issues
- Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools known issues
- Storage Foundation for Sybase ASE CE known issues
- Issues related to installation and upgrade
- Software Limitations
- Virtualization software limitations
- Storage Foundation software limitations
- Dynamic Multi-Pathing software limitations
- Veritas Volume Manager software limitations
- Veritas File System software limitations
- SmartIO software limitations
- Replication software limitations
- Cluster Server software limitations
- Limitations related to bundled agents
- Limitations related to VCS engine
- Cluster configuration wizard limitations
- Limitations related to the VCS database agents
- Cluster Manager (Java console) limitations
- Limitations related to I/O fencing
- Limitations related to bundled agents
- Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability software limitations
- Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC software limitations
- Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools software limitations
- Storage Foundation for Sybase ASE CE software limitations
- Documentation
Changes related to installation and upgrade
The following changes are introduced to the installation and upgrading of 7.0.1 Veritas Infoscale:
In 7.0.1, the following new products are supported:
Veritas InfoScale Foundation
Veritas InfoScale Storage
Veritas InfoScale Availability
Veritas InfoScale Enterprise
The following old products are regarded as components and are converted to new products during the upgrade:
Symantec Storage Foundation (SF)
Symantec Cluster Server (VCS)
Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA)
Symantec Storage Foundation Cluster File System (SFCFS)
Symantec Storage Foundation Cluster File System and High Availability (SFCFSHA)
Symantec Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC (SF Oracle RAC)
Symantec Storage Foundation for Sybase ASE CE (SFSYBASECE)
The following old products are now part of the SF component and not offered as separate components.
Symantec Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) standalone
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)
Veritas File System (VxFS)
For more information, See Components of the Veritas InfoScale product suite.
All packages are installed at the time of installation irrespective of the product. Also, the installation of packages is no longer categorized as recommended, minimum or all.
The installation script installer installs the packages. Component installation scripts, such as installvcs, are no longer supported.
Theinstall<prod><version> script, for example, installsf70 is no longer available under the
/opt/VRTS/install/
directory after an installation or upgrade.Installation of two products is not supported, Veritas InfoScale Enterprise will be installed to include Veritas InfoScale Storage and Veritas InfoScale Availability on all the systems.
For more information, See Components of the Veritas InfoScale product suite.
In 7.0.1, Linux RPMs now include digital signatures to verify their authenticity. To install the RPMs manually, you must import keys first:
# cd /rpms
# rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-veritas-infoscale7
For 7.0.1, the new release image file names are as follows:
Veritas_InfoScale_7.0.1_RHEL.tar.gz
Veritas_InfoScale_7.0.1_SLES.tar.gz
Veritas_InfoScale_Dynamic_Multi-Pathing_7.0.1_VMware.zip
To install the product for your platform, you can either expand the .tar.gz or .zip file or mount the .iso file. Note that the content of the .iso file and archive files are identical.
Note:
You can get an installer for all the products except Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware, if you expand the
Veritas_InfoScale_7.0.1_<platform>.tar.gz
file or mount theVeritas_InfoScale_7.0.1_<platform>.iso
file. You can get the installer for vDMP only if you expand theVeritas_InfoScale_Dynamic_Multi-Pathing_7.0.1_VMware.zip
file or mount theVeritas_InfoScale_Dynamic_Multi-Pathing_7.0.1_VMware.iso
file