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Veritas Access Appliance Release Notes
Last Published:
2023-02-24
Product(s):
Appliances (7.4.3)
Platform: Veritas 3340,Access Appliance OS
- Overview of Access Appliance
- About this release
- Changes in this release
- Enhancements to the initial cluster configuration
- Configuring NetBackup client for Access Appliance
- Configuring AD/LDAP user roles
- Support for FIPS 140-2 standard
- Enabling OS STIG hardening
- Enhancements to appliance logging
- Enhancements to troubleshooting and collecting diagnostic details
- Addition of multiple file systems to a Replicated Volume Group
- Support for intrusion prevention policy
- Deprecated functionality in this release
- Supported NetBackup client versions
- Access Appliance simple storage service (S3) APIs
- Required OS and third-party RPMs
- Fixed issues
- Software limitations
- Limitations on using shared LUNs
- Limitations related to installation and upgrade
- Limitations in the Backup mode
- Access Appliance IPv6 limitations
- FTP limitations
- Limitations related to commands in a non-SSH environment
- Limitations related to Veritas Data Deduplication
- Kernel-based NFS v4 limitations
- File system limitation
- Access Appliance S3 server limitation
- Long-term data retention (LTR) limitations
- Limitations related to upgrade
- Limitation related to replication
- Known issues
- Access Appliance known issues
- Access Appliance issues
- Mongo service does not start after a new node is added successfully
- File systems that are already created cannot be mapped as S3 buckets for local users using the GUI
- The Access Appliance management console is not available after a node is deleted and the remaining node is restarted
- When provisioning the Access Appliance GUI, the option to generate S3 keys is not available after the LTR policy is activated
- Unable to add an Appliance node to the cluster again after the Appliance node is turned off and removed from the Access Appliance cluster
- Setting retention on a directory path does not work from the Access Appliance command-line interface
- During the Access Appliance upgrade, I/O gets paused with an error message
- When provisioning storage, the Access web interface or the command-line interface displays storage capacity in MB, GB, TB, or PB
- Access Appliance operational notes
- Admin issues
- Backup issues
- CIFS issues
- Cannot enable the quota on a file system that is appended or added to the list of homedir
- Deleting a CIFS share resets the default owner and group permissions for other CIFS shares on the same file system
- Default CIFS share has owner other than root
- CIFS mapuser command fails to map all the users from Active Directory (AD) to all the NIS/LDAP users
- CIFS share may become unavailable when the CIFS server is in normal mode
- CIFS share creation does not authenticate AD users
- If you mount or access a CIFS share using the local user without netbios or cluster name, the operation fails
- During upgrade, the CVM and CFS agents are not stopped
- Unable to access CIFS shares using the Share Open command from the Access Appliance Shell menu
- General issues
- GUI issues
- 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 Access Appliance cluster is upgraded, the GUI shows stale and incomplete data
- Restarting the server as part of the command to add and remove certificates gives an error on RHEL 7
- Client certificate validation using OpenSSL ocsp does not work on RHEL 7
- GUI does not support segregated IPv6 addresses while creating CIFS shares using the Enterprise Vault policy
- File system status is not updated in the UI
- Deprecated policies are displayed after upgrading to version 7.4.3
- During a rolling upgrade the UI becomes inaccessible
- REST endpoint field gives an error message for valid values while registering S3-compatible as a cloud service
- Installation and configuration issues
- After you restart a node that uses RDMA LLT, LLT does not work, or the gabconfig - a command shows the jeopardy state
- Running individual Access Appliance scripts may return inconsistent return codes
- Installer does not list the initialized disks immediately after initializing the disks during I/O fencing configuration
- 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
- If duplicate PCI IDs are added for the PCI exclusion, the Cluster> add node name command fails
- Phantomgroup for the VLAN device does not come online if you create another VLAN device from the Access Appliance command-line interface after cluster configuration is done
- Access Appliance fails to install if LDAP or the autofs home directories are preconfigured on the system
- Configuring Access Appliance with a preconfigured VLAN and a preconfigured bond fails
- In a mixed mode Access Appliance cluster, after the execution of the Cluster> add node command, one type of unused IP does not get assigned as a physical IP to public NICs
- NLMGroup service goes into a FAULTED state when the private IP (x.x.x.2) is not free
- The cluster> show command does not detect all the nodes of the cluster
- Internationalization (I18N) issues
- Networking issues
- CVM service group goes into faulted state unexpectedly
- In a mixed IPv4 and IPv6 VIP network set up, the IP balancing does not consider IP type
- The netgroup search does not continue to search in NIS if the entry is not found in LDAP
- The IPs hosted on an interface that is not the current IPv6 default gateway interface are not reachable outside the current IPv6 subnet
- After network interface swapping between two private NICs or one private NIC and one public NIC, the service groups on the slave nodes are not probed
- Unable to import the network module after an operating system upgrade
- LDAP with SSL on option does not work if you upgrade Access Appliance
- Network load balancer does not get configured with IPv6
- Unable to add an IPv6-default gateway on an IPv4-installed cluster
- LDAP over SSL may not work in Access Appliance 7.4.3
- The network> swap command hangs if any node other than the console node is specified
- LDAP user fails to establish SSH connection with the cluster when FTP is configured
- NFS issues
- Latest directory content of server is not visible to the client if time is not synchronized across the nodes
- NFS> share show command does not distinguish offline versus online shares
- Kernel-NFS v4 lock failover does not happen correctly in case of a node crash
- Kernel-NFS v4 export mount for Netgroup does not work correctly
- When a file system goes into the FAULTED or OFFLINE state, the NFS share groups associated with the file system do not become offline on all the nodes
- ObjectAccess issues
- When trying to connect to the S3 server over SSLS3, the client application may give a warning
- If you have upgraded to Access Appliance 7.4.3 from an earlier release, access to S3 server fails if the cluster name has uppercase letters
- If the cluster name does not follow the DNS hostname restrictions, you cannot work with the ObjectAccess service in Access Appliance
- Bucket creation may fail with time-out error
- Bucket deletion may fail with "No such bucket" or "No such key" error
- Group configuration does not work in ObjectAccess if the group name contains a space
- OpenStack issues
- Cinder and Manila shares cannot be distinguished from the Access Appliance command-line interface
- Cinder volume creation fails after a failure occurs on the target side
- Cinder volume may fail to attach to the instance
- Bootable volume creation for an iSCSI driver fails with an I/O error when a qcow image is used
- Replication issues
- When running episodic replication and deduplication on the same cluster node, the episodic replication job fails in certain scenarios
- The System> config import command does not import episodic replication keys and jobs
- The job uses the schedule on the target after episodic replication failover
- Episodic replication fails with error "connection reset by peer" if the target node fails over
- Episodic replication jobs created in Access Appliance 7.2.1.1 or earlier versions are not recognized after an upgrade
- Setting the bandwidth through the GUI is not enabled for episodic replication
- Episodic replication job with encryption fails after job remove and add link with SSL certificate error
- Episodic replication job status shows the entry for a link that was removed
- Episodic replication job modification fails
- If a share is created in RW mode on the target file system for episodic replication, then it may result in there being different number of files and directories on the target file system compared to the source file system
- Continuous replication fails when the 'had' daemon is restarted on the target manually
- Continuous replication is unable to go to the replicating state if the Storage Replicated Log becomes full
- Unplanned failover and failback in continuous replication may fail if the communication of the IPTABLE rules between the cluster nodes does not happen correctly
- Continuous replication configuration may fail if the continuous replication IP is not online on the master node but is online on another node
- If you restart any node in the primary or the secondary cluster, replication may go into a PAUSED state
- Unplanned failback fails if the source cluster goes down
- Cloud tiering cannot be configured with continuous replication
- After continuous replication failover/failback operations, the virtual IPs in the source may appear offline
- STIG issues
- Storage issues
- Snapshot mount can fail if the snapshot quota is set
- Sometimes the Storage> pool rmdisk command does not print a message
- The Storage> pool rmdisk command sometimes can give an error where the file system name is not printed
- Not able to enable quota for file system that is newly added in the list of CIFS home directories
- Destroying the file system may not remove the /etc/mtab entry for the mount point
- The Storage> fs online command returns an error, but the file system is online after several minutes
- Removing disks from the pool fails if a DCO exists
- Rollback refresh fails when running it after running Storage> fs growby or growto commands
- 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
- Inconsistent cluster state with management service down when disabling I/O fencing
- Storage> tier move command failover of node is not working
- Rollback service group goes in faulted state when respective cache object is full and there is no way to clear the state
- Event messages are not generated when cache objects get full
- The Access Appliance command-line interface does not block uncompress and compress operations from running on the same file at the same time
- Storage> tier move list command fails if one of the cluster nodes is rebooted
- Pattern given as filter criteria to Storage> fs policy add sometimes erroneously transfers files that do not fit the criteria
- 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
- Storage> fs addcolumn operation fails but error notification is not sent
- Storage> fs-growto and Storage> fs-growby commands give error with isolated disks
- Unable to create space-optimized rollback when tiering is present
- Enabling I/O fencing on a set up with Volume Manager objects present fails to import the disk group
- File system creation fails when the pool contains only one disk
- After starting the backup service, BackupGrp goes into FAULTED state on some nodes
- File system creation fails with SSD pool
- The CVM service group goes in to faulted state after you restart the management console node
- The Storage> fs create command does not display the output correctly if one of the nodes of the cluster is in unknown state
- Storage> fs growby and growto commands fail if the size of the file system or bucket is full
- The operating system names of fencing disks are not consistent across the Access Appliance cluster that may lead to issues
- The disk group import operation fails and all the services go into failed state when fencing is enabled
- Error while creating a file system stating that the CVM master and management console are not on the same node
- When you configure disk-based fencing, the cluster does not come online after you restart the node
- After a node is restarted, the vxdclid process may generate core dump
- The cluster> shutdown command does not shut down the node
- After policy execution to move files from Amazon Glacier to primary file system, all files may not get moved back to the primary
- System issues
- Upgrade issues
- Unable to roll back the system after an attempt to upgrade from 7.4.2.400 to 7.4.3.300 failed.
- During rolling upgrade, Access Appliance shutdown does not complete successfully
- CVM is in FAULTED state after you perform a rolling upgrade
- If rolling upgrade is performed when NFS v4 is configured using NFS lease, the system may hang
- Stale file handle error is displayed during rolling upgrade
- The upgrade operation fails if synchronous replication is configured
- Rolling upgrade fails when the cluster has space-optimized rollback in online state
- After upgrading from version 7.4.2 to a later version, the default route entry in the ip rule table on one of the cluster nodes is missing
- GUI might fail to start after upgrading from version 7.4.2 to 7.4.3
- Storage provisioning might fail after upgrading the Access Appliance from version 7.4.2 to 7.4.3
- Alerts about node being down are generated during an upgrade
- Veritas Data Deduplication issues
- The Veritas Data Deduplication storage server does not come online on a newly added node in the cluster if the node was offline when you configured deduplication
- The Veritas Data Deduplication server goes offline after destroying the bond interface on which the deduplication IP was online
- If you grow the deduplication pool using the fs> grow command, and then try to grow it further using the dedupe> grow command, the dedupe> grow command fails
- The Veritas Data Deduplication server goes offline after bond creation using the interface of the deduplication IP
- Provisioning for Veritas Data Deduplication is displayed as failed in GUI
- Access Appliance issues
- Access Appliance known issues
- Getting help
Deprecated functionality in this release
The following functionality has been deprecated in this release.
Scale-out file system
The scale-out file system is no longer supported in this release, and the following commands, which are used to create and manage the scale-out file system are deprecated. Starting with this release, only the Cluster File System (CFS) is supported and guidelines to migrate from a scale-out file system to CFS have been introduced.
storage fs create largefs storage fs create largefs simple storage fs create largefs mirrored storage fs create largefs striped storage fs create largefs mirrored-stripe storage fs create largefs striped-mirror objectaccess set fs_type largefs objectaccess set fs_type largefs ecoded objectaccess set fs_type largefs simple objectaccess set fs_type largefs mirrored objectaccess set fs_type largefs striped objectaccess set fs_type largefs mirrored-stripe objectaccess set fs_type largefs striped-mirror objectaccess group set fs_type largefs objectaccess group set fs_type largefs ecoded objectaccess group set fs_type largefs simple objectaccess group set fs_type largefs mirrored objectaccess group set fs_type largefs striped objectaccess group set fs_type largefs mirrored-stripe objectaccess group set fs_type largefs striped-mirror
Erasure-coded file systems
File systems with erasure-coded layout will no longer be supported and the following commands, which are used to create and manage the erasure-coded file systems are deprecated. The guidelines to migrate erasure-coded file systems to other file system types have been introduced.
objectaccess set fs_type ecoded objectaccess group set fs_type ecoded storage fs create ecoded storage fs rebalance storage fs relayout
Cloud as a tier for scale-out file systems
Configuring cloud as a tier for scale-out file systems is no longer supported. Starting with next release, only the Cluster File System (CFS) will be supported. If you have configured cloud as a tier for scale-out file systems, the guidelines to migrate have been introduced.
The following commands, which manage the storage tier operations and collect statistics on data usage in the cloud tier are deprecated. You can use the alternative commands mentioned below.
Note:
The commands are deprecated for both on-premises storage as well as cloud storage
Table:
Deprecated command | Recommended command |
|---|---|
storage tier addcolumn | storage fs addcolumn |
storage tier rmcolumn fs_name | storage fs rmcolumn |
storage tier addmirror | storage fs addmirror |
storage tier rmmirror | storage fs rmmirror |
storage tier setfastresync | storage fs setfastresync |
storage tier unsetfastresync | storage fs unsetfastresync |
storage tier stats show | Unavailable |
storage tier stats monitor | Unavailable |
storage tier stats reset | Unavailable |
User authentication to Active Directory for accessing CIFS shares
The following commands, which are used for authenticating to Active Directory are deprecated.
cifs set domain cifs set domaincontroller cifs set domainuser cifs set workgroup
Network and support commands
The tethereal commands that are used dump and analyze the network traffic are no longer supported.
Support tethereal export Support tethereal show
The ntp enable command internally synchronization of date with the NTP server. Hence, the ntp sync command which is used to sync the date with NTP server on all the nodes in the cluster is not longer be supported.
System ntp sync
NFS-Ganesha server support
Veritas has deprecated the NFS server support to the NFS-Ganesha server (GNFS). Steps to switch to the Kernel-bases NFS server (KNFS) have been introduced.
version history repository get URL install version
File system deduplication
File system deduplication is no longer supported and the following commands, which are used to configure and manage file system deduplication are deprecated:
Storage dedup enable Storage dedup disable Storage dedup list Storage dedup start Storage dedup stop Storage dedup status Storage dedup set cpu Storage dedup set memory Storage dedup set priority Storage dedup schedule set Storage dedup schedule modify Storage dedup schedule delete Storage dedup dryrun Storage dedup remove