Support for Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) Solutions and InfoScale on Solaris 11.3 (SPARC & x86)

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Last Published: 2015-11-16
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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation

Problem

Solaris 11.3 (SPARC)
Support for Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) Solutions and InfoScale on Solaris 11.3 (SPARC)

Veritas will be qualifying SFHA 6.0.5, 6.1.1, 6.2.1 and InfoScale 7.0.1 with Solaris 11.3 (SPARC).


Solaris 11.3 (x86)

Support for Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) Solutions and InfoScale on Solaris 11.3 (x86)

Veritas will be qualifying SFHA 6.0.5 with Solaris 11.3 (x86).

Solution


Solaris 11.3 (SPARC)
 

SFHA/InfoScale
version
Solaris 11.3 SPARC Support
6.0.5 Veritas have released patch sfha-sol11_sparc-Patch-6.0.5.200 to support Solaris 11.3. This patch requires SFHA 6.0.5
6.1.1 6.1.1 is supported with Solaris 11.3 (no patches required)

Veritas is aware of an issue with DMP native support:
Setting dmp_native_support 'on' and 'off' requires reboot. System can panic during reboot if dmp_native_support is set to 'off'. In some cases, system may successfully reboot but on uninstallation of Storage Foundation, system may panic and fail to boot. 

Panic string: 
panic[cpu0]/thread=20012000: read_binding_file: /etc/name_to_major file not found

The issue is present on 15.4 SRU and 12.6 SRU, an Oracle SR (3-11640878941) has been opened

Workaround:
Before enabling dmp_native_support the following code block must be removed in the script /etc/vx/bin/vxdmproot

# Operation: Disable
# Remove /etc/system from $ARCHIVE_FILES
exists=`grep -c "etc/system" $ARCHIVE_FILES`
if [ $exists -gt 0 ]; then
   tempfile=`mktemp /tmp/$PROGNAME.XXXX`
   grep -v -w "etc/system" $ARCHIVE_FILES > $tempfile
   rm $ARCHIVE_FILES; mv $tempfile $ARCHIVE_FILES;
fi
# Remove /etc/name_to_major from $ARCHIVE_FILES
exists=`grep -c "etc/name_to_major" $ARCHIVE_FILES`
if [ $exists -gt 0 ]; then
   tempfile=`mktemp /tmp/$PROGNAME.XXXX`
   grep -v -w "etc/name_to_major" \
      $ARCHIVE_FILES > $tempfile
   rm $ARCHIVE_FILES; mv $tempfile $ARCHIVE_FILES;
fi

A workaround will also be included in the upcoming VxVM patch 6.1.1.400

6.2.1 Veritas have released patch vm-sol11_sparc-Patch6.2.1.200 to support Solaris 11.3. This Volume Manager (VxVM) patch requires SFHA 6.2.1 to be installed.
7.0.1 Veritas have released patch infoscale-sol11_sparc-Patch-7.0.1.100 to support Solaris 11.3. This patch requires InfoScale 7.0.1 to be installed

Solaris 11.3 (x86)
 
SFHA version Solaris 11.3 x86 Support
6.0.5 Veritas have released patch sfha-sol11_x64-Patch-6.0.5.200 to support Solaris 11.3. This patch requires SFHA 6.0.5

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