Arctera InfoScale™ Operations Manager 9.0 Release Notes

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: AIX,HP-UX,Linux,Solaris,VMware ESX,Windows
  1. Overview of this release
    1.  
      About InfoScale Operations Manager
    2. New features and changes in InfoScale Operations Manager 9.0
      1.  
        Online migration to encrypted volumes
      2.  
        Support for dynamic LUN expansion in FSS environments
      3.  
        Support for Windows-based Management server in disaster recovery environment
      4.  
        Support for configuring SecureFS for PostgreSQL
      5.  
        Support for SecureFS Single Click Recovery for Oracle and PostgreSQL
    3.  
      Deprecated functionality in version 9.0
    4.  
      Issues fixed in the InfoScale Operations Manager 9.0 release
  2. System requirements
    1.  
      Operating system requirements
    2. System resource requirements
      1.  
        About space estimation for data logs
      2.  
        About the frequency of managed host, enclosure and switch information discovery
    3.  
      Supported hardware
    4.  
      Web browser requirements
    5. Network and firewall requirements
      1.  
        Internet Protocol version requirements
    6.  
      About the consumption of the managed host components
  3. Software limitations
    1.  
      InfoScale Operations Manager 9.0 managed host not supported on AIX in Network Installation Manager
    2.  
      InfoScale Operations Manager 9.0 does not support HA Plugin functionality
    3.  
      Control host add-on is not compatible with the Windows platform (4119171)
    4.  
      Volume layout not discovered for LDM-managed volumes mounted without a drive letter
    5.  
      Backup and restore limitations in InfoScale Operations Manager 9.0
    6.  
      InfoScale Operations Manager does not support the discovery of LDoms and Zones together on the same host
    7.  
      Deployment-related limitations
    8.  
      Windows Management Server high availability configuration limitations
    9.  
      Solaris Zones virtualization support limitations
    10.  
      Discovery limitations for virtualization support
    11.  
      VCS configuration check reports violations only if at least one node in the cluster is running Cluster Server
    12.  
      Limitations related to the correlation between the disks and the disk groups
    13.  
      CIFS shares from NetApp and Celerra arrays that are mapped to a Windows host are not discovered
    14.  
      Limitations on SF operations on Windows CVM cluster
    15.  
      ESX servers not able to access an RDM disk associated with a shared datastore might cause failed discovery of RDM disk by InfoScale Operations Manager
    16.  
      InfoScale Operations Manager does not validate if the cluster node is managed by the Management Server during the VBS start operation
  4. Known issues
    1.  
      xprtld.service fails to start during yum upgrade (4188076)
    2.  
      Incorrect VCS configuration message is displayed during SecureFS checkpoint recovery (4189119)
    3.  
      SSO login failure after Windows CMS upgrade (4188548)
    4.  
      VBS logs missing on InfoScale Operations Manager server (4188788)
    5.  
      LDAP configuration fails on a fresh Windows CMS installation (4188000)
    6.  
      InfoScale Operations Manager CMS services fail to start after a system reboot (4188737)
    7.  
      Disks not visible in InfoScale Operations Manager UI (4188991)
  5. Appendix A. Getting help
    1.  
      InfoScale Operations Manager on the Web
    2.  
      Getting help
    3.  
      Using the product documentation

About the frequency of managed host, enclosure and switch information discovery

The following table describes the frequency of the managed host information updates in the Management Server database. The discovery on each managed host is divided into discovery families to focus on a particular functional area:

Family

Frequency in minutes

Discovered information

Host

1440

The operating system, packages, and networking for the host.

Typically, most of the information that is related to this family does not change frequently.

SF

30

Volume Manager, File Systems, and the related storage network.

VCS

60

Cluster Server and the related information.

DB

360

Oracle, DB2, MSSQL, and Sybase databases and their storage dependencies.

LDR

1440

The licenses that are installed on the hosts.

NR

5

Configuration status and external faults.

Native

360

Third-party volume management information.

PCV_NOTIFY

30

Policy check violations computed on Management Server and on managed hosts earlier than 6.1. Violations computed on managed hosts 6.1 or later do not require separate discovery.

Zones

120

Oracle Solaris zones and their storage dependencies.

LDoms

120

Oracle Solaris LDoms, and related CPU and memory information.

KVM

120

KVMs, and their correlation with the host.

Hyper-V

120

Virtual machines and storage discovery.

LPAR

360

Hosts, guests, and storage information.

VMware

360

ESX servers, virtual machines, and their storage dependencies.

Note:

This information is discovered only when Control Host Add-on is installed on a managed host that is designated as the control host.

Agentless

360

The following information on the hosts that are configured on the control host for agentless:

  • The IP addresses, operating system, and the usage of the CPU and memory

  • The host bus adapters (HBAs) on the host

  • The disks on the hosts and their correlation with the array LUNs and multipathing

  • The volumes and the volume groups on the native Volume Manager

  • The mount points of the file systems and the correlation of the file systems with the disks

  • In a VMware guest environment, the correlation of the guest with the virtual machine and the correlation of the storage in the guest with the storage exported from the ESX server.

Note:

This information is discovered only when Control Host Add-on is installed on a managed host that is designated as the control host.

VVRBW

60

Bandwidth usage information for Volume Replicator (VVR).

Docker

120

Docker containters, docker images, and storage exported to containers.

Note:

The discovery for the Storage Foundation and Cluster Server families is event driven and scheduled. This means that the discovery is triggered when configuration changes occur on the managed hosts. As a result, this information is updated in the InfoScale Operations Manager database in the following update. If configuration changes are not detected on the managed hosts, the communication between the managed host and Management Server is restricted to the heartbeat communication that occurs every five minutes.