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

Network and firewall requirements

If you plan to manage hosts within multiple domains, update the network settings to resolve the host from all domains.

You need to ensure that the localhost can be resolved from the host.

If localhost cannot be resolved from the host, update your network settings to enable it.

For InfoScale Operations Manager Management Server in High Availability, you need to configure firewall settings for both the virtual and the physical IP of all cluster nodes.

InfoScale Operations Manager uses the default ports as shown in Table: Default ports in a InfoScale Operations Manager installation to transfer information.

Table: Default ports in a InfoScale Operations Manager installation

Port

Protocol

Initiator

Purpose

Effect if blocked

5634

TCP

Management Server

Management Server configuration

Management Server cannot be configured.

5636

TCP

Management Server

Management Server database configuration

Management Server cannot be configured.

5634

TCP

 

Management Server communications with the managed hosts

Managed host cannot be added to the Management Server domain.

5634

TCP

managed hosts

Managed host to send heartbeats; also used to upload the data from the managed host to Management Server

Note:

It is recommended that you keep port 5634 open between managed hosts for scalability and performance optimization.

Managed host cannot be added to the Management Server domain.

22

SSH communication

135

WMI communication

14161

TCP

Web browser

Run the Management Server console

Users cannot access the Management Server console.

162

UDP

Vmware VCenter server

Receive SNMP traps

Management Server cannot receive Virtual Machine state change SNMP traps from VMWare VCenter.

Changes to vmware infrastructure can not be discovered near real time (NRT).

21

FTP

Management Server

Management Server connectivity with SORT

Management Server can not download patches from SORT.

80

HTTP

Management Server

Management Server connectivity with SORT

Management Server can not download patches from SORT.

443

HTTPS

Management Server

Management Server connectivity with SORT

Management Server can not download patches from SORT.

More Information

Operating system requirements

System resource requirements