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 space estimation for data logs

In InfoScale Operations Manager, historical performance data of various resources is collected in a fixed-size binary file. The older data is overwritten as new data arrives in a circular round robin array. The number of metrics, frequency of data insertion, number of objects, and the roll-up databases affect the size of binary file. The higher resolution data is compressed to a lower resolution data.

For more information on performance metering statistics, see the InfoScale Operations Manager Management Server User Guide.

Table: Space estimation for data logs describes the space estimation for data logs for the various resources. For estimation purposes, the data in the Number of resources column is according to the standard environment. The metrics collected column represents the number of metrics collected for each resource. For example, in case of DMP paths, the total number of metrics collected is four: bytes read, bytes written, read average, and write average.

Data logs for host, volume, disk, file system, path, and initiator are stored on the managed host. The data logs for virtualization server, virtual machine, path, and initiator are stored on the Control Host. For storage array (port, adapter, and enclosure), data log for 1 day is stored on the discovery host, where as all the other logs are stored on Management Server.

Note:

If InfoScale Operations Manager is configured in high availability environment, storage array port, adapter, and enclosure logs are saved on a shared disk. VMware ESX server and virtual machines logs are also saved on a shared disk.

Table: Space estimation for data logs for Windows hosts lists the space estimation for data logs for host, file system, volume, and disk on Windows platform.

Table: Space estimation for data logs

Name of resource

Number of resources

Number of metrics collected

Interval of collection

Duration of collection

Size in KB

Size in KB for a single object

Host, VMware ESX server, and Virtual Machine

1

5

5 minutes

1 day

24

24

1

5

2 hours

1 month

29

29

1

5

1 day

1 year

30

30

Multipathing paths

1000

4

5 minutes

1 day

18967

19

1000

4

2 hours

1 month

23477

24

Initiator

4

9

5 minutes

1 day

171

43

4

18

2 hours

1 month

423

106

4

18

1 day

1 year

428

107

File system

100

3

5 minutes

1 day

1423

14

100

3

1 day

1 year

1784

18

Volume

100

4

1 minute

6 hours

2348

23

100

4

5 minutes

1 day

1898

19

100

4

2 hours

1 month

2348

23

100

4

1 day

1 year

2379

24

Disk

100

4

1 minute

6 hours

2348

23

100

4

5 minutes

1 day

1898

19

100

4

2 hours

1 month

2347

23

100

4

1 day

1 year

2379

23

Table: Space estimation for data logs for Windows hosts

Name of resource

Number of resources

Metrics collected

Interval of collection

Duration of collection

Size in KB

Size in KB for a single object

Host

1

5

5 mins

1 day

24

24

1

5

2 hours

1 month

29

29

1

5

1 day

1 year

30

30

File system

100

4

5 minutes

1 day

1898

19

100

4

2 hours

1 month

2348

23

100

4

1 day

1 year

2379

24

Volume

100

4

5 minutes

1 day

1898

19

100

4

2 hours

1 month

2348

23

100

4

1 day

1 year

2379

24

Disk

100

4

5 minutes

1 day

1898

19

100

4

2 hours

1 month

2347

23

100

4

1 day

1 year

2379

23