Veritas InfoScale 7.4.1 Support for SUSE 15 Release Notes - Linux

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.4.1)
Platform: Linux

Support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15

InfoScale now supports SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15. The installation files for this release is available for download at the same location as the one for the InfoScale 7.4.1 GA release. The file names begin with Veritas_InfoScale_7.4.1_SLES15.

All the InfoScale capabilities that are available on the RHEL 7 and the SUSE 12 platforms are also available on SUSE 15. The commands that are mentioned in the context of the RHEL platform in the InfoScale documentation also apply to all the supported RHEL- and SUSE-compatible distributions.

Supported kernel version

InfoScale support the 4.12.14-25.25 kernel version for SUSE 15.

Disk space requirements

The following table lists the minimum disk space requirements for SUSE 15.

Operating system

Required disk space

Veritas InfoScale Foundation

1500 MB

Veritas InfoScale Availability

1500 MB

Veritas InfoScale Storage

2500 MB

Veritas InfoScale Enterprise

2500 MB

Prerequisites for installing InfoScale on SUSE 15

Before you install InfoScale on SUSE 15, ensure that you:

  • Install the iputils package manually.

    This package is required for the ping command to work.

  • Install the insserv-compat package manually.

    This package is required to enable the vxdbd daemon (# /opt/VRTS/bin/sfae_config enable).

  • Install the mksh.x86_64, binutils.x86_64, ethtool.x86_64, and ed.x86_64 packages manually.

Note:

If the systems are connected to the internet, the installer can use Zypper to install these packages.

Deprecated commands and alternatives

SUSE has deprecated some commands such as ifconfig, netstat, and so on.

The following table lists the alternative commands that you can use.

Deprecated command

Alternative

ifconfig

ip

route

ip route

netstat

ss

Note:

Veritas recommends that you configure the IPOptions and the IPRouteOptions attributes instead of the Options attribute. The Options attribute uses the ifconfig and route commands, which are deprecated in SUSE 15.

If you plan to use the route.vfd, gcoconfig, and healthcheck.pl utilities, you must install the net-tools-deprecated package.