Support for Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) Solutions and InfoScale on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (RHEL 7.2)

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Last Published: 2015-11-23
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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation

Problem

This article discusses support for Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) Solutions and InfoScale on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (RHEL 7.2).

Veritas is qualifying SFHA 6.2.1 and InfoScale 7.0.1 with RHEL 7.2. See the Solution section for RHEL 7.2 support

Solution

 
SFHA/InfoScale
Version
Support
6.2.1 Veritas has released patch sfha-rhel7.2_x86_64-Patch-6.2.1.100 to support RHEL 7.2. This patch bundle also supports Oracle Linux 7.2 (OL 7.2) in RHEL compatibility mode.

Veritas is aware of an issue with the default systemd binary in RHEL 7.2 that has been acknowledged by Red Hat. The issue affects the mounting of VxFS checkpoints on RHEL 7.2. When trying to mount a check point, the operation fails with the following error:

systemd: Unit <mountpt> is bound to inactive unit <device>. Stopping.

Red Hat has produced an errata to resolve this

7.0.1 Veritas has released patch llt-rhel7.2_x86_64-Patch-7.0.1.100 to support RHEL 7.2. This patch requires InfoScale 7.0.1. This patch bundle also supports Oracle Linux 7.2 (OL 7.2) in RHEL compatibility mode.

The patch resolves a Low Latency Transport (LLT) incompatibility and is required for InfoScale Enterprise, InfoScale Availability and InfoScale Storage.

Veritas is aware of an issue with the default systemd binary in RHEL 7.2 that has been acknowledged by Red Hat. The issue affects the mounting of VxFS checkpoints on RHEL 7.2. When trying to mount a check point, the operation fails with the following error:

systemd: Unit <mountpt> is bound to inactive unit <device>. Stopping.

Red Hat has produced an errata to resolve this

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