Support for Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) Solutions and InfoScale on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 (RHEL 6.8)

Problem

Support for Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) Solutions and InfoScale on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 (RHEL 6.8) 
Veritas is qualifying SFHA and InfoScale for RHEL 6.8
 

Solution

 

SFHA/InfoScale version	Support
7.1	Veritas Technologies has released patch infoscale-rhel6.8_x86_64-Patch-7.1.0.100 to support RHEL 6.8. This patch requires InfoScale 7.1 This patch also supports Oracle Linux 6.8 (OL 6.8) in RHEL compatibility mode.
7.0.1	Veritas Technologies has released patch llt-rhel6.8_x86_64-Patch-7.0.1.300 to support RHEL 6.8. This patch requires InfoScale 7.0.1
6.2.1	Veritas Technologies has released patch llt-rhel6.8_x86_64-Patch-6.2.1.500 to support RHEL 6.8. This patch requires SFHA 6.2.1.  Note: Previously, support for RHEL 6.8 was introduced with patch llt-rhel6.8_x86_64-Patch-6.2.1.400 which is now obsolete due to an issue with LLT/RDMA. Customers who downloaded this patch are recommended to install the latest patch. This patch also supports Oracle Linux (OL 6.8) in RHEL compatibility mode.
6.1.1	Veritas Technologies has have released patch sfha-rhel6.8_x86_64-Patch-6.1.1.400 to support RHEL 6.8. This patch requires SFHA 6.1.1
6.0.5	Veritas Technologies has released patch sfha-rhel6.8_x86_64-Patch-6.0.5.400 to support RHEL 6.8. This patch requires SFHA 6.0.5

Note: Veritas Technologies is aware of an issue (Red Hat ID 1341473) on RHEL 6.8 where duplicate PVIDs are shown as warnings ("Found duplicates PV") when using multi-path storage whilst creating a volume group. Red Hat has a knowledge article on this issue and has a workaround available.