Updates, Patches and Late Breaking News (LBN) for InfoScale 7.2 (Unix/Linux)

Description

This article contains information about the latest Alerts, releases notifications, patches as well as known issues for InfoScale 7.2 (Linux, Solaris & AIX).  

For more information on the following topic, click on one of the following links:
 

• Major and Minor Releases
• Patches
• Known Issues
• Documentation
   

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Major and Minor Releases

InfoScale 7.2 (Linux, Solaris & AIX) is now available.  Release Date: November 7th, 2016

New Product Releases / Service Packs (Downloads) are available via the MyVeritas web site.
 

Downloads:

1. The legacy MyVeritas portal will direct users to https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US
    

Note: For more information on the topic, see How to obtain the license key and installation download for Veritas products.

 
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Patches

Patches for InfoScale 7.2 (Linux, Solaris & AIX) will be posted on the SORT site.
Veritas highly recommends that you check for any patches needed for this release. The SORT site includes a subscription notification for patches.
sort.veritas.com/patch/finder

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Known Issues

Impact of Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) and Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 & CVE-2017-5715) on Veritas InfoScale, Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) solutions and Access

https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100041581

Partitioned Directory (PD) defaults in VxFS
The Partitioned Directory feature in VxFS is disabled by default.


For other known issues, consult our Knowledge base:
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US.html

OS Updates

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.3 
Consult this article for when support will be added for RHEL7.3

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.9
RHEL 6.9 is supported with InfoScale 7.2

Support for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 SP2
Consult this article for when support will be added for SLES12SP2

Support for AIX 7.2 TL1
InfoScale 7.2 is supported on AIX 7.2 TL1

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Documentation

For more information on the release documentation:
InfoScale 7.2 Documentation (Linux)
InfoScale 7.2 Documentation (Solaris)
InfoScale 7.2 Documentation (AIX)

SORT documentation site

The Software Compatibility Listings (SCL) content can be found at https://sort.veritas.com/scl
The Hardware Compatibility Listings (HCL) content can be found on https://sort.veritas.com/hcl

For a listing of the End of Support Dates, refer to this matrix on SORT:
https://sort.veritas.com/eosl

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