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Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) Hardware Replication InfoScale Patch table for vxdg -c [-s] -o usereplicatedev=only import

Article: 100060984
Last Published: 2024-10-15
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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation

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This article outlines the various Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) patch releases which include enhanced support for Hardware Replication functionality.
New vxdg options were created to ensure all Hardware Replicated type devices are correctly selected during the VxVM import process.

The original design was "vxdg -c [-s] -o usereplicatedev=on import <dg-name>".

This has since been replaced with the revised "-o usereplicatedev=only" vxdg option, which must be specifed to import Hardware Replicated type devices, such as EMC SRDF [Metro], Hitachi TrueCopy and many other vendor solutions.


Table 1.0
 

Platform      

IS 7.4.1 (Now in Extended Standard Support - Jul 31 2024)

IS 7.4.2

IS 7.4.2 Public Patch

IS 8.0.0     

IS 8.0.2

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RHEL 6.x

7.4.1.3600 New Tunable "use_hw_replicatedev"

7.4.2.4502

Not Supported

Not Supported

Not Supported

 

RHEL 7.x

7.4.1.3700 New
Tunable "use_hw_replicatedev"

7.4.2.4502

7.4.2.5200 New Tunable "use_hw_replicatedev"

8.0.0.2900 New Tunable "use_hw_replicatedev"

 8.0.2.1700 New
Tunable "use_hw_replicatedev"

VRTSvxvm 7..4.2 requires VRTSvxfs 7.4.2.4502 or higher

RHEL 8.x

7.4.1.3700 New
Tunable "use_hw_replicatedev"

 

 7.4.2.5200 New Tunable "use_hw_replicatedev" 8.0.0.2900 New Tunable "use_hw_replicatedev"

8.0.2.1700 New
Tunable "use_hw_replicatedev"

 

RHEL 9.x

N/A

N/A

N/A

TBC

8.0.2.1600 New
Tunable "use_hw_replicatedev"

 

SLES 12

 

7.4.2.3200

 

TBC

N/A

 

SLES 15

 

7.4.2.4400

 

 8.0.0.2803 New Tunable "use_hw_replicatedev"

8.0.2.1202

 

SOLARIS 11

 

7.4.2.2201

 

8.0.0.2801 New
Tunable "use_hw_replicatedev"

8.0.2.1800 New
Tunable "use_hw_replicatedev"

 

AIX

 

 

  

Coming Soon
Tunable "use_hw_replicatedev"

 

 

 






 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Linux, new 7.4.2.x public patches are now available for RHEL 7+8:

https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/downloads/update.UPD191245

https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/downloads/update.UPD261488


New Tunable released:

# vxtune use_hw_replicatedev
Tunable                                        Current Value                Default Value Reboot Clusterwide
-------------------------------                -------------                ------------- ------ -----------
use_hw_replicatedev                                       on                           on    N        N


The following article outlines the above tunable feature:
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100065289

 

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