Arctera InfoScale™ Operations Manager 9.0 Release Notes
- Overview of this release
- System requirements
- Software limitations
- InfoScale Operations Manager 9.0 managed host not supported on AIX in Network Installation Manager
- InfoScale Operations Manager 9.0 does not support HA Plugin functionality
- Control host add-on is not compatible with the Windows platform (4119171)
- Volume layout not discovered for LDM-managed volumes mounted without a drive letter
- Backup and restore limitations in InfoScale Operations Manager 9.0
- InfoScale Operations Manager does not support the discovery of LDoms and Zones together on the same host
- Deployment-related limitations
- Windows Management Server high availability configuration limitations
- Solaris Zones virtualization support limitations
- Discovery limitations for virtualization support
- VCS configuration check reports violations only if at least one node in the cluster is running Cluster Server
- Limitations related to the correlation between the disks and the disk groups
- CIFS shares from NetApp and Celerra arrays that are mapped to a Windows host are not discovered
- Limitations on SF operations on Windows CVM cluster
- ESX servers not able to access an RDM disk associated with a shared datastore might cause failed discovery of RDM disk by InfoScale Operations Manager
- InfoScale Operations Manager does not validate if the cluster node is managed by the Management Server during the VBS start operation
- Known issues
- xprtld.service fails to start during yum upgrade (4188076)
- Incorrect VCS configuration message is displayed during SecureFS checkpoint recovery (4189119)
- SSO login failure after Windows CMS upgrade (4188548)
- VBS logs missing on InfoScale Operations Manager server (4188788)
- LDAP configuration fails on a fresh Windows CMS installation (4188000)
- InfoScale Operations Manager CMS services fail to start after a system reboot (4188737)
- Disks not visible in InfoScale Operations Manager UI (4188991)
- Appendix A. Getting help
Deprecated functionality in version 9.0
The following functionality is deprecated in this release:
Discovery of storage arrays and SAN switches.
The following add-ons are no longer supported:
Fabric Insight Add-on
Storage Insight Add-on
Storage Insight SDK Add-on
Distribution Manager functionality, where you could create a custom solution package, including an install and uninstall routine, to deliver across hosts managed by Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager is deprecated. The Distribution Manager Add-on is no longer supported.
Patch installer functionality where the Management Server console can deploy and install supported Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) hot fixes on the managed hosts is deprecated. The Patch Installer Add-on is no longer supported.
Arctera ApplicationHA in vSphere Web Client functionality is deprecated and the Arctera HA Plug-in for vSphere Web Client is no longer supported.
InfoScale licensing data collection for Usage Insight and license reconciliation is deprecated. Instead, use the License Management Service (LMS), which offers a single centralized console for managing licensing details.
Discovery of Microsoft Exchange Server is no longer supported.
Volume deduplication is no longer supported.
Dynamic multipathing (DMP) path management is no longer supported.
VCS Utilities used for managing cluster authentication for users is deprecated. The VCS Utilities - Manage VCS User Passwords Add-on is no longer supported.
The Storage perspective of the Management Server console is deprecated and the functionality to monitor the enclosures is no longer available from this release.