Veritas InfoScale™ 7.3.1 What's New In This Release - AIX, Linux, Solaris

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (7.3.1)
  1. What's new in this release
    1.  
      About this document
    2. Changes related to installation and upgrades
      1.  
        Change in upgrade path
    3. Changes related to Cluster Server agents
      1.  
        New High Availability agent for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      2.  
        New High Availability agents for Azure environment
      3.  
        Support for configuring applications for HA in Azure cloud using InfoScale Enterprise
      4.  
        Support for configuring LLT over TCP
      5.  
        Start-only option for applications
      6.  
        256-bit encryption for enhanced security
      7.  
        Stale key detection to avoid a false preexisting split brain condition
      8.  
        VCS stop timeout
      9.  
        New attributes for Cluster Server agents
    4. Changes related to Veritas File System
      1.  
        New option [-i] included in fsadm command to exclude the actively used files during file system reorganization
      2.  
        Delayed allocation support extended to clustered file systems
      3.  
        Support for migrating Oracle database from Oracle ASM to Veritas File System (VxFS)
    5. Changes related to Veritas Volume Manager
      1.  
        Support for InfoScale deployments in Azure cloud
      2.  
        NVMe device support for Solaris
      3.  
        Support for Azure Blob storage connector
      4.  
        Erasure coded volume enhancements
    6. Changes related to replication
      1.  
        Support for configuring volume replication in Azure cloud
      2.  
        Support for setting up replication across clouds
      3.  
        Veritas Volume Replicator Performance Improvements
      4.  
        Support for replication of encrypted volumes
    7. Changes related to operating systems
      1.  
        Support for Root Disk Encapsulation (RDE) on All Linux Distributions is Deprecated
    8. Changes related to Dynamic Multipathing
      1.  
        Support for dynamic multipathing in the KVM guest virtualized machine

Erasure coded volume enhancements

(Linux only)

Erasure coding feature supports in standalone and shared environments. Erasure coded volume can be used in the following use cases:

  • Erasure Coded (EC) volume as a backing store for generic workloads such as transactional or FileStore.

  • Erasure Coded (EC) volume is tuned for optimal performance for special workloads such as object store.

The following enhancements have been added to erasure coded volumes.

  • Customized failure domain

    To use customized failure domain user can specify the constraints on column, and define the failure domain as per the need and available configuration. Customizing is done by setting tags on the devices which are used for allocation.

  • Using Stripe Group and Stripe Confined Group during volume creation.

    When you create an EC volume, specify the Stripe Group and Stripe Confined Group, and if nothing is specified the Stripe Group value is the host.

For more information, see Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability Administrator's Guide.