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

Support for configuring volume replication in Azure cloud

(Linux only)

Veritas InfoScale lets you to configure replication between two data centers to support various HA and DR scenarios for applications in the Azure cloud.

InfoScale supports the following scenarios for setting up replication in an Azure cloud:

  • On-premise to cloud

  • Across user-defined sites in the same region (includes both, within a single VNet and across VNet scenarios)

  • Across regions

  • Across multiple sites and regions (Campus cluster)

You can use any of the following Veritas' technologies to set up replication:

  • Use Volume Replicator (VVR) to configure standalone replication between the attached Azure block storage devices.

  • Use Cluster Volume Replication (CVR) to configure replication between multi-node clusters.

  • Use site tagging to use FFS to create mirrored volumes across user-defined sites. FSS enables you to create shared-nothing clusters by sharing Azure block storage over the network.

For more information, see the following documents

  • Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability 7.3.1 Administrator's Guide - Linux

  • Veritas InfoScale 7.3.1 Disaster Recovery Implementation Guide - Linux