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

NVMe device support for Solaris

For Solaris only

A single generic ASL is supported for all the NVMe devices. But, we do not guarantee full support to use generic ASL, to fetch all the properties of all NVMe devices. Currently only Samsung NVMe is tested for use with this generic ASL.

Following command output shows SAMSUNG NVMe device for InfoScale use:

# vxdisk -p list n04-t7-936090_nvme0_0

DISK                 : n04-t7-936090_nvme0_0
VID                  : NVMe
UDID                 : NVMe%5F144D108E%5FS2T7NAAH404821%5F3E17006194382500
SCSI_VERSION         : 0
PID                  : 144D108E
PHYS_CTLR_NAME       : /pci@304/pci@1/nvme@0
PGR_CAPABLE          : N
MEDIA_TYPE           : ssd
LUN_TYPE             : std
LUN_SNO_ORDER        : 0
LUN_SERIAL_NO        : 3E17006194382500
LIBNAME              : libvxnvme_sol.so
DMP_DEVICE           : n04-t7-936090_nvme0_0
DDL_DEVICE_ATTR      : ssd
CONN_TYPE            : local
CAB_SERIAL_NO        : S2T7NAAH404821
ATYPE                : A/A
ANAME                : NVMe
TRANSPORT            : SCSI
ENCLOSURE_NAME       : n04-t7-936090_nvme0
DMP_SINGLE_PATH      : /dev/rdsk/c4t1d0
LUN_SIZE             : 781404246
NUM_PATHS            : 1
STATE                : online
DISK_TYPE            : auto
FORMAT               : cdsdisk
DA_INFO              : format=cdsdisk,privoffset=208,pubslice=2,privslice=2
PRIV_OFF             : 208
PRIV_LEN             : 65536
PUB_OFF              : 65744
PUB_LEN              : 6251168128
PRIV_UDID            : NVMe%5F144D108E%5FS2T7NAAH404821%5F3E17006194382500
DISKID               : 1505772756.15.N04-T7-936090.engba.veritas.com
DISK_TIMESTAMP       : Day Month Date Time (AM/PM) Year