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 applications for HA in Azure cloud using InfoScale Enterprise

(Linux only)

InfoScale Enterprise lets you configure applications for HA and disaster recovery (DR) in Azure cloud environment.

The following scenarios are supported:

  • Failover within the same subnet using a private IP

  • Failover across the subnets using an overlay IP

  • Public access to the cluster nodes in an Azure environment using a public IP

  • DR across Azure Regions or VNets, and from the on-premises cluster to Azure

For more information, see the following documents:

  • Cluster Server Bundled Agents Reference Guide - Linux

  • Cluster Server Administrator's Guide - Linux

  • Veritas InfoScale Disaster Recovery Implementation Guide - Linux