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

New attributes for Cluster Server agents

The following new attributes are introduced in this release:

(Linux only) Application agent

Attribute

Description

Name: StartOnly

Type: boolean

Dimension: scalar

Indicates whether the application must be monitored or not. If this attribute is set, the agent does not execute the script specified in the MonitorProgram attribute, but performs the following actions instead:

  • If the online function is executed and the return code of the StartProgram attribute is 0, it reports the resource as online. Otherwise, it reports the resource as offline.

  • If the offline function is executed and the return code of the StopProgram attribute is 0, it reports the resource as offline. Otherwise, it reports the resource as online.

Note:

If this attribute is set:

You must set the Critical attribute to 0 so that VCS does not attempt to fail over or take any action if the application faults.

You may increase the values of the MonitorInterval and the OfflineMonitorInterval attributes, because they do not have an impact.

Default: 0

Example: 1

(AIX and Solaris only) DiskGroup agent

Attribute

Description

Name: DGOptions

Type: string

Dimension: scalar

Specifies the options for the vxdg import command. The agent uses this attribute only while bringing a DiskGroup resource online.

For more information, see the vxdg(1m) manual page.

Example: -o noautostart -o updateid