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 dynamic multipathing in the KVM guest virtualized machine

For Linux only

DMP in the KVM guest virtualized machine provides:

  • SCSI-3 PR I/O fencing support for Linux KVM hosts and guests with Layered DMP configuration in KVM environment.

  • From 7.3.1 release onwards, Linux KVM host and their guests can use SCSI-3 PR fencing with virtual devices backed by DMP devices in KVM host.