Installation and Upgrade General Checklist Report
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VeritasTM Services and Operations Readiness Tools Installation and Upgrade Checklist Report for InfoScale Enterprise 7.4.1, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 , x86-64 Index Back to top Important Notes Components for InfoScale System requirements Product features Product documentation Patches for InfoScale Enterprise and Platform End of Support Life information Platform configuration Host bus adapter (HBA) parameters and switch parameters Operations Manager Array Support Libraries (ASLs) Additional tasks to consider Important Notes Back to top Array Support Libraries (ASLs) When installing Veritas products, please be aware that ASLs updates are not included in the patches update bundle. Please go to the Array Support Libraries (ASLs) to get the latest updates for your disk arrays. Components for InfoScale Back to top The InfoScale product you selected contains the following component(s). Dynamic Multi-Pathing Storage Foundation Storage Foundation Cluster File System HA Storage Foundation HA Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Storage Foundation for Sybase ASE CE Cluster Server Get more introduction of Veritas InfoScale. System requirements Back to top Required CPU number and memory: 1 of 15 VeritasTM Services and Operations Readiness Tools Required number of CPUs Required memory SF or SFHA N/A 2GB SF Oracle RAC or SF Sybase CE 2 2GB SFCFS or SFCFSHA 2 2GB VCS N/A 2GB Required disk space: Total space required: 1901MB Product features Back to top The features in the list are enabled in this release. Feature InfoScale Enterprise 1-256 TB File System 1.4X times improvement in FSS performance 2FA/PKI (2 Factor Authentication) Support in InfoScale (VIOM) 2X - 4X improvement in VVR performance 64 Node Cluster Support AES 256 bit encryption support for vcs agent communication through vcsencrypt utility ALUA and Generic ALUA Array Support API for moving the host to DATA CENTER, based on organization rule (VIOM) AWS Disk Agent for AWS AWS Support: cluster scaling up and down AWS: Full Stack InfoScale Support AWSIP agent for AWS Ability to visualize the replication groups - Discovery (VIOM) Adaptive HA Advance CPS-Member Aware CPS Solution Alert for SG Freeze/Unfreeze with time counter Application Agents Application Isolation Application Migration to AWS Application data migration across clouds (AWS/Azure) using replication (VVR) Atomic I/O Auto-Clear Faults Azure Support AzureAuth Agent for Azure AzureDNSZone Agent for Azure 2 of 15 VeritasTM Services and Operations Readiness Tools AzureDisk Agent for Azure AzureIP Agent for Azure Bundled Agents CFS Multi-transaction server Cloud Enablement : InfoScale Support for GCP Cloud Cluster File System Cluster Volume Manager Compression Concurrent I/O Cost Effective Scalability: Erasure coding enhancements Data Confidentiality: Encryption over wire (Linux) - with replication and all the data movement (Cloud & On-premise) Data management application programming interface (DMAPI) Deduplication Delayed allocation for Extending writes in CFS Deployment of InfoScale through CPI integration with CHEF automation platform Deployment simplification : Ansible support Device names consistent across cluster nodes Device names using Array Volume IDs Direct I/O Dirty region logging Docker plug-in enhancements Dynamic LUN expansion Dynamic Multi-pathing Dynamic Multi-pathing - Intelligent pathing for EMC VPLEX Ease of Use: VIOM API Functionality and DR support using SRDF Enable S3 devices to be consumed by VM/FS Enclosure based naming Encryption of data at rest - Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Certified Encryption of data at rest for replicated (VVR) volumes Erasure Coding Support FSS Performance for Ethernet (10GB/40GB) FSS auto healing FSS performance enhancements FSS performance improvements(CPU usage optimization and throughput improvements) Fault tolerant file system File Change Log 3 of 15 VeritasTM Services and Operations Readiness Tools File Replicator option File system migration from EXT4 to VxFS File system snapshots File system storage checkpoints FireDrill Flashsnap: Disk group split & join Flashsnap: Fast resynchronization Flexible Storage Sharing (64 node support) Full 64-bit support without additional packages Full size instant snapshots Functionality & performance for VMDK workload and iSCSI block workloads (FEL - DLV 14 Onwards) Generic ASL support for NVMe or SSD type devices Global Cluster Option (GCO) Hardware assisted copy Heartbeats: LLT over UDP Heartbeats: Low-priority Heartbeats:Dedicated Private Network connections Heartbeats:Infiniband and 10GB Ethernet with RDMA Heterogeneous Application Mobility for InfoScale Managed workloads Hot-relocation IPv6 NFS MountAgent Support Import cloned LUN Improved VVR network bandwidth utilization for TCP protocol InfoScale Ansible module (tech preview) InfoScale plug-in for OEM 13c (Oracle Enterprise Manager) Installer - Required patches for OS updates Installer-SORT Integration Intelligent Monitoring Framework (IMF) Just In Time(JIT) target VM Availability (VMware) for Planned/unplanned Failover KVM Hypervisor layer DMP support for KVM Guests Keyless licensing LLT over TCP Large cluster deployments (up to 128 node) License Auditing Tool (VIOM) Licensing simplification: SLIC Migration Live migration from Oracle ASM Single Instance to VxFS Live migration from Oracle ASM on RAC to VxFS 4 of 15 VeritasTM Services and Operations Readiness Tools Logging enhancements on Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware Manual Campus Cluster Failover Migration from Native (ext4) to VxFS Modularized CPI (MCPI) Monitor Only Resource Mount lock Moving HOST to child organization, based on OE rule (VIOM) NFSv4 support Named data streams Native package install/upgrade support for Linux NetApp C-Dot Array Support Non-SCSI3 Fencing with Coordination Point Servers Online coordinator disk replacement Online file system defragmentation Online file system grow & shrink Online patching of selected Volume Manager packages Online relay out Online volume grow & shrink Operations Manager Option to introduce timeout value while shutting down vcs service Option to just start and stop application agent and not monitor Oracle 18c Support Oracle Disk Manager (ODM) and Cached ODM (CODM) Partitioned directories Portable Data Containers (formerly known as Cross-Platform Data Sharing (CDS)) Preferred Application or Service Group I/O Fencing Preferred Node I/O Fencing Preferred Site I/O Fencing Priority Based Failover Public Cloud support - Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure Public-Sector Compliance: IPv6 InfoScale Stack-Wide Support Puppet support Quality of Service (QoS) for applications Remote mirrors for campus clusters Replication Agents (if they change direction upon failover) Replicator option (formerly Volume Replicator) Rolling upgrade Route53 agent for AWS 5 of 15 VeritasTM Services and Operations Readiness Tools S3 cloud file level tiering S3 connector enhancements (V4 authentication) SCSI-3 based I/O fencing SCSI3-PGR Fencing with Coordinator Disks SELinux Support with RHEL 7.6 & other security enhancements SNMP v3 support (VIOM) SQL 2017 Support SSD device exploitation Site awareness with remote mirrors SmartAssist - SmartIO analysis & enablement tool SmartIO - Volume Manager and File System Read Caching SmartIO Support for vMotion with DMP for VMware with SmartPools SmartMove SmartTier (formerly Dynamic Storage Tiering) Space-optimized instant snapshot Split-mirror snapshot Storage management plugin for Docker containers Sub-cluster support Support for Azure Blob storage and IBM Cloud Object storage (S3) connectors Support for Erasure Coded volumes Support for Oracle Flex-ASM and Oracle PDB Support for SmartIO Parallel Cache Support for native 4k sector size storage devices Support systemd Sybase ASE CE Integration Telemetry : Licensing & Compliance Thin storage reclamation Thin storage reclamation using UNMAP Third Party Certificate Support Usability enhancements on Veritas File Replicator Usability enhancements on large clusters management using VIOM User & group quotas VBS Cross Site Recovery Plan VCS - Online Upgrade VCS : Cloned agent support for IMF/AMF VCS : IMF support and other enhancements for CIFS bundled agent VIOM API for service group management (Online/Offline/Switch) 6 of 15 VeritasTM Services and Operations Readiness Tools VVR : Allow a slave node to be configured as logowner VVR : Scale vradmind to work in a multi RVG environment VVR Adaptive Synchronous Replication Mode (Technical Preview Feature) Virtual Business Services iSCSI device support Database storage checkpoints & rollback Oracle only FlashSnap: Database Oracle only Oracle RAC integration Oracle only SmartTier for Oracle (formerly Database DST) Oracle only Product documentation Back to top Manual pages Manual Pages Veritas InfoScale Enterprise Manual Pages - English Compatibility lists Veritas InfoScale Hardware Compatibility List - English Compatibility lists Veritas InfoScale Software Compatibility List - English Product guides Cluster Server Agent Developer's Guide - English Cluster Server Bundled Agents Reference Guide - English Cluster Server Agent for Sybase Installation and Configuration Guide - English Cluster Server Agent Guides Cluster Server Agent for DB2 Installation and Configuration Guide - English Cluster Server Generic Application Agent Configuration Guide - English Cluster Server Agent for Oracle Installation and Configuration Guide - English Cluster Server Configuration and Upgrade Guide - English Cluster Server Guides Cluster Server Administrator's Guide - English Veritas