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Important Notes

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System requirements

Required number of CPUs: 1

Required disk space:

Partitions	Required disk space
/opt	1366 MB
/root	82 MB
/usr	164 MB
/var	733 MB

Supported architectures:

SPARC T3 series [1]
SPARC64-V series
SPARC64-VI series
SPARC64-VII/VII+ series
UltraSPARC II series
UltraSPARC III series
UltraSPARC IV series
UltraSPARC T1 series [1]
UltraSPARC T2/T2+ series [1][2]

1. Oracle VM Server for SPARC supported. See the following TechNote: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH54943.
2. Support for T2+ on 5.0 Maintenance Pack 1 for Solaris requires Rolling Patch 2. For information on downloading the patch, see: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH55617.

Product features

The features in the list are enabled in this release.

Feature	Storage Foundation DB2 Standard	Storage Foundation DB2 Enterprise
1-256 TB File System
Concurrent I/O
Data management application programming interface (DMAPI)
Device names consistent across cluster nodes
Device names using Array Volume IDs
Direct I/O
Dirty region logging
Dynamic LUN expansion
Dynamic Multi-pathing
Enclosure based naming
File Change Log
File system snapshots
Full size instant snapshots
Hardware assisted copy
Hot-relocation
Mount lock
Named data streams
Online file system defragmentation
Online file system grow & shrink
Online relay out
Online volume grow & shrink
Operations Manager
Oracle Disk Manager (ODM) and Cached ODM (CODM)
Portable Data Containers (formerly known as Cross-Platform Data Sharing (CDS))
Quick I/O (QIO) and Cached QIO (CQIO)
Remote mirrors for campus clusters
SCSI-3 based I/O fencing
SmartMove
Space-optimized instant snapshot
Split-mirror snapshot
Thin storage reclamation
User & group quotas
iSCSI device support
Volume Replicator option	Optional	Optional
Dynamic Storage Tiering
File system storage checkpoints
Flashsnap: Disk group split & join
Flashsnap: Fast resynchronization
Import cloned LUN
Site awareness with remote mirrors
Database Dynamic Storage Tiering		Oracle & DB2 only
Database storage checkpoints & rollback		Oracle & DB2 only
FlashSnap: Database		Oracle & DB2 only

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Product documentation

Hardware compatibility list (HCL)

Hardware Compatibility List for Storage Foundation (tm) and High Availability Solutions 5.0 Maintenance Pack 1, 5.0 Maintenance Pack 2 (including SFCFS for Oracle RAC for RHEL, SLES and OEL), 5.0 Maintenance Pack 3, 5.0 Maintenance Pack 4, and 5.0.1

Veritas product documentation

Patches for Storage Foundation for DB2 and Platform

Product (recommended)

Patch	Date	Size
vcs-sol_sparc-V...xfen-5.0MP3RP5P1	2011-08-01	14.56 KB
vm-sol_sparc-5.0MP3RP5HF1	2011-06-09	47.66 MB
sfha-sol_sparc-5.0MP3RP5	2011-05-06	350.6 MB
cpi-5.0MP3P4	2011-04-11	1.27 KB
cpi-sol_sparc-5.0MP3RP4P1	2011-02-14	1.92 KB
cpi-5.0MP3P3	2011-01-31	3.45 KB
sfora-sol_sparc-5.0MP3RP4HF1	2010-08-09	30.04 MB
cpi-sol_sparc-5.0MP3RP4HF1	2010-07-13	2.13 KB
vcs-sol_sparc-5.0MP3RP3NFSHF1	2010-03-24	57.22 KB
vm-sol_sparc-5.0MP3RP3HF2	2010-01-06	47.23 MB
vcs-sol_sparc-VR...sag-5.0MP3RP3HF1	2010-01-04	95.91 KB
vcs-sol_sparc-5....925+e1838546_LLT	2009-10-19	1.21 MB
vcs-sol_sparc-VRTSvcs-5.0MP3HF5	2009-10-07	428.55 KB
vcs-sol_sparc-5.0MP1HFe1834858	2009-10-06	4.34 MB
cpi-sol_sparc-5.0MP3HF1	2009-02-27	972 Bytes
vcs_agents-sol_...ApplicationAgent	2009-02-20	53.83 KB
vm-sol_sparc-5.0MP3RP1HF3	2009-02-18	56.95 MB
vcs_agents-sol_s...c_HF1_MountAgent	2009-01-28	26.23 KB
sig_licensing-...sparc-5.0MP3HF1	2008-12-04	23.57 KB
vcs_agents-sol_...P3HF1Db2udbAgent	2008-11-18	10.98 KB
cpi-sol-UxRT-CCS-HF1	2008-11-11	1.15 KB
vcs_agents-sol_s...1NFSRestartAgent	2008-10-29	27.61 KB
vm-sol_sparc-5.0MP3HF1	2008-10-08	58.58 MB

Platform (required)

Solaris patch number: 111413-06
Solaris patch number: 108993-18
Solaris patch number: 108528-18
Solaris patch number: 112438-03
Solaris patch number: 113766-05

To check if the patch has been installed, use the showrev -p | grep patch_number command

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End of Support Life information

Last updated on 2019-12-06. Refer to support fundamental for more information about support.

Release Date(GA)	Extended Support Starts	Sustaining Support Starts	End of Support Life Date(EOSL)
2008-08-19	2014-08-30	2017-07-14	-

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Platform configuration

Supported platform version

Product version	Platform version
5.0MP3	Solaris 8

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Host bus adapter (HBA) parameters and switch parameters

Unless otherwise stated, the specified Veritas product supports all HBAs (except iSCSI HBAs) and fibre channel switches supported by the platform and storage array manufacturers listed in the hardware compatibility list (HCL). For more details, click the link to the HCL.

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Operations Manager

Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager gives you a single, centralized management console for the InfoScale products. You can use it to monitor, visualize, and manage storage and cluster resources, and generate reports about these components in the Management Server domain.It can also help administrators centrally manage diverse data center environments. This section lists the documents for Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager 7.4.

Documentation

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Additional tasks to consider

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