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Components for InfoScale

The InfoScale product you selected contains the following component(s).
  • Cluster Server
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System requirements

Required number of CPUs: 1
Required memory: 1 GB
Required disk space:
    Partitions Minimum space required Maximum space required Recommended space
    /opt 585 MB 1183 MB 684 MB
    /root 15 MB 18 MB 15 MB
    /usr 11 MB 30 MB 11 MB
Supported architectures:
  • AMD Opteron architecture [1]
  • Intel EM64T architecture [1]
  • 1. Supports only the 64-bit versions of the software stacks.
  
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Product features

The features in the list are enabled in this release.
FeatureInfoScale Availability
64 Node Cluster Support
AES 256 bit encryption support for vcs agent communication through vcsencrypt utility
AWS Disk Agent for AWS
AWS Support: cluster scaling up and down (AMI/CFT)
AWS: Full Stack InfoScale Support
AWSIP agent for AWS
Adaptive HA
Advance CPS-Member Aware CPS Solution
Ansible Enhancements
Application Agents
Auto-Clear Faults
Azure Support
AzureAuth Agent for Azure
AzureDNSZone Agent for Azure
AzureDisk Agent for Azure
AzureIP Agent for Azure
Bundled Agents
CLI to configure VIOM Management Server (CMS & CMS HA) deployment models
Centralised reporting across Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager (VIOM) Management Servers
Core requirements for VCS: Customizations around HAD start-up, environment variables to decide Service group evacuation and CMDSERVER startup
Deeper integration with DevOps utilities like Ansible for Deployment & Configuration (On-prem and Cloud) (RHEL)
Deeper integration with DevOps utilities like YUM for Deployment, Upgrades and Patching for RHEL
Deployment of InfoScale through CPI integration with CHEF automation platform
Deployment simplification : Ansible support
Enhancements for Apache Agent(SystemD)
Enhancements in LLT to cater to greater resilience during high load conditions in VMWare
Facilitate Automation with REST APIs for control plane operations (Linux)
FireDrill
Full 64-bit support without additional packages
Global Cluster Option (GCO)
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
IMF support for NFS mount
IPv6 NFS MountAgent Support
Improvised diagnostics & evidence collection, reduced TTR, enhanced debug-ability
InfoScale plug-in for OEM 13c (Oracle Enterprise Manager)
Intelligent Monitoring Framework (IMF)
Keyless licensing
LLT over TCP
Licensing simplification: SLIC Migration
Manual Campus Cluster Failover
Mix Engine Version Support
Monitor Only Resource
NFSv4 support
Non-SCSI3 Fencing with Coordination Point Servers
Operational simplification though VIOM for VVR along with monitoring and alert notifications.
Option to introduce timeout value while shutting down vcs service
Option to just start and stop application agent and not monitor
Preferred Application or Service Group I/O Fencing
Preferred Node I/O Fencing
Preferred Site I/O Fencing
Priority Based Failover
PubSec compliance with FIPS 140-2 
Public-Sector Compliance: IPv6 InfoScale Stack-Wide Support
Puppet support
REST API Support for InfoScale HA and DR operations
Route53 agent for AWS
SCSI3-PGR Fencing with Coordinator Disks
SELinux Policy enhancements
Secure Boot support
Simplified cloud deployments with Ansible templates and native CPI installers
Simplified configurations through VIOM for SecureFS to protect against Ransomware attacks
Simplifying authorization with support for Azure Managed Identity
Support DMP with Storage Fabric Notification (FPIN) for multipathing solution
Support fencing with NVMe type of storage (AFA)
Support for /sbin/nologin shell in Process Agent for root user
Support for Azure Shared Disk, AWS MultiAttach
Support for Azure Ultra Disk (Cloud)
Support for Co-existence of NBU Snapshots and InfoScale High-Availability in VMWare ecosystem
Support for Google Cloud VMWare Engine(GCVE)
Support for Manilla and Cinder storage to leverage Veritas Cluster Filesystem in OpenStack
Support for Oracle Flex-ASM and Oracle PDB
Support for Resiliency across Availability Domains in OCI
Support for S3 target
Support for VMWare Cloud with AWS (VMC)
Support for VVR stretch-clusters using hostname binding
Support systemd
Third-party components upgrade ensuring security
VCS - Online Upgrade
VCS : Cloned agent support for IMF/AMF
VCS : IMF support and other enhancements for CIFS bundled agent
VCS Support for OpenStack Mirantis
Virtual Business Services
Volume Replicator (VVR) enhancements with improved recovery time for front end logging (DCO/SRL).
  
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Patches for InfoScale Availability and Platform

Product (recommended)
No patches found.
Platform (required)
No patches required.
  
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End of Support Life information

Last updated on 2024-04-19.  Refer to EOSL page for more information about support.
Release Date(GA)Extended Support StartsSustaining Support StartsEnd of Support Life Date(EOSL)
2023-06-05To Be DeterminedTo Be Determined-
  
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Platform configuration

    Unless otherwise stated, the specified Veritas product supports all platform kernel versions.
Supported platform version. Last updated on 2024-02-12
    Product versionPlatform version
    8.0.2GA, Update 2 with product patch, Update 3 with product patch
Required platform packages:
  • ethtool.x86_64
  • binutils.x86_64
  • policycoreutils-python-utils.noarch
  • initscripts.x86_64
  • libnsl2.x86_64
  • glibc.x86_64
  • libstdc++.x86_64
  • libgcc.x86_64
  • libnsl.x86_64
  • openssl-libs.x86_64
  • ksh.x86_64
  • zlib.x86_64
  
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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).

  
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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 8.0.2.
Documentation