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Installation and Upgrade Checklist Report for InfoScale Foundation 8.0.2, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 , x86-64
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Components for InfoScale

The InfoScale product you selected contains the following component(s).
  • Dynamic Multi-Pathing
  • Storage Foundation Basic
Get more introduction of Veritas InfoScale.
  
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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 1021 MB 684 MB
    /root 15 MB 139 MB 15 MB
    /usr 11 MB 154 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 Foundation
1-256 TB File System
ALUA and Generic ALUA Array Support
Ansible Enhancements
DG level encryption
Data management application programming interface (DMAPI)
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
Device names consistent across cluster nodes
Dynamic Multi-pathing
Encryption of data at rest - Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Certified
Fault tolerant file system
File Change Log
File system migration from EXT4 to VxFS
File system snapshots
Hot-relocation
Keyless licensing
Licensing simplification: SLIC Migration
Mount lock
Named data streams
Online file system defragmentation
Online file system grow & shrink
Online relay out
Online volume grow & shrink
Partitioned directories
Performance enhancements for DB2-restore operation
PubSec compliance with FIPS 140-2 
Public Cloud support - Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure
Public-Sector Compliance: IPv6 InfoScale Stack-Wide Support
Puppet support
REKEY support
S3 cloud file level tiering
SELinux Support with RHEL 7.6 & other security enhancements
Site awareness with remote mirrors
SmartIO Support for vMotion with DMP for VMware with SmartPools
SmartMove
SmartTier (formerly Dynamic Storage Tiering)
Space-optimized instant snapshot
Support for Audit logging in File System
Support for Erasure Coded volumes
Support for Non modifiable storage checkpoints in File System
Support for Secure Clock in File System
Support for Soft-WORM in File System
Support for WORM in File System
Support for native 4k sector size storage devices
Support systemd
Thin storage reclamation
Thin storage reclamation using UNMAP
Third-party components upgrade ensuring security
  
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Patches for InfoScale Foundation 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
  • policycoreutils.x86_64
  • libnsl2.x86_64
  • bc.x86_64
  • glibc.x86_64
  • ncurses-libs.x86_64
  • libgcc.x86_64
  • openssl-libs.x86_64
  • coreutils.x86_64
  • libxml2.x86_64
  • pam.x86_64
  • jansson.x86_64
  • libacl.x86_64
  • findutils.x86_64
  • libuuid.x86_64
  • libevent.x86_64
  • ed.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