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Components for InfoScale

The InfoScale product you selected contains the following component(s).
  • Dynamic Multi-Pathing
  • Storage Foundation
  • Storage Foundation Cluster File System
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System requirements

Required CPU number and memory:
     Required number of CPUsRequired memory
    SF or SFHAN/A2GB
    SFCFS or SFCFSHA22GB
Required disk space:
    Partitions Minimum space required Maximum space required Recommended space
    /opt 643 MB 2064 MB 735 MB
    /root 52 MB 84 MB 52 MB
    /usr 20 MB 351 MB 20 MB
Supported architectures:
  • Power10 series
  • Power7 series
  • Power7+ series
  • Power8 series
  • Power9 series
  • PowerPC 970MP series
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Product features

The features in the list are enabled in this release.
FeatureInfoScale Storage
1-256 TB File System
4K support
ALUA and Generic ALUA Array Support
AWS: Full Stack InfoScale Support
Advanced reporting for arrays
Ansible Enhancements
Auto volume growth
Auto-import of secondary dynamic disk groups
Automatic VMdg resource creation in Microsoft Failover Cluster (MSFoC)
CFS Multi-transaction server
Capacity monitoring
Centralised reporting across Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager (VIOM) Management Servers
Cluster File System
Cluster Volume Manager
Cluster quorum
Compression
Concurrent I/O
Convert basic disk to dynamic disk
Data management application programming interface (DMAPI)
Database storage checkpoints & rollback
Deduplication
Deployment of InfoScale through CPI integration with CHEF automation platform
Deployment simplification : Ansible support
Device Driver Installation R1 2016 integration
Device names consistent across cluster nodes
Direct I/O
Disk detach
Disk evacuate
Disk recover
Disk replace
Dynamic Multi-pathing
Enclosure-based naming
Event and change logging
Event notification (SMTP and E-mail)
Fast Failover support for VCS cluster
Fast file re-sync
Fast mirror re-sync
Fault tolerant file system
File Change Log
File system migration from EXT4 to VxFS
File system snapshots
File system storage checkpoints
FlashSnap
Heartbeats: LLT over UDP
Heartbeats: Low-priority
Heartbeats:Dedicated Private Network connections
Hot-relocation
I/O statistics
Improved VVR network bandwidth utilization for TCP protocol
Integration with Microsoft SCVMM for managing Hyper-V clusters
Keyless licensing
Licensing simplification: SLIC Migration
Mount lock
NFSv4 support
Named data streams
New Hardware Support : DSM additions for HPE XP8, HPE MSA 2060
New Hardware Support : SRDF MetroCluster PowerMax, DELL EMC vMAX
Non-SCSI3 Fencing with Coordination Point Servers
Nutanix Support
Online coordinator disk replacement
Online file system defragmentation
Online file system grow & shrink
Online relay out
Online storage migration
Online volume grow & shrink
Online volume grow and shrink
Optimised data sync for multi-site DR during migration 
Oracle Disk Manager (ODM) and Cached ODM (CODM)
Partitioned directories
Portable Data Containers (formerly known as Cross-Platform Data Sharing (CDS))
Preferred plex on SSD
Public-Sector Compliance: IPv6 InfoScale Stack-Wide Support
Puppet support
Quick I/O (QIO) and Cached QIO (CQIO)
Replicator option (formerly Volume Replicator)
S3 cloud file level tiering
SCSI-3 based I/O fencing
SCSI3-PGR Fencing with Coordinator Disks
SSD awareness
SSD trim support and discovery
Scheduled snapshots
Site awareness with remote mirrors
SmartAssist - SmartIO analysis & enablement tool
SmartIO - Volume Manager and File System Read Caching
SmartIO - Write Back Caching (ALL DLV's )
SmartIO Support for vMotion with DMP for VMware with SmartPools
SmartIO-Read caching
SmartMove
SmartTier (formerly Dynamic Storage Tiering)
SmartTier for Oracle (formerly Database DST)
Space-optimized instant snapshot
Subdisk management
Support for Azure Ultra Disk (Cloud)
Support for Campus Cluster
Support for Direct Attached Storage (DAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN)
Support for Hardware transportable snapshots
Support for IPv6
Support for Microsoft Copy-on-write snapshots
Support for Microsoft Failover Cluster
Support for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Support for Microsoft shared VHDX disks
Support for Resilient File System (ReFS)
Support for Shared storage clusters
Support for Virtual Business Service (VBS) for Microsoft Failover Cluster
Support for Virtual Business Service (VBS) for VCS cluster
Support for iSCSI / fiber channel
Support for mirrored volumes
Support for non-shared VMware virtual disks
Support for non-shared storage
Support for off-host backup
Support for virtual fiber channel
Support upto 16TB file size on AIX
Thin storage reclamation
Thin storage reclamation using UNMAP
Track alignment
Upgrade Microsoft Disk Group to Dynamic Disk Group
User & group quotas
VVR : Allow a slave node to be configured as logowner
VVR : Scale vradmind to work in a multi RVG environment
VVR DCM log in DCO
Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager (VIOM)
Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) aware application snapshots
Volume repair
Volume replication (VVR)
Volume shred
  
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Patches for InfoScale Storage and Platform

Product (recommended)
Patch Date Size
cpi-Patch-8.0.2.500 2024-04-25 47.41 KB
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

Supported platform version. Last updated on 2023-06-05
    Product versionPlatform version
    8.0.2TL0
  
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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