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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
Get more introduction of Veritas InfoScale.
  
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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 594 MB 4339 MB 693 MB
    /root 15 MB 273 MB 15 MB
    /usr 11 MB 175 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 Storage
1-256 TB File System
1.4X times improvement in FSS performance
2X - 4X improvement in VVR performance
ALUA and Generic ALUA Array Support
AWS Support: cluster scaling up and down (AMI/CFT)
AWS: Full Stack InfoScale Support
Ansible Enhancements
Atomic I/O
Azure Support
CFS Multi-transaction server
CLI to configure VIOM Management Server (CMS & CMS HA) deployment models
Centralised reporting across Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager (VIOM) Management Servers
Cluster File System
Cluster Volume Manager
Compression
Concurrent I/O
Container Lifecycle Management via Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) for OCP (RHCOS) / Kubernetes (OEL / SLES)
Cost Effective Scalability: Erasure coding enhancements
DG level encryption
Data Integrity guarantee with I/O fencing for OCP (RHCOS) / Kubernetes (OEL / SLES)
Data management application programming interface (DMAPI)
Database storage checkpoints & rollback
Deduplication
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
Direct I/O
Disaster Recovery (DR) for container workloads across multiple OCP (RHCOS) / Kubernetes (OEL / SLES) clusters (tech-preview)
Dynamic Multi-pathing
Enable S3 devices to be consumed by VM/FS
Encryption of data at rest - Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Certified
Encryption of data at rest for replicated (VVR) volumes
Erasure Coding Support
Facilitate Automation with REST APIs for control plane operations (Linux)
Fault tolerant file system
File Change Log
File Replicator option
File system migration from EXT4 to VxFS
File system snapshots
File system storage checkpoints
Full 64-bit support without additional packages
Heartbeats: LLT over UDP
Heartbeats: Low-priority
Heartbeats:Dedicated Private Network connections
Heartbeats:Infiniband and 10GB Ethernet with RDMA
Hot-relocation
Improved VVR network bandwidth utilization for TCP protocol
Improvised diagnostics & evidence collection, reduced TTR, enhanced debug-ability
Keyless licensing
LLT over UDP Performance improvements
Large cluster deployments (up to 128 node)
Licensing simplification: SLIC Migration
Live migration from Oracle ASM Single Instance to VxFS
Live migration from Oracle ASM on RAC to VxFS
Migration from Native (ext4) to VxFS
Mount lock
NFSv4 support
Named data streams
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 volume grow & shrink
Operational simplification though VIOM for VVR along with monitoring and alert notifications.
Oracle Disk Manager (ODM) and Cached ODM (CODM)
Out of the box support for storage classes with performance and resiliency for OCP (RHCOS) / Kubernetes (OEL / SLES)
Parallel access to persistent enterprise storage with optimal performance and reliability for OCP (RHCOS) / Kubernetes (OEL / SLES)
Partitioned directories
Performance enhancements File level replication (VFR)
Performance enhancements for DB2-restore operation
Portable Data Containers (formerly known as Cross-Platform Data Sharing (CDS))
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
REST API Support for InfoScale HA and DR operations
Replicator option (formerly Volume Replicator)
S3 cloud file level tiering
S3 connector enhancements (V4 authentication)
SCSI-3 based I/O fencing
SCSI3-PGR Fencing with Coordinator Disks
SELinux Policy enhancements
SELinux Support with RHEL 7.6 & other security 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
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)
SmartTier for Oracle (formerly Database DST)
Software defined solution with support for both SAN and DAS environments for OCP (RHCOS) / Kubernetes (OEL / SLES)
Space-optimized instant snapshot
Support DMP with Storage Fabric Notification (FPIN) for multipathing solution
Support fencing with NVMe type of storage (AFA)
Support for Audit logging in File System
Support for Azure Shared Disk, AWS MultiAttach
Support for Azure Ultra Disk (Cloud)
Support for Erasure Coded volumes
Support for Google Cloud VMWare Engine(GCVE)
Support for Manilla and Cinder storage to leverage Veritas Cluster Filesystem in OpenStack
Support for Non modifiable storage checkpoints in File System
Support for Resiliency across Availability Domains in OCI
Support for S3 target
Support for Secure Clock in File System
Support for SmartIO Parallel Cache
Support for Soft-WORM in File System
Support for VMWare Cloud with AWS (VMC)
Support for VVR stretch-clusters using hostname binding
Support for WORM in File System
Support for native 4k sector size storage devices
Support systemd
Thin storage reclamation
Thin storage reclamation using UNMAP
Usability enhancements on Veritas File Replicator
Usability enhancements on large clusters management using VIOM
User & group quotas
VVR : Allow a slave node to be configured as logowner
VVR : Scale vradmind to work in a multi RVG environment
VVR Adaptive synchronous mode
VVR DCM log in DCO
Volume Replicator (VVR) enhancements with improved recovery time for front end logging (DCO/SRL).
  
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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
infoscale-rhel8...Patch-8.0.2.1500 2024-02-08 494.54 MB
infoscale-rhel8...Patch-8.0.2.1100 2023-08-04 458.12 MB
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
    8.0.2Update 6, Update 8 with product patch, Update 9 with product patch
Required platform packages:
  • ethtool.x86_64
  • binutils.x86_64
  • policycoreutils-python-utils.noarch
  • libhbalinux.x86_64
  • policycoreutils.x86_64
  • bc.x86_64
  • libhbaapi.x86_64
  • libxml2.x86_64
  • glibc.x86_64
  • ncurses-compat-libs.x86_64
  • jansson.x86_64
  • findutils.x86_64
  • libacl.x86_64
  • openssl-libs.x86_64
  • coreutils.x86_64
  • libevent.x86_64
  • libnsl.x86_64
  • pam.x86_64
  • libgcc.x86_64
  • ed.x86_64
  • libuuid.x86_64
  • libstdc++.x86_64
  • compat-openssl10.x86_64
  • initscripts.x86_64
  • ksh.x86_64
  • zlib.x86_64
  • perl.x86_64
  • perl-Exporter.noarch
  • perl-Socket.x86_64
  • kmod.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