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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 598 MB 2379 MB 646 MB
    /root 17 MB 165 MB 17 MB
    /usr 11 MB 226 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
2FA/PKI (2 Factor Authentication) Support in InfoScale (VIOM)
2X - 4X improvement in VVR performance
ALUA and Generic ALUA Array Support
API for moving the host to DATA CENTER, based on organization rule (VIOM)
AWS Support: cluster scaling up and down
AWS: Full Stack InfoScale Support
Ability to visualize the replication groups - Discovery (VIOM)
Alert for SG Freeze/Unfreeze with time counter
Ansible Enhancements
Application Isolation
Atomic I/O
Azure Support
CFS Multi-transaction server
Cluster File System
Cluster Volume Manager
Compression
Concurrent I/O
Cost Effective Scalability: Erasure coding enhancements
DG level encryption
Data Confidentiality: Encryption over wire (Linux) - with replication and all the data movement (Cloud & On-premise)
Data management application programming interface (DMAPI)
Deduplication
Deployment of InfoScale through CPI integration with CHEF automation platform
Deployment simplification : Ansible support
Device names consistent across cluster nodes
Device names using Array Volume IDs
Direct I/O
Dirty region logging
Docker plug-in enhancements
Dynamic LUN expansion
Dynamic Multi-pathing
Dynamic Multi-pathing - Intelligent pathing for EMC VPLEX
Ease of Use: VIOM API Functionality and DR support using SRDF
Enable S3 devices to be consumed by VM/FS
Enclosure based naming
Encryption of data at rest - Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Certified
Encryption of data at rest for replicated (VVR) volumes
Erasure Coding Support
FSS Performance for Ethernet (10GB/40GB)
FSS auto healing
FSS performance enhancements
FSS performance improvements(CPU usage optimization and throughput improvements)
Fault tolerant file system
File Change Log
File Replicator option
File system migration from EXT4 to VxFS
File system snapshots
File system storage checkpoints
Flashsnap: Disk group split & join
Flashsnap: Fast resynchronization
Flexible Storage Sharing (64 node support)
Full 64-bit support without additional packages
Full size instant snapshots
Generic ASL support for NVMe or SSD type devices
Hardware assisted copy
Heartbeats: LLT over UDP
Heartbeats: Low-priority
Heartbeats:Dedicated Private Network connections
Heartbeats:Infiniband and 10GB Ethernet with RDMA
Hot-relocation
Import cloned LUN
Improved VVR network bandwidth utilization for TCP protocol
InfoScale Ansible module (tech preview)
Installer - Required patches for OS updates
Installer-SORT Integration
KVM Hypervisor layer DMP support for KVM Guests
Keyless licensing
LLT over UDP Performance improvements
Large cluster deployments (up to 128 node)
License Auditing Tool (VIOM)
Licensing simplification: SLIC Migration
Live migration from Oracle ASM Single Instance to VxFS
Live migration from Oracle ASM on RAC to VxFS
Logging enhancements on Dynamic Multi-Pathing for VMware
Migration from Native (ext4) to VxFS
Modularized CPI (MCPI)
Mount lock
Moving HOST to child organization, based on OE rule (VIOM)
NFSv4 support
Named data streams
Native package install/upgrade support for Linux
NetApp C-Dot Array Support
Non-SCSI3 Fencing with Coordination Point Servers
Nutanix Support
Online coordinator disk replacement
Online file system defragmentation
Online file system grow & shrink
Online patching of selected Volume Manager packages
Online relay out
Online volume grow & shrink
Operations Manager
Oracle 18c Support
Oracle Disk Manager (ODM) and Cached ODM (CODM)
Partitioned directories
Portable Data Containers (formerly known as Cross-Platform Data Sharing (CDS))
Public Cloud support - Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure
Public-Sector Compliance: IPv6 InfoScale Stack-Wide Support
Puppet support
Quality of Service (QoS) for applications
REKEY support
Remote mirrors for campus clusters
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 Support with RHEL 7.6 & other security enhancements
SNMP v3 support (VIOM)
SQL 2017 Support
SSD device exploitation
Secure Erase enhancements (Extended Seven Pass)
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)
Space-optimized instant snapshot
Split-mirror snapshot
Storage management plugin for Docker containers
Sub-cluster support
Support for Azure Blob storage and IBM Cloud Object storage (S3) connectors
Support for Erasure Coded volumes
Support for SmartIO Parallel Cache
Support for native 4k sector size storage devices
Support systemd
Telemetry : Licensing & Compliance
Telemetry Edge collection service support enhancement [SmartMeter]
Thin storage reclamation
Thin storage reclamation using UNMAP
Third Party Certificate Support
Usability enhancements on Veritas File Replicator
Usability enhancements on large clusters management using VIOM
User & group quotas
VIOM : 2FA Implementation in VIOM using 6 digit pin
VIOM : Cloud (Azure/AWS) discovery support
VIOM : Remove client by host name
VIOM API for service group management (Online/Offline/Switch)
VIOM GUI integration with VDL - Re-skinning of VIOM GUI
VVR : Allow a slave node to be configured as logowner
VVR : Scale vradmind to work in a multi RVG environment
VVR Adaptive Synchronous Replication Mode (Technical Preview Feature)
VVR Adaptive synchronous mode
VVR DCM log in DCO
iSCSI device support
Database storage checkpoints & rollbackOracle only
FlashSnap: DatabaseOracle only
SmartTier for Oracle (formerly Database DST)Oracle only
  
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Patches for InfoScale Storage and Platform

Product (recommended)
Patch Date Size
infoscale-sles15...Patch-7.4.2.5100 2024-03-12 783.95 MB
cpi-Patch-7.4.2.3800 2023-12-27 94.09 KB
infoscale-sles15...Patch-7.4.2.4100 2023-09-06 239.62 MB
infoscale-sles15...Patch-7.4.2.4000 2023-08-07 703.02 MB
infoscale-sles15...Patch-7.4.2.2700 2023-02-13 240.45 MB
infoscale-sles15...Patch-7.4.2.2800 2023-02-13 24.83 MB
infoscale-sles15...Patch-7.4.2.2600 2023-02-13 90.42 MB
infoscale-sles15...Patch-7.4.2.2300 2022-05-18 515.32 MB
infoscale-sles1...Patch-7.4.2.1900 2021-12-17 485.54 MB
infoscale-sles1...Patch-7.4.2.1600 2021-02-26 121.97 MB
vcs-sles15_x86_...atch-7.4.2.1600 0000-00-00 77.33 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)
2020-06-012025-06-012027-06-01-
  
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Platform configuration

    Unless otherwise stated, the specified Veritas product supports all platform kernel versions.
Supported platform version. Last updated on 2024-03-04
    Product versionPlatform version
    7.4.2SP1, SP2 with product patch, SP3 with product patch, SP4 with product patch, SP5 with product patch
Required platform packages:
  • chrony.x86_64
  • binutils.x86_64
  • ethtool.x86_64
  • bc.x86_64
  • policycoreutils.x86_64
  • parted.x86_64
  • glibc.x86_64
  • ed.x86_64
  • kmod-compat.x86_64
  • coreutils.x86_64
  • findutils.x86_64
  • libgcc_s1.x86_64
  • libacl1.x86_64
  • libstdc++6.x86_64
  • mksh.x86_64
  • libz1.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