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Important Notes

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Solaris 11 support requires VCS 6.0 PR1.
  
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Features not supported in this version

VCS no longer supports the following:
  • Configuration wizards
  • CampusCluster agent
  • NFSLock agent.
    Use the NFSRestart agent to provide high availability to NFS lock records.
  • nfs_restart trigger.
    Use the NFSRestart agent to provide high availability to NFS lock records.
  • ServiceGroupHB agent.
    This release does not support disk heartbeats. Symantec recommends using I/O fencing.
  • SANVolume agent
  • VRTSWebApp
  • VCS documentation package (VRTSvcsdc)
    The VCS documentation package (VRTSvcsdc) is deprecated. The software disc contains the documentation for VCS in Portable Document Format (PDF) in the cluster_server/docs directory.
    Symantec recommends copying pertinent documents from the disc to your system directory /opt/VRTS/docs for reference.
  • The Cluster Server Agents for Volume Replicator Configuration Guide is deprecated and its content is accommodated in the Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions Replication Administrator Guide and Cluster Server Bundled Agents Reference Guide.
  • hahbsetup tool. This tool is removed as no supported feature requires this tool.
  • VRTSutil package. This package is no longer supported.
  • The push install features is not supported for Solaris 11 VRTSvbs package through VOM 4.1CS
  • VCS does not support CFS, UFS and VxFS mounts for the zone root in this release as Oracle Solaris.
  • Sybase and DB2udb agents are not supported in VCS 6.0 PR1.
  • The following agents are not supported in VCS 6.0 PR1 on Solaris 11 platform:
  • AlternateIO
  • IPMultiNIC
  • MultiNICA
  • The following features are not supported for the respective agent in VCS 6.0 PR1:
  • Zone: Disaster Recovery for Zone.
  • LDom: Disaster Recovery for LDom.
  
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System requirements

Required number of CPUs: 1
Required memory: 256 MB
Required disk space:
    Partitions Minimum space required Maximum space required Recommended space
    /opt 290 MB 502 MB 475 MB
    /root 8 MB 8 MB 8 MB
    /usr 11 MB 11 MB 11 MB
    /var 1 MB 1 MB 1 MB
Supported architectures:
  • SPARC M5 series [1][2]
  • SPARC M6 series [1][2]
  • SPARC T3 series [2]
  • SPARC T4 series [2]
  • SPARC T5 series [2][3]
  • SPARC64 X+ series [2][3]
  • SPARC64-V series
  • SPARC64-VI series
  • SPARC64-VII/VII+ series
  • SPARC64-X series [2][3]
  • UltraSPARC II series
  • UltraSPARC III series
  • UltraSPARC IV series
  • UltraSPARC T1 series [2]
  • UltraSPARC T2/T2+ series [2]
  • 1. A minimum version of Storage Foundation 6.0 PR1 is required for Solaris 11 and 6.0.3 is required for Solaris 11.1.
  • 2. Oracle VM Server for SPARC supported. See the following TechNote: http://www.veritas.com/docs/DOC5860.
  • 3. A minimum version of Storage Foundation 6.0.3 is required for support.
  
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Patches for Cluster Server 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)
2011-12-182018-12-012020-12-302026-12-30
  
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Platform configuration

Supported platform version
    Product versionPlatform version
    6.0Solaris 11
  
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High availability agents

VCS agentDocumentationApplication versionRelease date
Oracle, Netlsnr, ASMInst, ASMDG 6.0.010.000 Oracle Database with ASM 11gR22012-04-04
All File Share Agents 6.0.010.000 Veritas Bundled File Share agents 6.0PR12012-03-31
All Infrastructure and support agents 6.0.010.000 Veritas Bundled Infrastructure and support agents 6.0PR12012-03-31
All Network Agents 6.0.010.000 Veritas Bundled Network agents 6.0PR12012-03-31
All VVR Agents 6.0.010.000 Veritas Bundled Replication agents 6.0PR12012-03-31
All Service and Application Agents 6.0.010.000 Veritas Bundled Service and Application agents 6.0PR12012-03-31
All Storage Agents 6.0.010.000 Veritas Bundled Storage agents 6.0PR12012-03-31
  
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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). For more details, click the link to the 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