Installation and Upgrade Checklist Report for InfoScale Enterprise (IE)

Array Support Libraries (ASLs)
When installing Veritas products, please be aware that ASLs updates are not included in the patches update bundle. Please go to the Array Support Libraries (ASLs) to get the latest updates for your disk arrays.

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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 HA
Storage Foundation HA
Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
Storage Foundation for Sybase ASE CE
Cluster Server

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Upgrade Information

Upgrade the OS to RHEL6 Update 8 or later. Then use the installer to upgrade your product to 7.4.1

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System requirements

Required CPU number and memory:

	Required number of CPUs	Required memory
SF or SFHA	N/A	2GB
SF Oracle RAC or SF Sybase CE	2	2GB
SFCFS or SFCFSHA	2	2GB
VCS	N/A	2GB

Required disk space:

Total space required:

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Product features

The features in the list are enabled in this release.

Feature	InfoScale Enterprise
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
64 Node Cluster Support
AES 256 bit encryption support for vcs agent communication through vcsencrypt utility
ALUA and Generic ALUA Array Support
API for moving the host to DATA CENTER, based on organization rule (VIOM)
AWS Disk Agent for AWS
AWS Support: cluster scaling up and down
AWS: Full Stack InfoScale Support
AWSIP agent for AWS
Ability to visualize the replication groups - Discovery (VIOM)
Adaptive HA
Advance CPS-Member Aware CPS Solution
Alert for SG Freeze/Unfreeze with time counter
Application Agents
Application Isolation
Application Migration to AWS
Application data migration across clouds (AWS/Azure) using replication (VVR)
Atomic I/O
Auto-Clear Faults
Azure Support
AzureAuth Agent for Azure
AzureDNSZone Agent for Azure
AzureDisk Agent for Azure
AzureIP Agent for Azure
Bundled Agents
CFS Multi-transaction server
Cloud Enablement : InfoScale Support for GCP Cloud
Cluster File System
Cluster Volume Manager
Compression
Concurrent I/O
Cost Effective Scalability: Erasure coding enhancements
Data Confidentiality: Encryption over wire (Linux) - with replication and all the data movement (Cloud & On-premise)
Data management application programming interface (DMAPI)
Deduplication
Delayed allocation for Extending writes in CFS
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
FireDrill
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
Functionality & performance for VMDK workload and iSCSI block workloads (FEL - DLV 14 Onwards)
Generic ASL support for NVMe or SSD type devices
Global Cluster Option (GCO)
Hardware assisted copy
Heartbeats: LLT over UDP
Heartbeats: Low-priority
Heartbeats:Dedicated Private Network connections
Heartbeats:Infiniband and 10GB Ethernet with RDMA
Heterogeneous Application Mobility for InfoScale Managed workloads
Hot-relocation
IPv6 NFS MountAgent Support
Import cloned LUN
Improved VVR network bandwidth utilization for TCP protocol
InfoScale Ansible module (tech preview)
InfoScale plug-in for OEM 13c (Oracle Enterprise Manager)
Installer - Required patches for OS updates
Installer-SORT Integration
Intelligent Monitoring Framework (IMF)
Just In Time(JIT) target VM Availability (VMware) for Planned/unplanned Failover
KVM Hypervisor layer DMP support for KVM Guests
Keyless licensing
LLT over TCP
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
Manual Campus Cluster Failover
Migration from Native (ext4) to VxFS
Modularized CPI (MCPI)
Monitor Only Resource
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
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
Option to introduce timeout value while shutting down vcs service
Option to just start and stop application agent and not monitor
Oracle 18c Support
Oracle Disk Manager (ODM) and Cached ODM (CODM)
Partitioned directories
Portable Data Containers (formerly known as Cross-Platform Data Sharing (CDS))
Preferred Application or Service Group I/O Fencing
Preferred Node I/O Fencing
Preferred Site I/O Fencing
Priority Based Failover
Public Cloud support - Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure
Public-Sector Compliance: IPv6 InfoScale Stack-Wide Support
Puppet support
Quality of Service (QoS) for applications
Remote mirrors for campus clusters
Replication Agents (if they change direction upon failover)
Replicator option (formerly Volume Replicator)
Rolling upgrade
Route53 agent for AWS
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
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 Oracle Flex-ASM and Oracle PDB
Support for SmartIO Parallel Cache
Support for native 4k sector size storage devices
Support systemd
Sybase ASE CE Integration
Telemetry : Licensing & Compliance
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
VBS Cross Site Recovery Plan
VCS - Online Upgrade
VCS : Cloned agent support for IMF/AMF
VCS : IMF support and other enhancements for CIFS bundled agent
VIOM API for service group management (Online/Offline/Switch)
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)
Virtual Business Services
iSCSI device support
Database storage checkpoints & rollback	Oracle only
FlashSnap: Database	Oracle only
Oracle RAC integration	Oracle only
SmartTier for Oracle (formerly Database DST)	Oracle only

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Product documentation

There is no information found for this section.

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Patches for InfoScale Enterprise and Platform

Product (recommended)

No patches found.

Platform (required)

No patches required.

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End of Support Life information

Last updated on 2020-01-27. Refer to support fundamental for more information about support.

Release Date(GA)	Extended Support Starts	Sustaining Support Starts	End of Support Life Date(EOSL)
2019-02-01	2024-07-31	2026-07-31	-

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Platform configuration

Unless otherwise stated, the specified Veritas product supports all platform kernel versions.

Supported platform version. Last updated on 2019-01-31

Product version	Platform version
7.4.1	Update 8, 9, 10

Required platform packages:

policycoreutils.x86_64
module-init-tools.x86_64
glibc.x86_64
ed.x86_64
coreutils.x86_64
readline.x86_64
findutils.x86_64
libstdc++.x86_64
openssl.x86_64
libacl.x86_64
libgcc.x86_64
ksh.x86_64
zlib.x86_64
perl.x86_64

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 7.4.

Documentation

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Array Support Libraries (ASLs)

Array family (model)	Documentation	Libraries
Amazon Elastic Block Store		libvxxvd (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Amazon Instance Store		libvxxvd (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC CLARiiON AX series		libvxCLARiiON (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC EqualLogic PS3000 series		libvxeqlogic (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC EqualLogic PS4000 series		libvxeqlogic (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC EqualLogic PS6000 series		libvxeqlogic (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC SC Series		libvxcompellent (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC Symmetrix DMX series		libvxemc (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC Symmetrix VMAX series with PowerPath		libvxemc (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC Symmetrix VMAX series		libvxemc (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC Unity series		libvxCLARiiON (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC VMAX3/VMAX All Flash Family series with PowerPath		libvxemc (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC VMAX3/VMAX All Flash Family series		libvxemc (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC VNX series		libvxCLARiiON (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC VNX2 series		libvxCLARiiON (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC ScaleIO		libvxemcscaleIO (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC VNXe1600		libvxCLARiiON (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC VNXe3200		libvxCLARiiON (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC VPLEX with PowerPath		libvxInvista (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC VPLEX		libvxInvista (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Dell EMC XtremIO		libvxXtremio (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Fujitsu ETERNUS DX400/DX500/DX600 series		libvxFJTSYe8k (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Fujitsu ETERNUS DX60/DX80/DX90/DX100/DX200 series		libvxfjtsye2k (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Fujitsu ETERNUS DX8000 series		libvxFJTSYe8k (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Fujitsu ETERNUS2000 series	ETERNUS2000 Disk Storage Systems	libvxfjtsye2k (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Fujitsu ETERNUS4000 series	ETERNUS4000 Disk Storage Systems	libvxFJTSYe8k (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Fujitsu ETERNUS8000 series	ETERNUS8000 Disk Storage Systems	libvxFJTSYe8k (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Fujitsu ETERNUS VS850		libvxibmsvc (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise 3PAR F/T-Class, StoreServ 7000/8000/9000/10000/20000 Storage		libvx3par (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise MSA2000fc series		libvxmsa2k (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise MSA 1040 SAN		libvxmsa2kfc_sa (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise MSA 2040 SAN		libvxmsa2kfc_sa (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise MSA2012sa		libvxmsa2kfc_sa (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise P9500		libvxxp256 (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxxp12k (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxxp1281024 (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise XP7		libvxxp1281024 (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxxp256 (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxxp12k (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Hitachi HUS 100 series	Hitachi Unified Storage 100 Family	libvxhdsalua (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Hitachi SMS/AMS2000 series		libvxhdsalua (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Hitachi VSP G series		libvxhdsusp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhdsusp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhds9980 (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhds (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Hitachi VSP Gx00/Fx00 series		libvxhdsusp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhds (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhds9980 (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhdsusp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Hitachi HUS VM		libvxhds (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhdsusp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhds9980 (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhdsusp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Hitachi VSP		libvxhdsusp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhdsusp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhds (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhds9980 (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Huawei OceanStor Series		libvxhuawei (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Huawei S5000 series		libvxhuawei (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Huawei VIS series		libvxhuawei (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Huawei 18500		libvxhuawei (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Huawei 18800		libvxhuawei (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Huawei 18800F		libvxhuawei (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Huawei HVS85T		libvxhuawei (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Huawei HVS88T		libvxhuawei (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
IBM Storwize series		libvxibmsvc (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
IBM System Storage DS3000 series		libvxlsiall (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
IBM System Storage DS3500 series		libvxlsiall (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
IBM System Storage DS8000 series	IBM System Storage DS8000 series	libvxibmds8k (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
IBM System Storage XIV series		libvxxiv (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Imation Nexsan E-Series Systems		libvxnexsan (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Infinidat InfiniBox F-Series		libvxinfinibox (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Infinidat InfiniBox F-Series		libvxinfinibox (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Kaminario K2		libvxKaminario (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NEC iStorage D1/D3 series		libvxnipnyis (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NEC iStorage D8 series		libvxnipnyis (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NEC iStorage M series		libvxnipnyis (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NEC Symmetrix DMX-4 with PowerPath		libvxemc (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NEC Symmetrix DMX-4 with PowerPath		libvxpp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NEC Symmetrix DMX-4		libvxemc (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NEC Symmetrix DMX-4		libvxpp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NEC Symmetrix VMAX		libvxemc (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NEC Symmetrix VMAX with PowerPath		libvxemc (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NetApp AFF Series		libvxnetapplsi (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NetApp AFF Series		libvxnetapp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NetApp E_SERIES		libvxnetapp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NetApp E_SERIES		libvxnetapplsi (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NetApp FAS2000/FAS900/FAS200 series		libvxnetapp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NetApp FAS2000/FAS900/FAS200 series		libvxnetapplsi (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NetApp FAS3000/V3000 series		libvxnetapplsi (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NetApp FAS3000/V3000 series		libvxnetapp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NetApp FAS6000/V6000 series		libvxnetapplsi (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NetApp FAS6000/V6000 series		libvxnetapp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NetApp FAS8000/FAS9000 Series		libvxnetapp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Nexsan SATABeast2		libvxnexsan (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
NimbleStorage CS/AF-Series		libvxnimble (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Oracle Storage 6580/6780 series		libvxlsiall (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Oracle StorageTek 2500 series		libvxlsiall (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Oracle StorageTek 9900 series		libvxhds (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhds9980 (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhdsusp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhdsusp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Oracle StorageTek 9985/9990 series		libvxhds (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhds9980 (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhdsusp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhdsusp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance series		libvxsun7x10 (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Oracle FS1-2		libvxoracle-FS1 (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Oracle StorageTek 6140 array		libvxlsiall (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Oracle StorageTek 9985V system		libvxhdsusp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhds (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhds9980 (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhdsusp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Oracle StorageTek 9990V system		libvxhds (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhdsusp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhdsusp (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
		libvxhds9980 (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Oracle Sun Storage 6180 array		libvxlsiall (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Pure Storage FlashArray series		libvxpurestorage (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
SanDisk ioMemory PX600 series		libvxfusionio (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
SanDisk ioMemory SX300 series		libvxfusionio (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
SanDisk ioMemory SX350 series		libvxfusionio (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
SanDisk ioDrive		libvxfusionio (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
SanDisk ioDrive Duo		libvxfusionio (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
SanDisk ioDrive2		libvxfusionio (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
SanDisk ION Data Accelerator		libvxfusionION (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
SanDisk ioScale2		libvxfusionio (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Shannon Direct-IO		libShannonSSD (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
StorageTek FlexLine 200/300 series		libvxlsiall (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Sun StorEdge 3510/3511		libvxsunse3k (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)
Violin Memory Violin 3000/6000 series		libvxviolin (embedded in the package VRTSaslapm)

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