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The Veritas InfoScale 7.0.1 patch for AIX/Linux/Solaris is a maintenance-level release, which provides several updates on top of the InfoScale 7.0 products. The highlights of this release are: Upgrade bundled OpenSSL from 1.0.1m to 1.0.1pIPM protoc...
To transition to an InfoScale product, on the system where you already have an InfoScale product installed, run the product installer for the InfoScale product you want to transition to. The following table lists the supported paths to transition fr...
To upgrade to an InfoScale product, your systems must have a corresponding Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions product of version 6.x or 6.0.x already installed. If your current installation does not meet this minimum require...
If you had installed Storage Foundation for Windows (SFW) or Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) clients only (VCS Java Console or VEA), you cannot upgrade them to 7.0 version. To install the latest version of clients-only, uninstall its earlier version a...
The Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability products included support to perform a rollback from the upgraded version to the original version. The rollback process allowed you to revert back to its earlier installation and restore the confi...
With the 7.0 release, the wizard that was used to upgrade Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), in a rolling upgrade manner is not available. That wizard upgraded the passive nodes first, failed over service groups to the upgraded nodes, and then upgraded t...
Hi, I have done SAN migrate earlier without DRL & Subvolume setup. It's mirroed between 2 arrays at host level using vxvm. But now I'm in a position where I need to migrate 100+ volumes between different new arrays. Some volumes have got DRL(log onl...
The Deployment Server was introduced in the 6.1 release. The deploy_sfha script makes it easier to install or upgrade Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) releases. The Deployment Server lets you store a list of patches and packages in one...
HI All, I'm going to upgrade my production environment with VXVM,VXFS and VCS 4.1. My question are: 1) After upgrade to Solaris10 up11, it's possibile to remove all Veritas packages and reinstalling everything at version SFHA 6.1 (and recover vcs ...
A rolling upgrade is a method of upgrading the clusters in a system. A rolling upgrade has two main phases. In Phase 1, the installer upgrades the kernel packages and in Phase 2, the installer upgrades Symantec Cluster Server (VCS) and VCS agent pack...
A phased upgrade upgrades a portion of the nodes in the cluster at a time. The advantage of this method is that it requires lesser server downtime than a full upgrade. Depending on the size of the cluster, you can split it into two or more subcluste...
You can use the Symantec product installer to upgrade Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) on a new boot environment on Solaris 10 systems. On Solaris 10 or previous releases, Solaris Live Upgrade lets you upgrade a system while the system...
You can use the Symantec product installer to upgrade Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) on a new boot environment on Solaris 11 systems. On Solaris 11, you can use the beadm command to create a copy of the existing boot environment and ...
In the Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) 6.1 release, Symantec VirtualStore (SVS) functionality moved to the Storage Foundation Cluster File System High Availability (SFCFSHA) product except for the SVS VMware vCenter and View plug-in. ...
You can use Install Bundles to easily install or upgrade your systems directly to a base, maintenance, or hot fix level in one step. The installer is executed from a base release with a pointer to a higher maintenance or hot fix release. The installe...
Introduced in this release, the Deployment Server is a script that makes it easier to install or upgrade SFHA releases. The Deployment Server lets you store multiple release images in one central location and deploy them to systems of any supported U...
Symantec ApplicationHA monitors applications running inside virtual machines managed by a VMware vCenter Server. Symantec ApplicationHA adds a layer of application awareness to the core HA functionality offered by VMware virtualization technology. SS...
Veritas Storage Foundation Basic is intended for smaller systems. Storage Foundation Basic is available at no cost and provides the same features of Storage Foundation Standard, but is designed for system workloads that do not exceed four volumes and...
Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) 6.0 simplifies the installation and configuration of secure clusters. Security components are installed as a part of the product package. When you upgrade a secure cluster from VCS 5.x to VCS 6.0 and later, the upgrade pr...
Hi, My name is Tariq Pathan and i am a new joinee to the Symantec education team. I would be working on the Storage and Foundation and Clustering File System. I am new to storage domain, and hence was inquisitive to learn and quickly understand SF an...
