VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Release Notes

VERITAS Storage Foundation Release Notes
New and Enhanced Features
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Online Node Addition
VxVM now allows you to add a node to a cluster dynamically.
Dynamic LUN Expansion
Previous releases of VxVM did not allow you to take advantage of a change in the size of a disk
once the disk had been initialized; any attempt to do so would result in loss of data.
In this release, Dynamic LUN Expansion (DLE) allows you to resize a virtual disk device while
preserving the existing data. Once a LUN has been expanded, HP-UX commands such as
diskinfo do not display the new size until you run the vxdisk resize command. See the
description of the resize option on the vxdisk(1M) manual page and the VERITAS Volume
Manager Hardware Notes for more information.
Disability Requirements Conformance
VxVM is compliant with the US Government’s section 508 article.
Menu-driven Installation
With this release, VxVM provides support for installation through a menu-driven front end. This
enhancement, which will be common across all VERITAS products, is intended to provide a
common look and feel to the installation experience.The traditional installation process using
pkgadd is still supported, but users are encouraged to move to the menu-driven interface.
Unique Number for Messages
To enable easy identification of messages, each message contains a unique identifier. Using this ID
number when reporting messages to VERITAS support will enable them to respond more easily to
customer requests.
Enhancement of Local Detach Policy
Local Detach policy now works uniformly on both master and slave nodes in a cluster. If the master
node cannot handle the local detach policy, it leaves the cluster rather than disabling disk groups.