VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Release Notes

VERITAS Storage Foundation Release Notes

Software Issues

◆ In a clustered or HA environment where VERITAS Cluster Server agents need to

communicate with vxconfigd to determine the health of VxVM components, service groups

start timing out and failing.

Device Issues

Unsupported Disk Arrays

To ensure that DMP is set up correctly on a multiported JBOD or other disk array that is not

supported by VxVM, use the procedure given in “Adding Unsupported Disk Arrays to the DISKS

Category” in the “Administering Disks” chapter of the VERITAS Volume Manager Administrator’s

Guide. Otherwise, VxVM treats the independent paths to the disks as separate devices, which can

result in data corruption.

Hitachi Arrays in Active/Active Mode

When Hitachi DF400 and DF500 arrays are configured in Active/Active mode, performance is

degraded. [i73154]

HDS9500V Array Support Library

In VxVM 3.5, support for the Hitachi Data Systems HDS9500V array was provided by the

VRTShds9500v array support library (ASL). Release 4.1 of VxVM includes built-in support for

the HDS9500V array. If the VRTShds9500v ASL is currently installed on your VxVM 3.5

system, use the following command to remove this ASL before installing VxVM 4.1:

# swremove VRTShds9500v

If you have already upgraded to VxVM 4.1 with the VRTShds9500v ASL installed, remove this

ASL and reboot the system. This will ensure that the ASL provided with VxVM 4.1 is the one that

is claiming your HDS9500V devices.

Adding HP-EVA Disks

When HP-EVA disks are added to VxVM 4.1, debug messages such as the following are displayed:

# vxdctl enable

Printing Name-Value Pair

CAB_SERIAL_NO : 50001FE100270DF0Printing Name-Value Pair

CAB_SERIAL_NO : Printing Name-Value Pair

Printing Name-Value Pair

CAB_SERIAL_NO : Printing Name-Value Pair

50001FE100270DF0