Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Cluster File System Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 HP Part Number: 5900-1509 Published: April 2011 Edition: 1.
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Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes This document includes the following topics: ■ About this document ■ Component product release notes ■ About Symantec Operations Readiness Tools ■ Important release information ■ Changes introduced in 5.
8 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Component product release notes This is Document version: 5.1SP1.0 of the Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes. Before you start, ensure that you are using the latest version of this guide. The latest product documentation is available on the Symantec Web site at: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/overview.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Important release information ■ Tune environmental parameters so you can increase performance, availability, and use ■ Analyze your current deployment and identify the Symantec products and licenses you are using ■ Upload configuration data to the SORT Web site, so you can share information with coworkers, managers, and Symantec Technical Support ■ Compare your configurations to one another or to a standard build, so you can determine if a configu
10 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Changes introduced in 5.1 SP1 Changes introduced in 5.1 SP1 This section lists the changes for Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System. Installation and upgrade SFCFS installation and upgrade includes the following changes in 5.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Changes introduced in 5.1 SP1 Option to install only the minimal packages The product installer now provides several options for which packages to install. For each product, you can install the minimal packages, the recommended packages or all of the packages. When you install with the product installer, you can select from one of the following install options: ■ Minimal depots: installs only the basic functionality for the selected product.
12 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Changes introduced in 5.1 SP1 Cluster File System agents and Asynchronous Monitoring Framework support The Cluster File System (CFS) agents (CFSMount and CFSfsckd) are Asynchronous Monitoring Framework (AMF) aware. See the Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System Installation Guide for more information. CVMVolDg agent changes This section describes the changes in the CVMVolDg agent.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Changes introduced in 5.1 SP1 Note: The CVMVolDg agent takes a volume set offline if the file system metadata volume in a volume set is discovered to be offline in a monitor cycle. However, if the CFSMount resource goes offline and the file system on the volume set is unmounted, the agent retains the online state of the volume set even if the metadata volume in the volume set is offline.
14 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Changes introduced in 5.1 SP1 ■ The CVM protocol version must be at least 100. ■ CVM does not support executing all commands on the slave node. You must issue the following commands only on the master node: ■ Commands that specify a controller name. For example: # vxassist -g shareddg make sharedvol 20M ctlr:fscsi0 ■ Commands that specify both a shared disk group and a private disk group.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Changes introduced in 5.1 SP1 For information on setting the network protocol, see the Veritas™ Volume Replicator Administrator's Guide. Checksum is disabled by default for the TCP/IP protocol Beginning with Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1, if you specify TCP as your protocol, then by default, VVR does not calculate the checksum for each data packet it replicates. VVR relies on the TCP checksum mechanism.
16 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Changes introduced in 5.1 SP1 See the Veritas Storage Foundation Installation Guide for more information on planning and upgrading VVR from a pervious version of IPv4 to IPv6. Planning and upgrading VVR to use IPv6 as connection protocol Storage Foundation High Availability supports using IPv6 as the connection protocol.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Changes introduced in 5.1 SP1 in a file system. This is useful when a file system is shared by a set of users or applications or the data is classified into different levels of importance in the same file system. See the Veritas Storage Foundation Advanced Features Administrator's Guide.
18 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Changes introduced in 5.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes No longer supported ■ Quick I/O commands: qio_getdbfiles, qio_recreate, qio_convertdbfiles qio_recreate, qioadmin,qiostat,qio_convertdbfiles_ora,qio_getdbfiles_ora,qio_recreate_ora, qiomkfile ■ Database Flashsnap commands: dbed_vmchecksnap, dbed_vmclonedb, dbed_vmsnap ■ SmartTier for Oracle commands: dbdst_addvol, dbdst_admin, dbdst_classify, dbdst_convert, dbdst_file_move, dbdst_partition_move, dbdst_preset_policy, dbdst_rmvol, dbdst_show_fs, dbdst
20 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes System requirements ■ Storage statistics: commandsdbdst_makelbfs, vxdbts_fstatsummary, dbdst_fiostat_collector, vxdbts_get_datafile_stats ■ dbed_saveconfig, dbed_checkconfig ■ dbed_ckptplan, dbed_ckptpolicy ■ qio_convertdbfiles -f option which is used to check for file fragmentation ■ dbed_scheduler ■ sfua_rept_migrate with -r and -f options System requirements This section describes the system requirements for this release.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes System requirements Database requirements Veritas Storage Foundations product features are supported for the following database environments: Table 1-1 Veritas Storage Foundations feature DB2 Oracle Sybase Oracle Disk Manager, Cached Oracle Disk Manager No Yes No Quick I/O, Cached Quick I/O Yes Yes Yes Concurrant I/O Yes Yes Yes Storage Checkpoints Yes Yes Yes Flashsnap Yes Yes Yes SmartTier Yes Yes Yes Database Storage Checkp
22 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Fixed issues Number of nodes supported SFCFS is capable of supporting cluster configurations with up to 64 nodes. Symantec has tested and qualified configurations of up to 32 nodes on IA-64 (Itanium) at the time of the release. For more updates on this support, see the Late-Breaking News TechNote on the Symantec Technical Support website: http://www.symantec.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Fixed issues Table 1-3 Veritas File System fixed issues (continued) Incident Description 1665456 Fixed the cause of a panic in the volkio_to_kio_copy() call. 1805046 Fixed an incorrect alert generation from VxFS when the file system usage threshold is set. 1828175 Fixed the cause of a system panic in inctext, in which VTEXT was not set and tcount was greater than 0.
24 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Fixed issues Table 1-3 Veritas File System fixed issues (continued) Incident Description 2028782 Fixed an issue in which Q_SETQUOTA was not setting the current usage using the quotactl() API. 2050070 Fixed an issue in which the volume manager area was destroyed when spinlock was held. 2072121 Fixed the cause of a hang that was due to a disowned beta semaphore.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Fixed issues Table 1-4 Veritas Volume Manager fixed issues (continued) Incident Description 339282 Failed to create more than 256 config copies in one DG. 597517 Tunable to initialize EFI labeled >1tb PP devices. 1089875 Increasing vol_maxspecialio to 1 MB on HP-UX. 1097258 vxconfigd hung when an array is disconnected. 1239188 Enhance vxprivutil to enable, disable, and display config+log copies state.
26 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Fixed issues Table 1-4 Veritas Volume Manager fixed issues (continued) Incident Description 1665094 Snapshot refresh causing the snapshot plex to be detached. 1713670 'vxassist -g maxsize' doesn't report no free space when applicable 1715204 Failure of vxsnap operations leads to orphan snap object which cannot be removed. 1766452 vradmind dumps core during collection of memory stats.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Fixed issues Table 1-4 Veritas Volume Manager fixed issues (continued) Incident Description 1880279 Evaluate the need for intelligence in vxattachd to clear stale keys on failover/shared dg's in CVM and non CVM environment.
28 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Fixed issues Table 1-4 Veritas Volume Manager fixed issues (continued) Incident Description 1982715 vxclustadm dumps core during memory re-allocation. 1992537 Memory leak in vxconfigd causing DiskGroup Agent to timeout 1992872 vxresize fails after DLE.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Fixed issues Table 1-4 Veritas Volume Manager fixed issues (continued) Incident Description 2040150 Existence of 32 or more keys per LUN leads to loss of SCSI3 PGR keys during cluster reconfiguration 2052203 Master vold restart can lead to DG disabled and abort of pending transactions.
30 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Known issues Known issues This section covers the known issues in this release. See the corresponding Release Notes for a complete list of known issues related to that product. See “Documentation” on page 50. Issues related to installation This section describes the known issues during installation and upgrade.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Known issues Incorrect error messages: error: failed to stat, etc. (2120567) During installation, you may receive errors such as, "error: failed to stat /net: No such file or directory." Ignore this message. You are most likely to see this message on a node that has a mount record of /net/x.x.x.x. The /net directory, however, is unavailable at the time of installation. EULA changes (2161557) The locations for all EULAs have changed.
32 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Known issues depots are removed. This releases disk space. The installer then claims more space than it actually needs. Workaround: Run the installer with -nospacecheck option if the disk space is less than that installer claims but more than actually required. The VRTSacclib depot is deprecated (2032052) The VRTSacclib depot is deprecated.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Known issues # fsckptadm quotaoff /mnt1 # fsckptadm quotaon /mnt1 # fsckptadm getquotalimit /mnt1 Filesystem /mnt1 hardlimit 10000 softlimit 10000 usage 99 action_flag Multiple CFSmount resources are in a single service group they may not all come online after a reboot (2164670) In some cases when multiple CFSmount resources are in a single service group they may not all come online after a reboot.
34 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Known issues VxFS read ahead can cause stalled I/O on all write operations (1965647) Changing the read_ahead parameter can lead to frozen I/O. Under heavy load, the system can take several minutes to recover from this state. Workaround: There is no workaround for this issue.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Known issues 35 Panic due to null pointer de-reference in vx_unlockmap() (2059611) A null pointer dereference in the vx_unlockmap() call can cause a panic. A fix for this issue will be released in a future patch. Workaround: There is no workaround for this issue. Veritas Volume Manager known issues The following are the Veritas Volume Manager known issues for this release.
36 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Known issues Workaround: Issue the vxdisk list disk_name command a second time. vxconfigd fails to allocate memory until the daemon is restarted (2112448) Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) utilities may fail with the following error message: Memory allocation failure This error implies that there is insufficient memory for the vxconfigd daemon. A program's data segment size is enforced by the operating system tunable maxdsiz.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Known issues Thin reclamation on disks with the hpdisk format is not supported (2136238) Thin reclamation on disks with the hpdisk format is not supported. An attempt to perform reclamation on such disks automatically aborts. Work-around: There is no workaround for this issue.
38 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Known issues vradmin syncvol command compatibility with IPv6 addresses (2075307) The vradmin syncvol command does not work with the compressed form of IPv6 addresses.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Known issues environment, vradmin createpri may dump core when provided with RVG, volume and/or SRL names containing a colon in it.
40 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Known issues vxassist and vxresize operations do not work with layered volumes that are associated to an RVG (2162579) This issue occurs when you try a resize operation on a volume that is associated to an RVG and has a striped-mirror layout. Workaround: To resize layered volumes that are associated to an RVG 1 Pause or stop the applications. 2 Wait for the RLINKs to be up to date.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Known issues Workaround: To restore vradmin functionality after a master switch operation 1 Restart vradmind on all cluster nodes. Enter the following: 2 Re-enter the command that failed. Cannot relayout data volumes in an RVG from concat to striped-mirror (2162537) This issue occurs when you try a relayout operation on a data volume which is associated to an RVG, and the target layout is a striped-mirror.
42 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Known issues Issues related to Symantec Product Authentication Service with VCS This section covers the known issues related to Symantec Product Authentication Service (AT) in this release. Verification for VRTSat package or patch returns errors If you run swverify command on VRTSat package or patch, the command returns errors for missing files on VRTSat.CLIENT-PA32. [1244204] Workaround: This message may be safely ignored.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Known issues to contact a majority of the coordination points or the lowest node itself unexpectedly panics during the race, then all the nodes in that sub-cluster will panic. [1965954] Coordination Point agent does not provide detailed log message for inaccessible CP servers The Coordination Point agent does not log detailed information of the CP servers that are inaccessible.
44 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Known issues Reconfiguring Storage Foundation Cluster File System HA with I/O fencing fails if you use the same CP servers When you reconfigure an application cluster that uses server-based I/O fencing (customized fencing mode), the installer does not remove the application cluster information from the CP servers before the reconfiguration.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Known issues 45 Veritas Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools known issues The following are known issues in this release of Veritas Storage Foundation products. Upgrading Veritas Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools from 5.0MP2 to 5.1SP1 (2003131) While upgrading from 50mp2 to 51SP1 the following error message could be seen when running sfua_rept_migrate: # /opt/VRTSdbed/migrate/sfua_rept_migrate Mounting SFUA Sybase ASA repository.
46 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Known issues the failure, you may have to use base VxVM commands to reattach mirrors. After mirrors are attached, you need to wait until the mirrors are in SNAPDONE state. Re-validate the snapplan again. Reattach command failure in a multiple disk group environment (1840672) In a multiple disk group environment, if the snapshot operation fails then dbed_vmsnap fails to reattach all the volumes. This operation must be performed as root user.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Software limitations Workaround There is no workaround for this issue. VCS agent for Oracle: Health check monitoring is not supported for Oracle database 11g R1 and 11g R2 (1985055) Health check monitoring is not supported for Oracle database 11g R1 and 11g R2. Workaround: Set MonitorOption attribute for Oracle resource to 0. Software limitations This section covers the software limitations of this release. See “Documentation” on page 50.
48 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Software limitations Table 1-5 (continued) Parameter name Definition New value Default value dmp_path_age DMP path aging tunable 120 seconds. 300 seconds. The change is persistent across reboots.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Software limitations ■ IPv6 is not supported in a CVM and VVR cluster where some nodes in the cluster are IPv4-only and other nodes in the same cluster are IPv6-only, or all nodes of a cluster are IPv4-only and all nodes of a remote cluster are IPv6-only. ■ VVR does not support Edge and NAT-PT routers that facilitate IPv4 and IPv6 address translation.
50 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Documentation Oracle Data Guard in an Oracle RAC environment Database snapshots and Database Checkpoints are not supported in a Data Guard and Oracle RAC environment. Upgrading if using Oracle 11.1.0.6 If you are running Oracle version 11.1.0.6 and upgrading a Storage Foundation product to 5.1SP1: upgrade the Oracle binaries and database to version 11.1.0.7 before moving to SP1.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Documentation Table 1-7 Veritas Cluster Server documentation (continued) Title File name Veritas Cluster Server Bundled Agents Reference vcs_bundled_agents_51sp1_hpux.pdf Guide Veritas Cluster Server Agent Developer’s Guide vcs_agent_dev_51sp1.pdf Veritas Cluster Server Agents for Veritas Volume vcs_vvr_agent_51sp1_hpux.pdf Replicator Configuration Guide Veritas Cluster Server Agent for DB2 Installation vcs_db2_agent_51sp1_hpux.
52 Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Documentation Table 1-9 Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas File System documentation (continued) Document title File name Veritas File System Programmer's Reference Guide vxfs_ref_51sp1_hpux.pdf Table 1-10 lists the documentation for Veritas Volume Replicator. Table 1-10 Veritas Volume Replicator documentation Document title File name Veritas Volume Replicator Administrator’s Guide vvr_admin_51sp1_hpux.
Storage Foundation Cluster File System Release Notes Documentation setenv MANPATH ${MANPATH}:/opt/VRTS/man See the man(1) manual page.
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