Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 for Oracle RAC Release Notes (5900-1513, April 2011)

■ For important updates regarding this release, review the Late-Breaking News

TechNote on the Symantec Technical Support website:

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH144835

■ For the latest patches available for this release, go to:

http://sort.symantec.com/

Changes introduced in version 5.1 Service Pack 1

This section describes the new features and changes in version 5.1 SP1.

Changes related to the installation and upgrades

The product installer includes the following changes.

The VRTScutil and VRTSacclib depots are no longer in use

For all high availability products, the VRTScutil and VRTSacclib depots are no

longer required.

See the Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Installation and Configuration

Guide.

Installer-related changes to configure LLT private links, detect

aggregated links, and configure LLT over UDP

For all high availability products, the installer provides the following new features

in this release to configure LLT private links during the SF Oracle RAC

configuration:

■ The installer detects and lists the aggregated links that you can choose to

configure as private heartbeat links.

■ The installer provides an option to detect NICs on each system and network

links, and sets link priority to configure LLT over Ethernet.

■ The installer provides an option to configure LLT over UDP.

See the Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Installation and Configuration

Guide.

Web-based installer supports configuring SF Oracle RAC cluster

in secure mode

You can now configure the SF Oracle RAC cluster in secure mode using the

Web-based installer.

Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Release Notes

Changes introduced in version 5.1 Service Pack 1