Patches

It is highly recommended that you check for any patches needed for this release. For the latest patches: sort.symantec.com/patch/finder

 Documentation

For the latest updated documentation: sort.symantec.com/documents

 Notifications

For the latest patch availability notifications: sort.symantec.com/welcome/notifications
 

For the latest knowledge articles and alert notifications: http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO31128

Known Issues

Storage Foundation High Availability Solutions 6.0.1 fails to install on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP2 with Kernel updates beyond 3.0.13-0.27.1

 Please refer to the following technote for more details of this issue as well as details on how to obtain the patch that resolves the problem.

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH196086

Oracle Clusterware 10g Release 2/11g Release 1 fails to perform a core dump during panic issues on AIX

Please refer to the following technote for more details of this issue. 

See the Release Notes for other known issues and limitations associated with the product.

VCS Support for HP-UX 11i version 3 March 2013 update

HP-UX 11i version 3 March 2013 update has an issue which causes VCS had process to terminate.

Please refer to the following technote to get for more information on this issue.

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH204866

See the release notes for other known issues and limitations associated with the product.

Updates

Support for AIX  TL2 and AIX 6.1 TL8
Installing/Upgrading of AIX OS to AIX 6.1 TL8 or AIX 7.1 TL2 might result in I/O hang on specific volumes in SFCFS/SFRAC configurations.
In Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) configurations, volume recovery triggered on Veritas volume which has DRL log plexes associated with it, results in I/O hang on that particular volume.The latest Technology level updates from IBM – AIX 7.1 TL2 and AIX 6.1 TL8 are supported with the Storage Foundation stack with the following APARs:
- AIX 6.1 TL8 : IV31919
- AIX 7.1 TL2 : IV31918
 

Support for Solaris 11 on SFHA Solutions
Support for Solaris 11 on the SPARC and x64 platforms is available in the Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 6.0 Platform Release (PR)1 and 6.0.1. Support for Solaris 11.1 is available in Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 6.0.3.
 

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 3 (RHEL6.3) on SFHA Solutions
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL) Update 3 is not compatible with Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 6.0 & 6.0RP1 releases due symbol changes used within the new kernel. Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 6.0.1 & 6.0.2 include support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 update 3 (RHEL 6.3).
Note: A compatibility issue has been discovered on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 update 3 running a later kernel (2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64) with Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 6.0.1 & 6.0.2. The symptom is that the VxFS component cannot be loaded or used. Symantec have released a patch to resolve the issue.

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Update 4 (RHEL 6.4) on SFHA Solutions
A compatibility issue has been discovered on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 update 4 (RHEL 6.4) with Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 6.0.1 & 6.0.3. The symptom is that the VxFS component cannot be loaded or used. Symantec have released a VxFS patch  for SFHA 6.0.3. Customers at SFHA 6.0.1 are required to upgrade to SFHA 6.0.3 before installing this patch. 
 

Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Update 9 (RHEL 5.9) on SFHA Solutions
Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 6.0.1 and 6.0.3 are supported on RHEL 5.9

Resources and Tools

 Symantec recommends the use of Veritas Operations Manager to manage data center environments running Storage Foundation and High Availability Software. Download Veritas Operations Manager at http://go.symantec.com/vom 

Previous versions of the management tools, including Storage Foundation Manager, VCS Management Console, Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) and VCS Java Console are available at http://www.symantec.com/business/products/otherresources.jsp?pcid=pcat_storage&pvid=operations_manager_1 

Storage Management Community Forums, Blogs and more http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/new-storage-management-community-start-here     

SORT (Symantec Operations Readiness Tools) Portal:  https://sort.symantec.com 

The SORT Portal contains:

- Risk Assessments
- Installation Assessment Services (Installation and Upgrade preparation)
- SORT Search ability (Error Code Lookup, Patches, Documentation, Systems, Reports)
- Detailed Reports (Product and License Usage)
- Notification Signup, VCS Agents and more

Late-Breaking News for DMP on VMware ESX

For information about Dynamic Multi-Pathing 6.0 and 6.0.1 on VMware ESX, refer to the following LBN:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH183493