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Foundation Suite/HA 2.2 for LinuxDouglas Fallstrom

Senior Technical Product Manager

Supported Linux Platforms

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1– Used to be known as Advanced Server 2.1– AS, ES and WS

• AS = Advanced Server kernel (>=4 CPU, 64 GB max)• ES = Enterprise/SMP kernel (>=2 CPU, 4 GB max)• WS = Uni-processor kernel (Single CPU, 4 GB max)

– Errata e12 and later– Summit kernel (IBM x440 only)– Red Hat 8,9 not supported

• Desktop OS, not server OS

• SUSE Enterprise Server 8– SP2 and SP2a (service packs) supported

Foundation Suite 2.2 details

• Support for SUSE Enterprise Server 8 – SP2 and SP2a initially, SP3 support will happen in the first

update after SP3 is released

• Enhanced installation procedure for Red Hat– Installation will automatically copy all required VERITAS

modules to the running kernel– If new kernel update is installed, installation will copy old

modules to new kernel directory on bootup in order for VERITAS products to properly work

• Licensing support for Intel Hyperthreading– The license library will properly detect HT and adjust the CPU

count limit to allow for HT to be enabled

Foundation Suite 2.2 – VM

• Extended boot loader support– GRUB support for SUSE– GRUB and LILO support for Red Hat

• Compaq SmartArray PCI RAID cards supported for root disk encapsulation

– SMART and SMART2 cards supported• Paths:

/dev/ida/c#d#p#/dev/cciss/c#d#p#

• HW RAID PCI devices that use the standard /dev/sd# path are supported (example: IBM ServeRAID) for root disk encapsulation

Foundation Suite 2.2 - versions

• Includes the latest bug fixes and updates to point products (file system, volume manager, cluster server) – File System

• VERITAS File System 3.4 update 3

– Volume Manager• VERITAS Volume Manager 3.2 update 4

– Cluster Server• VERITAS Cluster Server 3.5 (named VCS 2.2 in the

product)

Foundation Suite 2.2 - VMWare

• VCS for VMWare– Runs in the VMWare ESX to provide redundancy for virtual

machines– No new SKU’s

• VMWARE ESX will be added as a supported operating system for VCS 2.2 Linux

– Initially VCS will be sold the same way as today, I.e. CPU count based licensing. This will change in the future as we expand support for VMWare

– More information here:• http://products.veritas.com/products/high_avail/cluster_server/prese

ntations.htm• http://products.veritas.com/products/high_avail/cluster_server/datas

heets.htm

Foundation Suite 2.2 - VMWare

• VCS monitors Virtual Machines

SERVER “A” SERVER “B”

INTEL HARDWARE

VMware ESX

VCS 2.0 for ESX

W2KVirtual

Machine

NT 4.0Virtual

Machine

LinuxVirtual

Machine

INTEL HARDWARE

VMware ESX

VCS 2.0 for ESX

• If failure occurs, VCS can restart Virtual Machines on another server– Note: 2nd server can be running Virtual Machines pre-failure

W2KVirtual

Machine

NT 4.0Virtual

Machine

LinuxVirtual

Machine