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Veritas InfoScale® 8.0.2 Release Notes - Windows - v8.0.2
Requirements
Documentation errata
Changes introduced in this release
InfoScale supports keyless license
Executive Order logging
Log formatting
Enabling logs
Log forwarding
Support for volume encryption
InfoScale support for stretched volume cluster
InfoScale Azure agent support for Azure user-assigned managed identities
Support for shared disks in Azure cloud
Support for AWS Multi-Attach disks
Support for shared disks (EBS Multi-Attach) in AWS cloud Environment
InfoScale support for OCIIP agent in cloud environment
Limitations
Deployment limitations
Log on to remote nodes before installation
Silent installation does not support updating license keys after install
UUID files are always installed to the default installation path
SnapDrive service fails to start after InfoScale Availability or InfoScale Enterprise is uninstalled
Cluster management limitations
EBS Multi-Attach support in AWS cloud and InfoScale service group configuration using wizards
Shared disk support in Azure cloud and InfoScale service group configuration using wizards
Undocumented commands and command options
Unable to restore user database using SnapManager for SQL
MountV agent does not work when Volume Shadow Copy service is enabled
WAN cards are not supported
System names must not include periods
Incorrect updates to path and name of types.cf with spaces
VCW does not support configuring broadcasting for UDP
Undefined behavior when using VCS wizards for modifying incorrectly configured service groups
Service group dependency limitation - no failover for some instances of parent group
Unable to monitor resources if Switch Independent NIC teaming mode is used
Windows Safe Mode boot options not supported
MountV agent does not detect file system change or corruption
MirrorView agent resource faults when agent is killed
Security issue when using Java GUI and default cluster admin credentials
VCS Authentication Service does not support node renaming
An MSMQ resource fails to come online after the virtual server name is changed
Configuration wizards do not allow modifying IPv4 address to IPv6
All servers in a cluster must run the same operating system
Running Java Console on a non-cluster system is recommended
Cluster Manager console does not update GlobalCounter
Cluster address for global cluster requires resolved virtual IP
Cluster operations performed using the Veritas High Availability dashboard may fail
HA plugin deployment and JIT qualifications may fail when performed
Storage management limitations
SFW does not support disks with unrecognized OEM partitions (3146848)
Only one disk gets removed from an MSFT compatible disk group even if multiple disks are selected to be removed
Cannot create MSFT compatible disk group if the host name has multibyte characters
Fault detection is slower in case of Multipath I/O over Fibre Channel
FlashSnap solution for EV does not support basic disks
Incorrect mapping of snapshot and source LUNs causes VxSVC to stops working
SFW does not support operations on disks with sector size greater than 512 bytes; VEA GUI displays incorrect size
Database or log files must not be on same volume as SQL Server
Operations in SFW may not be reflected in DISKPART
Disk signatures of system and its mirror may switch after ASR recovery
SFW does not support growing a LUN beyond 2 TB
SCSI reservation conflict occurs when setting up cluster disk groups
Snapshot operation fails when the Veritas VSS Provider is restarted while the Volume Shadow Copy service is running and the VSS providers are already loaded
When a node is added to a cluster, existing snapshot schedules are not replicated to the new node
Restore from Copy On Write (COW) snapshot of MSCS clustered shared volumes fails
Dynamic Disk Groups are not imported after system reboot in a Hyper-V environment
Storage Agent cannot reconnect to VDS service when restarting Storage Agent
SFW does not support transportable snapshots on Windows Server
vxsnapsql restores all SQL Server databases mounted on the same volume
Windows Disk Management console does not display basic disk converted from SFW dynamic disk
DCM or DRL log on thin provisioned disk causes all disks for volume to be treated as thin provisioned disks
After import/deport operations on SFW dynamic disk group, DISKPART command or Microsoft Disk Management console do not display all volumes
Restored Enterprise Vault components may appear inconsistent with other Enterprise Vault components
Enterprise Vault restore operation may fail for some components
Shrink volume operation may increase provisioned size of volume
Reclaim operations on a volume residing on a Hitachi array may not give optimal results
Storage migration of Hyper-V VM on cluster-shared volume resource is not supported from a Slave node
In a CVM environment, disconnecting and reconnecting hard disks may display an error
Limitations of SFW support for DMP
Multi-pathing limitations
DSM ownership of LUNs
Replication limitations
Resize Volume and Autogrow not supported in Synchronous mode
Expand volume not supported if RVG is in DCM logging mode
Fast failover is not supported if the RLINK is in hard synchronous mode
Solution configuration limitations
Virtual fire drill not supported in Windows environments
Solutions wizard support in a 64-bit VMware environment
Solutions wizards fail to load unless the user has administrative privileges on the system
Discovery of SFW disk group and volume information sometimes fails when running Solutions wizards
DR Wizard does not create or validate service group resources if a service group with the same name already exists on the secondary site
Quick Recovery wizard displays only one XML file path for all databases, even if different file paths have been configured earlier
Enterprise Vault Task Controller and Storage services fail to start after running the Enterprise Vault Configuration Wizard if the MSMQ service fails to start
Wizard fails to discover SQL Server databases that contain certain characters
Internationalization and localization limitations
Systems in a cluster must have same system locale setting
Interoperability limitations
ApplicationHA Heartbeat agents are not supported in VCS cluster configurations
NBU restore changes the disk path and UUID due to which VMwareDisks resource reports an unknown state
Lock by third-party monitoring tools on shared volumes
SFW cannot coexist with early Veritas Anti-virus software
Known issues
Deployment issues
Veritas product installer displays incorrect OS requirement message (4067285)
"Run Configuration Checker" link available on the CD browser only downloads the Configuration Checker (2143564)
Reinstallation of an InfoScale product may fail due to pending cleanup tasks
Delayed installation on certain systems
Installation may fail with the "Windows Installer Service could not be accessed" error
Installation may fail with "Unspecified error" on a remote system
The installation may fail with "The system cannot find the file specified" error
Installation may fail with a fatal error for VCS msi
In SFW with Microsoft failover cluster, a parl.exe error message appears when system is restarted after SFW installation if Telemetry was selected during installation
Side-by-side error may appear in the Windows Event Viewer
FlashSnap License error message appears in the Application Event log after installing license key
VCS uninstallation halts and displays an error message; uninstall continues after clearing the message
Uninstallation may fail to remove certain folders
Error while uninstalling the product if licensing files are missing
The vxlicrep.exe may crash when the machine reboots after InfoScale Enterprise is installed
Cluster management issues
Cluster Server (VCS) issues
Cluster reconfiguration may fail post InfoScale installation (4117528)
The VCS Cluster Configuration Wizard may not be able to delete a cluster if it fails to stop HAD
Deleting a node from a cluster using the VCS Cluster Configuration Wizard may not remove it from main.cf
NetAppSnapDrive resource may fail with access denied error
Mount resource fails to bring file share service group online
Mount agent may go in unknown state on virtual machines
AutoStart may violate limits and prerequisites Load Policy
Enterprise Vault Configuration Wizard may fail to connect to SQL Server
File Share Configuration Wizard may create dangling VMDg resources
For volumes under VMNSDg resource, capacity monitoring and automatic volume growth policies do not get available to all cluster nodes
For creating VMNSDg resources, the VMGetDrive command not supported to retrieve a list of dynamic disk groups
First failover attempt might fault for a NativeDisks configuration
Resource fails to come online after failover on secondary
Upgrading a secure cluster may require HAD restart
New user does not have administrator rights in Java GUI
HTC resource probe operation fails and reports an UNKNOWN state
Resources in a parent service group may fail to come online if the AutoStart attribute for the resources is set to zero
VCS wizards may fail to probe resources
Changes to referenced attributes do not propagate
ArgListValue attribute may not display updated values
The Veritas High Availability Engine (HAD) service fails to stop
Engine may hang in LEAVING state
Timing issues with AutoStart policy
The VCS Cluster Configuration Wizard (VCW) supports NIC teaming but the Veritas High Availability Configuration Wizard does not
VCS engine HAD may not accept client connection requests even after the cluster is configured successfully
Hyper-V DR attribute settings should be changed in the MonitorVM resource if a monitored VM is migrated to a new volume
One or more VMNSDg resources may fail to come online during failover of a large service group
VDS error reported while bringing the NativeDisks and Mount resources online after a failover
SQL Server service resource does not fault even if detail monitoring fails
Delay in refreshing the VCS Java Console
NetBackup may fail to back up SQL Server database in VCS cluster environment
Cluster Manager (Java Console) issues
Cluster connection error while converting local service group to a global service group
Repaint feature does not work properly when look and feel preference is set to Java
Exception when selecting preferences
Java Console errors in a localized environment
Common system names in a global cluster setup
Agent logs may not be displayed
Login attempts to the Cluster Manager may fail after a product upgrade
Global service group issues
VCW configures a resource for GCO in a cluster without a valid GCO license
Group does not go online on AutoStart node
Cross-cluster switch may cause concurrency violation
Declare cluster dialog may not display highest priority cluster as failover target
Global group fails to come online on the DR site with a message that it is in the middle of a group operation
VMware virtual environment-related issues
The Veritas High Availability configuration wizard fails to configure the VCS cluster if UAC is enabled
VMwareDisks agent resource goes into an unknown state if disk UUID is not provided (4113979)
VMwareDisks resource cannot go offline if VMware snapshot is taken when VMware disk is configured for monitoring
Guest virtual machines fail to detect the network connectivity loss
VMware vMotion fails to move a virtual machine back to an ESX host where the application was online
VCS commands may fail if the snapshot of a system on which the application is configured is reverted
VMWareDisks resource cannot probe (Unknown status) when virtual machine moves to a different ESX host
Error while unconfiguring the VCS cluster from the Veritas High Availability tab
The Veritas High Availability Configuration Wizard gives an error for invalid user account details if the system password contains double quotes (")
The Veritas High Availability view does not display any sign for the concurrency violation
The Veritas High Availability installer may fail to block the installation of unrelated license keys
Veritas High Availability Configuration wizard may fail to configure monitoring for the selected mount points
Storage management issues
Performance overhead is observed in Windows encryption for sequential write workload. (4112733)
Data corruption observed on snap plex when user reverts cow snapshot and creates the mirror snap. (4114185)
The file with 1 KB size cannot be encrypted. (4104305)
The filesystem of a replicated encrypted volume fails to change. (4102345)
Mirrored volume cannot be created or added if the disks are created from array. (4113434)
The GCO network selection page does not show network adapter cards. (4100888)
Storage Foundation issues
Unable to create a volume with ReFS (4069508)
Disk fails to get added to a dynamic disk group after conversion from MBR to GPT (4055047)
In Microsoft Azure environment, InfoScale Storage cannot be used in cluster configurations that require shared storage
In a Microsoft Azure environment SFW fails to auto discover SSD media type for a VHD
Incorrect message appears in the Event Viewer for a hot relocation operation
A volume state continues to appear as "Healthy, Resynching"
After a mirror break-off operation, the volume label does not show on the Slave node
CVM cluster does not support node names with more than 15 characters
For CSDG with mirrored volumes, sometimes disks incorrectly shows the yellow warning icon
SSD is not removed successfully from the cache pool
On fast failover enabled configurations, VMDg resource takes a longer time to come online
On some configurations, the VSS snapshot operation may fail to add volumes to the snapshot set
Using Failover Cluster Manager you cannot migrate volumes belonging to Hyper-V virtual machines to a location with VMDg or Volume Manager Shared Volume resource type
Performance counters for Dynamic Disk and Dynamic Volume may fail to appear in the list of available counters
VSS snapshot of a Hyper-V virtual machine on SFW storage does not work from NetBackup
In some cases, when 80 or more mirrored volume resources fail over to another node in CVM, some volume resources fault causing all to fault
In CVM, if subdisk move operation for CSDG fails because of a cluster reconfiguration, it does not start again automatically
Stale volume entries under MountedDevices and CurrentControlSet registries not removed after the volume is deleted
Some arrays do not show correct Enclosure ID in VDID
In some cases, EV snapshot schedules fail
In CVM, Master node incorrectly displays two missing disk objects for a single disk disconnect
DRL plex is detached across CVM nodes if a disk with DRL plex is disconnected locally from the node where volume is online
Error while converting a Microsoft Disk Management Disk Group created using iSCSI disks to an SFW dynamic disk group
Snapshot schedules intermittently fail on the Slave node after failover
In VEA GUI, Tasks tab does not display task progress for the resynchronization of a cluster-shared volume if it is offline
Snapback operation from a Slave node always reports being successful on that node, even when it's in progress or resynchronization fails on Master
For cluster-shared volumes, only one file share per Microsoft failover cluster is supported
After cluster-shared volume resize operation, free space of the volume is not updated on nodes where volume is offline
Issues due to Microsoft Failover Clustering not recognizing SFW VMDg resource as storage class
If fast failover is enabled for a VMDg resource, then SFW volumes are not displayed in the New Share Wizard
Volume information not displayed for VMDg and RVG resources in Failover Cluster Manager
Failover of VMDg resource from one node to another does not mount the volume when disk group volume is converted from LDM to dynamic
vxverify command may not work if SmartMove was enabled while creating the mirrored volume
After installation of SFW or SFW HA, mirrored and RAID-5 volumes and disk groups cannot be created from LDM
Some operations related to shrinking or expanding a dynamic volume do not work
VEA GUI displays error while creating partitions
For dynamic disk group configured as VMNSDg resource, application component snapshot schedules are not replicated to other nodes in a cluster if created using VSS Snapshot Scheduler Wizard
In Microsoft failover cluster, if VxSVC is attached to Windows Debugger, it may stop responding when you try to bring offline a service group with VMDg resources
In some cases, updated VSS components are not displayed in VEA console
Storage reclamation commands do not work when SFW is run inside Hyper-V virtual machines
Unknown disk group may be seen after deleting a disk group
Wrong information related to disk information is displayed in the Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) console. Single disk is displayed as two disks (harddisk and a missing disk)
SFW Configuration Utility for Hyper-V Live Migration support wizard shows the hosts as Configured even if any service fails to be configured properly
System shutdown or crash of one cluster node and subsequent reboot of other nodes resulting in the SFW messaging for Live Migration support to fail
Changing the FastFailover attribute for a VMDg resource from FALSE to TRUE throws an error message
A remote partition is assumed to be on the local node due to Enterprise Vault DNS alias check
After performing a restore operation on a COW snapshot, the "Allocated size" shadow storage field value is not getting updated on the VEA console
Messaging service does not retain its credentials after upgrading SFW and SFW HA
Enterprise Vault (EV) snapshots are displayed in the VEA console log as successful even when the snapshots are skipped and no snapshot is created
On a clustered setup, split-brain might cause the disks to go into a fail state
Takeover and Failback operation on Sun Controllers cause disk loss
Microsoft failover cluster disk resource may fail to come online on failover node in case of node crash or storage disconnect if DMP DSMs are installed
The Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) console cannot remove the Logical Disk Management (LDM) missing disk to basic ones
After breaking a Logical Disk Manager (LDM) mirror volume through the LDM GUI, LDM shows 2 volumes with the same drive letter
Unable to failover between cluster nodes. Very slow volume arrival
VDS errors noticed in the event viewer log
An extra GUI Refresh is required to ensure that changes made to the volumes on a cluster disk group having the Volume Manager Disk Group (VMDg) resource gets reflected in the Failover Cluster Manager Console
DR wizard cannot create an RVG that contains more than 32 volumes
For a cluster setup, configure the Veritas Scheduler Services with a domain user account
If an inaccessible path is mentioned in the vxsnap create CLI, the snapshot gets created and the CLI fails
If snapshot set files are stored on a Fileshare path, then they are visible and accessible by all nodes in the VCS cluster
Sharing property of folders not persistent after system reboot
Microsoft Disk Management console displays an error when a basic disk is encapsulated
Results of a disk group split query on disks that contain a shadow storage area may not report the complete set of disks
Extending a simple volume in Microsoft Disk Management Disk Group fails
SFW cannot merge recovered disk back to RAID5 volume
Request for format volume occurs when importing dynamic disk group
Logging on to SFW as a member of the Windows Administrator group requires additional credentials
Certain operations on a dynamic volume cause a warning
Avoid encapsulating a disk that contains a system-critical basic volume
Sharing property of folders in clustering environment is not persistent
Entries under Task Tab may not be displayed with the correct name
Attempting to add a gatekeeper device to a dynamic disk group can cause problems with subsequent operations on that disk group until the storage agent is restarted
ASR fails to restore a disk group that has a missing disk
Mirrored volume in Microsoft Disk Management Disk Group does not resynchronize
Expand volume operation not supported for certain types of volumes created by Microsoft Disk Management
MirrorView resource cannot be brought online because of invalid security file
Known behavior with disk configuration in campus clusters
VEA console issues
Login to VEA on an IPv6-enabled system with the Logged On User on this computer option may cause incorrect privileges to be assigned
VEA may fail to start when launched through the SCC, PowerShell, or Windows Start menu or Apps menu
On Windows operating systems, non-administrator user cannot log on to VEA GUI if UAC is enabled
VEA GUI sometimes does not show all the EV components
VEA GUI incorrectly shows yellow caution symbol on the disk icon
Reclaim storage space operation may not update progress in GUI
VEA GUI fails to log on to iSCSI target
VEA does not display properly when Windows color scheme is set to High Contrast Black
VEA displays objects incorrectly after Online/Offline disk operations
Disks displayed in Unknown disk group after system reboot
Diskgroup creation fails on Ultradisk in Azure cloud for logical sector size 4096-byte sector (4101641)
Snapshot and restore issues
Vxsnap restore CLI command fails when specifying a full path name for a volume
Restoring COW snapshots causes earlier COW snapshots to be deleted
COW restore wizard does not update selected volumes
Snapshot operation requires additional time
Incorrect message displayed when wrong target is specified in vxsnap diffarea command
Restore operation on SQL Server component with missing volume fails
Snapshot of Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine results in deported disk group on Hyper-V guest
Enterprise Vault restore operation fails for remote components
Persistent shadow copies are not supported for FAT and FAT32 volumes
Copy On Write (COW) snapshots are automatically deleted after shrink volume operation
Shadow storage settings for a Copy On Write (COW) snapshot persist after shrinking target volume
Copy On Write (COW) shadow storage settings for a volume persist on newly created volume after breaking its snapshot mirror
Conflict occurs when VSS snapshot schedules or VSS snapshots have identical snapshot set names
VSS Writers cannot be refreshed or contacted
Time-out errors may occur in Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) writers and result in snapshots that are not VSS compliant
vxsnapsql restore may fail to restore SQL Server database
VSS Snapshot of a volume fails after restarting the VSS provider service
CLI command, vxsnap prepare, does not create snapshot mirrors in a stripe layout
After taking a snapshot of a volume, the resize option of the snapshot is disabled
If the snapshot plex and original plex are of different sizes, the snapback fails
Snapshot scheduling issues
Snapshot schedule fails as result of reattach operation error
Next run date information of snapshot schedule does not get updated automatically
VEA GUI may not display correct snapshot schedule information after Veritas Scheduler Service configuration update
Scheduled snapshots affected by transition to Daylight Savings Time
In a cluster environment, the scheduled snapshot configuration succeeds on the active node but fails on another cluster node
After a failover occurs, a snapshot operation scheduled within two minutes of the failover does not occur
Unable to create or delete schedules on a Microsoft failover cluster node while another cluster node is shutting down
Quick Recovery Wizard schedules are not executed if service group fails over to secondary zone in a replicated data cluster
On Windows Server, a scheduled snapshot operation may fail due to mounted volumes being locked by the OS
Multi-pathing issues
Multi-pathing may be disabled on Windows Server systems
Changes made to a multipathing policy of a LUN using the Microsoft Disk Management console, do not appear on the VEA GUI
vxdmpadm's deviceinfo and pathinfo with disk specified in p#c#t#l# parameter displays information only by one path
Replication issues
VVR replication may fail if Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) version 12.1 is installed
VVR replication fails to start on systems where Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) version 12.1 or 12.1 RU2 is installed
RVGPrimary resource fails to come online if VCS engine debug logging is enabled
"Invalid Arguments" error while performing the online volume shrink
vxassist shrinkby or vxassist querymax operation fails with "Invalid Arguments"
In synchronous mode of replication, file system may incorrectly report volumes as raw and show "scan and fix" dialog box for fast failover configurations
VxSAS configuration wizard doesn't work in NAT environments
File system may incorrectly report volumes as raw due to I/O failure
NTFS errors are displayed in Event Viewer if fast-failover DR setup is configured with VVR
Volume shrink fails because RLINK cannot resume due to heavy I/Os
Online volume shrink operation fails for data volumes with multiple Secondaries if I/Os are active
RLINKs cannot connect after changing the heartbeat port number
On a DR setup, if Replicated Data Set (RDS) components are browsed for on the secondary site, then the VEA console does not respond
Secondary host is getting removed and added when scheduled sync snapshots are taken
Replication may stop if the disks are write cache enabled
Discrepancy in the Replication Time Lag Displayed in VEA and CLI
The vxrlink updates command displays inaccurate values
Some VVR operations may fail to complete in a cluster environment
IBC IOCTL Failed Error Message
Pause and Resume commands take a long time to complete
Replication keeps switching between the pause and resume state
VEA GUI has problems in adding secondary if all NICs on primary are DHCP enabled
Pause secondary operation fails when SQLIO is used for I/Os
Performance counter cannot be started for VVR remote hosts in perfmon GUI
VVR Graphs get distorted when bandwidth value limit is set very high
BSOD seen on a Hyper-V setup
Unable to start statistics collection for VVR Memory and VVR remote hosts object in Perfmon
Bunker primary fails to respond when trying to perform stop replication operation on secondary
CLI shows the "Volume in use" error when you dismount the ReFS data volumes on the Secondary RVG.
Solution configuration issues
Oracle Enterprise Manager cannot be used for database control
Unexplained errors with DR wizard and QR wizard
VCS FD and DR wizards fail to configure application and hardware replication agent settings
Disaster recovery (DR) configuration issues
The Disaster Recovery Configuration Wizard or the Fire Drill Wizard cannot proceed when configuring an application in an EMC SRDF replication environment
The DR Wizard does not provide a separate "GCO only" option for VVR-based replication
The Disaster Recovery Wizard fails if the primary and secondary sites are in different domains or if you run the wizard from another domain
The Disaster Recovery Wizard may fail to bring the RVGPrimary resources online
The Disaster Recovery Wizard requires that an existing storage layout for an application on a secondary site matches the primary site layout
The Disaster Recovery Wizard may fail to create the Secondary Replicator Log (SRL) volume
The Disaster Recovery Wizard may display a failed to discover NIC error on the Secondary system selection page
Service group cloning fails if you save and close the configuration in the Java Console while cloning is in progress
If RVGs are created manually with mismatched names, the DR Wizard does not recognize the RVG on the secondary site and attempts to create the secondary RVG
Cloned service group faults and fails over to another node during DR Wizard execution resulting in errors
DR wizard may display database constraint exception error after storage validation in EMC SRDF environment
DR wizard creation of secondary RVGs may fail due to mounted volumes being locked by the OS
DR wizard with VVR replication requires configuring the preferred network setting in VEA
DR wizard displays error message on failure to attach DCM logs for VVR replication
Disaster Recovery (DR) Wizard fails to automatically set the correct storage replication option in case of SRDF
Disaster Recovery (DR) Wizard reports an error during storage cloning operation in case of SRDF
Fire drill (FD) configuration issues
Fire Drill Wizard may fail to recognize that a volume fits on a disk if the same disk is being used for another volume
Fire drill may fail if run again after a restore without exiting the wizard first
Fire Drill Wizard may time out before completing fire drill service group configuration
RegRep resource may fault while bringing the fire drill service group online during "Run Fire Drill" operation
Fire Drill Wizard in an HTC environment is untested in a configuration that uses the same horcm file for both regular and snapshot replication
FireDrill attribute is not consistently enabled or disabled
MountV resource state incorrectly set to UNKNOWN
Quick recovery (QR) configuration issues
Quick Recovery Wizard allows identical names to be assigned to snapshot sets for different databases
Internationalization and localization issues
Only US-ASCII characters are supported
Use only U.S. ASCII characters in the SFW or SFW HA installation directory name
VEA GUI cannot show double-byte characters correctly on (English) Windows operating system
VEA can't connect to the remote VEA server on non-English platforms
SSO configuration fails if the system name contains non-English locale characters
VCS cluster may display "stale admin wait" state if the virtual computer name and the VCS cluster name contains non-English locale characters
Issues faced while configuring application monitoring for a Windows service having non-English locale characters in its name
Interoperability issues
Backup Exec 12 installation fails in a VCS environment
Symantec Endpoint Protection security policy may block the VCS Cluster Configuration Wizard
VCS services do not start on systems where SEP 12.1 or later is installed
Several issues while you configure VCS on systems where Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) version 12.1 is installed
Miscellaneous issues
Cluster node may become unresponsive if you try to modify network properties of adapters assigned to the VCS private network
MSMQ resource fails to come online if the MSMQ directory path contains double byte characters
Error while switching global service groups using Veritas Operations Manager 3.0
Saving large configuration results in very large file size for main.cf
AutoStart may violate limits and prerequisites load policy
Trigger not invoked in REMOTE_BUILD state
Some alert messages do not display correctly
If VCS upgrade fails on one or more nodes, HAD fails to start and cluster becomes unusable
Custom settings in the cluster configuration are lost after an upgrade if attribute values contain double quote characters
Options on the Domain Selection panel in the VCS Cluster Configuration Wizard are disabled
Live migration of a VM, which is part of a VCS cluster where LLT is configured over Ethernet, from one Hyper-V host to another may result in inconsistent HAD state
If a NIC that is configured for LLT protocol is disabled, LLT does not notify clients
Fibre Channel adapter issues
Emulex Fibre Channel adapters
QLogic Fibre Channel adapters
Storage agent issues and limitations in VMware virtual environments
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