Centralized Storage Foundation administration
What are the Storage Foundation operations that are available through the centralized console of Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager?
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Table: Storage Foundation operations
| Object | Type of Operation |
|---|---|
| Disk groups | Creating disk groups |
| Recovering disk groups | |
| Deporting disk groups | |
| Destroying disk groups | |
| Importing disk groups | |
| Adding disks to disk groups | |
| Removing disks from disk groups | |
| Resizing disks in disk groups | |
| Renaming disks in disk groups | |
| Upgrading disk groups | |
| Splitting disk groups | |
| Moving disk groups | |
| Joining disk groups | |
| Enabling/disabling Flexible Storage Sharing on disk groups | |
| Disks | Disconnecting disks |
| Initializing disks | |
| Recovering disks | |
| Replacing disks | |
| Bringing disks online | |
| Taking disks offline | |
| Evacuating disks | |
| Setting disk usage | |
| Running or scheduling Trim | |
| Rescanning disks | |
| Exporting and un-exporting disks for Flexible Storage Sharing | |
| Creating, modifying, and deleting SmartIO cache | |
| Enabling and disabling SmartIO cache | |
| Volumes | Creating volumes |
| Stopping volumes | |
| Recovering volumes | |
| Reactivating volumes | |
| Deleting volumes | |
| Moving volumes | |
| Adding mirrors to volumes | |
| Removing the mirrors of volumes | |
| Creating instant volume snapshots | |
| Creating space optimized snapshots for volumes | |
| Creating mirror break-off snapshots for volumes | |
| Dissociating snapshots | |
| Reattaching snapshots | |
| Resizing volumes | |
| Restoring data from the snapshots of volumes | |
| Refreshing the snapshot of volumes | |
| Configuring a schedule for volume snapshot refresh | |
| Adding snapshot volumes to a refresh schedule | |
| Removing the schedule for volume snapshot refresh | |
| Setting volume usage | |
| Splitting snapshots | |
| Starting synchronization of snapshots | |
| Renaming volumes | |
| Enabling FMR | |
| Disabling FMR | |
| File systems | Creating file systems |
| Enabling change logs | |
| Disabling change logs | |
| Synchronizing change logs | |
| Removing change logs | |
| Defragmenting file systems | |
| Unmounting non-clustered file systems from hosts | |
| Mounting non-clustered file systems on hosts | |
| Unmounting clustered file systems | |
| Mounting clustered file systems on hosts | |
| Remounting file systems | |
| Checking file systems | |
| Creating file system snapshots | |
| Remounting file system snapshot | |
| Mounting file system snapshot | |
| Unmounting file system snapshot | |
| Removing file system snapshot | |
| Monitoring capacity of file systems | |
| Running or scheduling Trim | |
| Volume replication | Configuring replications |
| Adding a secondary | |
| Pausing the replication to a Secondary | |
| Resuming the replication of a secondary | |
| Starting replication to a Secondary | |
| Stopping the replication to a Secondary | |
| Switching a primary | |
| Taking over from an original Primary | |
| Removing a secondary | |
| Monitoring replications |
Do we need any managed host components to be installed to perform centralized Storage Foundation operations?
VRTSsfmh 7.4.2, or later package must be installed on the SFHA hosts to perform centralized Storage Foundation operations. No other component is required to be installed on these hosts to perform the centralized Storage Foundation operations.
What are the Storage Foundation High Availability (SFHA) supported versions?
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SFHA on Windows: Versions 7.4.2 or later.
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SFHA on UNIX/Linux: Versions 7.4.2 or later.
For more information, refer to the Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager Hardware and Software Compatibility List (HSCL).
Which Storage Foundation operations are not supported on a Windows host?
Following are the Storage Foundation operations that are not supported on Windows host:
Disk and disk group operations:
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Resizing disks in a disk group
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Moving disk groups
Volume operations:
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Moving volumes
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Starting synchronization of a snapshot
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Creating instant volume snapshots
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Creating space optimized snapshots for volumes
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Creating mirror-breakoff snapshots for volumes
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Restoring data from the snapshots of volumes
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Refreshing the snapshot of volumes
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Recovering volumes
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Reattaching snapshots
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Dissociating snapshots
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Splitting snapshots
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Renaming volume
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Enabling FastResync on volumes
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Disabling FastResync on volumes
File system operations:
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Creating file systems
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Defragmenting file systems
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Checking file systems
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Remounting file systems
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Mount file system
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Unmount file system
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Creating file system snapshots
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Mounting file system snapshot
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Unmounting file system snapshot
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Remounting file system snapshot
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Removing file system snapshot
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Enabling change logs
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Disabling change logs
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Synchronizing change logs
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Removing change logs
Which file systems are supported for the mount and the unmount operations?
Mount operation: Supported file systems are VxFS, UFS, Ext2, Ext3, and Ext4.
Unmount operation: Supported file systems are VxFS, UFS, Ext2, Ext3, and Ext4, except for the root or the ZFS file system.