Symantec Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 6.2 Software Compatibility List - Linux
SFHA 6.2 Compatibility Matrix - Linux
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SFHA Product Stacks
OS Support
(X86
Architecture)
Native Installer
Support
SF
SFHA
VCS
RHEL6
U3, U4, U5
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
RHEL/OL 7
GA
S
S
S
S
S
S
OL6
U3, U4, U5
S6
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
OL6 UEK2
SLES11
U4, U5
SP2, SP3
RHEL-H 3.3
S12
RHEL-H 3.4
NBU 7.5.0.7
RHEL/OL 7 GA
OL 6 U4, U5 UEK2
S12
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
VOM MS 6.0, 6.1
S18
NT
NT
S19
NT
NT
T
S19
Text1
S
NT
NT
NT
NT
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
NT
NT
S
S
S
S
S
S
T
S
NT
NT
SWL
10g R2 RAC3
11g R2
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
T
S
T
T
SWL
Sybase
Sybase ASE CE
15.5
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S20
S
S
S
T
S
S
NT
NT
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
NT
NT
Not tested.
Text has footnote. See Footnotes below the support matrix
Not Applicable/Not Available
Acronyms
SWL
5
S
Tested Successfully
S
S
S
Supported from co-existence point of view
T
T
S
S
Supported with limitations
Co-exist
NT
S
S
Supported
SWL
T
S
S
S
T
S
11g R2 RAC4
12C
17
T
S
S
NBU 7.6.0.2
SLES 11 SP2, SP3
S
12c RAC
15.x
SWL
ASM
Automatic Storage Management
CFS
Cluster File System
CP server
Coordination Point Server
CVM
Cluster Volume Manager
DB
Database
DMP
Dynamic Multi-pathing
FMR
Fast Mirror Resync
FS
File System
9.5
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
NT
NT
SWL
FSS
Flexible Storage Sharing
9.7
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
NT
NT
SWL
HA
High Availability
10.1
10.5
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
NT
NT
NT
NT
SWL
SWL
HSCL
KVM
Hardware and Software Compatibility List
Kernel-based Virtual Machine
VxVM
6.2
SWL
S
S
DMP
6.2
S
S
S
CVM
6.2
VVR
6.2
CVM + VVR
6.2
FMR4
6.2
SWL
S
VxFS
6.2
SWL
S
CFS
6.2
TP/TR
6.2
HA (VCS)
6.2
S
DR
6.2
Campus Cluster
6.2
De-Duplication
6.2
S
FS Compression
6.2
File Replication
6.2
VBS
6.2
S
S
S
CPS Fencing
6.2
S
S
SmartIO - Read Caching
6.2
S
SmartIO - Write Back Caching
Flexible Storage Sharing
6.2
6.2
S
NBU
7.5.0.7
NBU
VOM MH
7.6.0.2
6.1.0.100
S
S
T
S
S
T
S
VMWare (In guest clustering)
5.1U1/U2
SWL
S
S
S
IBM DB2
Storage
Foundation
Critical Features /
Options
Other Symantec
products
21
SFSYBASECE ApplicationHA DMP SFAE Support RHEL/OL 6 U3, U4, U5
10g R2
YUM (RHEL)
3rd Party DB
Virtualization
OS Support
1
SF BASIC
Oracle RDBMS
SFCFSHA SFRAC
2
VERSION
Kickstart (RHEL)
Products22
1
COMPONENT
VMWare (In guest clustering)
5.5/U1
KVM (In guest clustering)
RHEV (In guest clustering)
3.3
RHEV (In guest clustering)
3.4
S
S
T
T
SWL
NBU
NetBackup
S
S
S
NT
NT
SWL
OL
Oracle Linux
S
S
S
S
T
T
SWL
RAC
Real Application Clusters
S
S
S
S
S
NT
NT
SWL
RHEL
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
S
S
S
S
S
NT
NT
SWL
RHEV
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
S
S
S
S
S
S
NT
T
SWL
SF
Storage Foundation
S
S
S
S
S
S
T
T
SWL
SFAE
Storage Foundation Advanced Edition
S
S
S
S
S
T
T
SWL
SFCFSHA
Storage Foundation Cluster File System
S
S
S
S
S
NT
NT
SWL
SFHA
Storage Foundation and High Availability
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
T
T
SWL
SFRAC
Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
NT
NT
SWL
SLES
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
S
S
S
S
S
S
NT
NT
SWL
SORT
Symantec Operations Readiness Tools
S
S
S
S
S
S
T13
T13
SWL
SFSYBASECE Storage Foundation for Sybase CE
S
S
S
S
S
S
S
T
SWL
TP/TR
Thin provisioning/Thin reclamation
S
S
S
S
S
S
T14
NT
NT
VBS
Virtual Business Service
S
S
S
S
NT
NT
VCS
Symantec Cluster Server
S
S
S
S
S
NT
NT
VMDK
Virtual Machine Disk
S
S
S
S
S
NT
T
SWL
VOM
Veritas Operations Manager
S
SWL7
S
S
S
S
S
S
NT
T16
15
15
SWL
SWL
VOM MH
VOM MS
Veritas Operations Manager Management Host
Veritas Operations Manager Management Server
Co-exist
VVR
Veritas Volume Replicator
Co-exist
VxFS
VxVM
Veritas File System
Veritas Volume Manager
S
S
S
S
SWL
T
S
10
T
S
S
S
SWL11
S
S
11
S
S
S
S
S
SWL
SWL
S
S8
S8
S8
S
9
S
S
2 - SF Oracle RAC support details will be included after certification by Oracle
3 - 10g R2 RAC DB support details will be included after certification by Oracle
4 - 11g R2 RAC DB support details will be included after certification by Oracle
5 - Oracle 12c RAC support details will be included after certification by Oracle
6 - On RHEL/OL 7, for SF Basic, support is available when you create a symbolic link under the Perl directory.
7 - Only a two-node SFCFSHA cluster is supported
8 - For SFHA in host, KVM agent can be used. For SFHA in guest cluster, NSF must be used
9 - For SFHA in RHEL H host, KVM agent (with DR capabilities) can be used. For SFHA in guest cluster, NSF must be used
10 - Upto eight-node cluster is supported
11 - With RDM-P LUNs, disk-based fencing is supported with one guest per host per cluster basis
With VMDK LUNs and multi-writer flag, NSF must be used. With SmartIO and FSS, vMotion is not supported
12 - Supported on RHEL6 U5
13 - Deduplicated data undeduplicates after NetBackup restore
14 - Compressed data uncompresses after NetBackup restore
S
T
S
T
T
S
S
NT
NT
S
S
S
S
NT
NT
S
S
S
S
S
NT
NT
S
S
S
9
9
T
S
S
S
S
9
S
S
S
SWL
SWL
S
S
Footnotes:
1 - ApplicationHA and VCS products support additional application agents.
The support for applications is expanded through quarterly Agent Pack releases. See:
https://sort.symantec.com/agents
Document version: 6.2
S
S
S
S
S
Co-exist
S
S
S
Other useful links:
VOM details
15 - NetBackup VxVM/FlashSnap snapshot backup does not work with FSS volume
16 - Write-back caching does not work during NetBackup restore
17 - For more details on VOM HSCL, visit
https://sort.symantec.com/sitemap/document/4
18 - Supported on RHEL6 GA, U1, U2, U3, U4, U5
19 - Supported on OL6 U4
20 - Supported on SLES11, SLES11 SP1, SLES11 SP2
21 - In-guest clustering support for VCS for:
Hyper-V versions: Windows 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition and Windows Server 2012.
OVM (x86) version: OVM (x86) Server 3.0.
See SFHA Solutions 6.1 Virtualization Guide on Linux for more information.
22 - The database support matrix will be updated based on the database certification program. See:
http://www.symantec.com
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DB2 support matrix
Oracle support matrix (Oracle RAC and Oracle Single Instance)
Sybase support matrix
Agent Pack release download
NetBackup documentation and compatibility lists
Dec 2014