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Foundation Suite/HA 2.2 for Linux Douglas 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 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 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: entations.htmhttp://products.veritas.com/products/high_avail/cluster_server/pres entations.htm heets.htmhttp://products.veritas.com/products/high_avail/cluster_server/datas heets.htm

Foundation Suite VMWare VCS monitors Virtual Machines SERVER “A”SERVER “B” INTEL HARDWARE VMware ESX VCS 2.0 for ESX W2K Virtual Machine NT 4.0 Virtual Machine Linux Virtual Machine INTEL HARDWARE VMware ESX VCS 2.0 for ESX If failure occurs, VCS can restart Virtual Machines on another server –Note: 2 nd server can be running Virtual Machines pre-failure W2K Virtual Machine NT 4.0 Virtual Machine Linux Virtual Machine