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PRIMECLUSTERGlobal Disk Services Configuration and AdministrationGuide 4.5
FUJITSU Software

M.1.1 New Features in 4.2A00

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Products

Feature

Description

For details

1

GDS, GDS Snapshot

SPARC Enterprise support

SPARC Enterprise is supported. (The patch 914423-02 or later is required for GDS and the patch 914457-02 or later is required for GDS snapshot)

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2

GDS, GDS Snapshot

SPARC T3-4/T3-2/T3-1 support

SPARC T3-4/T3-2/T3-1 are supported. (The patch 914423-21 or later of GDS is required)

"A.2.18 Swapping Disks (SAS)"

3

GDS, GDS Snapshot

ETERNUS8000 Disk storage system and ETERNUS4000 Disk storage system support

ETERNUS8000 Disk storage system and ETERNUS4000 Disk storage system are supported.

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4

GDS, GDS Snapshot

ETERNUS2000 support

ETERNUS2000 Disk storage system is supported. (The patch 914423-05 or later of GDS is required)

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5

GDS, GDS Snapshot

ETERNUS DX series support

The following models of ETERNUS DX series Disk storage systems are supported.

ETERNUS DX60/DX80/DX90

ETERNUS DX80 S2/DX90 S2

ETERNUS DX410/DX440

ETERNUS DX410 S2/DX440 S2

ETERNUS DX8100/DX8400/DX8700

(The patch 914423-10 or later is required for GDS and the patch 914457-03 or later is required for GDS snapshot)

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6

GDS, GDS Snapshot

iSCSI device support

iSCSI device is supported. (The patch 914423-23 or later of GDS is required)

"A.2.43 Mounting the iSCSI Device"

7

GDS

Dell EMC PowerPath native device support

Dell EMC PowerPath native devices (cXtXdX) are managed with GDS.

"A.2.26 To Use Dell EMC Storage Units"

8

GDS

SAN boot with ETERNUS disk array support

In a SAN boot environment using ETERNUS Disk storage system, system disk management and mirroring can be performed.

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9

GDS Snapshot

SAN boot with ETERNUS disk array support and Advanced Copy support for the system volume snapshot function

In a SAN boot environment using ETERNUS Disk storage system, snapshots of system volumes and alternative boot environments can be created. The Advanced Copy function can also be used.

"1.5.6 Creating an Alternative Boot Environment"

10

GDS

System disk mirroring in a ZFS boot environment (GDS mirroring)

A system disk can be mirrored by using GDS's mirroring function in a ZFS boot environment. (The patch 914423-12 or later of GDS is required)

11

GDS

System disk mirroring in a ZFS boot environment (ZFS mirroring)

System disk can be mirrored by the redundancy of the two single volumes of GDS using ZFS's mirroring function in a ZFS boot environment. (The patch 914423-18 or later of GDS is required)

12

GDS, GDS Snapshot

ZFS support (local and shared classes)

ZFS is supported in local and shared classes.

13

GDS, GDS Snapshot

Mirroring and snapshot with 1 TB or larger volumes

Mirroring and snapshot creation with 1 TB or larger volumes can be performed. For creating 1 TB or larger volumes, multiple disks with less than 1 TB should be grouped by concatenation or striping function. (The patch 914423-19 or later of GDS is required)

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14

GDS

UFS file system with 1 TB or larger support

For 1 TB or larger logical volumes, a 1 TB or larger UFS file system can be created. (The patch 914423-19 or later of GDS is required.)

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15

GDS

Object status check

The status check function provided in GDS Management View displays a description of the state of an object and the help to restore the object. (The patch 914506-02 or later of GDS is required)

16

GDS

Reminders of system reboot in the system disk setting and unmirroring in GDS Management View

As a reminder of system reboot, a warning message is displayed to prompt the user to reboot the system.

17

GDS

The reset button newly added in the Proxy Volume Attributes Definition dialog box provided in GDS Management View

This button initializes the proxy volume attributes.

"5.2.4.1 Join"

18

GDS

Improvement of the system disk unmirroring function provided in GDS Management View

Even if the root class includes disks other than the system disk and its mirror disks and spare disks, the system disk can be unmirrored. Additionally, if the system disk has related proxy volumes or master volumes, the system disk unmirroring is prevented.

19

GDS

Command timeout notification

If the timeout of a command issued by GDS Management View occurs, an error message is displayed to indicate it.

Error messages 5020 and 5021 in "E.5.1 Error Messages (5000-5099)"

GDS: Global Disk Services
GDS Snapshot: Global Disk Services Snapshot