The following feature were introduced with the HYPERMAX OS Q3 2016 service release:
- Virtual Witness (vWitness) functionality as previously described
- SRDF/Metro Extended Disaster Recovery (DR) with SRDF/A support
- Provides an extra layer of data protection for continuous out of region asynchronous replication in the event of regional disaster
- Concurrent (R11) and Cascaded (R21) support
- Concurrent (R11) SRDF/A target must be on a VMAX running HYPERMAX OS 5977 Q32016SR or later
- Single Session SRDF/A Consistency only (no MSC)
- No changes to Unisphere or SYMCLI other than removing previous blocks on ACP_DISK and SRDF/A
- Adding New Devices to an Active SRDF/Metro solution (createpair -format)
- Adds more storage on application that is SRDF/Metro protected without losing Active protection
Note: Adding existing devices by createpair –format will erase all existing data on the specified local and remote devices.
Support Matrix Updates:
- Support for PowerPath/PPVE Clustering with AIX 6.1, 6.1 with VIOS, 7.1, and 7.1 with VIOS 2.x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, 7.x
- Windows 2012, Windows 2012 R2
- ESXi
- Support for SCSI-2 and SCSI-3 Group Reservations for PowerPath Cluster
- HP-UX with Native MPIO and PowerPath for ServiceGuard Cluster