AppSync

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After a reboot, Windows non-clustered devices were not coming online when using PowerShell to online the devices. Coincidentally, the AppSync plugin was recently installed.

AppSync Oracle Support.

Describes issue where mount times may increase after upgrade to AppSync 4.0, and how to resolve.

The user's PowerMax Array was not showing in step 3 of the add storage system wizard, "Select PowerMax/VMAX3 Array".

AppSync: Invalid Login Credentials is received when using the unsupported by AppSync 9.1.0.4 version of Unisphere for PowerMax (U4P) to manage a PowerMax array.

In AppSync, prior to v4.0, SQL recovery fails due to missing ldf (sql log) files

AppSync may throw an error about not being able to find SRDF group information when an incompatible array is present.

An issue with the AppSync code causes volume group names to be handled incorrectly which can cause unmount failure and an agent task to fail.

When running an AppSync service plan using an XIO array the Service Plan may fail during create copy phase with the error “snapshotset_name_not_unique”

Agent Log fails with: Not enough space to create the consolidated log file

Re-discovery also failed with Unable to discover Oracle database. Filesystem discovery works fine.

AppSync: AppSync may not tolerate renamed VMWare vDisk (Virtual Disk). Mount will fail due to AppSync still using the old vDisk names on mount.

After an upgrade to AppSync 3.8 or after introducing a VPlex configuration into an existing AppSync environment Oracle Service Plans that previously worked may fail with Event [ORCL_000055]: Protection on the DB Failed. Archive Log/FRA Destination cannot be on the same consistency group as the data files/control files/redolog files. Non Hot Backup Service Plans work fine.

AppSync server logs is keep on growing and not working.

AppSync snapshots are not expired from array as per the rotation policy.

AppSync encounters multiple VSS timeouts while taking a snapshot of more than 50 databases that are subscribed to a SQL service plan, even though there is no performance issue in the SMI-S server.

AppSync utilizes the VMware workflow, "Quiesce guest file system (Needs VMware Tools installed)". If this operation does not work from vSphere then AppSync will not be able to create the snapshot.

Remove copy button is only available for copies that reside on XtremIO storage.

AppSync: A 10 second VSS timeout is encountered for VMAX3 and Windows Applications while at AppSync 3.5 or 3.7.0 and with SMIS creating the copy in over 5 seconds but less than 10 seconds.

Migrating the AppSync Server VM to a new environment in VMware causes an issue with the CST lockbox which requires a re-install or upgrade of AppSync to resolve.

AppSync: A FileSystem discovery error will be received when discovering a Windows host that has disks mapped to more than 1 mountpoint.

Recovery fails with the error message "The SQL Server version of production instance is higher than the version of mount instance. Recovery cannot be initiated if the versions on both the servers do not match."

AppSync CLI command intermittently fails

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