EBSVol resources take a substantial amount of time in the attach or detach operations

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Article ID: 100060654

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Description

Error Message

N/A

Cause

When multiple resources of EBSVol are configured, it takes more time than expected for the attach or detach operation during a failover.

The single EBSVol resource does attach/detach at a time, and sequentially the rest of the resources perform the attach/detach.

This sequential processing of many EBSVol resources (5 or more resources) takes between 5 to 20 minutes during the attach/detach.

The congestion is caused by the original design to process all the resources in a single thread,

Resolution

A supported hotfix has been made available for this issue. Please contact Veritas Technical Support to obtain this fix. This hotfix has not yet gone through any extensive Q&A testing. Consequently, if you are not adversely affected by this problem and have a satisfactory temporary workaround in place, we recommend that you wait for the public release of this hotfix.

Veritas Technologies LLC currently plans to address this issue by way of a patch or hotfix to the current version of the software. Please note that Veritas Technologies LLC reserves the right to remove any fix from the targeted release if it does not pass quality assurance tests. Veritas’ plans are subject to change and any action taken by you based on the above information or your reliance upon the above information is made at your own risk.

Please contact your Veritas Sales representative or the Veritas Sales group for upgrade information including upgrade eligibility to the release containing the resolution for this issue.

Additional Information

ETrack: 4129492