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System Management Release Notes

5.9 OpenVMS Cluster Systems

5.9.9 Selective Autoconﬁguration Not Supported in Some Fibre Channel and

SCSI Conﬁgurations

V7.2-1

OpenVMS Alpha provides SYSMAN commands that enable system managers to

specify which devices will be autoconﬁgured. Device autoconﬁguration can be

speciﬁed permanently so that it is applied either at each system boot or for the

duration of a manual autoconﬁguration command, using the following qualiﬁers:

SYSMAN> IO SET/EXCLUDE=(device_name)

SYSMAN> IO AUTOCONFIGURE [/EXCLUDE=(device_name)] [/SELECT=(device_name)]

You can use the /EXCLUDE and /SELECT qualiﬁers to exclude and include Fibre

Channel port driver devices (PG and FG) and any SCSI port driver devices (PK).

However, you cannot use these qualiﬁers to exclude or include any of the following

device types:

• SCSI class-driver devices (DK, MK, GK) whose names include a port

allocation class or an HSZ allocation class

• Fibre Channel class-driver devices (DG, GG)

This restriction also applies to SCSI devices on OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.1

systems, if the SCSI device names include a port allocation class.

5.9.10 SHOW Command Displays Wrong Device Type for Fibre Channel

Devices (VAX Only)

V7.2

Fibre Channel devices can be served to OpenVMS VAX systems. On OpenVMS

VAX Version 7.2 (and later) systems, issuing the SHOW DEVICE/FULL command

for a Fibre Channel device ($1$DGAxxxx) incorrectly displays a device type of

Snapshot-capable virtual disk device

. For example:

$ SHOW DEV/FULL $1$DGA1000

Disk $1$DGA1000: (CRNPOP), device type Snapshot-capable virtual disk device, is

online, mounted, file-oriented device, shareable, available to cluster, error

logging is enabled.

The device type in this case should be DEC HSG80.

5.9.11 MEMORY CHANNEL Rolling Upgrade Restriction (Alpha Only)

V7.3

OpenVMS Version 7.3 supports rolling upgrades in an OpenVMS Cluster system,

as described in Section 1.2.

This note applies to rolling upgrades from OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.1 (or a

Version 7.1 variant) to one of the following:

• OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.2x

• OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.3

If MEMORY CHANNEL adapters (CCMAA-xx) have been added to the cluster

before upgrading OpenVMS to either Version 7.2 (or a Version 7.2 variant) or to

Version 7.3, an MC_FORCEDCRASH bugcheck occurs on the ﬁrst system when

the second and subsequent systems perform AUTOGEN and SHUTDOWN during

their installation. This problem is caused by conﬂicting system parameters.

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