Metrocluster with 3PAR Remote Copy for Linux Version B.12.00.00 Release Notes

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B.12.00.00 Release Notes
Announcement
HP Metrocluster with 3PAR Remote Copy for Linux is a High Availability (HA) HP product that
integrates Metrocluster with HP 3PAR Storage Systems.
Metrocluster with 3PAR Remote Copy for Linux is being released on the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 server or Advanced Platform
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 server or Advanced Platform
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11
Metrocluster with 3PAR Remote Copy for Linux allows:
The application packages to automatically failover among local nodes that are attached to
the same 3PAR storage system.
The application packages to automatically failover between one system that is attached locally
to its 3PAR storage system and another remote node that is attached locally to the other 3PAR
storage system.
Metrocluster configurations are complex to configure and maintain. Hence HP recommends that
you use HP's high availability consulting services to ensure a smooth installation and rollout. Contact
your HP representative to inquire about high availability consulting. In addition, you should work
with your HP representative to ensure that you have the required firmware revisions for disk drives,
disk controllers, LAN controllers, and other hardware devices.
Features supported in B.12.00.00 version
Metrocluster with 3PAR Remote Copy for Linux enables automatic failover of Serviceguard packages
between primary and recovery sites.
Metrocluster with 3PAR Remote Copy for Linux B.12.00.00 provides the following features:
“Support for Cluster Verification (page 5)
“Support for Remote Copy volume group monitor (page 5)
“Support for VMWare virtual machines as Metrocluster nodes (page 5)
“Support for Easy Deployment” (page 5)
“Support for 32 nodes in a cluster (page 5)
“Support for online reconfiguration of the packages (page 5)
“Support for Synchronous Replication mode (page 5)
Support for Asynchronous Periodic Mode (page 6)
“Support for Fully and Thinly Provisioned Virtual Volumes (page 6)
“Support for Remote Copy configurations (page 6)
“Support for 3PAR Virtual Domains (page 6)
“Supported volume managers with Metrocluster with 3PAR Remote Copy for Linux (page 7)
“Support for Continentalclusters (page 7)
“Support for failover polices site_preferred and site_preferred_manual” (page 7)
“Support for persistent reservations” (page 7)
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