HP Serviceguard A.11.20.00 for Linux Release Notes, August 2012

Overview

This document provides information about HP Serviceguard A.11.20.00 for Linux.

Serviceguard Bundled Components - Product Structure

For information about the product structure and licensing information on Serviceguard Linux

A.11.20.00, see Quick Specs document.

Supported Platforms and Linux Distributions

Serviceguard A.11.20.00 is available on HP Integrity and ProLiant Servers for the following Linux

distributions:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 server or Advanced Platform

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 server or Advanced Platform

NOTE: For full details of supported errata, etc., see the HP Serviceguard for Linux Certification

Matrix at www.hp.com/info/sglx.

New and Changed Features in This Release

This section describes the new and changed features for HP Serviceguard A.11.20.00 for Linux.

New Features of Serviceguard

• “Integration of Custom Defined Monitor in Serviceguard Using Generic Resources” (page 6)

• “NFS-mounted File Systems” (page 7)

• “Halting a Node or the Cluster while Keeping Packages Running (Live Application Detach)”

(page 7)

• “Support for Virtualization with ESX as Hypervisor and Guests as Serviceguard Nodes” (page

• Support for ext3 and ext4 file systems on logical volumes created out of volume groups in Red

Hat configured as part of Serviceguard packages.

NOTE: Only RHEL 6.1 and RHEL 6.2 are supported in Serviceguard A.11.20.00.

• Support for Quorum Server on Red Hat 6.0

• “Improved Performance while Starting and Halting a Non-detached Multi-node Package”

(page 7)

New Features of Serviceguard Manager

• Support for configuration, administration, and monitoring for up to 4 nodes in a cluster.

• Support for ext3 file system on RHEL 5 (x86_64) and RHEL 6.

• Support for ext4 file system on RHEL 6 (x86_64).

• Support for Live Application Detach of Serviceguard modular packages for reduced planned

downtime.

• Support for configuration, administration, and monitoring of Oracle Single Instance toolkit on

RHEL 5.

• Support for configuration, administration, and monitoring of Network File System (NFS) toolkit

package.

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