HP Serviceguard/SGeRAC/Storage Management Suite/Serviceguard Manager Plug-in Compatibility and Feature Matrix- HPUX and Linux

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HP Serviceguard for HP-UX A.11.19 - HP-UX 11iv3 New Features
SG New Features
Note, Extended Distance Cluster (EDC) is a SG configuration and all SG
compatibility should be assumed unless otherwise stated
SGeRAC New Features
Additional information can be found in the release notes at
www.hp.com/go/HP-UX-serviceguard-docs
SG SMS New Features
Additional information can be found in the release notes at:
www.hp.com/go/HP-UX-serviceguard-docs
• Complex Dependencies
• Package Weights
• Node Capacities
• IPv6 hostname address family for all cluster
components, with some restrictions
• Serviceguard can now monitor subnets at the IP level, as well as the
link level
• Online Cluster Configuration Capabilities
• Online Modular and Legacy Package Configuration capabilities for
most parameters
• Preview Capabilities
• Partial-Startup Maintenance Mode
• Configure up to 300 packages per cluster
• Quorum Server support for up to 150 clusters / 300 nodes with QS
version A.02.04 and later
• New Cluster Parameters:
- NETWORK_AUTO_FAILBACK
- tells SG how to handle the recovery of the primary LAN interface
after it has failed over to the
standby interface because of a link level failure
• Support for Cluster Interconnect Monitoring on IPv4 and IPv6
• Support for Oracle VIP network monitoring on IPv4 and IPv6
• Enablement for improved RAC VIP management & failover
performance
• GMS authorization
• Support for Logical Volume Manager Version 2.0 (or later)
• Supports Veritas CVM and CFS 5.0 & 5.0.1 (3.5 and 4.1 versions
not supported). This applies to CVM standalone and CVM included
in SMS bundles
• Support for the SGeRAC Toolkit
- Support for modular package format, package maintenance
mode, package halt reason feature, package description feature
- Support ASM DG package (patch required)
• Oracle RAC Compatibility:
- RAC 9iR2 with SLVM
-- Cluster size: 16 nodes maximum
-- Extended Cluster support (up to 100km between sites):
--- With SLVM: 2, 4 nodes (4 nodes requires SLVM v2)
- RAC 11gR2 with CVM/CFS 5.0.1
SG SMS A.03.00:
• Integrated with the Veritas version 5.0.1 products
• Supported on the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system only (no 11i
v2 support)
• Able to run on both HP 9000 and HP Integrity Servers
• Serviceguard CFS clusters now support APA in the hearbeat
network.
• Serviceguard CFS clusters use MEMBER_TIMEOUT to specify
how long it takes for a node to time out. NODE_TIMEOUT and
HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL are replaced by MEMBER_TIMEOUT in
SG SMS version A.03.00.
• Support for Dynamic Root Disk (DRD) on HP-UX 11i v3 -
before attempting an upgrade to
SG SMS version A.03.00 from a previous SG SMS version, see
“Using Dynamic Root Disk
Utilities (DRD) to upgrade to SG SMS A.03.00”
• Note SMS A.03.00 requires the SG A.11.19 patch
PHSS_40152
SG SMS A.02.01.01
• Patches provided by Symantec for the Veritas version 5.0
products
SG SMS A.02.01: