Continentalclusters Version A.05.
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Continentalclusters Version A.05.00 Release Notes 1 Chapter 1 Continentalclusters Version A.05.
Continentalclusters Version A.05.00 Release Notes Announcements Announcements Continentalclusters is a Hewlett-Packard high availability solution that provides disaster tolerant clustering with no distance limitation. Version A.05.00 of Continentalclusters, which contains enhancements and defect fixes, is being released with the following product numbers: • T2346BA license, media and documentation for HP-UX 11i v1 and HP-UX 11i v2 (also known as HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 update) Version A.05.
Continentalclusters Version A.05.00 Release Notes What’s In this Version What’s In this Version Continentalclusters employs semi-automatic failover of Serviceguard packages from one cluster to another following a cluster event that indicates serious disruption of service on one of the clusters. The product consists of a set of configuration, management commands, and a set of daemons that monitors and sends notification of cluster events The A.05.
Continentalclusters Version A.05.00 Release Notes What’s In this Version Support for the Capability to Select a Specific Oracle RAC instance for Initial Startup, Shutdown, or Failback at the Primary Site Instead of operating on all of the RAC instance package sets, a new option “-i” is provided in the Continentalclusters tool /opt/cmconcl/bin/ccrac_mgmt.ksh to offer the selection of a specific set of Oracle RAC instance packages to be started, halted, or failed back at the priamry site.
Continentalclusters Version A.05.00 Release Notes What’s In this Version NOTE Chapter 1 • Logical data replication is also possible using the Oracle Standby Database. Template files and additional information are included in the Oracle Standby Database portion of the separately purchased Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit product. Other customer-selected logical data replication solutions can be implemented as well. • Cluster monitoring is carried out over WAN connections.
Continentalclusters Version A.05.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements The same version of Continentalclusters must be installed on all nodes in all the clusters of the configuration. To use Continentalclusters, the following hardware and software must be installed and configured on all nodes.
Continentalclusters Version A.05.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Software Requirements There are both HP software and disk array management software requirements. HP Software Requirements For HP-UX 11i v1: • Serviceguard version A.11.15 or later, or Serviceguard Extension for RAC version A.11.15 or later. For HP-UX 11i v2: • Serviceguard version A.11.15 or later, or Serviceguard Extension for RAC version A.11.15 or later for HP Integrity Servers.
Continentalclusters Version A.05.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements participating Continentalcluster nodes for as designated in section “Remote Failover” of Chapter 8 in the Using HP-UX IPFilter with Serviceguard user’s guide. For the Bastille security setup requirements for Event Monitoring Service, refer to the Event Monitoring Service release notes.
Continentalclusters Version A.05.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Serviceguard or Serviceguard OPS Edition or Seviceguard Extension for RAC is installed or selected at the time of installation of Continentalclusters. Upgrading from Earlier Versions... If you are upgrading a continental cluster from an earlier version, you need to do the following: 1. Delete the old Continentalclusters configuration: # cmdeleteconcl 2. Upgrade new version of Continentalclusters. 3.
Continentalclusters Version A.05.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Compatibility Issues Configuration with a metropolitan cluster as the primary cluster is supported in the cascading failover configuration using Metrocluster with EMC SRDF and CA XP. For details on using EMC SRDF refer to Chapter 7of the Designing Disaster Tolerant High Availability Clusters manual. For details on using CA XP or CA EVA contact your HP representative.
Continentalclusters Version A.05.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA Replication Performance Estimator V3.0 Application Notes (AA-RU5MD-TE, July 2004). • HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA User Interface V1.2 Installation Guide Addendum (T3661-96001, September 2004). • HP StorageWorks Continuous Access EVA User Interface V1.2 Read Me First (T3661-96003, September 2004).
Continentalclusters Version A.05.00 Release Notes Patches and Fixes in this Version Patches and Fixes in this Version There are no patches required for Continentalclusters version A.05.00 at the time of publication. However, this is subject to change without notice. For the most current information contact your HP support representative or Hewlett Packard IT Resource Center.
Continentalclusters Version A.05.00 Release Notes Patches and Fixes in this Version Fixes There are no known fixes at the time of this publication. However, this is subject to change without notice. For the most current information contact your HP support representative.
Continentalclusters Version A.05.00 Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds Known Problems and Workarounds The following describes known problems with the Continentalclusters and workarounds for them. This is subject to change without notice. For the most current information contact your HP support representative. More recent information on known problems and workarounds may be available on the Hewlett Packard IT Resource Center: http://itrc.hp.com (Americas and Asia Pacific) http://europe.itrc.hp.
Continentalclusters Version A.05.00 Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds The directive order of order deny,allow or order allow,deny specified in /etc/opt/cmom/cmomhosts does not allow any space between “deny,allow” or “allow,deny”. If the file is not setup properly, nodes that are running monitor packages will not be able to obtain information from other nodes about the cluster status.
Continentalclusters Version A.05.00 Release Notes Known Problems and Workarounds Applications hang when all PV links are down What is the problem? When all PV links to a disk array used by a primary or recovery package are down, the package applications accessing that array will hang indefinitely. The applications will not detect an error and cannot be killed. Even running cmhaltpkg will not stop the application.
Continentalclusters Version A.05.00 Release Notes Software Availability in Native Languages Software Availability in Native Languages Continentalclusters is not available in native language versions.
Continentalclusters Version A.05.
