Continentalclusters Version A.08.00 Release Notes, April2011 (5900-1485)

Support for Configuring Package Dependencies for Failover Recovery Packages
Starting with Continentalclusters Version A.08.00, a failover package configured as a
recovery package can have dependencies on other failover packages in the cluster.
Support for HPVM Packages in Continentalclusters
Starting with Continentalclusters version A.08.00, HP Integrity Virtual Machine (HPVM)
(version 4.2 or later) guests can be configured as a primary or a recovery package in
Continentalclusters Recovery Groups.
For more information on configuring HPVM packages in Continentalclusters, see
Implementing Disaster Recovery for HP Integrity Virtual Machines with Metrocluster and
Continentalclusters on HP-UX 11i white paper available at http://www.hp.com/go/
hpux-serviceguard-docs —> HP Serviceguard Continentalclusters.
Support for Serviceguard Features
The following Serviceguard features are not supported in version A.08.00.
• Package exclusion dependency
• Live Application Detach of site controller packages configured in the recovery groups
and the packages managed by that site controller instance
• Package Maintenance mode for site controller packages configured in the recovery
groups and the packages managed by that site controller instance
• Online reconfiguration of Site Controller module package parameters
• Online reconfiguration of Device group parameters in Continentalclusters XPCA
(ccxpca module) packages
• Packages configured in Continentalclusters Recovery Groups cannot be evaluated
with cmeval command
Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements
The same version of Continentalclusters and HP Serviceguard 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.
Hardware Requirements
Host System Hardware Requirements
• HP 9000 Servers
• HP Integrity Servers
If you are doing data replication with XP series disk arrays, there are both hardware
and software requirements. For more information on the hardware and software
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