Continentalclusters Version A.08.00 Release Notes, March 2013

Contents
1 Continentalclusters Version A.08.00 Release Notes.........................................5
Announcements........................................................................................................................5
What’s In This Version ..............................................................................................................5
New Feature for the March 2013 Patch Release.......................................................................5
Support for Asynchronous Periodic Mode...........................................................................5
New Features for the August 2011 Patch Release......................................................................5
Support for Data Replication with HP 3PAR Storage Systems using 3PAR Remote Copy.............5
New Features for the April 2011 Patch Release.........................................................................6
Support for Three Data Center (3DC) Continuous Access Journal (CAJ) Replication Between
Sites in a 3DC Disaster Recovery (DR) Solution....................................................................6
Support for Three Links and Delta Resync functionality in a 3DC DR Solution...........................7
Support for Device Group Monitor in a 3DC DR Solution.....................................................7
Support for Data Replication Storage Failover Preview in a 3DC DR Solution...........................8
Support for Disaster Recovery Rehearsal Operations in a 3DC DR Solution.............................8
Features Introduced in A.08.00.............................................................................................8
Continentalclusters Product Features...................................................................................9
Support for IPv6 Protocol..................................................................................................9
Enhanced Security Infrastructure........................................................................................9
Support for Modular Packages........................................................................................10
Support for Modular CFS Packages.................................................................................10
Support for Complex Workloads using Site Aware Disaster Tolerant Architecture (SADTA).......10
Support for Oracle RAC ASM using SADTA......................................................................11
Support for Oracle 11gR2 as Single Instance and as RAC..................................................11
Support for Configuring Package Dependencies for Failover Recovery Packages....................11
Support for HPVM Packages in Continentalclusters.............................................................11
Support for Serviceguard Features............................................................................................12
Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements...............................................................12
Hardware Requirements......................................................................................................12
Host System Hardware Requirements...............................................................................12
Software Requirements.......................................................................................................12
HP Software Requirements..............................................................................................13
Bastille Security Set up........................................................................................................13
Installing Continentalclusters................................................................................................13
Upgrading from Earlier Versions......................................................................................14
Compatibility Issues...........................................................................................................14
What Manuals are Available for this Version.........................................................................14
Further Reading.................................................................................................................16
Patches and Fixes in this Version...............................................................................................16
Patches Introduced for A.08.00 for the August 2011 Enhancements..........................................16
Patches Introduced for A.08.00 for the April 2011 Enhancements.............................................16
Fixes................................................................................................................................17
Fixes for A.08.00 in the March 2013 Release....................................................................17
Fixes for A.08.00 in the August 2011 Release...................................................................17
Fixes for A.08.00 in the April 2011 Release......................................................................18
Fixes for A.08.00..........................................................................................................18
Known Problems and Workarounds...........................................................................................18
cmhaltnode fails on the recovery cluster's node where the monitor package (ccmonpkg) and
recovery packages are running............................................................................................18
Applications hang when all PV links are down.......................................................................19
Continentalclusters does not give proper error message on installation failure.............................19
Continentalclusters does not support OpenSSH......................................................................20
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