Continentalclusters Version A.08.00 Release Notes, March 2013

1 Continentalclusters Version A.08.00 Release Notes
Announcements
Continentalclusters is a Hewlett-Packard high availability solution that provides disaster tolerant
clustering with no distance limitation. Version A.08.00 of Continentalclusters contains enhancements
and is released on HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3 with the following product number:
T2346BA - license, media, and documentation
The Continentalclusters version A.04.00 or later does not automatically include the separately
purchased products, such as Metrocluster with Continuous Access for P9000 and XP, Metrocluster
with Continuous Access EVA, Metrocluster with 3PAR Remote Copy, and Metrocluster with EMC
SRDF.
The version A.08.00 of Continentalclusters requires the HP-UX 11i v2 or HP-UX 11i v3 operating
system, HP-UX Distributed Systems Administration Utilities Version C.01.00.11, and HP-UX Secure
Shell Version A.04.50.021.
Continentalclusters configurations may be complex to configure and maintain, so HP recommends
that you use HP's high availability consulting services to ensure a smooth installation and rollout.
Contact your HP representative to inquire about high availability consulting. In addition, work with
your HP representative to ensure that you have the latest firmware revisions for disk drives, disk
controllers, LAN controllers, and other hardware.
For information on supported versions, see the Serviceguard Disaster Recovery Products Compatibility
and Feature Matrix (Continentalclusters), available at http://www.hp.com/go/
hpux-serviceguard-docs -> HP Serviceguard Continentalclusters.
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.
New Feature for the March 2013 Patch Release
Support for Asynchronous Periodic Mode
Starting with Continentalclusters patch PHSS_43492 (on HPUX 11iv3) and Metrocluster 3PAR
patch PHSS_43098 (on HP-UX 11i v3) release, the Remote Copy volume group configured with
asynchronous periodic mode can be managed by Continentalclusters. For more information about
asynchronous periodic mode, see Metrocluster with 3PAR Remote Copy A.01.00 Release Notes
available at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-serviceguard-docs.
New Features for the August 2011 Patch Release
The Continentalclusters version A.08.00 with the patches listed under “Patches Introduced for
A.08.00 for the August 2011 Enhancements” (page 16), provides a new capability:
Support for Data Replication with HP 3PAR Storage Systems using 3PAR Remote Copy
HP 3PAR Remote Copy replication is supported in Continentalclusters with Continentalclusters
A.08.00 August 2011 patches (PHSS_42142 on 11i v2 and PHSS_42143 on 11i v3), and
Metrocluster with 3PAR Remote Copy A.01.00. Metrocluster with 3PAR Remote Copy must be
purchased separately and installed on all nodes in Continentalclusters. This feature is available on
both HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3 and is supported on Serviceguard versions A.11.19 and A.11.20.
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