Continentalclusters Version A.08.00 Release Notes, September 2010 (T2346-90014)

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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
Version A.08.00 of Continentalclusters requires the HP-UX 11i v2 or HP-UX 11i v3
operating system. Continentalclusters Version A.08.00 requires HP-UX Distributed
Systems Administration Utilities Version C.01.00.11 and HP-UX Secure Shell Version
A.04.50.021. Continentalclusters version A.04.00 or later will not automatically include
the following separately purchased products: Metrocluster with Continuous Access
XP, Metrocluster with Continuous Access EVA, and Metrocluster with EMC SRDF.
Since Continentalclusters configurations may be complex to configure and maintain,
it is recommended that you use Hewlett-Packard’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 Disaster Tolerant Clusters Products
Compatibility and Feature Matrix (Continentalclusters-CC), located at http://www.hp.com/
go/hpux-ha-monitoring-docs -> HP Continentalcluster.
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.
Continentalclusters version A.08.00 supports the following features:
• Support for HP Serviceguard A.11.19 and A.11.20
• “Support for IPv6 Protocol” (page 6)
• “Enhanced Security Infrastructure” (page 7)
• “Support for Modular Packages” (page 7)
• “Support for Complex Workloads using Site Aware Disaster Tolerant Architecture
(SADTA)” (page 8)
• “Support for Oracle 11gR2 as Single Instance and as RAC” (page 8)
• “Support for Configuring Package Dependencies for Failover Recovery Packages”
(page 8)
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