Serviceguard Extension for RAC Version A.11.18 Release Notes, 2nd Edition, December 2007
Table Of Contents
- Serviceguard Extension for RAC Version A.11.18 Release Notes Second Edition
- Table1 Printing History
- Announcements
- What’s in this Version
- Support for Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring
- Support for Veritas CFS and CVM
- Support for Oracle 9i RAC on CFS and CVM
- Support for Oracle 10gR2 RAC on CFS and CVM
- Support for the SGeRAC Toolkit
- Support for 8192 Oracle Server Processes for Oracle 9i RAC
- Serviceguard Extension for RAC does not support Mixed Clusters
- About Device Special Files (DSFs)
- What Manuals are Available for This Version
- Further Reading
- Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements
- Types of Releases and Patches
- Serviceguard Extension for RAC Compatibility with HP-UX and Oracle Releases
- Port Requirements
- Installing Serviceguard Extension for RAC
- Adding Serviceguard Extension for RAC to an Existing Cluster
- Removing SGeRAC
- Removing Serviceguard Extension for RAC Without Removing Serviceguard
- Troubleshooting Tips
- Patches and Fixes in this Version
- Known Problems and Workarounds
- Software Availability in Native Languages
Serviceguard Extension for RAC Version A.11.18 Release NotesWhat’s in this VersionChapter 112Support for Veritas CFS and CVMSGeRAC A.11.18 on HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3 supports Veritas VxVM,CVM and CFS 5.0 from Symantec, with the following exceptions:• SGeRAC supports a maximum of eight nodes for CVM and CFS.• SGeRAC does not support CFS nested mounts.For more information, see the HP Serviceguard Storage ManagementSuite Version A.02.00 for HP-UX 11i v3 Release Notes athttp://docs.hp.com -> High Availability -> HP Serviceguard StorageManagement Suite.Serviceguard Extension for Faster Failover, which is not supported withearlier versions of CVM and CFS, is supported with CVM and CFS 5.0.Serviceguard NFS Toolkit supports CFS 5.0. See the white paperServiceguard NFS Toolkit Support for CFS at http://docs.hp.com ->High Availability -> Highly Available NFS -> White Papers.SGeRAC ships the system multi-node package SG-CFS-pkg for CVM/CFS4.1 or later. The older system multi-node package, VxVM-CVM-pkg, isused only for Veritas Cluster Volume Manager 3.5. SGeRAC alsosupports multi-node packages.As of SGeRAC version A.11.17, only two multi-node packages aresupported for managing CVM/CFS: the mount point package,SG-CFS-MP-ID#, and the disk group package, SG-CFS-DG-ID#. Both areshipped with Serviceguard.Like system multi-node packages, multi-node packages do not fail over,and can run on more than one node at a time. Unlike system multi-nodepackages, they do not have to run on every active node in the cluster, butcan be configured to run on specific nodes.Multi-node packages function for CFS in much the same way as theSTORAGE_GROUP parameter functions for CVM 3.5. They allow anapplication package to build a dependency on another package, such as adependency on a cluster file system package or disk group package.CFS packages use a new parameter set, added to the packageconfiguration file, that you can use to create dependencies. Thisparameter ensures that a package will not start on a node unless thepackage it depends on is up and running on that node.