Serviceguard Extension for RAC Version A.11.18 Release Notes, 3rd Edition, April 2008

What’s in this Version
The A.11.18 version of Serviceguard Extension for RAC (SGeRAC) is a release that
supports the use of the HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3 operating systems, and provides the
following additional features and restrictions:
• Support for Logical Volume Manager Version 2.0
• Support for Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring
• Support for Veritas CFS and CVM
• Support for Oracle 9i RAC on SLVM, CFS and CVM
• Support for Oracle 10gR2 RAC on SLVM, ASM, CFS and CVM
• Support for Oracle 11gR1 RAC on SLVM, ASM over SLVM
• Support for the SGeRAC Toolkit
• Support for HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3 on HP 9000 and HP Integrity servers
• Support for Online Volume Reconfiguration and Online Node Addition and
Deletion with CFS 4.1 (or later), CVM 4.1 (or later) and CVM version 3.5
• Support for CFS/CVM 4.1 and 5.0 in clusters up to 8 nodes
• Support for CVM version 3.5 in clusters up to 8 nodes
• Support for a maximum of 16-nodes in a cluster when Shared LVM is used
• Hostnames for SGeRAC cluster nodes can be up to 39 characters (bytes) long (The
former limit was 31 characters) SLVM subsystem on HP-UX 11i v2 only supports
hostnames up to 31 characters (bytes) long within the SGeRAC configuration
NOTE: The cluster node name of a SLVM volume group will be shown in the
vgdisplay command output as the first 30 characters plus a ‘*’ character if the
hostname is larger than 31 characters.
• Support for 8192 Oracle Server Processes for Oracle 9i, 10gR2 and 11gR1 RAC
• Support for Oracle 9.2 RAC, 10.2 RAC and 11.1 RAC
• Starting with version A.11.17, all log messages from cmgmsd will log to
/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log by default
• All nodes in the cluster must be either SGeRAC nodes or Serviceguard nodes
(SGeRAC cluster must have SGeRAC software installed on all nodes. SGeRAC
version A.11.17 and later will enforce this homogeneity requirement at cluster
creation and formation)
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