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

NOTE: For the most up-to-date information, see the HP Serviceguard Storage
Management Suite Version A.02.00 for HP-UX 11i v3 Release Notes at
http://docs.hp.com -> High Availability -> HP Serviceguard Storage Management
Suite.
Serviceguard Extension for Faster Failover, which is not supported with earlier versions
of CVM and CFS, is supported with CVM and CFS 5.0.
Serviceguard NFS Toolkit supports CFS 5.0. See the white paper Serviceguard 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/CFS 4.1 or later.
The older system multi-node package, VxVM-CVM-pkg, is used only for Veritas Cluster
Volume Manager 3.5. SGeRAC also supports multi-node packages.
As of SGeRAC version A.11.17, only two multi-node packages are supported for
managing CVM/CFS: the mount point package, SG-CFS-MP-ID#, and the disk group
package, SG-CFS-DG-ID#. Both are shipped 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-node packages, they do not have
to run on every active node in the cluster, but can be configured to run on specific
nodes.
Multi-node packages function for CFS in much the same way as the
STORAGE_GROUPparameter functions for CVM 3.5. They allow an application package
to build a dependency on another package, such as a dependency on a cluster file
system package or disk group package.
CFS packages use a new parameter set, added to the package configuration file, that
you can use to create dependencies. This parameter ensures that a package will not
start on a node unless the package it depends on is up and running on that node.
For more information on Serviceguard and CFS see the Serviceguard Version A.11.18
Release Notes at http://docs.hp.com -> High Availability -> Serviceguard -> Release
Notes.
NOTE: When using either CFS 4.1 and 5.0 for RAC or CFS 4.1 and 5.0 for RAC with
MCOE, single instance Oracle is not supported if instance startup and shutdown is
outside of Serviceguard package control.
Support for Oracle 9i RAC on SLVM, CFS and CVM
SGeRAC on HP-UX 11i v2 supports Oracle 9i RAC on SLVM, CVM 3.5, CFS 4.1, CVM
4.1, CFS 5.0 and CVM 5.0 with Serviceguard A.11.18.
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