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

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Printing History .............................................................................................................................7
1 Serviceguard Extension for RAC Version A.11.18 Release Notes.......................................................9
Announcements....................................................................................................................9
Dependencies..................................................................................................................9
SGeRAC Version and Components Product Numbers ..........................................10
HP-UX 11i v2 Updates..................................................................................................10
HP-UX 11i v3 Updates..................................................................................................10
Support for Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)........................................................11
Native Multipathing, Veritas DMP, and Related Features......................................11
What’s in this Version.........................................................................................................12
Support for Logical Volume Manager Version 2.0........................................................13
Support for Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring...................................................14
Support for Veritas CFS and CVM................................................................................14
Support for Oracle 9i RAC on SLVM, CFS and CVM...................................................15
Support for Oracle 10gR2 RAC on SLVM, ASM, CFS and CVM..................................16
Support for Oracle 11gR1 RAC on SLVM, ASM over SLVM........................................16
Support for the SGeRAC Toolkit ..................................................................................16
Support for 8192 Oracle Server Processes for Oracle 9i, 10gR2 and 11gR1 RAC.........17
Serviceguard Extension for RAC does not support Mixed Clusters............................17
About Device Special Files (DSFs)................................................................................17
What Manuals are Available for This Version ..............................................................19
Further Reading.............................................................................................................20
Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements................................................21
Types of Releases and Patches.......................................................................................21
Platform Release.......................................................................................................21
Feature Release.........................................................................................................21
Patch.........................................................................................................................21
Serviceguard Extension for RAC Compatibility with HP-UX and Oracle Releases.....21
Port Requirements.........................................................................................................22
Installing Serviceguard Extension for RAC..................................................................22
Adding Serviceguard Extension for RAC to an Existing Cluster.................................23
Removing SGeRAC.......................................................................................................23
Removing Serviceguard Extension for RAC Without Removing Serviceguard...........24
Troubleshooting Tips ....................................................................................................24
Patches and Fixes in this Version........................................................................................24
Required and Recommended Patches...........................................................................24
Shared LVM Online Reconfiguration (SNOR) Patches............................................25
Oracle Patches...............................................................................................................25
Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring.................................................................25
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