Serviceguard Extension for RAC Version A.11.19 Release Notes, October 2009 (T1907-90051)

• GMS authorization
• Support for DRD; see “Upgrade Using DRD” (page 16).
• Support for multi-node online reconfiguration (MORE) of LVM volume groups;
see “Support for Multi-Node Online Configuration (MORE) —LVM Version 2.1
Volume Groups Only” (page 18).
• Support for Logical Volume Manager Version 2.0
• Support for Veritas CFS and CVM Versions 5.0 and 5.0.1
• Support for Oracle 9iR2 RAC with SLVM, CFS and CVM
• Support for Oracle 10gR2 RAC with SLVM, ASM, CFS and CVM
• Support for Oracle 11gR1 RAC with SLVM, ASM, CFS, and CVM
• Support for the SGeRAC Toolkit
— Support for modular package format
— Support for package maintenance mode
— Support for package halt reason feature
— Support for package description feature
• Support for Oracle 9iR2 RAC, 10gR2 RAC, and 11gR1 RAC
• Support for 8192 Oracle Server Processes for Oracle 9iR2, 10gR2 and 11gR1 RAC
• Support for a maximum of 16 nodes in a cluster when Shared LVM, CVM, CFS,
or ASM is used
• Support for a maximum of four nodes over distances up to 100 kilometers in an
extended-distance cluster with CFS/CVM 5.0 or 5.0.1.
The previous maximum in this configuration was two nodes.
• Hostnames for SGeRAC cluster nodes can be up to 39 characters (bytes) long. (The
former limit was 31 characters).
NOTE: The SLVM subsystem on HP-UX 11i v2 only supports hostnames up to
31 characters long in an SGeRAC configuration. The cluster node name associated
with a SLVM volume group will be shown in the vgdisplay output as the first
30 characters plus an asterisk (*) if the hostname is longer than 31 characters.
• Starting with version A.11.17, all log messages from cmgmsd log to /var/adm/
syslog/syslog.log by default
Support for Logical Volume Manager Version 2.0
Logical Volume Manager (LVM) 2.0 volume groups, which remove some of the
limitations imposed by LVM 1.0 volume groups, can be used on systems running
HP-UX 11i v3 0803 Fusion or later with LVM version B.11.31.0809 and Serviceguard
and SGeRAC A.11.19. (This support was first introduced in a patch to Serviceguard
A.11.18.)
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