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

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1 Serviceguard Extension for RAC Version A.11.19 Release Notes.......................................................7
Announcements....................................................................................................................7
SGeRAC Version and Components: Product Numbers .................................................7
Dependencies and Limitations........................................................................................8
Operating-System Dependencies..............................................................................8
Serviceguard Features Not Yet Supported................................................................9
Mixed Clusters not Supported........................................................................................9
Announcements for HP-UX 11i v3..................................................................................9
About Device Special Files (DSFs).............................................................................9
Native Multipathing, Veritas DMP, and Related Features......................................11
What’s in this Version.........................................................................................................11
Support for Logical Volume Manager Version 2.0........................................................12
Support for Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring...................................................13
Support for Veritas CFS and CVM Versions 5.0 and 5.0.1............................................13
Support for Oracle 9iR2 RAC with SLVM, CFS and CVM............................................14
Support for Oracle 10gR2 RAC with SLVM, ASM, CFS and CVM...............................14
Support for Oracle 11gR1 RAC with SLVM, ASM, CFS, and CVM..............................14
Support for the SGeRAC Toolkit ..................................................................................15
Support for Package Maintenance Mode.................................................................15
GMS authorization........................................................................................................15
Support for 8192 Oracle Server Processes for Oracle 9iR2, 10gR2 and 11gR1 RAC.....15
Upgrade Using DRD.....................................................................................................16
Rolling Upgrade Using DRD...................................................................................16
Non-Rolling Upgrade Using DRD...........................................................................16
Restrictions for DRD Upgrades...............................................................................17
Support for Multi-Node Online Configuration (MORE) —LVM Version 2.1 Volume
Groups Only..................................................................................................................18
Documentation for This Version ..................................................................................19
Support Information......................................................................................................19
Compatibility Information and Installation.......................................................................20
Serviceguard Extension for RAC Compatibility with HP-UX and Oracle Releases.....20
Port Requirements.........................................................................................................20
Installing Serviceguard Extension for RAC..................................................................20
Adding Serviceguard Extension for RAC to an Existing Cluster.................................21
Performing a Rolling Upgrade Using DRD..................................................................22
Limitations of Rolling Upgrades using DRD...........................................................22
Before You Start........................................................................................................23
Running the Rolling Upgrade..................................................................................23
Performing a Non-Rolling Upgrade Using DRD..........................................................25
Limitations of Non-Rolling Upgrades using DRD..................................................25
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