HP Serviceguard A.12.00.00 for Linux Release Notes, May 2014

Overview
This document provides information about new features, deprecated or obsolete features, defects
fixes (if applicable), known problems and limitations, and related information (lists documents used
for installing and configuring Serviceguard and its components) for HP Serviceguard A.12.00.00.
NOTE: When you are installing Serviceguard for Linux A.12.00.00, also install the Day 1 quality
patch A.12.00.01 or later, before configuring a cluster. To download the latest patch for your
Linux operating system distribution visit www.hp.com/go/hpsc.
What is new in this release
What is new in Serviceguard for Linux
New features supported in this release are as follows:
• “Cluster simulation”
• “Cluster analytics ”
• “Serviceguard load sensitive placement of packages”
• “Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) ”
• “btrfs file system”
• “ Scalable cluster: 32 nodes support”
• “Easy deployment to set up cluster using cmquerycl, cmpreparestg, and cmdeploycl commands”
• “Support for IPV6 address”
• “New behavior during online reconfiguration of the package”
• “License Information”
• “Improved installation and upgrade through cmeasyinstall and cmupgrade commands”
• “Using Serviceguard with virtual machines” (page 7)
What is new in Serviceguard Manager
New features supported in B.12.00.01 of Serviceguard Manager are as follows:
• Map view for clusters, nodes, and packages.
• Filter clusters based on their status and type in Multicluster view page.
For more information on the features supported by the Serviceguard Manager see latest Online
Help.
Features not supported in this version
Features not supported in Serviceguard
This section is not applicable for Serviceguard for this version.
Features not supported in Serviceguard Manager
Features that are not supported in Serviceguard Manager for this release are as follows:
• Follow the Red (for identifying the problems in cluster, node, and packages).
• Cluster simulation.
• Alert generation for manual site switching failover mode.
• Creating and Monitoring continentalcluster.
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