HP Serviceguard Extended Distance Cluster for Linux A.01.01 Release Notes, Third Edition, May 2009

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1 HP Serviceguard Extended Distance Cluster for Linux A.01.01 Release Notes....................................7
Announcements....................................................................................................................7
What’s In this Version ..........................................................................................................7
Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements.................................................9
Hardware Requirements.................................................................................................9
Disk Arrays................................................................................................................9
Other Hardware.........................................................................................................9
Software Requirements...................................................................................................9
Operating Systems...................................................................................................10
Supported Site to Site Distances..............................................................................10
Installing XDC...............................................................................................................10
Rolling Software Upgrades......................................................................................11
Verifying Installation...............................................................................................11
Support for a 4-Node Cluster........................................................................................11
What Manuals are Available for this Version................................................................13
Further Reading.............................................................................................................13
Patches and Fixes in this Version........................................................................................14
Fixes...............................................................................................................................14
Known Problems and Workarounds..................................................................................14
creating persistent device names on Red Hat 5............................................................14
disks are resynchronized at all times............................................................................15
MD parameters in the package control script...............................................................15
Software Availability in Native Languages........................................................................16
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