HP Serviceguard for Linux Certification Matrix, July 2014

HP ProLiant Servers
Supported with HP Serviceguard for Linux A.12.00.00
Notes continued:
(9) Serviceguard for Linux A.12.00.00 supports SLES and RHEL’s distribution of Device Mapper multipathing (DM-Multipath) with HP Fibre
Channel arrays with the following conditions:
a) Lock LUN is supported with DM-Multipath. If DM-Multipath is used with Lock LUN, it must be used for all nodes in the cluster.
b) Device alias names are allowed for Lock LUN, if configured, it must be used for all the nodes in the cluster and the alias name has to
be the same on all nodes.
c) If any node that is part of cluster Serviceguard cluster is a Virtual Machine, being presented by a VMware ESX Server in other words,
DM-Multipath is not supported, if any of the nodes in the cluster is a Virtual Machine. Please refer to “Using Serviceguard for Linux with
VMware Virtual Machines” Whitepaper at
http://www.hp.com/go/linux-serviceguard-docs
(10) HP Storage EVA supported with firmware v3.01 or later.
(11) Supported with Red Hat with PowerPath 4.3.3 and above. PowerPath may be used for multipath and it is supported for LockLUN. If a version
of PowerPath earlier than 4.5 is used, search for article "emc137801" on EMC PowerLink at
http://powerlink.emc.com
.
(12) Any restrictions related to storage listed on
http://www.hp.com/products1/serverconnectivity/mass_storage_devices.html
apply to
Serviceguard for Linux as well.
(13) Disk monitoring is supported with Device Mapper devices.
(14) Moving from one kernel to another kernel version
does not require
deadman driver rebuild in the kernel. Please refer to latest Managing HP
Serviceguard for Linux guide at
http://www.hp.com/go/linux-serviceguard-docs
(15) Please refer to HP Quorum Server support matrix at
http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-serviceguard-docs
(16) Device Mapper Multipathing (SLES/RHEL) is supported with 3PAR iSCSI storage based solution where 2 iSCSI cards are configured at
Storage side.
(17) Red Hat KVM Hypervisor is supported with the following configuration. Also, please refer to whitepaper “Using HP Serviceguard for Linux with
Red Hat KVM Guests” at
www.hp.com/go/linux-serviceguard-docs
for more details
KVM
Hypervisor OS
Supported Guest OS as
Serviceguard Node
Supported Shared storage
between KVM Guests acting as
Serviceguard Node
Quorum
Mechanism
Remarks
RHEL 6.3
RHEL 6.4
RHEL 6.5
RHEL 5.7 / 5.8 / 5.9 / 5.10
RHEL 6.1/6.2/6.3/6.4/6.5
SUSE 11 SP2 /SP3
NOTE: Only “Hypervisor
default, e1000, rtl8139 and
virtio” are supported as Guest
Network Interface “Device
Model”
HP StoreServ 4000 Series
MSA2040
HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000
NOTE: Only iSCSI is supported
with above listed storages. XDC
is not supported with iSCSI.
Only
Quorum
Server is
supported.
Lock LUN
using iSCSI is
not
supported.
Serviceguard does not
have any specific
recommendation on
where/how the Guest OS
should be installed.
Please choose the boot
disk of Guest OS based
on RHEL 6 KVM
recommendation and
your requirement.
(18) Lock LUN is not supported on iSCSI device.
(19) SCSI3 Persistent Reservation should not be disabled if any node in Serviceguard Cluster is a Virtual Machine. If disabled, the configuration is
unsupported.
(20) Extended Distance Cluster (XDC) is not supported with any iSCSI storages that are listed in this document.
(21) iSCSI is supported with Software Initiator in clusters with virtual machines or physical server nodes. iSCSI Hardware Initiator is supported in
clusters with only physical server nodes (requires A.12.00.01).
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