Configuration Rules for a Mixed HP 9000 / Integrity Serviceguard Cluster, March 2007

Table Of Contents

MCOE

mission-critical operating environment; the HP-UX 11i

MCOE is a high-availability operating environment for HP

servers.

nPar nPartition; the HP hard partition offering

PA-RISC

PA-RISC, Precision Architecture Reduced Instruction Set

Computer; HP proprietary processor architecture,

predecessor of the Intel® Itanium® architecture.

SG A.11.16

HP Serviceguard release A.11.16; the first release of HP

Serviceguard to support mixed clusters built with HP 9000

and HP Integrity systems

SGeRAC

HP Serviceguard Extension for Oracle Real Application

Cluster (RAC); a software package that enables you to

integrate Oracle 9i and 10g RAC into HP Serviceguard

SGeSAP

HP Serviceguard Extension for SAP is a software package

that enables you to integrate SAP applications into

Serviceguard to make them highly available.

SMS

Serviceguard Storage Management Suite, Serviceguard

bundles based on Veritas volume manager and file system

products.

vPar vPartition; the HP virtual/soft partition offering

VxFS

Veritas File System; included in the Serviceguard Storage

Management Suite. Also known as Online-JFS individually

or part of the HP-UX MCOE

VxVM

Veritas Volume Manger; included in the Serviceguard

Storage Management Suite.

WLM

Workload Manager; a resource management application

for controlling the usage of system resources per

application.

Audience

This white paper is intended for the reader who is considering the implementation of a mixed PA-

RISC/Intel® Itanium® HP Serviceguard cluster on HP-UX 11i v2UD2—the first HP 9000 / Integrity

release of HP UX or one of its successors. The reader should be familiar with HP-UX and HP

Serviceguard in general. For further information, see the “Related documentation.” This whitepaper

explains the various supported configurations and the rules that must be followed when mixing the

two server architectures in a single HP Serviceguard cluster.