HP Serviceguard A.11.20 Release Notes, September 2012

Easy Deployment...........................................................................................................18
Advantages of Easy Deployment.................................................................................18
Limitations of Easy Deployment...................................................................................18
Halting a Node or the Cluster while Keeping Packages Running (Live Application Detach)......19
What You Can Do....................................................................................................19
Cluster-wide Device Special Files (cDSFs)..........................................................................20
Points To Note..........................................................................................................20
Where cDSFs Reside.................................................................................................20
Checking the Cluster Configuration and Components.........................................................21
Limitations...............................................................................................................22
Cluster Verification and ccmon...................................................................................23
NFS-mounted File Systems..............................................................................................23
The LVM and VxVM Volume Monitor...............................................................................25
Serviceguard Manager...........................................................................................................25
DSAU Integration...............................................................................................................25
Native Language Support...................................................................................................25
What You Can Do.............................................................................................................26
New Features....................................................................................................................26
Current Limitations of Serviceguard Manager.........................................................................27
Browser and SMH Issues................................................................................................28
Pages Launched into New Window rather than Tabs with Firefox Tabbed Browsing...........28
Internet Explorer 7 Zooming Problem..........................................................................28
HP System Management Homepage (HPSMH) Timeout Default.......................................28
Help Subsystem.................................................................................................................28
Before Using HP Serviceguard Manager: Setting Up...............................................................28
Launching Serviceguard Manager........................................................................................29
Patches and Fixes...............................................................................................................29
Features Introduced Before A.11.20............................................................................................29
Features First Introduced in Serviceguard A.11.19 Patches.........................................................29
Features First Introduced Before Serviceguard A.11.19 .............................................................30
About olrad..................................................................................................................30
About vgchange -T........................................................................................................30
About the Alternate Quorum Server Subnet.......................................................................31
About LVM 2.x..............................................................................................................31
About cmappmgr..........................................................................................................31
HPVM 4.1 Support for Windows 2008 Guests.............................................................31
About Device Special Files (DSFs)....................................................................................32
Support for HP Integrity Virtual Machines (HPVM).............................................................33
About HPVM and Cluster Re-formation Time.................................................................33
Access changes as of A.11.16..........................................................................................34
Considerations when Upgrading Serviceguard.............................................................34
Considerations when Installing Serviceguard................................................................34
Documents for This Version......................................................................................................34
Further Information..................................................................................................................35
Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements...............................................................36
Compatibility....................................................................................................................36
Mixed Clusters..............................................................................................................36
Mixed Serviceguard Versions.....................................................................................36
Mixed Hardware Architecture.....................................................................................36
Mixed HP-UX Operating-System Revisions....................................................................37
Compatibility with Storage Devices..................................................................................39
Bastille Compatibility.....................................................................................................39
Before Installing Serviceguard A.11.20 .................................................................................40
Memory Requirements........................................................................................................40
Port Requirements...............................................................................................................40
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