HP Serviceguard Version A.11.19 Release Notes, July 2009
Table Of Contents
- HP Serviceguard Version A.11.19 Release Notes
- Table of Contents
- Printing History
- 1 Serviceguard Version A.11.19 Release Notes
- Announcements
- Platform Dependencies
- July 2009 Patches
- Serviceguard Bundled Components - New Product Structure
- Serviceguard Optional Products Not Bundled
- New Cluster Manager
- Serviceguard A.11.19 Is the Required Basis for Future Rolling Upgrades
- Quorum Server Upgrade Required if You Are Using an Alternate Address
- Serviceguard Manager Available from the System Management Homepage (SMH)
- Support for Mixed-OS Clusters (HP–UX 11i v2 and 11i v3)
- Version 5.0 of Veritas CVM and CFS from Symantec Required
- Version 3.5, 4.0, or 4.1 of HPVM Required
- ipnodes Entries Needed in /etc/nsswitch.conf
- Legacy Packages
- .rhosts Deprecated
- cmviewconf Deprecated
- Serviceguard Extension for Faster Failover Obsolete
- RS232 Heartbeat Obsolete
- Token Ring and FDDI Obsolete
- Parallel SCSI Dual Cluster Lock Obsolete
- Parallel SCSI Not Supported for Lock LUN
- Cluster Name Restrictions
- Optimizing Performance when Activating LVM Volume Groups
- High Availability Consulting Services
- Announcements for HP-UX 11i v2
- Announcements for HP-UX 11i v3
- What’s in this Release
- New Features for July 2009 Patches
- Features Introduced in A.11.19
- Serviceguard on HP-UX 11i v3
- What’s Not in this Release
- About the New Features
- Features Introduced Before A.11.19
- Features First Introduced in Serviceguard A.11.18 Patches
- Features First Introduced Before Serviceguard A.11.18
- Documents for This Version
- Further Information
- Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements
- Installing Serviceguard on HP-UX
- Uninstalling Serviceguard
- Patches for this Version
- Fixed in This Version
- Known Problems
- About Serviceguard Releases
- Release Notes Revisions
- Native Languages
- Announcements
RS232 Heartbeat Obsolete
The current version of Serviceguard does not support RS232 for the cluster heartbeat
(Serviceguard A.11.17 on HP-UX 11i v2 and A.11.16 on HP-UX 11i v1 were the last
versions that did).
A minimum configuration of Serviceguard on HP-UX 11i v2 or 11i v3 needs two network
interface cards for the heartbeat in all cases, using one of the following configurations:
• two heartbeat subnets; or
• one heartbeat subnet with a standby; or
• one heartbeat subnet using APA with two physical ports in hot standby mode or
LAN monitor mode.
To provide the required redundancy for both networking and mass storage connectivity
on servers with fewer than three I/O slots, you may need to use multifunction I/O cards
that contain both networking and mass storage ports.
Token Ring and FDDI Obsolete
Serviceguard A.11.19 does not support Token Ring and FDDI technologies for the
cluster heartbeat and data networks (Serviceguard A.11.17 on HP-UX 11i v2 and A.11.16
on HP-UX 11i v1 were the last versions that did). HP-UX 11i v3 does not support these
two technologies.
The unsupported configurations include physical Token Ring and FDDI interfaces,
Virtual LAN (VLAN) interfaces over FDDI or Token Ring, and failover groups of Token
Ring and FDDI interfaces in the LAN Monitor Mode of the APA product.
Parallel SCSI Dual Cluster Lock Obsolete
You must use Fibre Channel connections for a dual cluster lock; you can no longer
implement it in a parallel SCSI configuration (as of Serviceguard A.11.18). See “Dual
Lock Disk” in Chapter 3 of Managing Serviceguard for more information about dual
cluster locks.
Parallel SCSI Not Supported for Lock LUN
The lock LUN functionality does not support parallel SCSI; you must use Fibre Channel
for a lock LUN. If you need to use parallel SCSI, use an LVM cluster lock disk, or a
Quorum Server.
For more information about the cluster lock, see “Cluster Lock” in Chapter 3 of the
latest edition of Managing Serviceguard.
Cluster Name Restrictions
The following characters must not be used in the cluster name if you are using the
Quorum Server: at-sign (@), equal-sign (=), or-sign (|), semicolon (;).
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