HP Serviceguard Version A.11.19 Release Notes, July 2009
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- HP Serviceguard Version A.11.19 Release Notes
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- 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
• There are new networking capabilities:
— The HP-UX olrad -C command now identifies network interface cards (NICs)
that are part of the Serviceguard cluster configuration.
You can remove a NIC from the cluster configuration, and then from the system,
without bringing down the cluster. See “About olrad” (page 42).
— Serviceguard now also supports the LAN Monitor mode of APA.
• Serviceguard supports Process IDs (PIDs) of any size, up to the maximum value
supported by HP-UX and the node’s underlying hardware architecture.
Previous versions of HP-UX imposed a limit of 30,000; this limit has been removed
as of HP-UX 11i v3. For more information, see the white paper Number of Processes
and Process ID Values on HP-UX on docs.hp.com.
• Serviceguard A.11.19 supports the increased number of LVM volume groups
supported as of the HP-UX 11i v3 0809 Fusion release; the maximum number of
volume groups you can configure in a Serviceguard cluster is the maximum
supported by HP-UX. See the HP-UX documentation for details.
• Serviceguard A.11.19 on HP-UX 11i v3 supports LVM 2.0 volume groups, both for
data and the cluster lock. See “About LVM 2.0” (page 42).
• Serviceguard now supports cell OL* (online addition and deletion of cells) on HP
Integrity servers that support them).
For more information about using Serviceguard with partitioned systems, see the
white paper HP Serviceguard Cluster Configuration for HP-UX 11i or Linux Partitioned
Systems at http://docs.hp.com -> High Availability ->
Serviceguard -> White Papers.
• Serviceguard A.11.19 on HP-UX 11i v3 supports vgchange -T, which allows
multi-threaded activation of volume groups. See “About vgchange -T” (page 41).
• You can use the FSWeb utility to configure LVM volumes in a Serviceguard cluster
(and SLVM volumes if the add-on product Serviceguard Extension for Real
Application Cluster (SGeRAC) is installed).
For more information about FSWeb, see the fsweb (1m) manpage.
• With the with the patches listed under “July 2009 Patches” (page 11), Serviceguard
supports the following new HP-UX 11i v3 capabilities:
— Dynamic Root Disk (DRD); see “Upgrade Using DRD” (page 59).
— Target port congestion control; see “New Features for July 2009 Patches”
(page 19).
What’s Not in this Release
• RS232 is no longer supported for the cluster heartbeat.
• Token Ring and FDDI are no longer supported for the cluster heartbeat and data
networks.
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