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
Support for Veritas 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3
Serviceguard A.11.19 supports versions 4.1 and 5.0 of Veritas VxVM from Symantec,
and version 5.0 (only) of CVM and CFS, on both HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3.
IMPORTANT: For the most up-to-date information about supported versions, check
the Serviceguard/SGeRAC/SMS/Serviceguard Manager Plug-in Compatibility and Feature
Matrix, at the address given under “Compatibility Information and Installation
Requirements” (page 49).
Serviceguard with Storage Management Suite version A.02.01 supports a maximum
of sixteen nodes for CVM and CFS.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 and later bundles that
include CFS support CFS 5.0 nested mounts, up to a maximum of four levels of nesting.
This feature is enabled by default; to disable it, add the following line to /etc/
cmcluster.conf:
SGCFS_NESTED_MOUNT_SUPPORT=disabled
For more information, see the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite A.02.01 Release
Notes at docs.hp.com -> High Availability -> HP Serviceguard Storage
Management Suite.
IMPORTANT: For information about required patches, see the HP Serviceguard Storage
Management Suite Release Notes for your version of the Storage Management Suite.
Serviceguard NFS Toolkit supports CFS 5.0. See the white paper Serviceguard NFS
Toolkit Support for CFS available from docs.hp.com -> High Availability under
Highly Available NFS -> White Papers.
Features First Introduced Before Serviceguard A.11.18
About Device Special Files (DSFs)
HP-UX releases up to and including 11i v2 use a naming convention for device files
that encodes their hardware path. For example, a device file named
/dev/dsk/c3t15d0 would indicate SCSI controller instance 3, SCSI target 15, and
SCSI LUN 0.
HP-UX 11i v3 introduces a new nomenclature for device files, known as agile addressing
(sometimes also called persistent LUN binding).
Under the agile addressing convention, the hardware path name is no longer encoded
in a storage device’s name; instead, each device file name reflects a unique instance
number, for example /dev/[r]disk/disk3, that does not need to change when the
hardware path does.
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