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
Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements
Read this entire document (and any other Release Notes or READMEs for related
products you may have) before you begin an installation.
Compatibility
For complete compatibility information see the Serviceguard/SGeRAC/SMS/Serviceguard
Manager Plug-in Compatibility and Feature Matrix posted at http://www.docs.hp.com
-> High Availability -> Serviceguard -> Support Matrixes.
Mixed Clusters
“Mixed cluster” has several meanings in the context of Serviceguard. The following
are support statements for various types of mixed cluster.
Mixed Serviceguard Versions
You cannot mix Serviceguard versions in the same cluster; all nodes must be running
the same version of Serviceguard.
The sole exception to this rule is a rolling upgrade, during which Serviceguard versions
can be mixed temporarily, but no cluster configuration changes are allowed. See
“Upgrading from an Earlier Serviceguard Release” (page 59) , and Appendix D of
Managing Serviceguard, at the address given under “Documents for This Version ”
(page 47).
Mixed Hardware Architecture
As of HP-UX 11i v2 Update 2 (0409) and Serviceguard A.11.16, Serviceguard supports
mixed-hardware-architecture clusters, consisting of HP 9000 and Integrity servers.
Mixed-hardware-architecture clusters support the same volume managers, at the same
version level, as Serviceguard clusters in which the server hardware is of a single type.
The following restrictions apply:
• Except during a rolling upgrade, all nodes must be running:
— The same HP-UX version
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