HP Serviceguard Version A.11.19 Release Notes, July 2009
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- 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
• The Serviceguard version bundled with the HP-UX Operating Environment (OE)
matches the version already installed.
CAUTION: You need to pay careful attention to the Serviceguard patch level as
well as the Serviceguard version. If you install Serviceguard at a patch level lower
than the one the cluster was running, any new features introduced in the
higher-level patch will cease to be available; you will need to re-install the
higher-level patch on all nodes before you can use its features again.
• The Serviceguard product bundled with the HP-UX OE is installed along with the
HP-UX filesets.
(The Serviceguard binary files differ between HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3, even though
the Serviceguard version is the same.)
NOTE: You can apply Serviceguard patches without doing a rolling upgrade.
Rules and Restrictions for Heterogeneous Clusters
A Serviceguard 11.19 cluster can accommodate a mix of nodes running HP-UX 11i v2
and 11i v3, with the following restrictions:
• Each node must be running either HP–UX 11i v2 or 11i v3. No other operating
system, or operating-system version (such as 11i v1) is permitted.
• Except during a rolling upgrade of Serviceguard (see “Rules and Restrictions for
Clusters in Transition” (page 51)), all the nodes must be running Serviceguard
A.11.19.
IMPORTANT: This means, for example, that before you can add a node running
HP-UX 11i v3 to a cluster in which the existing nodes are running 11i v2, all the
11i v2 nodes, and the new 11i v3 node, must have Serviceguard A.11.19 installed.
See also “Recommendations” (page 53).
• Some HP–UX 11i v3 features must not be used as long as any nodes are running
11i v2. These features specifically must not be used:
— LVM 2.0 volume groups
— Agile addressing (see “About Device Special Files (DSFs)” (page 43) for more
information about agile addressing)
NOTE: Native multipathing, which is enabled by default on HP-UX 11i v3, can
be used on 11i v3 nodes in a heterogeneous cluster.
• The cluster must not be using Oracle RAC. (SGeRAC is not supported in a
heterogeneous cluster because Oracle RAC does not support mixing HP-UX
versions within a single RAC cluster.)
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