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
• The cluster must not be using Veritas CVM or CFS.
• If you are updating nodes from HP–UX 11i v2 to 11i v3, you must use update-ux;
cold install is not supported in this context.
• If you are updating nodes from HP–UX 11i v2 to 11i v3, and the Serviceguard
version bundled with the HP-UX Operating Environment (OE) is later than the
one already installed, rolling upgrade restrictions apply (see “Rules and Restrictions
for Clusters in Transition” (page 51)).
Recommendations
In addition to the above Rules and Restrictions for Heterogeneous Clusters, HP strongly
recommends the following:
• All the nodes on a given HP-UX version should be running the same Fusion release,
at the same patch level; that is, the 11i v2 nodes should all be running the same
11i v2 Fusion release at the same patch level, and the 11i v3 nodes should all be
running the same 11i v3 Fusion release at the same patch level.
• All nodes should be at the same Serviceguard patch level.
CAUTION: If you introduce a node running a lower patch level than that of the
existing nodes, any new functionality introduced in the higher-level patch will
cease to be available until that higher-level patch is installed on all nodes.
• All nodes should be running the same patch levels for other products used by the
cluster.
Compatibility with Storage Devices
For the matrix of currently supported storage devices and volume mangers, see
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/downloads/
External-SG-Storage6.pdf.
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