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
If, after reading and understanding the restrictions, you decide to perform a rolling
upgrade using DRD, follow the instructions under “Performing a Rolling Upgrade
Using DRD” in Appendix D of the latest edition of Managing Serviceguard, which you
can find at the address given under “Documents for This Version ” (page 47).
Non-Rolling Upgrade Using DRD
In a non-rolling upgrade with DRD, you clone each node's root disk and apply the
upgrade to the clone, then halt the cluster and reboot each node from its updated clone
root disk.
This method involves much less cluster down time than a conventional non-rolling
upgrade, and is particularly safe because the nodes can be quickly rolled back to their
original (pre-upgrade) root disks. But you must make sure your cluster is eligible; see
“Restrictions for DRD Upgrades” (page 60).
If, after reading and understanding the restrictions, you decide to perform a non-rolling
upgrade using DRD, follow the instructions under “Performing a Non-Rolling Upgrade
Using DRD” in Appendix D of the latest edition of Managing Serviceguard, which you
can find at the address given under “Documents for This Version ” (page 47).
Restrictions for DRD Upgrades
• Upgrade using DRD is supported only on HP-UX 11i v3.
• As of the date of these release notes, the only path that is supported for DRD
upgrade is from Serviceguard version A.11.19 to A.11.19 with the July 2009 patch.
IMPORTANT: Upgrades from Serviceguard A.11.18 or earlier via DRD are not
currently supported.
• As of the date of these release notes, DRD upgrade is supported only for clusters
that use the LVM volume manager.
IMPORTANT: DRD upgrades are not currently supported for clusters using
VxVM or CVM/CFS.
• You must use the DRD software released with the March 2009 release of HP-UX
11i v3 or later.
You do not have to upgrade the operating system itself to the March 2009 release,
so long as you are running 11i v3. You can obtain the March 2009 version of the
DRD software free from HP (see “Upgrade Using DRD” above.)
• The cluster must meet both general and release-specific requirements for a rolling
or non-rolling upgrade; see the remainder of this section and the sections
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