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
“Guidelines for Rolling Upgrade” and “Guidelines for Non-Rolling Upgrade” in
Appendix D of the latest edition of Managing Serviceguard.
• You must follow the instructions for DRD upgrades in Managing Serviceguard; see
“Performing a Rolling Upgrade Using DRD” or “Performing a Non-Rolling
Upgrade Using DRD” in Appendix D of the latest edition of that manual.
Veritas Storage Management Products
For information about installing and updating VxVM, see the appropriate version of
the Veritas Installation Guide on docs.hp.com, for example, http://
www.docs.hp.com -> 11i v3 -> VxVM.
NOTE: A new default Disk Layout Version was introduced in VxVM 4.1, and not all
earlier Disk Layout versions are supported on HP-UX 11i v3. See the Veritas 5.0
Installation Guide for details.
Rolling Upgrade
In some cases you can upgrade Serviceguard and HP-UX without bringing down the
cluster; you do this by upgrading one node at a time, while that node’s applications
are running on an alternate node. The process is referred to as a rolling upgrade, and
is described in Appendix D of the Managing Serviceguard manual.
Requirements for Rolling Upgrade
Rolling upgrade to Serviceguard A.11.19 is supported only if you are upgrading from:
• Serviceguard A.11.15 or greater on HP Integrity systems running HP-UX 11i v2
or 11i v3; or
• Serviceguard A.11.16 or greater on HP 9000 systems running HP-UX 11i v2 or 11i
v3.
IMPORTANT: If you are upgrading from A.11.16 on HP-UX 11i v2 , you must
first install patch PHSS_31072 or a later patch.
See also the requirements listed above under “Upgrading from an Earlier Serviceguard
Release” (page 59), and the Rolling Upgrade Exceptions that follow.
Rolling Upgrade Exceptions
HP-UX Cold Install
A rolling upgrade cannot include a cold install of HP-UX on any node. A cold install
will remove configuration information; for example, device file names (DSFs) are not
guaranteed to remain the same after a cold install.
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