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
of time, determined by HP. Patches will be made available within the extended support
time frame even though a newer version of Serviceguard is available.
Serviceguard A.11.19 is a platform release.
NOTE: You are encouraged to move to the A.11.19 release. For compatibility
information for this and earlier releases, see the Serviceguard Compatibility and Feature
Matrix at http://www.docs.hp.com -> High Availability ->
Serviceguard -> Support Matrixes. See also “Compatibility Information and
Installation Requirements” (page 49) of this document.
Feature Release
A feature release contains new Serviceguard features. Feature releases are for customers
who want to use the latest features of Serviceguard. In general, feature releases will be
supported until a newer version of Serviceguard becomes available. In order to receive
fixes for any defects found in a feature release after a newer version is released, you
will need to upgrade to the newer, supported version.
Patch
A patch to a release may be issued in response to a critical business problem found by
a Serviceguard customer, or a patch may enable new features. (Such features do not
affect the running of an existing Serviceguard cluster until you activate them, for
example by reconfiguring the cluster or reworking a package.)
In the case of a patch, the following is guaranteed:
• Patch-specific release testing is performed before the patch is posted.
• Existing functionality, scripts, etc. will continue to operate without modification.
• All fixes from the previous patch are incorporated.
Certification testing for a patch is recommended only for those fixes that are important
to your specific installation, or for new features that you intend to use.
Supported Releases
For information about the support life of a given release and its compatibility with
versions of related products, see the Serviceguard Compatibility and Feature Matrix, on
docs.hp.com -> High Availability, under the heading Serviceguard ->
Support Matrixes.
Version Numbering
Serviceguard releases employ a version numbering string that helps you identify the
characteristics of the release. The version string has 4 parts:
• Alphabetic Prefix
• First Numeric Field
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