HP Serviceguard Version A.11.19 Release Notes, October 2009

• Serviceguard A.11.19 on HP-UX 11i v3 supports LVM 2.0 volume groups, both for
data and the cluster lock. See “About LVM 2.0” (page 46).
• Serviceguard now supports cell OL* (online addition and deletion of cells) on HP
Integrity servers that support them).
For more information about using Serviceguard with partitioned systems, see the
white paper HP Serviceguard Cluster Configuration for HP-UX 11i or Linux Partitioned
Systems at http://docs.hp.com -> High Availability ->
Serviceguard -> White Papers.
• Serviceguard A.11.19 on HP-UX 11i v3 supports vgchange -T, which allows
multi-threaded activation of volume groups. See “About vgchange -T” (page 45).
• You can use the FSWeb utility to configure LVM volumes in a Serviceguard cluster
(and SLVM volumes if the add-on product Serviceguard Extension for Real
Application Cluster (SGeRAC) is installed).
For more information about FSWeb, see the fsweb (1m) manpage.
• With the with the patches listed under “October 2009 Patches” (page 11),
Serviceguard supports the following new HP-UX 11i v3 capabilities:
— Dynamic Root Disk (DRD); see “Upgrade Using DRD” (page 63).
— Target port congestion control; see “New Features for October 2009 Patches”
(page 19).
What’s Not in this Release
• RS232 is no longer supported for the cluster heartbeat.
• Token Ring and FDDI are no longer supported for the cluster heartbeat and data
networks.
• The cmviewcl command no longer supports the -r 11.09 option.
-r 11.12 and -r 11.16 are still supported. See the cmviewcl (1m) manpage
for details
• Serviceguard no longer supports versions of Veritas CVM and CFS from Symantec
earlier than 5.0. See “Support for Veritas 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v2 and 5.0/5.0.1 on 11i
v3” (page 24).
For the most up-to-date information, check the
Serviceguard/SGeRAC/SMS/Serviceguard Manager Plug-in Compatibility and Feature
Matrix, at the address given under “Compatibility Information and Installation
Requirements” (page 52).
See “Announcements” (page 11) and “Rolling Upgrade Exceptions” (page 67) for more
information.
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