HP Serviceguard Version A.11.19 Release Notes, October 2009

IMPORTANT: The following information is additional to the instructions in
Appendix D of Managing Serviceguard.
If the install depot is on tape (or is a single file) you must copy it onto the clone
disk or an upgrade server before running swinstall or update-ux to upgrade
the clone. Do one of the following:
— use swcopy to copy the depot onto the active root disk, then clone the disk,
then install the software from the depot on the clone disk; or
— use swcopy to copy the depot to an external server, then use the depot on the
external server to install the software onto the clone disk
You should also do this if you are going to use update-ux and the install depot
is on a CD mounted on the local system, or is a directory in the active system (for
example, in a file system mounted on the active root disk).
In addition, make sure you do not use control-C to escape from a runcmd drd
swinstall command, as this can cause problems.
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.
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