HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite A.03.00 Release Notes

• New Serviceguard Manager capabilities
• New -K option for cmgetconf that causes cmgetconf to skip probing of volume groups,
allowing the command to complete faster; the resulting cluster configuration file will not contain
a list of cluster-aware volume groups
• Improved support for nested mount points
NOTE: For more information on Serviceguard features and enhancements that are supported
with SG SMS version A.03.00 for HP-UX 11i v3 bundles, see the HP Serviceguard Version A.11.19
Release Notes available on the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite media and also at:
www.hp.com/go/hpux-serviceguard-docs ->HP Serviceguard
What’s New with Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0.1
Veritas™ Storage Foundation 5.0.1 includes the Veritas™ File System (VxFS) and the Veritas™
Volume Manager (VxVM). New features and enhancements for VxFS and VxVM that are supported
in the SG SMS version A.03.00 for HP-UX 11i v3 bundles are as follows:
What’s New with Veritas File System (VxFS)
The following VxFS features and enhancements are supported in the SG SMS version A.03.00 for
HP-UX 11i v3 bundles:
• Increased File System Size — the HP OnlineJFS license supports file systems of size up to 256
TB
• The SmartMove™ feature — reduces the time and I/O required to attach or reattach a plex
to an existing VxVM volume, in the specific case where a VxVM volume has a VxFS file system
mounted on it.
• Dynamic Storage Tiering Enhancements:
Enhanced DST APIs provide a new interface for managing allocation policies for storage
checkpoints and named data streams
◦
◦ fsppadm support for user ID (UID), group ID (GID), and tagging (TAG) elements in the
placement policy XML file
◦ Improved scan performance in the fsppadm command
◦ Suppressed processing of the chosen RULE
◦ Parser support for UID, GID, and TAG elements in a DST policy
◦ What-if support for analyzing and enforcing a policy, without requiring the policy to be
assigned
◦ Storage Checkpoint data placement support in a DST policy
◦ Shared DB thread handle support
◦ CPU and I/O throttling support for DST scans
◦ New fstag command for file tagging
◦ New fsppmk command for creating XML policies
• Availability of the mntlock and mntunlock mount options — You can specify the mntlock
option with the mount command to prevent a file system from being unmounted by an
application.
NOTE: For more information on VxFS features and enhancements that are supported with SG
SMS version A.03.00 for HP-UX 11i v3 bundles, see the Veritas™ File System Release Notes HP-UX
11i v3 available on the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite media and also at:
www.hp.com/go/hpux-serviceguard-docs→ HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite A.03.xx
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