HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.
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Printing History Table 1 Printing History Printing Date Part Number Edition October 2005 T2771-90008 First Edition November 2005 T2771-90008 First Reprint December 2005 T2771-90008 Second Reprint March 2006 T2771-90028 Third Reprint April 2008 T2771-90028 Fourth Reprint The last printing date and part number indicate the current edition.
Changes incorporated in November 2005 reprint include the addition of product number T2794BA and release of these products on the December 2005 HP-UX Application Software media.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements 1 HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Announcements The HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite integrates HP Serviceguard with Symantec’s VERITAS Storage Foundation. This combination provides powerful database and storage management capabilities while maintaining the mission-critical reliability HP Serviceguard customers have come to expect.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • T2772BA HP Serviceguard Storage Management Premium — Version A.01.00 — software and license — Installation and support services available through product options • T2773BA HP Serviceguard Storage Management for Oracle — Version A.01.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Due to the complexity of configuring clusters, you may wish to use Hewlett-Packard’s high availability consulting services to ensure a smooth installation and rollout. Please contact your HP representative to inquire about high availability consulting.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements What’s in this Version HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 is being released on HP-UX 11i Version 2 Update 2. This is the first release of VERITAS Storage Management 4.1 with HP Serviceguard. The HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite delivers core HP Serviceguard products and VERITAS Volume Manager and File System (also known as JFS) in all bundles.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Table 1-1 Products and Associated Bundles Product HP Serviceguard version A.11.17 T 2 7 7 1 B A T 2 7 7 2 B A T 2 7 7 3 B A T 2 7 7 4 B A T 2 7 7 5 B A T 2 7 7 6 B A T 2 7 7 7 B A ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ HP Serviceguard Extension for RAC version A.11.17 Serviceguard Manager version A.05.00 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ HP Cluster Object Manager (COM) version B.04.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements T2771BA HP Serviceguard Storage Management The HP Serviceguard Storage Management is an integrated product bundle that includes Serviceguard high availability clustering with Symantec’s VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) and File System (VxFS, also known as JFS). The individual components of this bundle include: • HP Serviceguard version A.11.17 • HP Serviceguard Manager version A.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • HP Cluster Object Manager (COM) version B.04.00 • HP Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit version B.03.00 • VERITAS File System version 4.1 (also known as OnlineJFS) • VERITAS Volume Manager version 4.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • Oracle Disk Manager for Oracle 9i and 10g • Storage Rollback • Storage Mapping to a LUN Level • Storage CheckPoints • Disk Group Split and Join (FlashSnap) • Fast Mirror Resync Documentation for this Version Table 1-2, “Product Documents and Associated Bundles,” lists the documents that are shipped with HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • Table 1-2 T2777BA HP Serviceguard Cluster File System for RAC also available in combination with the MCOE as T2797BA.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Table 1-2 Product Documents and Associated Bundles (Continued) T 2 7 7 1 B A T 2 7 7 2 B A T 2 7 7 3 B A T 2 7 7 4 B A T 2 7 7 5 B A T 2 7 7 6 B A T 2 7 7 7 B A VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (VEA 500 Series) Getting Started Guide (p/n 5991-1844) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ VERITAS File System 4.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Table 1-2 Product Documents and Associated Bundles (Continued) T 2 7 7 1 B A T 2 7 7 2 B A T 2 7 7 3 B A T 2 7 7 4 B A T 2 7 7 5 B A T 2 7 7 6 B A T 2 7 7 7 B A VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator’s Guide (p/n 5991-1838) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Hardware Notes (p/n 5991-1839) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ VERITAS Volume Manager 4.
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HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements HP recommends that you read these HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Release Notes and any other related Installation Guides, Release Notes, Read Before Installing Guides, or READMEs before beginning an installation.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements NOTE Before attempting a SG SMS bundle installation or upgrade, you must disable AUTOSTART_CMCLD on all Serviceguard cluster nodes. To disable AUTOSTART_CMCLD on all Serviceguard cluster nodes, access the /etc/rc.cofig.d/cmcluster file and set AUTOSTART_CMCLD to 0, (AUTO_START_CMCLD=0).
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • Upgrade paths that are not listed in Table 1-3 will require an uninstall of the SG SMS bundle, before a different SG SMS bundle can be installed and configured. NOTE Table 1-3 is current as of the publication date of these Release Notes.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Table 1-3 Supported SG SMS Bundle Upgrade Paths (Continued) SG SMS Version A.01.00 A.01.01 A.02.00 HP-UX Version 11i v2 11i v2 11i v2 Serviceguard Version A.11.17 A.11.18 A.11.18 Veritas SF Version 4.1 4.1 5.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements by performing an offline upgrade on half of the cluster nodes while the the remaining nodes are online. Contact HP to determine if this procedure will work for a SG SMS upgrade you are planning. Other Supported Bundle Change and Installation Scenarios • Installing HP Serviceguard Extension for RAC on top of Storage Management Suite bundle T2776BA is supported.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements NOTE For current information on Serviceguard and HP-UX versions that are supported with various SG SMS versions, see the HP Serviceguard/SGeRAC/Storage Management Suite/Serviceguard Manager Plug-in Compatibility and Feature Matrix at: http://docs.hp.com/en/5971/SG-SGeRAC-SMS-EMS%20Support.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Patches for HP products and VERITAS products included in the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite bundles can be found on http://itrc.hp.com. Patches required for use of the Serviceguard Storage Management Suite are available from http://www.hp.com/go/sgsms/patches.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Installation steps should be performed in the following order: 1. Install HP-UX 11i v2 or appropriate Operating Environment. HP-UX 11i v2 Update 2 (with any required patches) is required for loading an HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements 5. Verify a successful installation. Use the appropriate bundle product number in place of T27xxBA: swverify T27xxBA 6. List components installed with: swlist 7. Repeat all steps for each node in the cluster. 8. Refer to Managing Serviceguard for details on configuring the cluster. A high-level summary of the steps involved in using the Cluster File System are: a.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Removing HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite To uninstall your software, run the SD-UX swremove command. Before removing software, note the following: 1. Serviceguard must be halted (not running) and the node must be removed from the cluster configuration before the swremove command is issued on that node.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Products Installed with HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Product components installed with HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite bundles are listed in Table 1-4, “Products and Associated Bundles,”.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Patches and Fixes in this Version This section describes patches that are required and defects that have been fixed in Version A.01.00 of HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite. Fixes This is a first release of the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite bundles. Individual products may have fixes from their previous versions.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Table 1-5 Required Patches and Associated Bundles Description T 2 7 7 1 B A T 2 7 7 2 B A T 2 7 7 3 B A T 2 7 7 4 B A T 2 7 7 5 B A T 2 7 7 6 B A T 2 7 7 7 B A PHCO_33078 S700_800 11.23 VEA Srvc ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ PHCO_33079 S700_800 11.23 VEA ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ PHCO_33509 S700_800 11.23 VxVM 4.1 Command ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ PHKL_33510 S700_800 11.23 VxVM 4.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Known Problems and Workarounds The following describes known problems with HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 and workarounds for them. However, this is subject to change without notice. For the most current information contact your HP support representative or the Hewlett-Packard IT Resource Center for the latest information.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements HP-UX Operating Environment Upgrade Limitations When you purchase an HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite (SG SMS) Operating Environment (OE) bundle, the SG SMS software is provided on one DVD and the HP-UX OE (Mission Critical - MCOE, Data Center - DCOE, or High Availability - HAOE) is provided on a separate DVD.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • What is the workaround? Place all Oracle single instances in Serviceguard packages when deploying these bundles. In addition, single instance Oracle packages using VxFS and VxVM must have a direct dependency on the system multi-node package SG-CFS-pkg.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements JAGaf80659 (SR8606420830) Missing disk group due to DGs not auto-imported • What is the problem? Sometimes disk shared disk groups fail to import automatically when a cluster node starts.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements JAGaf82190 (SR8606422366) odm_gms_api_start_msgs fails during system startup • What is the problem? Errors returned during system startup: GAB WARNING V-15-1-20115 Port d registration failed, GAB not configured vxgms: GAB_API_REGISTER error=261 ODM WARNING V-41-6-5 odm_gms_api_start_msgs fails • What is the workaround? Ignore the messages.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements — What is the workaround? Ignore man page. • man page: llthosts — What is the problem? Man Page states the “llthosts file must be managed by the System Administrator”. In HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite environments Serviceguard creates, distributes, and manages this file. — What is the workaround? Ignore man page.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • What is the problem? Page 194 “Cluster file systems depend on several other VERITAS products that must be correctly configured before a complete clustering environment is enabled.” • What is the workaround? HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite environments require HP Serviceguard be correctly configured before a complete clustering environment is enabled.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Known Problems with VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 for Oracle Administrator’s Guide Known problems include: Chapter 1 • What is the problem? Document contains content for Oracle 10g. At time of publication, Oracle 10g support with CFS/CVM 4.1 is pending certification from Oracle and Symantec.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements — “libodm9.so” instead of “libodm9.sl” — “libodmd9.so” instead of “libodmd9.sl” — “libodm10.so” instead of “libodm10.sl” • What is the problem? Pages 246 and 250 list “hagrp freeze/unfreeze” commands. • What is the workaround? For HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite, use equivalent Serviceguard functionality to start/stop the appropriate package.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • Chapter 1 What is the workaround? For HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite equivalent functionality is provided by Serviceguard.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Software Availability in Native Languages The HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.01.00 does not provide Native Language Support. Individual products included in the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite may provide Native Language Support. Refer to the individual product release notes for availability.
