HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.
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HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements 1 Chapter 1 HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Announcements The HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite bundles integrate 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.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • T2772CA HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Premium bundle — Version A.02.00 — software and license — Installation and support services available through product options • T2773CA HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite for Oracle bundle — Version A.02.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements — T2797CA includes all of the above plus the Mission Critical Operating Environment (MCOE) These products are shipped on independent media that is available in June 2007 with HP-UX release, though they are not included on the Application Software Media.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements What’s New and Changed in Storage Management Suite 2.0 Storage Management Suite version 2.0 has added support for the following HP Serviceguard A.11.18 features: • Serviceguard Extension for Faster Failover (SGeFF) • High Availability — Network File System (HA-NFS) with Cluster File System (CFS) Storage Management Suite version 2.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements What’s in this Version HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 is being released on HP-UX 11i v2. The HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite bundles deliver core HP Serviceguard products and Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and File System (VxFS, also known as JFS) in all bundles. Support for Veritas Cluster File system (CFS) is available in certain bundles.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Table 1-1 Products and Associated Bundles Product T 2 7 7 1 C A T 2 7 7 2 C A T 2 7 7 3 C A T 2 7 7 4 C A T 2 7 7 5 C A T 2 7 7 6 C A T 2 7 7 7 C A Disk Group Split and Join (FlashSnap) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Dynamic Storage Tiering (DST) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ FastResync (formerly Fast Mirror Resync) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ HP Cluster Object Manager (COM) version B.05.00.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Table 1-1 Products and Associated Bundles (Continued) (Continued) T 2 7 7 1 C A T 2 7 7 2 C A T 2 7 7 3 C A T 2 7 7 4 C A T 2 7 7 5 C A T 2 7 7 6 C A T 2 7 7 7 C A Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) GUI for HP-UX ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Product a. Only supported for SGeRAC with Oracle RAC, not single instance Oracle.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements T2772CA HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Premium Bundle The HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Premium bundle is an integrated product solution that includes Serviceguard high availability clustering with Symantec’s Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and File System (VxFS, also known as JFS).
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • HP Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit version B.04.01 • Veritas File System version 5.0 (also known as OnlineJFS) • Veritas Volume Manager version 5.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements (VxFS, also known as JFS) plus the Veritas Cluster File System and Veritas Cluster Volume Manager for concurrent data access from multiple servers for Oracle single instance environments. This bundle also includes special database accelerators for Oracle that provide the performance of raw mode with the manageability of a file system. HP Serviceguard Extension for RAC A.11.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • Database FlashSnap 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.02.00 and their associated bundles. These documents are published in online versions on the DVD. Updated versions may be available on http://docs.hp.com/.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Table 1-2 Product Documents and Associated Bundles (Continued) T 2 7 7 1 C A T 2 7 7 2 C A T 2 7 7 3 C A T 2 7 7 4 C A T 2 7 7 5 C A T 2 7 7 6 C A T 2 7 7 7 C A Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit B.04.01 Release Notes (p/n T1909-90049) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Using the Event Monitoring Service (p/n B7609-90022) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Event Monitoring Service Framework Version A.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Table 1-2 Product Documents and Associated Bundles (Continued) Description T 2 7 7 1 C A T 2 7 7 2 C A T 2 7 7 3 C A ✓ Veritas FlashSnap Point-In-Time Copy Solutions Administrator’s Guide 5.0 (p/n 5991-1215) T 2 7 7 4 C A T 2 7 7 5 C A T 2 7 7 6 C A T 2 7 7 7 C A ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System 5.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Table 1-2 Product Documents and Associated Bundles (Continued) Description Veritas Volume Manager 5.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 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.02.00 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.02.00 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.02.00 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.02.00 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.02.00 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.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements NOTE Before attempting a SG SMS bundle installation or upgrade, you must disable AUTOSTART_CMCLD. To disable AUTOSTART_CMCLD on all 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.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • If the system has a pre-5.0 version of Veritas Volume Manager already installed, the installation process overwrites that version of the product. • If any version of Veritas Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) is installed, it must be removed before an HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite bundle can be installed. 3. Install the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite bundle.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements If vxinstall has already been run on these systems, this step may be skipped. This procedure completes initialization steps for the Veritas software prompting for Veritas licenses (use default response - no), specification of default disk group, and the use enclosure-based naming. For details on vxinstall, refer to Veritas 5.0 Installation Guide. 6. Verify a successful installation.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements For example, use the cfsmount command to mount these filesystems, not the mount HP-UX command. e. f. Complete configuration. • Create the application package configuration file and control script. • Specify a same-node dependency on the mount point multi-node package (SG-CFS-MP-1) in the package ASCII configuration file using CFS commands (cmmakepkg, edit files).
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements SGeRAC was independently installed on a system with Bundle T2776CA, SGeRAC must be removed before T2776CA can be removed since SGeRAC has dependencies on Serviceguard and removing T2776CA will remove Serviceguard but not SGeRAC. 3. The swremove command should be issued from one system at a time.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Table 1-4 swlist Bundle Tag Products and Associated Bundle (Continued) Description T 2 7 7 1 C A T 2 7 7 2 C A T 2 7 7 3 C A T 2 7 7 4 C A T 2 7 7 5 C A T 2 7 7 6 C A T 2 7 7 7 C A Base-VxFS Base Veritas File System 5.0 for HP-UX (also known as JFS) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Base-VxVM Base Veritas Volume Manager Bundle 5.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 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 HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00. Fixes This is a release of the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite bundles. Individual products may have fixes from their previous versions. Consult the individual product Release Notes for details.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Table 1-5 Patch Number Required Patches and Associated Bundles Description T 2 7 7 1 C A T 2 7 7 2 C A T 2 7 7 3 C A T 2 7 7 4 C A T 2 7 7 5 C A T 2 7 7 6 C A T 2 7 7 7 C A PHCO_35124 VRTS 5.0 MP1 VRTSvmpro Cmd Patch ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ PHCO_35125 VRTS 5.0 MP1 VRTSddlpr Cmd Patch ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ PHCO_35126 VRTS 5.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Table 1-5 Patch Number Required Patches and Associated Bundles (Continued) Description T 2 7 7 1 C A T 2 7 7 2 C A T 2 7 7 3 C A T 2 7 7 4 C A T 2 7 7 5 C A T 2 7 7 6 C A T 2 7 7 7 C A ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ PHCO_36593 VRTS 5.0 MP1 VRTSfspro Cmd Patch PHKL_35284 VRTS 5.0 MP1 VRTSodm Cmd Patch PHKL_35312 VRTS 5.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Known Problems and Workarounds The following describes known problems with HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 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.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements If one of the impacted HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite bundles is installed without this supplemental software, the following bundle components will fail to install: • VRTSdbed - special commands available in the /opt/VRTSdbed/bin directory that are provided to assist with converting an existing database to use Quick I/O.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Any form of the HP-UX mount command (for example, mount -o cluster, dbed_chkptmount, or sfrac_chkptmount) in a HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite bundle environment with CFS should be done with caution. These non-CFS commands could cause conflicts with subsequent CFS command operations on the file system or Serviceguard packages.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Oracle Data Manager (ODM) with VxFS and LVM • What is the limitation? ODM for VxFS file systems on LVM volumes is not supported. • What is the workaround? Oracle Files that need ODM capability should reside on a VxFS file system created on a VxVM/CVM volume.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • What is the workaround? Set the export VCSI18N_LANG=en or LANG=C. JAGag06843: vxumount returns device busy on master node • What is the problem? In some stress situations, vxumount of a VxFS filesystem might return EBUSY if there are I/Os in progress on other nodes within the cluster. Sometimes the vxumount can take long time because of a possible issue in the VFS layer.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • What is the workaround? There is no workaround. When the node recovers from the TOC, run the cmrunnode CFS command. It should complete successfully. JAGag22707: Lot's of vx* directories left over in /tmp • What is the problem? Some empty directories can be seen in /tmp/vx* after a reboot. • What is the workaround? These directories can be ignored.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements JAGag40401: cannot sleep during interrupt • What is the problem? In some stress situation where the system is under heavy IO load, if some nodes fail (TOCs), CVM resyncs the mirrored shared volumes for the surviving nodes. While CVM is resync'ing the volumes, it might invoke sleep(). If this sleep() is invoked during an interrupt context, the system performs a TOC.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements — What is the problem? Man page states the “llttab 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. • man page: llthosts — What is the problem? Man Page states the “llthosts file must be managed by the System Administrator”.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements What is the workaround? HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite environments requires HP Serviceguard for file system clustering. • 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.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements • What is the problem? Throughout manual there are references to VVR. What is the workaround? VVR is not available in HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00. Known Problems with Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 for Oracle Administrator’s Guide Known problems include: • What is the problem? ODM content may be incorrect.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements What is the workaround? For HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite bundles, use equivalent Serviceguard functionality to start/stop the appropriate package. Known Problems with Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Administrator’s Guide Known problems include: • What is the problem? Page 537 lists “hagrp freeze/unfreeze” commands.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Known Problems with Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Release Notes Known problems include: • What is the problem? Page 9 lists FlashSnap, Veritas Cluster File System, and Veritas Cluster Volume Manager as unsupported. What is the workaround? These features are all supported in the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite bundles.
HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements Software Availability in Native Languages The HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 does not provide Native Language Support. The documentation media provides a complete set of documentation in English. Individual products included in the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite bundles may provide Native Language Support.
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