HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 for HP-UX 11i v2 Release Notes, April 2008

HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 Release Notes
Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements
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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.
• Upgrading the previous version of Serviceguard Storage
Management Suite bundle T2776BA plus Serviceguard Extension for
RAC A.11.17 to Storage Management Suite bundle T2776CA plus
Serviceguard Extension for RAC A.11.18 is supported. Both the
Storage Management Suite bundle and Serviceguard Extension for
RAC must be upgraded at the same time.
Unsupported Bundle Change and Installation
Scenarios
• Installing Storage Management Suite on top of HP Serviceguard
Extension for RAC is not supported.
If you have the two as separate products, install the Storage
Management Suite bundle T2776CA first, then install HP
Serviceguard Extension for RAC.
• Rolling upgrades of Storage Management Suite bundles, that include
Veritas Cluster File System (CFS) or Veritas Cluster Volume
Manager (CVM), are not supported. You must halt all cluster nodes
when upgrading to a new SG SMS CFS version.
• If a SG SMS bundle is installed on your system and you attempt to
install or upgrade to an OE version that includes Serviceguard and
Veritas Storage Foundation versions that are not supported with the
SG SMS bundle, the installation will complete, but the Serviceguard
cluster will not start, or you will not be able to access the Veritas
volumes. See “HP-UX Operating Environment Upgrade Limitations”
on page 39 for more information.