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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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. Use of these forms of mount will not create an
appropriate multi-node package which means that the cluster packages
are not aware of the file system changes. Instead, use the CFS commands
cfsmount or cfsumount.
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.
The software provided on the SG SMS DVD relies on products and
filesets that are provided on the OE DVD, including HP Serviceguard
and the Veritas Storage Foundation products. Each SG SMS version
relies on specific versions of HP Serviceguard and the Veritas Storage
Foundation products that can change with new OE releases.
The software on the SG SMS DVD is installed using swinstall. If an
HP-UX OE is installed on your system and you attempt to install a SG
SMS version that is not supported with the versions of Serviceguard and
Veritas Storage Foundation included with the OE, swinstall will detect
the incompatible software and the installation will fail.
The software on the OE DVD is installed using update-ux. 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,
update-ux will not detect the incompatible software. The installation
will complete, but the Serviceguard cluster will not start, or you will not
be able to access the Veritas volumes. update-ux does not check for
software dependencies.
See “Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements” on
page 22 for more information on bundle upgrades.