HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Version A.02.00 for HP-UX 11i v3 Release Notes, 3rd Edition, November 2008

NOTE: As of April 2008, the following Serviceguard A.11.18 features are not supported with
SG SMS version 2.0 for HP-UX 11i v3 bundles:
• HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL, NODE_TIMEOUT
• Support for online addition and deletion of heartbeat and data network interfaces along
with the corresponding HEARTBEAT_IP and STATIONARY_IP cluster parameters
• Increased support for APA
The following Serviceguard version A.11.18 features and enhancements are provided by patch
PHSS_37095:
• Support for clusters that span subnets connected by a router (for both data and heartbeat)
• Support for threaded option (-T) to vgchange
• Package changes including support for migrating packages from “legacy” (pre-A.11.18) to
“modular” form
• VxVM or CVM volume monitoring
• Support for an alternate Quorum Server subnet, and an increase in the number of clusters
and nodes supportable by a single Quorum Server to 150 clusters and 300 nodes - introduced
with Quorum Server version A.03.00
In addition to all of the Serviceguard A.11.18 features that are included with patch PHSS_37095,
the following additional Serviceguard version A.11.18 features and enhancements are provided
by patch PHSS_37602:
• Serviceguard will set the new environment variable SG_HALT_REASON to provide information
explaining why a package has shut down
• cmviewcl -v -f line has a new field, last_halt_failed , that shows whether the
last invocation of the halt script of a package on a node succeeded or failed
• A new parameter in the package configuration file, vxvm_dg_retry, allows you specify
that a failed VxVM import should be retried
• Logical Volume Manager (LVM) 2.0 volume groups, which remove some of the limitations
imposed by LVM 1.0 volume groups, can be used on systems running HP-UX 11i v3 0803
Fusion with Serviceguard A.11.18
See “Patches and Fixes in this Version” (page 34) for information on how you can obtain patch
PHSS_37602.
IMPORTANT: The following dependencies are required when Serviceguard is installed on
HP-UX. They are part of the HP-UX Base Operating Environment:
• Open SSL, which includes the OPENSSSL-RUN and OPENSSL-LIB filesets
• The EventMonitoring bundle, which contains the EMS-CORE and EMS-CORE-COM filesets
OpenSSL and the EventMonitoring bundle are included with all of the HP Serviceguard Storage
Management Suite bundles for your convenience.
NOTE: For more information on the HP Serviceguard A.11.18 features that are supported with
SG SMS bundles, see the HP Serviceguard Version A.11.18 Release Notes available at:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/ha.html#Serviceguard
What’s New with Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0
Veritas™ Storage Foundation 5.0 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 2.0 for HP-UX 11i v3 bundles are as follows:
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