HP-UX Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes (5900-2442, August 2012)

Contents
Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes...............................4
About this document.................................................................................................................4
LVM and MirrorDisk/UX overview...............................................................................................4
Overview of changes...........................................................................................................4
New and changed features in this release...................................................................................4
pvcreate enhancement to detect Oracle Disks..........................................................................4
Fixed issues in this version..........................................................................................................5
Fixed issues in LVM Provider product...........................................................................................6
Known issues and limitations......................................................................................................6
Known issues.......................................................................................................................6
“vgchange -c [y|n]” does not safe guard against cluster-ID corruption....................................6
vgmodify -a -S modifies a subset of the PVs.........................................................................7
vgimport 2.X fails saying a PV doesn't belong to the same VG..............................................7
vgchange returns non-zero with option -c n –S n..................................................................7
VG Quiesce on shared vg hangs while resync is going on....................................................7
Limitations...........................................................................................................................7
Installation requirements............................................................................................................8
Required hardware..............................................................................................................8
Required software................................................................................................................8
Required patches.................................................................................................................8
Mass Storage Critical Resource Analysis.............................................................................8
mkfs and mkboot commands............................................................................................8
HP Serviceguard.............................................................................................................9
VxVM commands............................................................................................................9
Required disk space.............................................................................................................9
HP Insight Remote Support Software............................................................................................9
Compatibility issues................................................................................................................10
Version 2.x volume groups..................................................................................................10
Moving from HP-UX 11i v2 to HP-UX 11i v3............................................................................10
Moving volume groups from HP-UX 11i v3 to previous HP-UX releases.......................................11
Sharing volume groups in an HP Serviceguard cluster.............................................................11
Related documentation............................................................................................................12
Software Availability in Native Languages.................................................................................12
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