HP-UX Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 (April 2011 web release)

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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
New features......................................................................................................................4
Handling VxVM GPT Formatted Disks................................................................................4
Known problems fixed in this version...........................................................................................4
Known problems and limitations.................................................................................................5
Known problems..................................................................................................................5
In Shared LVM, client panics after joining the Serviceguard cluster ........................................5
Limitations...........................................................................................................................6
Installation requirements............................................................................................................6
Required hardware..............................................................................................................6
Required software................................................................................................................6
Required patches.................................................................................................................6
Mass Storage Critical Resource Analysis.............................................................................6
mkfs and mkboot commands............................................................................................7
HP Serviceguard.............................................................................................................7
VxVM commands............................................................................................................7
Required disk space.............................................................................................................7
HP Insight Remote Support Software............................................................................................7
Compatibility issues..................................................................................................................8
Version 2.x volume groups....................................................................................................8
Moving from HP-UX 11i v2 to HP-UX 11i v3..............................................................................8
Moving volume groups from HP-UX 11i v3 to previous HP-UX releases.........................................9
Sharing volume groups in an HP Serviceguard cluster...............................................................9
Related documentation............................................................................................................10
Software Availability in Native Languages.................................................................................10
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