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

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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
Known problems fixed in this version...........................................................................................4
Known problem and fix for Asian command output.......................................................................8
Known problems and limitations.................................................................................................8
Known problems..................................................................................................................8
pvdisplay -v runs very slowly when PV has large number (=> 0.5 million) of PEs in use.............8
Panic in lvmp_vg_lvix_to_minor(k) after removing a disk from the volume group.......................9
In Shared LVM, client panics after joining the Serviceguard cluster ........................................9
Limitations.........................................................................................................................10
Installation requirements..........................................................................................................10
Required hardware............................................................................................................10
Required software..............................................................................................................10
Required patches...............................................................................................................10
Mass Storage Critical Resource Analysis...........................................................................10
mkfs and mkboot commands..........................................................................................11
HP Serviceguard...........................................................................................................11
VxVM commands..........................................................................................................11
Required disk space...........................................................................................................11
HP Insight Remote Support Software..........................................................................................11
Compatibility issues................................................................................................................12
Version 2.x volume groups..................................................................................................12
Moving from HP-UX 11i v2 to HP-UX 11i v3............................................................................12
Moving volume groups from HP-UX 11i v3 to previous HP-UX releases.......................................13
Sharing volume groups in an HP Serviceguard cluster.............................................................13
Related documentation............................................................................................................14
Software Availability in Native Languages.................................................................................14
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