HP-UX Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes (March 2010 Update release)

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Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes......................................5
About this document..............................................................................................................................5
LVM and MirrorDisk/UX overview........................................................................................................5
Overview of changes.........................................................................................................................5
New and changed features in this release..............................................................................................5
New features.....................................................................................................................................5
Snapshot.......................................................................................................................................5
Logical volume migration............................................................................................................5
Bootable Version 2.2 and higher volume groups.........................................................................6
Changed features...............................................................................................................................6
Deprecated or obsolete features........................................................................................................6
Known problems fixed in this version...................................................................................................6
Known problems and limitations...........................................................................................................7
Known problems...............................................................................................................................7
vgversion does not perform automatic configuration backup....................................................7
pvmove displays an incorrect message related to an alternate link............................................7
Deletion of a snapshot in low memory conditions can hang......................................................7
Changing timeout for snapshot logical volumes can sometimes hang.......................................8
Limitations.........................................................................................................................................8
Installation requirements........................................................................................................................9
Required hardware............................................................................................................................9
Required software.............................................................................................................................9
Required patches...............................................................................................................................9
Mass Storage Critical Resource Analysis.....................................................................................9
mkfs and mkboot commands.....................................................................................................9
HP Serviceguard..........................................................................................................................9
VxVM 4.1 commands.................................................................................................................10
Required disk space.........................................................................................................................10
Compatibility issues..............................................................................................................................10
Version 2.1 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..................................................................12
Related documentation.........................................................................................................................12
Software Availability in Native Languages..........................................................................................12
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