HP-UX Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes (March 2010 web 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
Known problems fixed in this version...................................................................................................5
Known problems and limitations...........................................................................................................6
Known problems...............................................................................................................................6
vgversion does not perform automatic configuration backup....................................................6
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.......................................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..........................................................................................................................8
VxVM 4.1 commands...................................................................................................................9
Required disk space...........................................................................................................................9
Compatibility issues...............................................................................................................................9
Version 2.1 volume groups................................................................................................................9
Moving from HP-UX 11i v2 to HP-UX 11i v3...................................................................................9
Moving volume groups from HP-UX 11i v3 to previous HP-UX releases.....................................10
Sharing volume groups in an HP Serviceguard cluster..................................................................11
Related documentation.........................................................................................................................11
Software Availability in Native Languages..........................................................................................11
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