Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 Release Notes (5900-0590, March 2010)

HP Recommended Method For Dump/Swap Device Configuration
On HP-UX 11i Version 3, crashconf (1M) is the preferred mechanism for marking VxVM logical
volume as persistent and, crashconf (1M) should be used for any dump device configuration.
The preferred swap configuration commands to be used are swapon (1M) and swapctl(2).
System Requirement
Following are the hardware and software requirements for VxVM 4.1 on HP-UX 11i Version 3.
• Supported Hardware
For information on the supported disk arrays, JBODs, third party arrays products and other
supported hardware for VxVM 4.1 on HP-UX 11i Version 3, see “Hardware Support Matrix
For VxFS 4.1 and VxVM 4.1 on HP-UX 11i Version 3? available at http://docs.hp.com.
• OS Version
HP-UX 11i version 3
• Required Patches
There are no patches that are required by VxVM 4.1 on HP-UX 11i Version3.
Compatibility With Previous Versions of VxVM
VxVM 4.1 Release supports VxVM 3.5 disk group versions as well. However, HP recommends
that you upgrade any previously installed disk groups to the VxVM 4.1 disk group version when
upgrading to VxVM 4.1 release using the vxdg (1M) command with the upgrade argument.
Known Problems And Workaround
VxVM 4.1 has the following known issues:
• “Installation Issues”
• “Utility Issues”
• “Device Issues”
• “Hot-Relocation Issues”
• “Data Integrity Issues”
• “VEA Graphical User Interface and System Management Home Page (SMH)”
• “Internationalization Issues”
• “Miscellaneous Issues”
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