Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 (5992-1952, August 2011)

Contents
About this Document......................................................................................4
Intended Audience....................................................................................................................4
Document Organization............................................................................................................4
Typographic Conventions...........................................................................................................4
Related Information...................................................................................................................4
Technical Support.....................................................................................................................5
HP Encourages Your Comments..................................................................................................5
1 Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Release Notes..................................................6
Product Description...................................................................................................................6
New Features in This Release.....................................................................................................6
Features Not Supported......................................................................................................10
Product Licensing....................................................................................................................10
VxVM 5.0 Licenses.............................................................................................................10
Features Enabled by SG-SMS Products..................................................................................11
Limitations of VxVM 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v3...................................................................................13
System Requirements...............................................................................................................14
Supported Platforms...........................................................................................................14
Software Requirements.......................................................................................................14
VEA Graphical User Interface and System Management Home Page (SMH)...................................14
Coexistence with HP Logical Volume Manager (LVM)...................................................................15
Native Multipathing with Veritas Volume Manager......................................................................15
Features no Longer Supported..................................................................................................18
Upgrading disk group versions.................................................................................................19
I/O Robustness Recommendations............................................................................................19
Known Problems And Workarounds..........................................................................................20
Installation Issues...............................................................................................................20
Utility Issues......................................................................................................................22
Device Issues.....................................................................................................................26
Hot-Relocation Issues..........................................................................................................28
DMP Issues.......................................................................................................................28
Cluster Functionality Issues..................................................................................................29
Remote Mirror issues..........................................................................................................30
Snapshot and Snapback Issues............................................................................................32
Miscellaneous Issues..........................................................................................................33
Veritas Enterprise Administrator Issues...................................................................................35
Veritas Volume Manager Web GUI issues.............................................................................36
Veritas Volume Manager Software Limitations........................................................................37
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