HP Serviceguard

HP Serviceguard is a high availability software product for protecting mission critical applications from a wide variety of hardware and software failures.

Serviceguard A.11.17.01 is being released for use with the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system (11.31).

Summary of Change

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005?

See “What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006? ”

What’s New for Customers Migrating from HP-UX 11i v2 June 2006?

Support for HP-UX 11i v3, specifically:
- persistent device special file (DSF) naming and dynamic multipathing
- large PID
- 39-character hostname
- HP-UX olrad -C command identifies networking interfaces (NICs) that are part of the Serviceguard cluster configuration
- new Serviceguard Manager GUI delivered as plug-in to HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH); old (standalone) Serviceguard Manager GUI still supported
Not supported in the initial release of Serviceguard 11.17.01 on HP-UX 11i v3:
- Veritas Cluster File System (CFS) and Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) from Symantec
Obsolete as of Serviceguard 11.17.01 on HP-UX 11i v3:
- support for RS232 serial line as cluster heartbeat
- support for version 3.5 of Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) from Symantec (VxVM 4.1 is supported)

Impact

Customers who need VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) or Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) should not upgrade to HP-UX 11i v3 until CFS and CVM are available on that platform
Customers upgrading to HP-UX 11i v3 should read the intro(7) manpage and the relevant sections of HP-UX System Administrator’s Guide to understand the capabilities of the new persistent device-file (DSF) naming protocol

Compatibility

See “Impact”.

Performance

There are no performance changes.

Documentation

For further information, see the following documents, available at http://docs.hp.com (navigate to High Availability):

Managing Serviceguard (13th Edition)
HP Serviceguard Version A.11.17 on HP-UX 11i v3 Release Notes
HP Serviceguard Quorum Server Version A.02.00 Release Notes

Obsolescence

Not available.