High Availability Monitors Version A.03.10 Release Notes

Chapter 1 9

Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements

of the 11.0 operating system.)

• Fibre Channel: To use the HA Disk Monitor with disks connected by

ﬁbre channel, you must already have the SCSI passthrough driver

installed, as described in NIO Bus, above. Then, follow the directions

below:

— For HP-UX 10.20, install Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver

product J3630BA, and any recommended patches.

— For HP-UX 11.0, install patch PHSS_18232, or the patch that

supersedes it, to get the latest ﬁbre channel driver.

You may see a NOTE in your swinstall log if you do not have spt0 as

part of your kernel. The note is information only, and does not mean that

there is a problem in the installation.

Hardware Requirements

High Availability Monitors run on the HP 9000 series 800 servers.

The disk monitor supports SCSI SE (single-ended) and F/W (fast/wide)

disks, including:

• Hewlett-Packard High Availability Disk Array, Models 10 and 20

• Hewlett-Packard Disk Array with AutoRAID, Models 12 and 12H

• EMC Symmetrix arrays for both ﬁbre channel and SCSI disks

• Hewlett-Packard High Availability Storage System

• Single-spindle SCSI disks

• HP High Availability Disk Array, Model 30 Fibre Channel

• HP SureStore E Disk Array XP256 for Fibre Channel and SCSI

The disk monitor does not support HP-IB or HP-FL disks.

Memory Requirements

The High Availability Monitors product requires 4.45 Mb of disk space to

install, and a minimum of 32 Mb of RAM to execute.

Installing High Availability Monitors

The High Availability Monitors product can be installed on a running