Serviceguard Extension for RAC Version A.11.18 Release Notes, 4th Edition, September 2008

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Printing History ..................................................................................................................5
1 Serviceguard Extension for RAC Version A.11.18 Release Notes...............................7
Announcements......................................................................................................................................7
Dependencies....................................................................................................................................7
SGeRAC Version and Components Product Numbers ..............................................................8
HP-UX 11i v2 Updates......................................................................................................................8
HP-UX 11i v3 Updates......................................................................................................................8
Support for Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM)............................................................................9
Native Multipathing, Veritas DMP, and Related Features..........................................................9
What’s in this Version.............................................................................................................................9
Support for Logical Volume Manager Version 2.0 (or later)...........................................................10
Support for Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring.....................................................................11
Support for Veritas CFS and CVM..................................................................................................11
Support for Oracle 9i RAC on SLVM, CFS and CVM.....................................................................12
Support for Oracle 10gR2 RAC on SLVM, ASM, CFS and CVM....................................................12
Support for Oracle 11gR1 RAC on SLVM, ASM over SLVM..........................................................12
Support for the SGeRAC Toolkit ....................................................................................................13
Support for 8192 Oracle Server Processes for Oracle 9i, 10gR2 and 11gR1 RAC............................13
Serviceguard Extension for RAC does not support Mixed Clusters...............................................13
About Device Special Files (DSFs)...................................................................................................13
What Manuals are Available for This Version ................................................................................15
Further Reading...............................................................................................................................15
Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements..................................................................16
Types of Releases and Patches.........................................................................................................16
Platform Release.........................................................................................................................16
Feature Release...........................................................................................................................16
Patch...........................................................................................................................................16
Serviceguard Extension for RAC Compatibility with HP-UX and Oracle Releases.......................16
Port Requirements...........................................................................................................................17
Installing Serviceguard Extension for RAC....................................................................................17
Adding Serviceguard Extension for RAC to an Existing Cluster...................................................17
Removing SGeRAC.........................................................................................................................18
Removing Serviceguard Extension for RAC Without Removing Serviceguard.............................18
Troubleshooting Tips ......................................................................................................................18
Patches and Fixes in this Version..........................................................................................................19
Required and Recommended Patches.............................................................................................19
Shared LVM Online Reconfiguration (SNOR) Patches..............................................................19
Oracle Patches..................................................................................................................................19
Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring...................................................................................19
Fixes.................................................................................................................................................19
Known Problems and Workarounds....................................................................................................21
JAGag33099 (SR860678856): In a cluster of more than 3 nodes, node failed to join.......................21
Software Availability in Native Languages .........................................................................................21
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