Serviceguard Extension for RAC Version A.11.19 Release Notes, March 2009

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1 Serviceguard Extension for RAC Version A.11.19 Release Notes...............................5

Announcements......................................................................................................................................5

Dependencies....................................................................................................................................5

SGeRAC Version and Components Product Numbers ..............................................................6

HP-UX 11i v2 Updates......................................................................................................................6

HP-UX 11i v3 Updates......................................................................................................................6

Native Multipathing, Veritas DMP, and Related Features..........................................................6

What’s in this Version.............................................................................................................................7

Support for Logical Volume Manager Version 2.0 (or later).............................................................8

Support for Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring.......................................................................8

Support for Veritas CFS and CVM Version 5.0.................................................................................9

Support for Oracle 9iR2 RAC on SLVM, CFS and CVM...................................................................9

Support for Oracle 10gR2 RAC on SLVM, ASM, CFS and CVM......................................................9

Support for Oracle 11gR1 RAC on SLVM, ASM, CFS, and CVM...................................................10

Support for the SGeRAC Toolkit ....................................................................................................10

Support for package maintenance mode...................................................................................10

GMS authorization..........................................................................................................................11

Support for 8192 Oracle Server Processes for Oracle 9iR2, 10gR2 and 11gR1 RAC.......................11

Serviceguard Extension for RAC does not support Mixed Clusters...............................................11

About Device Special Files (DSFs)...................................................................................................11

What Manuals are Available for This Version ................................................................................12

Further Reading...............................................................................................................................13

Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements..................................................................13

Types of Releases and Patches.........................................................................................................13

Platform Release.........................................................................................................................13

Feature Release...........................................................................................................................14

Patch...........................................................................................................................................14

Serviceguard Extension for RAC Compatibility with HP-UX and Oracle Releases.......................14

Port Requirements...........................................................................................................................14

Installing Serviceguard Extension for RAC....................................................................................14

Adding Serviceguard Extension for RAC to an Existing Cluster...................................................15

Removing SGeRAC.........................................................................................................................15

Removing Serviceguard Extension for RAC Without Removing Serviceguard.............................16

Troubleshooting Tips ......................................................................................................................16

Patches and Fixes in this Version..........................................................................................................16

Required and Recommended Patches.............................................................................................16

Shared LVM Online Reconfiguration (SNOR) Patches..............................................................16

Oracle Patches..................................................................................................................................16

Cluster Interconnect Subnet Monitoring...................................................................................16

Fixes.................................................................................................................................................17

Known Problems and Workarounds....................................................................................................17

Software Availability in Native Languages .........................................................................................17

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