Metrocluster with Continuous Access XP P9000 for Linux Version B.01.00.
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Contents 1 Metrocluster with Continuous Access XP P9000 for Linux Version B.01.00.10 Release Notes...............................................................................................4 Announcement.........................................................................................................................4 What's new in B.01.00.10 version...............................................................................................4 Support for Cluster Verification.....................
1 Metrocluster with Continuous Access XP P9000 for Linux Version B.01.00.10 Release Notes Announcement Metrocluster with Continuous Access XP P9000 for Linux is a Hewlett-Packard high availability product for Serviceguard customers requiring integrated disaster recovery solutions with HP XP P9000 Disk Array storage family. Metrocluster with Continuous Access XP P9000 for Linux Version B.01.00.
The B.01.00.00 version of Metrocluster with Continuous Access XP P9000 for Linux supports the following features: • “Support for Serviceguard A.11.20.
Support for HP XP P9000 Storage Family Starting with this version, Metrocluster with Continuous Access XP P9000 for Linux includes support for XP20000/XP24000/P9500 disk arrays.
Support for Device Mapper Metrocluster for Linux supports configuring Device Mapper for disks used in Metrocluster packages. All the Serviceguard-related restrictions and guidelines for supporting DM-Multipath are also applicable to Metrocluster configurations. NOTE: Starting Serviceuard for Linux A.11.20.20, you can use Persistent Reservations with Metrocluster for Linux when Device Mapper (DM) is enabled.
Additional Notes on Disks, Logical Volumes, and Filesystems The following are the guidelines for the management of disks, LVM storage groups, logical volumes, and filesystems in Metrocluster with Continuous Access XP P9000 for Linux packages: • Metrocluster does not verifies the status of the host ports. Therefore, it is assumed that at least one storage link is functional, otherwise the storage group activation fails.
series remote frames. There must always be at least four Continuous Access links, two in each direction. The XP/P9000 series cannot use a Continuous Access link bi-directionally. Therefore, it is required to configure one pair to go in one direction and another pair to go in the other direction. Otherwise, it is not possible to fail over and fail back without a major Continuous Access link reconfiguration.
For more information on journal group requirements for P9000 disk array series, see HP StorageWorks P9000 Continuous Access Journal Software User Guide available at: http:// bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/ProdSearch.jsp?prod=HP%20StorageWorks —>HP StorageWorks XP Array Manager Software —> Manuals. One-to-One Journal Group Operations Continuous Access Journal requires a one-to-one relationship between the logical volumes of the volume pairs.
# rpm –i serviceguard-metrocluster-addons-B.01.00.00.00-0.rhel5.x86_64.rpm (RHEL 5.x only) # rpm –i serviceguard-metrocluster-addons-B.01.00.00.00-0.rhel6.x86_64.rpm (RHEL 6.x only) For SLES: # rpm –i serviceguard-metrocluster-addons-B.01.00.00.00.sles11.x86_64.rpm The software resides in the following directories: For Red Hat: /usr/local/cmcluster/bin /usr/local/cmcluster/doc/man For SLES: /opt/cmcluster/bin /opt/drenabler/utils 3.
For documentation on P9000 disk arrays with Continuous Access for P9000, see the following documents available at http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/ProdSearch.
