HP-UX Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes (762804-001, March 2014)

Contents
HP secure development lifecycle......................................................................5
1 Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX release notes..............................7
1.1 About this document............................................................................................................7
1.2 LVM and MirrorDisk/UX overview.........................................................................................7
1.2.1 Overview of changes....................................................................................................7
1.3 Fixed issues in this version....................................................................................................8
1.4 Known issues and limitations................................................................................................9
1.4.1 Known issues...............................................................................................................9
1.4.1.1 vgmodify fails with I/O error in MMB(Maintenance Mode Boot).................................9
1.4.2 Limitations..................................................................................................................9
1.5 Installation requirements.......................................................................................................9
1.5.1 Required hardware.....................................................................................................10
1.5.2 Required software......................................................................................................10
1.5.3 Required patches.......................................................................................................10
1.5.3.1 LVM boot disks of size greater than 2TB (terabytes).................................................10
1.5.3.2 Mass Storage Critical Resource Analysis...............................................................10
1.5.3.3 mkfs and mkboot commands...............................................................................10
1.5.3.4 HP Serviceguard................................................................................................11
1.5.3.5 VxVM commands...............................................................................................11
1.5.4 Required disk space...................................................................................................11
1.5.5 Other requirements....................................................................................................11
1.5.5.1 HP Insight Remote Support software......................................................................11
1.6 Compatibility issues...........................................................................................................12
1.6.1 Version 2.x volume groups..........................................................................................12
1.6.2 Using LVM boot disks of size greater than 2TB (terabytes)...............................................12
1.6.3 Moving from HP-UX 11i v2 to HP-UX 11i v3...................................................................12
1.6.4 Moving volume groups from HP-UX 11i v3 to previous HP-UX releases...............................13
1.6.5 Sharing volume groups in an HP Serviceguard cluster.....................................................14
1.7 Related documentation.......................................................................................................14
1.8 Software availability in native languages.............................................................................14
2 Documentation feedback...........................................................................15
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