HP-UX Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 (September 2011)

Contents
Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes...............................4
About this document.................................................................................................................4
LVM and MirrorDisk/UX overview...............................................................................................4
Overview of changes...........................................................................................................4
New and changed features in this release...................................................................................4
New features......................................................................................................................4
Handling VxVM GPT Formatted Disks................................................................................4
Fixed issues in this version..........................................................................................................4
Known issues and limitations......................................................................................................6
Known issues.......................................................................................................................6
lvchange -M y on mirrored LV with snapshot hangs and causes I/Os on LV to hang.................6
slvm IO hang in pv_cache_wait q of the PV which was offline...............................................6
LVM panic, slvmp: process bad reply, unknown reply...........................................................6
LVM snapshot shows sync'ed even if the disk is disabled......................................................7
Limitations...........................................................................................................................7
Installation requirements............................................................................................................7
Required hardware..............................................................................................................7
Required software................................................................................................................7
Required patches.................................................................................................................7
Mass Storage Critical Resource Analysis.............................................................................8
mkfs and mkboot commands............................................................................................8
HP Serviceguard.............................................................................................................8
VxVM commands............................................................................................................8
Required disk space.............................................................................................................8
HP Insight Remote Support Software............................................................................................9
Compatibility issues..................................................................................................................9
Version 2.x volume groups....................................................................................................9
Moving from HP-UX 11i v2 to HP-UX 11i v3..............................................................................9
Moving volume groups from HP-UX 11i v3 to previous HP-UX releases.......................................10
Sharing volume groups in an HP Serviceguard cluster.............................................................11
Related documentation............................................................................................................11
Software Availability in Native Languages.................................................................................12
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