VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Release Notes (August 2002)

Chapter 1
VERITAS Volume Manager™ Release Notes
VERITAS VxVM 3.5 Licenses
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VERITAS VxVM 3.5 Licenses
The following table shows the supported features available with VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 licensing
Unless you have installed the required license, you may not be able to use certain features of VERITAS VxVM
3.5. For example, you require a VERITAS VxVM 3.5 license to be able to create mirrored volumes other than
the root disk.
You also require a VERITAS VxVM 3.5 license to make effective use of an Add-on licenses to VxVM. For
example, FastResync (a FlashSnap license feature) reduces the time taken to resynchronize volume
snapshots (a VERITAS VxVM 3.5 license feature).
Feature Availability by Product
The following table lists the features available with the VERITAS Volume Manager for HP-UX products.
NOTE When MC/ServiceGuard or ServiceGuard OPS Edition is installed, then Base VERITAS
Volume Manager 3.5 for HP-UX (Base-VXVM) includes some basic clustering features, in
addition to basic VxVM features. These basic clustering features are known as base CVM.
These basic clustering features can be used without the purchase of VERITAS Cluster Volume
Manager 3.5 for HP-UX (B9117AA).
VxVM License Description of Supported Features
VERITAS
Volume
Manager, 3.5
Concatenation, spanning, striping, root disk mirroring,
rootability, volume resizing, multiple disk groups, co-existence
with native volume manager, task monitor, VEA., user data
mirroring, DRL logging for mirrors, striping plus mirroring,
mirroring plus striping, RAID-5, RAID-5 logging, Smartsync,
hot sparing, hot-relocation, online data migration, online
relayout, volume snapshots, and multipath DMP.
Add-on Licenses Features that augment the VERITAS VxVM 3.5 license such as
FlashSnap™ (FastResync and Dynamic Disk Group Split and
Join), and clustering functionality (cluster-shareable disk
groups and shared volumes).
Table 1-2 VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 for HP-UX Feature Availability
Feature
AR 0902 Base
VERITAS
Volume
Manager 3.5
for HP-UX
(Base-VXVM)
AR 0902
VERITAS
Volume
Manager 3.5
for HP-UX
(B9116AA)
AR 0902
VERITAS
Cluster
Volume
Manager 3.5
for HP-UX
(B9117AA)
AR0902
VERITAS
Volume
Manager 3.5
FastResync
Option for
HP-UX
(B9118AA)
VERITAS
Volume
Manager 3.5
for HP-UX
Java-based
admin GUI
Supported Supported Supported - Supported