Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 (5900-0033, August 2011)

NOTE: An SG-SMS license is required to use an ISP. For information on all the features supported
by the SG-SMS license, see Table 4 (page 12).
VEA Graphical User Interface and System Management Home Page (SMH)
The Veritas™ Enterprise Administrator (VEA) provides a Java-based graphical user interface for
managing VxVM. VEA has two parts: a server and a client. The server must run on the system
running VxVM. The client can run on the server machine or the client software can be installed on
a different HP-UX 11i v2 system, to manage VxVM remotely. Note that only HP-UX 11i clients are
supported.
You must use the VEA to manage VxVM disks graphically. For information on VEA, see the Veritas
Enterprise Administrator User's Guide.
NOTE: System Administration Manager (SAM) is deprecated in HP-UX 11i v3. HP SMH is the
system administration tool for managing HP-UX. HP SMH provides systems management functionality,
at-a-glance monitoring of system component health and consolidated log viewing. HP SMH provides
Graphical User Interface (GUI), Text User Interface (TUI), and Command Line Interface (CLI) for
managing HP-UX. You can access these interfaces using the /usr/sbin/smh command.
When you run either the /usr/sbin/sam or /usr/sbin/smh command and the DISPLAY
environment variable is set, HP SMH opens in the default web browser. If the DISPLAY environment
variable is not set, HP SMH opens using its terminal interface.
Coexistence with HP Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
The Veritas Volume Manager for HP-UX coexists with HP Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Both
LVM and VxVM utilities are aware of the other volume manager, and do not overwrite disks that
are being managed by the other volume manager. As mentioned above, the administrative utilities
(SAM and VEA) recognize and identify all disks on the system. A conversion utility, vxvmconvert,
is provided for converting LVM volume groups to VxVM volume groups. For more information on
using vxvmconvert, see the Veritas Volume Manager 5.0.1 Migration Guide.
Unsupported Features
The following features are not supported:
• Snapshot plexes created by the vxassist command are not supported with VxVM 5.0.1.
A combination of snapshot plexes created by vxassist and vxsnap is also not supported
in this release.
• Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)
• Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR)
Limitations of VxVM 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3
The following limitations exist for VxVM 5.0.1 on HP-UX 11i v3:
• Limitation of automatic site reattachment feature
The automatic site storage does not reattach automatically if the site storage disconnects and
reconnects to a CVM slave node whereas the master node is still connected to the site storage.
• Manually installing the VRTSvxvm patch requires a reboot
After you manually install the VRTSvxvm patch, you must reboot the system.
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