Sun Cluster 3.0 12/01 Release Notes Supplement

Revision Record

The following table lists the information contained in this document and provides the revision date for this information.

Table 1-1 Sun Cluster 3.0 12/01 Release Notes Supplement

Revision Date 

Information Added 

April 2002 

"Bug ID 4511699", Sun Cluster HA for NFS will not be able to fail over correctly in the presence of public network failures.

Documentation references added to support dynamic reconfiguration operations on Sun FireTM 15K systems. See "Dynamic Reconfiguration Operations For Sun Cluster Nodes".

Correction to the Solaris8 upgrade instruction in the Sun Cluster update-release upgrade procedure. See "Upgrading to a Sun Cluster 3.0 Software Update Release".

Documentation bugs in Sun Cluster 3.0 12/01 Data Services Installation and Configuration Guide. See "Data Services Installation and Configuration Guide".

Documentation bugs in Sun Cluster 3.0 12/01 Release Notes. See "Release Notes".

Updated procedures to support Sun Cluster HA for SAP on SAP 6.10. See Appendix B, Installing and Configuring Sun Cluster HA for SAP. The updated procedures are: "How to Install SAP for Scalable Application Server" and "How to Enable Failover SAP Instances to Run in the Cluster".

Updated procedures to support Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software and campus cluster configurations with Sun StorEdge 9910 and Sun StorEdge 9960 systems. See Appendix D, Installing and Maintaining a Sun StorEdge 9910 or StorEdge 9960 Array.

Updated information to support Sun StorEdge 9910 and Sun StorEdge 9960 systems in a campus cluster with Sun Cluster software. See Appendix E, Campus Clustering with Sun Cluster 3.0 Software - Concepts.

Information and procedures for using the new scalable cluster topology. See Appendix G, Scalable Cluster Topology.

March 2002 

 

 

 

 

Doc references added and information rewritten to support dynamic reconfiguration operations on Sun FireTM 6800, 4810, 4800, and 3800 systems (in addition to Sun Enterprise 10000 systems). See "Dynamic Reconfiguration Operations For Sun Cluster Nodes".

Correction to maximum number of disksets and metadevice names. See "Maximum Number of Metadevice Names Per Diskset" and "Maximum Number of Disksets Per Cluster".

Notice that the Sun Cluster 3.0 12/01 multipathing restriction has been removed for EMC storage devices using EMC PowerPath software. See "Release Notes".

New procedures to support Sun StorEdgeTM 6900 Series systems. See Appendix C, Installing and Maintaining a Sun StorEdge 3900 or 6900 Series System.

Addition to procedures for the Sun StorEdge A1000 array to note that the procedures are valid for the Sun Netra st A1000 array also. See Appendix F, Installing and Maintaining Sun StorEdge A1000 and Netra st A1000 Arrays.

February 2002 

 

 

 

 

 

Upgrade restriction for OPS. See "Upgrade Restrictions and Requirements".

Dynamic reconfiguration procedure to supplement Hardware Guide procedures. See "Dynamic Reconfiguration Operations For Sun Cluster Nodes".

Notice that the restriction against using Sun StorEdge T3/T3+ partner-group arrays as quorum devices has been removed. See"Sun StorEdge T3/T3+ (Partner-Group Configuration)".

Corrections to the procedures that support Sun Cluster HA for SAP with Application Server as a scalable data service. See Appendix B, Installing and Configuring Sun Cluster HA for SAP.

Information to support campus clustering on Sun Cluster software, including configuration requirements and guidelines. See Appendix E, Campus Clustering with Sun Cluster 3.0 Software - Concepts.

Procedures to support Sun StorEdge A1000 systems. See Appendix F, Installing and Maintaining Sun StorEdge A1000 and Netra st A1000 Arrays.

January 2002 

 

"Bug ID 4362925", problem during Sun Cluster shutdown when scshutdown tries to unmount a cluster file system that the process nsrmmd is still referencing.

"Bug ID 4626010", description of known problem and clustering fix regarding the default hardware configuration of Sun StorEdgeTM 3900 Series systems.

Known documentation problems with the Sun Cluster 3.0 12/01 Hardware Guide. See "Hardware Guide".

Procedures to support Sun Cluster HA for SAP with Application Server as a scalable data service. See Appendix B, Installing and Configuring Sun Cluster HA for SAP.

Procedures to support Sun StorEdge 3910 and Sun StorEdge 3960 systems. See Appendix C, Installing and Maintaining a Sun StorEdge 3900 or 6900 Series System.

Procedures to support Sun StorEdge 9910 and Sun StorEdge 9960 systems. See Appendix D, Installing and Maintaining a Sun StorEdge 9910 or StorEdge 9960 Array.

December 2001 

New Patch 110651-07 replaces 110651-04 to provide Oracle 9i support on Sun Cluster software. This patch will be available with Sun Cluster 3.0 5/02. See "Data Service Restrictions and Requirements".

"Bug ID 4525403", required Sun Cluster setting in the /etc/system file overwritten when VxFS is installed after Sun Cluster software.

Generic data services (GDS) overview and instructions on creating a service that uses GDS is provided in Appendix A, Generic Data Services.