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HP-UX Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes: HP-UX 11i v3 March 2008 (B.11.31) > Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes

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This section describes the installation requirements for this release.

Required Hardware

LVM and MirrorDisk/UX have no hardware requirements beyond the requirements of the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system. Both products run on all supported HP 9000 and HP Integrity servers.

Required Software

Since LVM is installed with the HP-UX 11i v3 operating environment, there are no software requirements beyond the requirements of the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system.

MirrorDisk/UX requires the BaseLVM™ product.

Required Patches

For each of the following subsystems, you can download patches from the following website:

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/mainPage.do

Mass Storage Critical Resource Analysis

The Mass Storage Critical Resource Analysis (MS CRA) tool checks for a maximum of two mirror copies of a logical volume. However, Version 2.0 volume groups allow up to five mirror copies. To enable MS CRA to check for a maximum of five mirror copies of a volume, you must install the following patch:

  • PHCO_37562

mkfs and mkboot Commands

The mkfs and mkboot commands check whether a specified disk device is being used by LVM; if so, they display an error message. For these commands to correctly check whether a device is part of a Version 2.0 volume group, you must install the following patches:

  • PHCO_37328

  • PHCO_37340

  • PHCO_37394

These patches are delivered in the FEATURE11i bundle.

Serviceguard

To support Version 2.0 volume groups, Serviceguard 11.18 requires the following patch:

  • PHSS_37602

VxVM 4.1 Commands

Several VxVM 4.1 commands check whether a specified disk device is being used by LVM before overwriting it. For these commands to correctly check whether a device is part of a Version 2.0 volume group, you must install the following patch:

  • PHCO_37836

Required Disk Space

Since LVM is installed with the HP-UX 11i v3 operating environment, it consumes no additional disk space.

MirrorDisk/UX consumes no additional disk space aside from a license key.

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