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ptx®/SVM V2.3.0 Release Notes

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ptx/SVM V2.3.0 Release Notes

Introduction

Product Compatibility

Changes in This Release

  ptx/SVM Sharing Supported on 3- and 4-Node Clusters

  Automated Online Disk Replacement with new vxolr Command

Converting to ptx/SVM V2.x from ptx/SVM V1.x

Deinstall ptx/SVM

Usage Notes

  Use of vxdiskadm Not Recommended

  ptx/SVM V2.x Does Not Support Shareable "nopriv" Spindles

  Using VTOC Drivers on Disks Under ptx/SVM Control

  Performance Better in Private Disk Groups Than in Shared

  Disk Media Record Can Be Removed from Active Volume

Using vxolr to Perform Online Disk Replacement

  vxolr Restrictions

  vxolr Operation

  Running vxolr

  vxolr Error Handling

Product Documentation

Problem Reports

  Fixed Problems in ptx/SVM V2.3.0

  Open Problems in ptx/SVM V2.3.0

    A Volume, Plex, or Subdisk in rootdg Will Prevent Autoimport of a Disk Group with the Same Name (221607)

    vxconfigd Does Not Send Errors to Log File or Through syslog (227276)

    vxmake Cannot Handle Arbitrarily Large Files (228192)

    vxrecover Returns Errors When Trying to Recover Volumes in Deported Disk Groups (229772)

    vxstat Command Accessible Only by root (231132)

    Mirrored Volume Will Not Recover if It Has Been Modified Outside of ptx/SVM Control (231419)

    Automatic Deinstallation of ptx/SVM Does Not Work (231421)

    Multiple Subdisks Are Allowed in the root Volume (231844)

    vxdiskadm Option to Offline a Disk Does Not Work (233530)

    vxiod Processes Are Started When ptx/SVM Is Not Enabled (234686)

    ptx/SVM Can Create a Volume with Length Shorter than Plex (234848)

    dumpcfg Does Not Handle Multiple Disk Groups (236142)

    vxconfigd -k May Fail to Reimport Disk Groups (236238)

    Disk Failure Can Hang vxmake (236469)

    vxdiskadm Does Not Work on Shared Disks (236943)

    Can't Move Volume Out of "sync" State (237221, 244168)

    "Volume Locked by Another Utility" Message Appears (237430)

    Offset Not Returned to Zero When vxvol -o force stop Is Used (237461)

    Restarting vxconfigd on Slave Can Confuse Master and Slave (239284)

    Partitions on Same Spindle Can Belong to Two Different Disk Groups (239776)

    Asynchronous Reads at 32 KB I/O Size Cause Performance Problems (239950)

    vxdg Creates a Shared Disk Group with the Same Base Minor Number as a Private Disk Group on Slave Node (240131)

    vxdg free on Slave Node Does Not Provide Private Disk Group Information (240316)

    A Problem Exists when Each Cluster Node Contains an Identical Private Disk Group Name (240451)

    Master Node Appears Hung After Quorum Is Lost and Regained (241732)

    S03reconfig Outputs an Inappropriate Error Message (241733)

    vxconfigd Lists Wrong Disk Group Name (242245)

    vxdiskadm OLR Fails on Sliced and Simple NODEVICE Disks (242863)

    vxdisk -f init Fails (243996)

    Volumes Are Left in SYNC State If Plexes Are Offlined (244168)

    Shared Dirty-Region Logging Volumes Can Cause Looping in the S03svm-awaitjoin Script (244807)

    The vxdg Man Page Does Not Mention How to Handle privdg import (245708, 253796)

    vxtrace Does Not Perform Consistently (246092)

    rootdg Created Before Node Name Assigned Causes Problems (246430)

    Failed klog Update Results in System Panic (246573)

    Shared Disk Group on Non-Shareable Disk Prevents Other Nodes from Joining Cluster (247200)

    Volumes Manually Placed in NEEDSYNC or SYNC State May Have Poor Performance (247700)

    vxassist Cannot Be Used to Create a Mirror on the Same Disk as First Plex (248105)

    vxassist Man Page Contains Error (248696)

    A Plex Cannot Be Created Containing a Subdisk with Punctuation in its Name (248798)

    nopriv Disks Can Be Added to Shared Disk Groups (249045)

    Must Issue "vxdctl enable" Twice When Performing OLR (249438)

    ptx/SVM Has Problems with /var/ees Being a Volume (249612)

    "nopriv" Disks Cannot Be Used for Hot Sparing (250593, 250600)

    vxdg adddisk of a Sliced Disk Does Not Check Public Area Length (251189)

     ptx/SVM Generates Debug Messages When a Cluster Node Is Down (251988)

    vxmake -d Does Not Work with Description File from vxprint -m (253639)