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PRIMECLUSTER Global Disk Services  Configuration and AdministrationGuide 4.4
FUJITSU Software

H.2.6 4.4A00 Manual Changes

No.

Product

Manual code

Description

Chapter/Section

1

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added the note on a VMware environment.

"1.2.1.4 Mirroring among Servers"

2

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the note about hot swap.

"1.2.1.4 Mirroring among Servers"

3

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the note about external disk units.

"1.2.1.4 Mirroring among Servers"

4

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description of note about GDS 4.3A00.

"1.3.6.1 Logical Partitioning"
"2.1.4 Logical Volume"
"2.3.5 Number of Volumes"

5

GDS Snapshot

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description of GDS Snapshot 4.3A20 or earlier.

"1.5.2 Snapshot Function with No Load to Server/SAN"
"A.8 Using Advanced Copy Function in Proxy Configuration"

6

GDS Snapshot

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description of RHEL4 and RHEL5.

"1.5.6 Creating Alternative Boot Environment [EFI]"

7

GDS Snapshot

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Specified that the shadow object is not supported.

"1.6 Shadow Volume"
"3.8.7 Shadow Classes"
"7.3.4 Swapping Physical Disks Registered with Shadow Classes"

8

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the note of GDS 4.3A10/4.3A20.

"2.3.8 Disk Label"

9

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description about patches of GDS 4.3A10 from "1 TB or larger disks."

"2.3.9 Disk Size"

10

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted Note "Large Volumes [4.3A20 or earlier]."

"2.3.11 Volume Size"

11

GDS,
GDS
Snapshot

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description of GDS 4.3A10/4.3A20.

Added the notes about the number of mpath devices.

"3.2 DM-MP (Device Mapper Multipath)"

12

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added the description of the mirroring among servers.

"3.2 DM-MP (Device Mapper Multipath)"
"4.4 Setting Up DM-MP"

13

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description of RHEL4, RHEL5, and PRIMEQUEST 500A/500/400 Series.

"3.5 System Disk Mirroring Preconditions"

14

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Specified that the hot spare function is not supported in the root class.

"3.8.1 Number of Disks within Class"
"6.5.2.1.1 Operation Flow"
"6.5.2.1.2 Operation Procedure"

15

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Changed the formula to estimate the indication of the required time.

"3.8.11 Required Time for Synchronization Copying Invoked by Hot Spare"

16

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Changed the description for using IP aliasing.

"3.9.1 Network Configuration"

17

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added the description about an available disk and an unavailable disk for the mirroring among servers.

"3.9.2 Disk"

18

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added the description about "Forced stop method in a VMware environment."

"3.9.4 Configuration and Settings of the Cluster System"

19

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Changed the description of "Setting shutdown facility."

"3.9.4 Configuration and Settings of the Cluster System"

20

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Changed the description about the environment where the mirroring among servers cannot be used.

"3.9.7 Note"

21

GDS,
GDS Snapshot

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added the description about the mirroring among servers and shared disk (VMDK).
Deleted the description of a Xen environment.

"3.21 Usage in the Virtual Environment"

22

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added "Inhibiting the unnecessary message output of multipathd."

"4.4 Setting Up DM-MP"

23

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added the notes when mirroring a partition.

"4.8 Disk Setting for Performing Mirroring among Servers"

24

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted unnecessary setting procedures.

"4.8.1 Setting Tuning Parameters"

25

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added the procedure to check that the sg3_utils package is installed in RHEL6 environment.

"4.8.2 Checking and Setting Required Packages"

26

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added the setting procedures in RHEL7 environment.

"4.8.2 Checking and Setting Required Packages"
"4.8.3 Creating iSCSI Target"

27

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added the description in the restart procedure of the SCSI target daemon (tgtd) in RHEL6 environment.

"4.8.3 Creating iSCSI Target"

28

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Changed the setting procedure in "Establishing iSCSI Session."

"4.8.4 Establishing iSCSI Session"

29

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted "4.7 Configuring Xen Environment."

"4.7 Configuring Xen Environment"

30

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Changed the description about setting of the virtual machine configuration parameter: disk.EnableUUID.

"4.7 Configuring VMware Environment"

31

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted "File System Configuration [4.3A20 or earlier]."

"5.3.2 [Settings] Menu"

32

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description about patches of GDS 4.3A30.

"6.2 Using iSCSI Disk"

33

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description about the restriction of registering the pair of the iSCSI devices.

"6.3.1 What Is Shared Disk Resource Registration?"
"6.3.4 Shared Disk Unit Resource Registration Procedure"

34

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted "2) Applying patches for adapting to changes of SCSI host ID [4.3A00]."

"6.5 System Disk Mirroring Settings [EFI]"

35

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted "6.5.2 Applying Patches for Adapting to Changes of SCSI Host ID [4.3A00]."

"6.5.2 Applying Patches for Adapting to Changes of SCSI Host ID [4.3A00]"

36

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description of RHEL4 and RHEL5.

"6.5.3 Checking System Disk Settings"
"6.5.4 Checking Physical Disk Information and Slice Numbers"
"7.4.2 Backing Up [EFI]"
"7.4.5 Restoring (When System Can Be Booted) [EFI]"
"7.4.6 Restoring (When System Cannot Be Booted) [EFI]"
"9.5 OS Re-installation"
"B.1.11 sdxroot - Root File System Mirroring Definition and Cancellation [EFI]"
"B.2.1 sdxproxy - Proxy Object Operations"

37

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description for 4.3A20 or earlier in NOTE "Node Name."

"6.6.1.4 Cluster System Class Configuration"

38

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted "6.7.1 Setting with GDS Management View [4.3A20 or earlier]."

"6.7.1 Setting with GDS Management View [4.3A20 or earlier]."

39

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Changed the title.

"6.7.1 Creating the File System"

40

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted Information "Disk Swap of PRIMEQUEST 500A/500/400 series [4.3A00]."

"7.3.1.2 Operation Procedure"

41

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added the procedures to swap a disk connected to the netmirror group and the procedures to swap a disk in a RHEL7.

"7.3.3 Swapping Disks of Netmirror Group"

42

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted "7.3.5.4 In VMware environment."

"7.3.5.4 In VMware environment"

43

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Changed step b3).

"7.4.2 Backing Up [EFI]"

44

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added the description about how to perform the procedure to be performed in single user mode in K5 environment.

"7.16 Maintenance in K5 environment"

45

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted "8.3 Adding and Removing Disks [4.3A00]."

"8.3 Adding and Removing Disks [4.3A00]"

46

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted "8.4 Hot Adding Disk [RHEL6 or later]."

"8.4 Hot Adding Disk [RHEL6 or later]"

47

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added the procedures to change IP addresses used for mirroring among servers.

"8.7 Changing IP Addresses Used for Mirroring among Servers"

48

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added the procedures of adding disks used for mirroring among servers.

"8.8 Adding Disks Used for Mirroring among Servers"

49

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted "9.2.1 Using GDS Management View [4.3A20 or earlier]."

"9.2 Removing File System"

50

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description for GDS 4.3A20 or earlier.

"9.3.1.2 Removing Volume"

51

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Changed the note "Definition of devices in the /etc/fstab file."

"9.4.1.2 Operation Flow"

52

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added the procedures to delete iSCSI settings used for mirroring among servers.

"9.6 Deleting iSCSI Settings Used for Mirroring among Servers"

53

GDS Snapshot

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Specified that the command of the shadow class is not supported.

"B.2.2 sdxshadowdisk - Shadow Disk Operations"
"B.2.3 sdxshadowgroup - Shadow Group Operations"
"B.2.4 sdxshadowvolume - Shadow Volume Operations"

54

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Changed EXAMPLES.

"B.3.2 cldelrsc(8)-Delete resource"

55

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Changed the description about the warning message 22016.

"C.2.2 Warning Messages (22000-22099)"

56

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description about RHEL5.5 or earlier from Resolution of the error message 60181.

"C.4.1 Error Messages (60000-60499)"

57

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description about GDS 4.3A10 from Explanation and Resolution of the error message 60379.

"C.4.1 Error Messages (60000-60499)"

58

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added the error message 60431, 60432.

"C.4.1 Error Messages (60000-60499)"

59

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the error messages 5010 and 5011, because they are not output in this version.

"C.5.1 Error Messages (5000-5099)"

60

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description about GDS 4.3A20 or earlier of the warning message 5119.

"C.5.2 Warning Messages (5000,5100-5199)"

61

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description about RHEL4 and RHEL5 to Resolution of "(2) The copy destination slice was made INVALID due to an I/O error generated on the copy source slice during synchronization copying."

"D.1.1 Slice Status Abnormality"

62

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Changed c) of "Resolution" in "(1) Disk is in DISABLE status."

"D.1.2 Disk Status Abnormality"

63

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Changed the procedure to extract the initrd file in Resolution of "(4) System cannot be booted. (Failure of all boot disks)."

"D.1.5 System Disk Abnormality [EFI]"

64

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description about RHEL4 and RHEL5 from Resolution of "(4) System cannot be booted. (Failure of all boot disks)."

"D.1.5 System Disk Abnormality [EFI]"

65

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted "(8) System is not started after system disk is unmirrored. [RHEL6 or later]."

"D.1.5 System Disk Abnormality [EFI]"

66

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added the description when the cluster application becomes Inconsistent in "(2) The cluster application becomes Faulted or Inconsistent after the node is restarted."

"D.1.6 Errors in the Mirroring Among Servers"

67

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added "(7) The node is restarted while hot swap of disks is proceeding. [RHEL6]."

"D.1.6 Errors in the Mirroring Among Servers"

68

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added "(8) The node is restarted while hot swap on a disk is proceeding. [RHEL7]"

"D.1.6 Errors in the Mirroring Among Servers"

69

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added "(9) The message regarding an unmount is output when both nodes stop."

"D.1.6 Errors in the Mirroring Among Servers"

70

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added "(6) The error message is displayed when starting GDS Management View."

"D.1.7 GDS Management View Abnormality"

71

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description about RHEL4 and RHEL5 from Resolution of "(5) The error message "ERROR: class: cannot operate shared objects, ..." is output, and the shared class cannot be created; or the error message "ERROR: cluster communication failure" is output, and automatic registration of resources is failed."

"D.1.10 Cluster System Related Error"

72

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Deleted the description about RHEL4 and RHEL5 from Resolution of "(3) Restoring the file system created on the root volume."

"D.1.11 File System Error"

73

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added "(10) Messages of multipathd are output when creating volumes."

"D.1.14 OS Messages"

74

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added "F.1.6 New Features in 4.4A00."

"H.1.6 New Features in 4.4A00"

75

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Added "F.3.6 Specification Changes in 4.4A00."

"H.3.6 Specification Changes in 4.4A00"

76

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Changed the description of VMware vCenter Server described in "Note."

"1.2.1.4 Mirroring among Servers"

77

GDS

J2UL-2107-01ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-01ENZ2(00)

Changed the description of "Forced stop method in a VMware environment."

"3.9.4 Configuration and Settings of the Cluster System"

78

GDS

J2UL-2107-02ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-02ENZ2(00)

Added RDM in the virtual compatible mode to the explanation for the virtual disk.

"4.7 Configuring VMware Environment"

79

GDS

J2UL-2107-02ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-02ENZ2(00)

Changed the setting procedures in

RHEL7 environment.

"4.8.2 Checking and Setting Required Packages"
"4.8.3 Creating iSCSI Target"
"7.3.3.3 Hot Swap (RHEL7)"
"7.3.3.4 Cold Swap (RHEL7)"
"8.7 Changing IP Addresses Used for Mirroring among Servers"
"8.8 Adding Disks Used for Mirroring among Servers"
"9.6.1 Delete iSCSI devices"
"9.6.3 Deleting iSCSI Target Settings"

80

GDS

J2UL-2107-02ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-02ENZ2(00)

Changed to the procedure to be used in RHEL7 environment.

"4.8.5 Confirming the Correspondence of iSCSI Device Name of Each Node"

81

GDS

J2UL-2107-02ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-02ENZ2(00)

Added the procedure for a rescanning of iSCSI session.

"7.3.3.1 Hot Swap (RHEL6)"
"7.3.3.2 Cold Swap (RHEL6)"
"7.3.3.3 Hot Swap (RHEL7)"
"7.3.3.4 Cold Swap (RHEL7)"

82

GDS

J2UL-2107-02ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-02ENZ2(00)

Changed the procedures described in "(7) The node is restarted while hot swap of disks is proceeding. [RHEL6]."

"D.1.6 Errors in the Mirroring Among Servers"

83

GDS

J2UL-2107-02ENZ0(00)
J2UL-2107-02ENZ2(00)

Added the steps for the procedures described in "(8) The node is restarted while hot swap of disks is proceeding. [RHEL7]."

"D.1.6 Errors in the Mirroring Among Servers"

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