PowerHA SystemMirror 7.2 Enterprise Edition Release Notes AIX
New functions for PowerHA SystemMirror Version 7.2
- EMC replication and disaster recovery improvements
- SRDF mirroring through composite groups supports device group only configurations. You can use the manual resync options to manage EMC mirrors and to make decisions about resync based on the recovery scenario. For more information about EMC replication, see the Adding an SRDF replicated resource topic.
- GLVM Configuration Assistant
- You can use the GLVM Configuration Assistant to automatically create and configure eligible volume groups for Geographical Logical Volume Manager (GLVM) mirroring. For more information about the GLVM Configuration Assistant, see the GLVM Configuration Assistant topic.
PowerHA SystemMirror 7.2 Enterprise Edition replication technologies
Software requirements
IBM® recommends that you install all available service packs for AIX®, PowerHA SystemMirror, Reliable Scalable Cluster Technology (RSCT) from the IBM Fix Central website.
- IBM AIX 6 with Technology Level 9 with Service Pack 5, or later 1
- IBM AIX 7 with Technology Level 3 with Service Pack 5, or later 1
- IBM AIX 7 with Technology Level 4 with Service Pack 1, or later 2
- IBM AIX Version 7.2 with Service Pack 1, or later
1 The Automatic Repository Disk Replacement (ARR) capability, the AIX Live Update function, and the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) options that are used to enable rootvg monitoring, are not available in this version of the AIX operating system.
2 The AIX Live Update function is not available in this version of the AIX operating system.
Additional information
Documentation
To view the latest updates to the documentation, see the What's new in PowerHA SystemMirror topic.
To order PowerHA SystemMirror Version 7.2 Knowledge Center on physical media, you can place an order for feature 2322 on product ID 5692-A6P on the Entitled Software Service website or in the eConfig tool.
To view the latest version of the release notes, see the PowerHA SystemMirror Version 7.2 release notes topic.
To view the documentation in PDF files, see the PowerHA SystemMirror PDFs topic.
Man pages
The man pages for the PowerHA SystemMirror 7.2 commands are provided in the cluster.man.en_US.es.data fileset. The fileset is installed in the /usr/share/man/cat1 directory. To view the man pages, from the command line, enter man command_name (where command_name is the name of the command).
You can use the clmgr command to perform most of the PowerHA SystemMirror operations. For more information about the operations that you can perform with the clmgr command, see the clmgr command: Quick reference topic.