E.20 January 2012 Scheduled Maintenance

Updates were made to the following sections. The changes are explained below.

E.20.1 Configuring and Managing Cluster Resources

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Change

Configuring Preferred Nodes for a Resource

Changes are not allowed for the Preferred Nodes list for the Master_IP_Address_Resource.

E.20.2 Configuring Cluster Resources for Shared NSS Pools and Volumes

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Change

NCP Server for Linux

NCP Server does not support cross-protocol locks across a cluster migration or failover of the resource.

Cluster-Enabling an Existing NSS Pool and Its Volumes

When you cluster-enable an existing pool, you can automatically deactivate the pool on the master node, and online the resource on a preferred node.

E.20.3 Planning for Novell Cluster Services

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NCP Server for Linux

NCP Server does not support cross-protocol locks across a cluster migration or failover of the resource.

E.20.4 Upgrading OES 2 Linux Clusters

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Requirements for Upgrading Clusters

Support for SLES 10 SP4

Novell Cluster Services added support for OES 2 SP3 services and file systems on the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP4 operating system. You can upgrade to SLES 10 SP4 by using the move-to-sles10-sp4 patch in the SLES patch channel. After a cluster upgrade, all nodes in the cluster must be running on the same SLES 10 release with the latest patches applied.

E.20.5 What’s New or Changed for Novell Cluster Services

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Change

What’s New (January 2012 Patches)

This section is new.