IMPORTANT NOTICES

!IMPORTANT: Starting in LifeKeeper for Linux v9.8.0 the perl version that is included has been upgraded to Perl 5.32.1 which may require changes to custom perl code. Refer to Perl 5.8.8 to Perl 5.32.1 Upgrade for details.

!Important: When upgrading LifeKeeper for Linux from v9.6.x to v9.8.1, please upgrade to v9.7.0 or v9.8.0 before upgrading to v9.8.1.

!IMPORTANT: End of Support for Designated SIOS Application Recovery Kits (ARKs)
SIOS is ending support for the following Recovery Kits. They will be discontinued and no longer supported in the next Major Release of LifeKeeper for Linux.
• NEC iStorage StoragePathSavior
• Samba
• Postfix
• HULFT HUB Recovery Kit

*IMPORTANT: In keeping with industry best practices and announced with the release of v9.6.2, beginning with v9.7.0 SIOS will no longer support new or existing configurations with NFS servers/clients on the same nodes as the SAP services when setting up an SAP system (also known as “loopback configuration”). Instead, we require using alternate configurations such as:
• EFS in AWS
• Azure Premium File Shares with NFS
• Google NFS Share
• NFS as separate cluster