New Features of Supported Versions of LifeKeeper for Linux Version 9
| LifeKeeper Core | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 is supported. (Certified in July 2025) | |
| Symfoware V12.5 through V12.10 are supported. (Certified in July 2025) | ||
| VMware vSAN 8.0 is supported. (Certified in July 2025) | ||
| Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is supported (Certified in May 2025) | ||
| Modified the shared memory address that LifeKeeper uses so it does not collide with OS managed addresses. | ||
| Fixed issue with HANA trace files taking a long time to collect when using lksupport. There are new flags for lksupport to ignore HANA traces files, or collect HANA only files. | ||
| SAP HANA Recovery Kit | The SAP HANA Recovery Kit is now supported on RHEL 8.10. (Certified in July 2025) | |
| SAP Recovery Kit | The SAP Recovery Kit is now supported on RHEL 8.10. (Certified in July 2025) | |
| DRBD Recovery Kit | The DRBD Recovery Kit is now supported on RHEL9.5. | |
| The DRBD Recovery Kit is now supported on SLES 15 SP6. | ||
| The DRBD recovery kit will now support a 4 node cluster. | ||
| DRBD IP addresses can now be modified using the LKCLI. | ||
| MySQL Recovery Kit | MariaDB 11.4 is supported (Certified in Apr 2025). | |
| Oracle Recovery Kit | The Oracle Recovery Kit now supports using sudo or su for db commands. | |
| HDLM Recovery Kit | Users can create resources without having to manually set “HDLM_DLMMGR=.dlmmgr_exe” | |
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| LifeKeeper Core | MySQL 8.4 is supported (Certified in Mar 2025). | |
| IBM Db2 12.1 is supported (Certified in Mar 2025). | ||
| Oracle Linux 9.5 is supported (Certified in Feb 2025). | ||
| Azure Cross Region Support (Certified in Jan 2025). See the Azure – Global Load Balancer (cross-region load balancer) Scenario for details. | ||
| AlmaLinux 9.5 is supported (Certified in Jan 2025). | ||
| Rocky Linux 9.5 is supported (Certified in Jan 2025). | ||
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 is supported (Certified in Jan 2025). | ||
| Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is supported (Certified in Nov 2024). | ||
| Miracle Linux 8.10 is supported (Certified in Nov 2024). | ||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 is supported (Certified in Nov 2024). | ||
| Miracle Linux 9.4 is supported (Certified in Oct 2024). | ||
| AlmaLinux 9.4 is supported. Support for AlmaLinux will begin with version 9.4. | ||
| Impletemeted Intelligent Failover. LifeKeeper will failover a hierarchy, after a quickCheck failure, to a standby server only if the standby server is likely able to recover. This will primarily avoid failing over to a standby server that has out-of-sync data. Intelligent Failover is enabled for the following ARKs: DRBD Recovery Kit DataKeeper SAP Recovery Kit SAP HANA Recovery Kit |
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| lksupport can now use ‘sudo’ instead of ‘su’ when collecting SAP and HANA data from the system (the default is ‘sudo’). | ||
| PostgreSQL Recovery Kit | Supports EDB Postgres Advanced Server v17 (Certified in Feb 2025). | |
| Supports FUJITSU Software Enterprise Postgres 16 SP1 (Certified in December 2024). | ||
| Supports PostgreSQL 17 (Certified in Nov 2024). | ||
| Supports FUJITSU Software Enterprise Postgres 16 (Certified in Nov 2024). | ||
| MQ | LifeKeeper for Linux now supports IBM MQ 9.4.1 (Certified in Mar 2025). | |
| LifeKeeper for Linux now supports IBM MQ 9.4 (Certified in Nov 2024). | ||
| DRBD Recovery Kit | The LifeKeeper for Linux DRBD Recovery Kit provides the ability to configure and control DRBD resources. DRBD is a software-based, shared-nothing, replicated storage solution mirroring the content of block devices (hard disks, partitions, logical volumes, etc.) between hosts. The following distributions are supported by the DRBD Recovery Kit:
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| Notify users when DRBD resync occurs. | ||
| Recovery Kit for EC2™ | Recovery Kit for EC2 supports a single-AZ configuration on AWS. | |
| Recovery Kit for Route53™ | Recovery Kit for Route53 supports a single-AZ configuration on AWS. | |
| SAP HANA Recovery Kit | The SAP HANA Recovery Kit is now supported on SLES 15 SP6. (Certified in Jan 2025.) | |
| The HANA kit can now use ‘sudo’ or ‘su’ when running HSR commands (the default is ‘sudo’). | ||
| The SAP HANA Recovery Kit is now supported on RHEL 9.4. (Certified in Dec 2024.) | ||
| SAP Recovery Kit | The SAP Recovery Kit is now supported on SLES 15 SP6 (Certified in Jan 2025). | |
| The SAP kit can now use ‘sudo’ or ‘su’ when running SAP commands (the default is ‘sudo’). | ||
| The SAP Recovery Kit is now supported on RHEL 9.4. (Certified in Dec 2024.) | ||
| Bug Fixes | ||
| LifeKeeper Core | The migration feature of Hyper-V (Windows Server 2022) is now supported. (Certified in September 2024) | |
| LifeKeeper for Linux now supports VMware vSphere 8.0 Update3 (Certified in Aug 2024). | ||
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 is supported. (Certified in Jul 2024.) Note: If you are using DataKeeper, follow these steps when installing LifeKeeper. | ||
| Rocky Linux 8.10 is supported. (Certified in Jul 2024.) Note: If you are using DataKeeper, follow these steps when installing LifeKeeper. | ||
| Oracle Linux 8.10 is supported. (Certified in Jul 2024.) Note: If you are using DataKeeper, follow these steps when installing LifeKeeper. | ||
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 is supported (Certified in May 2024). | ||
| Oracle Linux 9.4 is supported (Certified in June 2024). | ||
| Rocky Linux 9.4 is supported (Certified in June 2024). | ||
| LifeKeeper for Linux now supports VMware vSphere 8.0 Update1 and Update2 (Certified in May 2024). | ||
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 is supported. | ||
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 is supported. | ||
| Rocky Linux 9.3 is supported. | ||
| Rocky Linux 8.9 is supported. | ||
| Oracle Linux 8.9 is supported. | ||
| Oracle Linux 9.3 is supported. | ||
| Support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 without the additional instructions announced in v9.8.0. | ||
| LifeKeeper fully supports SELinux enabled with Enforcing and Permissive mode. | ||
| Users can now select the platform on which LifeKeeper will run during setup. This allows users to precisely benefit from the platform-specific features implemented in LifeKeeper. | ||
| Instance MetaData Service (IMDS) version 2 is now supported for Amazon EC2 instances. | ||
| Multi-AZ configurations are now available as well as single-AZ configurations on VMware Cloud on AWS. | ||
AWS Outposts is supported. The following Recovery Kits are available.
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| LifeKeeper Web Management Console (LKWMC) | New web-based user interface for managing LifeKeeper for Linux. See more in the documentation. | |
| SAP Recovery Kit | Supports SAP S/4HANA 2023. | |
| The SAP Recovery Kit is now supported on RHEL 8.9. | ||
| The SAP Recovery Kit is now supported on RHEL 9.3. | ||
| PostgreSQL Recovery Kit | Supports FUJITSU Software Enterprise Postgres 15SP1 and 15SP2. | |
| MQ | LifeKeeper for Linux now supports IBM MQ 9.3.5 (Certified in April 2024.) | |
| LifeKeeper LB Health Check Kit | Configuring a Network Load Balancer in AWS is supported (Certified in June 2024). | |
| Bug Fixes | ||
| LifeKeeper Core | Hyper-V (Windows Server 2022) is supported (Certified in June 2024). | |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 is supported. (Certified in February 2024.) | ||
| Miracle Linux 9.2 is supported. (Certified in January 2024.) | ||
| Instance Metadata Service version 2 (IMDSv2) is now supported when using LifeKeeper in an AWS EC2 environment. Please see the AWS – Configuring IMDS section for more details. (A patch must be applied.) | ||
| Oracle Linux 8.8 is supported. (Certified in November 2023.) Note: If you are using DataKeeper, follow these steps when installing LifeKeeper. | ||
| Rocky Linux 8.8 is supported. (Certified in November 2023.) Note:If you are using DataKeeper, follow these steps when installing LifeKeeper. | ||
| Miracle Linux 8.8 is supported. (Certified in November 2023.) Note: If you are using DataKeeper, follow these steps when installing LifeKeeper. | ||
| Oracle Linux 9.2 is supported. (Certified in October 2023.) | ||
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 is supported. (Certified in October 2023.) Note: If you are using DataKeeper, follow these steps when installing LifeKeeper. | ||
Rocky Linux 9.1 is supported.(Certified in October 2023.)
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Rocky Linux 9.2 is supported. (Certified in October 2023.)
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| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 is supported. | ||
| QWK storage now supports specifying endpoints. | ||
| SAP Recovery Kit | The SAP Recovery Kit is now supported on RHEL 9.0, 9.1 and 9.2. (Certified in February 2024.) | |
| The SAP Recovery Kit is now supported on SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 SP5. (Certified in February 2024.) | ||
| The SAP Recovery Kit is now supported on RHEL 8.7 and 8.8. (Certified in October 2023.) | ||
| SAP HANA Recovery Kit | The SAP HANA Recovery Kit is now supported on RHEL 9.2. (Certified in February 2024.) | |
| The SAP HANA Recovery Kit is now supported on SLES 15 SP5. (Certified in February 2024.) | ||
| The SAP HANA Recovery Kit is now supported on RHEL 8.8. (Certified in October 2023.) | ||
| MySQL Recovery Kit | Supports MariaDB v10.6, v10.11 (Certified in January 2024). | |
| PostgreSQL Recovery Kit | Supports PowerGres on Linux V15 (Certified in Feb 2024). | |
| Supports PostgreSQL 16 (Certified in Jan. 2024). | ||
| Supports EDB Postgres Advanced Server v15 and v16 (Certified in Jan. 2024). | ||
| Supports FUJITSU Software Enterprise Postgres 15 (Certified in November 2023) | ||
| MQ | LifeKeeper for Linux now supports IBM MQ 9.3.2, 9.3.3 and 9.3.4 (Certified in November 2023.) | |
| Bug Fixes | ||
| LifeKeeper Core | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 is supported. Note: DataKeeper asynchronous mode on thin provisioned disks is not available due to kernel issues. | |
| Enhanced firewall detection during setup runtime. | ||
Rocky Linux 9.0 is supported.
Note: DataKeeper asynchronous mode on thin provisioned disks is not available due to kernel issues.
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| Miracle Linux v8.6 is supported. Note: DataKeeper asynchronous mode on thin provisioned disks is not available due to kernel issues. | ||
| VMware vSphere 8.0 is supported. (Certified in June 2023.) Note: vSAN is supported only on VMware Cloud on AWS. | ||
| The use of DataKeeper on VMware Cloud on AWS (a single-AZ deployment) is now supported. (Certified in July 2023) | ||
| The use of shared disks without reservations (IO fencing configuration is required separately) on VMware Cloud on AWS (a single-AZ deployment) is now supported. (Certified in August 2023) | ||
| Oracle Linux 8.7 is supported. (Certified in June 2023.) Note 1: If you are using DataKeeper, follow these steps when installing LifeKeeper. Note 2: See the Oracle Linux kernel (OL8U7) section in the Installation – Known Issues / Restrictions | ||
| Oracle Linux 9.1 is supported. (Certified in June 2023.) | ||
| Oracle Linux 9.0 is supported. (Certified in June 2023.) Note: DataKeeper asynchronous mode on thin provisioned disks is not available due to kernel issues. | ||
| Supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 (Certified in May 2023.) Note: If you are using DataKeeper, follow these steps when installing LifeKeeper. | ||
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 is supported. (Certified in May 2023.) | ||
| Rocky Linux 8.7 is supported. (Certified in June 2023.) Note: If you are using DataKeeper, follow these steps when installing LifeKeeper. | ||
| Miracle Linux 9.0 is supported. (Certified in June 2023.) Note: DataKeeper asynchronous mode on thin provisioned disks is not available due to kernel issues. | ||
| Updated the curl package used inside LifeKeeper to 7.86.0. | ||
| PostgreSQL Recovery Kit | Supports PostgreSQL 15. | |
| Supports PowerGres Plus V13 (Certified in Apr 2023). | ||
| NFS | LifeKeeper does not support NFS loop back configurations where a server exports a file system and mounts the exported file system on the same system. An error message is logged if the unsupported configuration is detected during install/update or creation of an NFS resource. | |
| LVM | The LVM device file feature added in RHEL9 is supported. | |
| SAP HANA | The SAP HANA Recovery Kit now supports multi-target system replication to up to three secondary replication sites. | |
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| LifeKeeper Core | Added support for Rocky Linux 8.5.(Certified in Apr 2023).
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Added support for Rocky Linux 8.6.
Note: DataKeeper asynchronous mode on thin provisioned disks is not available due to kernel issues.
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| SLES 15 SP4 is now supported (certified in Jan 2023). To install LifeKeeper on SLES 15 SP 4 follow the instructions here that require downloading lk-sles15sp4-support and running ‘setup —addinfo lk-sles15sp4-support’. Note: Kernel 5.14.21-150400.24.21.2 or higher is required. | ||
| Added support for Azure Shared Disk using the new steeleye-lkSCSI3 Recovery Kit. The SCSI3 Recovery kit adds support for SCSI-3 Persistent Reservation for single path devices using the Linux SD subsystem (/dev/sd device nodes). This kits allows reliable locking for Microsoft Azure Shared Disks in a LifeKeeper cluster with shared storage. | ||
| Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6. Note: DataKeeper asynchronous mode on thin provisioned disks is not available due to kernel issues. | ||
| Added support for Oracle Linux 8.6. Note: DataKeeper asynchronous mode on thin provisioned disks is not available due to kernel issues. | ||
| Miracle Linux 8.4 is now supported. | ||
| Added the STANDBY NODE WRITE PROTECTION feature. This feature is designed to prevent data corruption due to inadvertent unintended access when RESERVATIONS are disabled. See STANDBY NODE WRITE PROTECTION for details. |
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| LifeKeeper LB Health Check Kit | The LifeKeeper LB (Load Balancer) Health Check Kit replaces the Generic Load Balancer (GenLB) Recovery Kit. The GenLB recovery kit was a collection of action scripts available for download for 9.6.1 to be used with a generic application (gen/app) resource. The GenLB kit has been migrated to a full ARK for ease of use.
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| LifeKeeper Core | Supports Rocky Linux 8.4
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| Oracle Linux 8.5 is supported. Note: If you are using DataKeeper with RHCK, follow these steps when installing LifeKeeper. | ||
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 is supported. | ||
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| SAP Recovery Kit | The SAP Recovery Kit now supports the use of LifeKeeper-specific critical_nfs_mounts_<tag> files. Any NFS mount entry (e.g., for the /sapmnt/<SID> NFS share) added to this file for a given SAP resource on a given server will be mounted before the resource is brought in-service. | |
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| Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Communication via virtual IP address using the LifeKeeper IP Recovery Kit is allowed in the Oracle Cloud environment. | |
| NAS Recovery Kit | It is no longer necessary to set “NFS_RPC_PROTOCOL=tcp” when protecting an NFS shared file system with UDP disabled | |
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| GUI,CLI, DataKeeper, Route53, Quorum/Witness, NAS, EC2 | Bug Fixes | |
| PostgreSQL Recovery Kit | PowerGres on Linux 13 is now supported (Certified in May 2022) | |
| Supports FUJITSU Software Enterprise Postgres 14 (Certified in October 2022) | ||
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