HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

4 Hardware-specific information
This chapter provides information regarding supported systems, as well as other information about
software that is hardware related. For other changes to products and features related to this chapter,
see “What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 release” (page 13).
Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v3
The Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v3 (HWEnable11i) provides patches
required for new systems and for add-on hardware supported on HP-UX 11i v3, including I/O
adapters and devices.
Summary of Change
The HWEnable11i bundle provides support for new HP Integrity Blade Servers, along with HP-UX
support for older HP servers using PA8900 processors or Intel Itanium processors. Minimal HP-UX
support requires other HWE components from this OE Update release (OEUR) that include the
diagnostic products, WBEM Providers, and I/O driver bundles, along with the Ignite-UX product.
HP recommends a full update to the desired OE option from the latest HP-UX 11i v3 OEUR for full
HP-UX support with the updated versions of the manageability and configuration tools.
This hardware enablement bundle includes new HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31) patches for support of the
current HP Integrity systems with the latest I/O adapters, networking, and storage products. New
patches were also added for improved debugging, better event handling, error records persistence,
enhanced machine information reports, soft reboot feature enablement, improved performance,
and support on the latest Intel Itanium processors in currently-shipping HP Integrity systems.
Compatibility
There are no known compatibility issues.
Performance
There are no known performance issues.
Documentation
• Websites
The HP IT Resources Center (http://itrc.hp.com) portal has been retired and was migrated to
the HP Support Center (http://hp.com/go/hpsc) in June 2011. You can find the latest patch
status information on the HP Support Center (HPSC) website. To access the HPSC, you will
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