HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

• Mass Storage Stack: Includes defect fixes and usability enhancements to enhance the system's
availability and ease-of-use.
• Utility Pricing Solutions
◦ HP Instant Capacity: Includes the ability to create a standby Group Manager to be
available for use as an active Group Manager if the current Group Manager is
unavailable. Improvements in iCAP and GiCAP logging. And more.
September 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 5: “General System Administration”
• Boot Loader: Includes several enhancements, including, in the Itanium-based Boot Loader,
warning that more than one console output devices are configured.
• Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Upgrade to new versions of open source
components has the latest features and defect fixes, and further minimizes any complexities.
Now that DSAU supports the UPCC-style Serviceguard packages, you can experience better
ease-of-use.
• Dynamic Root Disk: Supports rehosting, the ability to create a clone on one system, then boot
the clone on another system by providing personality information about the new system. The
September 2008 release supports this capability for rehosting from blade to blade using
Virtual Connect, and from VM to VM.
• Event Monitoring Service: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Updated for HP-UX 11i v3 with new patches
that enhance or provide new core features (including performance improvements) and enable
support for base page sizes larger than 4 KB on Itanium, Numeric User Group Name, Integrity
VM (HPVM) support, FIFO performance improvements, Internationalization improvements,
and many other enhancements.
• New: FIFOENH: Provides high and low thresholds on buffered data in the pipe. As a result,
major performance improvement can be seen on a multiprocessor environment when multiple
threads are operating on the same fifo. Software Pack feature, optional on all OEs.
• High Availability Monitors: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• HP Caliper: Features and changes include support for thread contention analysis and
visualization; data-centric cache profiling; scaling of the system-wide performance view to
larger cell-based systems; and many others.
• HP GlancePlus Pak: New metrics are included.
• HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment
New: Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO): Added are three new Accelerated Virtual I/O
device drivers. Provide significant performance improvements over the existing VIO
products.
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◦ HP Application Discovery Agent: Updated to version A.04.00.07.33 to incorporate
defect fixes.
◦ HP Global Workload (gWLM) Agent: The bundle name has changed from T2743AA to
gWLMAgent.
◦ New: HP Instant Capacity Manager: A web-based interface that can be used to monitor
your Instant Capacity (iCAP) environment. Newly added as a component of the VSE
Management Software (VSEMgmt). Delivered as an optional product in VSE-OE and
DC-OE.
◦ New: HP Integrity Virtual Machines: A soft partitioning and virtualization technology that
provides operating system isolation, with sub-CPU allocation granularity and shared I/O.
Version 4.0 added to the VSE-OE and DC-OE.
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