HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

• Daylight Savings Time (DST). Changes for US DST rules.
• New: Detect and Strobe: Core-kernel functionality used to limit the amount of time spent in
servicing interrupts to a user-defined maximum. Note: Detect and Strobe was previously
delivered as patch for HP-UX 11i v1.
• New: Disks and File Systems (fsweb): Provides a web-based GUI and TUI for File System and
Disks system administration tasks.
• New: Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Provides tools that simplify managing groups
of systems and Serviceguard clusters.
• New: Enhanced User Core File Naming: New command, coreadm, introduced to uniquely
name application core files created by abnormally terminating user processes.
• Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Includes scripts for Oracle, enhancements to the Oracle
Toolkit, support for VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) in a Serviceguard A.11.17 environment,
support for Serviceguard 11.17.01 (non-CFS) for Tomcat, Apache, Oracle 10g, and more.
• New: Event Manager: A comprehensive mechanism for posting, distributing, storing, and
reviewing event information. Composed of a kernel component, user libraries (libevm.so) and
a set of commands.
• Event Monitoring Service: Now enhanced to send WBEM indications, which can be viewed
from the EVWEB tool.
• New: High Resolution Timer Support: Enhances select timer-related system calls and APIs to
provide a resolution finer than the default 10 millisecond resolution.
• HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak: Updated to version C.04.55 with support for large process
IDs; enhancement to record the Logical Volume (LV) metrics for VERITAS Volume Manager,
versions VxVM 4.1 and VxVM 5.0; new metrics for monitoring the UFC; and other changes.
• HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment
New: Dynamic LCPU: Provides the ability to enable and disable Logical Processors (LCPUs)
dynamically at the processor set boundary. Supported only on systems with the
Hyper-Threading feature available and enabled.
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◦ HP Global Workload Manager: Updated to version A.02.50.00.x with support for Linux
managed nodes, support for Windows virtual machine guests, nested partitions, and
many other changes.
◦ HP Process Resource Manager: Updated with features including ability to manage shared
memory, integration with HP Integrity Virtual Machines, integration with HP System
Management Homepage, ability to map UNIX groups to PRM groups, and several other
features.
◦ HP-UX 11i v3 Patch Bundles and Software Pack: The initial release of HP-UX 11i v3 will
not include the standard Quality Pack (QPK) and Hardware Enablement (HWE) patch
bundles or the Software Pack that delivers optional new core enhancements. The delivery
of these patch bundles and the Software Pack is planned for the first update release of
HP-UX 11i v3.
◦ HP-UX Virtual Partitions: Updated to version A.05.01 with online memory migration,
mixing A.04.02 and A.05.01 virtual partitions in the same vPars environment, and
hyperthreading. Purchased separately.
◦ Integrity VM Note: The host for Integrity VM is not supported on 11i v3. However, the
virtual machines of the host can run 11i v3.
◦ HP-UX Workload Manager: Updated to version A.03.02.02. Changes include Process
Resource Manager no longer included in bundle; supports HP Integrity Virtual Machines;
communications now secure by default; supports finer granularity for minimum allocations
to FSS groups; supports a maximum of 256 FSS groups; and several other changes.
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