HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

• Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
Gigabit Ethernet: The igelan, gelan and btlan products are enhanced with new
features, including online deletion (OLD) and module packaging.
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◦ HyprFabrc-00: Supports only Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) HF2 cards. HF1
Cards will not be supported.
◦ New: InfiniBand: An industry-standard high-speed, packet-based interconnect for
node-to-node communications, provides higher speed and lower network latency and
uses less CPU than other industry standard protocols.
◦ PCIMUX-00: The PCIMUX-00 bundle delivers the pci-mux1 driver, which supports the
AD278A and AD279A PCI MUX adapters.
◦ TermIO-00: The TermIO-00 driver bundle delivers the pci_mux0 driver, which supports
the A6748A and A6749A PCI MUX adapters.
◦ FibrChanl-00 HP PCI Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Fibre Channel Driver for HP-UX 11i v3: Supports
new Mass Storage Stack, Agile addressing, Soft Zoning, PCI Online deletion, PCI error
detection and recovery.
◦ FibrChanl-01 Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v3: Supports new
mass storage stack, Agile addressing, Soft Zoning, PCI Online deletion, and PCI error
detection and recovery.
◦ HP PCI Ultra160 SCSI (c8xx): Supports new mass storage stack, PCI Online Deletion
(OLD), PCI error detection and recovery, HBA Device Special Files (DSF). Termination of
support for Ultra2 HBAs.
◦ USB-00: Includes various quality improvements from previous releases, a dynamically
managed device file system enabled by default, multi-layered USB mass storage encryption
support, and device tracking.
• New: PCI Error Recovery: Provides the ability to detect, isolate, and automatically recover
from a PCI error, avoiding a system crash.
• New: PCI Card Online Deletion (OLD): The PCI OL* feature has been enhanced to allow
HP-UX 11i v3 administrators to delete PCI cards and their associated drivers online without
requiring a system reboot.
• Utility Pricing Solutions
HP Instant Capacity: Updated to version B.11.31.08.01 to include modifications to the
installation procedure; support for Global Instant Capacity (GiCAP) and hyperthreading;
changes to GiCAP grouping rules and icapstatus command output; and more.
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◦ HP Pay per use: Updated to version B.11.31.08.01.00 with support for hyperthreading
features included in HP-UX 11i v3.
• Xserver: The Xserver’s configuration tool is available via the HP SMH interface.
Initial (February 2007) Release Notes, Chapter 5: “General System Administration”
• asyncdsk Driver Kernel Tunable max_async_ports: max_async_ports is now a dynamic
tunable; default value changed to 4096 and maximum value is 4194304.
• New: Concurrent Dump: You can now configure your machine to perform a distributed parallel
dump, thereby improving the dump throughput and reducing dump time.
• Daylight Savings Time (DST). Changes for US DST rules.
• Detect and Strobe: Disabled when any system configuration altering activity is in progress.
Functionality enabled by default (value set at 80%).
• Disks and File Systems ( fsweb): Provides a web-based GUI and TUI for File System and Disks
system administration tasks.
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