HP-UX 11i v3 September 2011 Release Notes, Edition 2

• HP Instant Capacity: Updated to version B.11.31.09.02.00. Performance of GiCAP enhanced.
Group Manager can now accept members with longer passwords.
• iCAP Manager: Complex names containing special characters are now displayed correctly.
• Networking and mass storage drivers
10GigEthr-01 Updated with quality improvements.◦
◦ 10GigEthr-02: Supports future products. As a result, there are no changes that affect
customer systems.
◦ FibrChanl-00: Updated to version B.11.31.0909 to incorporate defect fixes.
◦ FibrChanl-01: Updated with quality improvements.
◦ FibrChanl-02 Updated with quality improvements.
◦ GigEther-01: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
◦ IB4X-00 Driver for InfiniBand: Supports the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol
for Oracle RAC environments. Only on AH304A and 448262-B21.
◦ IEther-00: Updated with quality improvements.
◦ PCIMUX-00: Updated to version B.11.31.0909 to incorporate defect fixes.
◦ RAID-01: Updated with quality improvements.
◦ New: SATADVD-00: Newly added to the OEs as a recommended (default-installed)
product. Supports future products.
◦ scsiU320-00: Updated with quality improvements.
◦ SerialSCSI-00: Updated with quality improvements.
◦ USB-00: Version D.11.31.0909 enables the enhanced legacy USB driver stack, with
quality improvements, and added functionality which includes support for USB 2.0 high
speed devices and DVD write capability.
• Mass Storage Stack: Enhanced to do intelligent congestion control in a HP Serviceguard (SG)
cluster environment. Requires Serviceguard patch PHSS_39614.
September 2009 Release Notes, Chapter 5: “General system administration”
• Dynamic Root Disk: Includes enhancements to improve performance and provide a more
robust experience.
• EMSWeb: Includes defect fixes.
• FEATURE11i: Includes support for improved dump time and dump analysis tools, file system
enhancements including MemoryFS, performance improvements for multithreaded applications,
Locality-Optimized Resource Alignment (LORA), allowing vPars users improved performance,
power minimization and management enhancements, Internationalization improvements, and
many other enhancements. Japanese manpage patches added.
• HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment
Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO): Updated to incorporate defect fixes.◦
◦ Application Discovery agent (AppDiscAgent): Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
◦ HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE): HP Application Discovery, HP Global Workload
Manager (gWLM), Instant Capacity (iCAP) Manager updated to incorporate defect fixes.
◦ HP-UX nPartition Configuration Commands: Introduces two new commands (pardefault
and pardbmgr) on the latest Integrity Superdome systems.
◦ nPartition Provider: Updated to support the latest HP Integrity systems.
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