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

• Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Updated for HP-UX 11i v3 with patches
that enhance or provide new core features (including performance improvements) and enable
support for improved dump time and dump analysis tools, file system enhancements including
MemFS, performance improvements for multithreaded applications, power minimization and
management enhancements, Internationalization improvements, and many other enhancements.
• FirstBoot: Updated to support Dynamic Root Disk (DRD).
• High Availability Monitors: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment
Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO) (includes GuestAvioLan, HostAvioLan, GuestAVIOStor,
and HostAvioStor): Provide significant performance improvements over the existing VIO
products and support Integrity VM Online Guest Migration with Integrity VM V4.1.
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◦ HP Application Discovery (AppDiscAgent): You will obtain more reliable behavior and
data from Application Discovery agent. You no longer need to configure the agent on
installation.
◦ HP Integrity Virtual Machines (Integrity VM): Updated to version 4.1. Includes support for
online VM migration, SSH 3rd-party alternative for secure communications, and more.
◦ HP Integrity VM Guest Support Libraries (VMGuestLib): Upgrade to Version 4.1 includes
support for the new features of HP Integrity Virtual Machines V4.1.
◦ New: HP Integrity Virtual Machines (VMGuestSW): A repackaging of the software on the
Integrity VM virtual machines that was contained in the T2767BC bundle to the
VMGuestSW bundle.
◦ HP Integrity Virtual Machines (VMKernelSW): Updated in support of the Integrity VM
V4.1.
◦ New: HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager: Enables managers to view and manipulate
Integrity VM resources on VM Hosts running HP-UX 11.31. VM Manager supports HP
Integrity Virtual Machines V4.0, including support of HP-UX 11.31 agile storage device
addressing and other features. Newly added as optional software on the VSE-OE and
DC-OE.
◦ HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider (VM Provider): Upgrade to V4.1 supports the new
features of HP Integrity Virtual Machines V4.1, including support for Online VM Migration.
◦ HP Process Resource Manager: With version C.03.05, you can now have PRM use the
real user ID for placing processes based on user records.
◦ HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) Management Software: In version 4.1 (A.04.01.00),
the following components were added or updated:
– HP Virtualization Manager
– Logical Server Management
– HP Integrity Virtual Machines Manager
– HP Application Discovery
– HP Capacity Advisor
– HP Partition Manager
– Virtual Server Environment Configuration Assistant
– HP Process Resource Manager
For information about the above components and about licensing requirements, see the
VSE section.
◦ New: HP-UX nPartition Configuration Commands: New command parconfig(1M) runs a
set of the Locality-Optimized Resource Alignment (LORA) rules and provides recommended
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