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

◦ New: Workload Manager Toolkits: Newly delivered as a recommended product in the
VSE-OE and DC-OE.
◦ nPartition Provider: Updated to version B.31.01.10.03 to incorporate defect fixes.
◦ Utilization Provider: Updated to version A.01.06.03.03 to incorporate defect fixes.
◦ vPar Provider: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• HP Serviceguard: Now delivered as a recommended product in the HA-OE and DC-OE. Other
updates available independent of the OEs.
• HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: Documentation updated to include information about support
for Veritas Cluster File System (CFS).
• HP System Management Homepage for HP-UX: Updated to version A.2.2.8 to incorporate
defect fixes.
• HP Systems Insight Manager: Updated to version 5.2. Provides ability to discover all nPars in
a complex, including those not currently active, from information gathered in one nPar and
the ability to discover all vPars in a vparmonitor, including those not currently active, from
information gathered in one vPar. New Manage Communications feature enables you to
troubleshoot communication problems between the CMS and the managed systems. Includes
much more.
• HP-UX Disks and File Systems: LVM operations are more scalable now because of the enhanced
limits on VGs, LVs, and PVs. Includes other changes.
• HP-UX Kernel Configuration: Provides two new features: manage kernel configuration and
restore the kernel configuration values of tunables and modules from the previous boot.
• Ignite-UX: Version C.7.5 includes recovery support for Agile SAS addressing, improved small
memory install performance, support for new hardware.
• Logical Volume Manager: This release of LVM supports two versions of volume groups. Version
2.0, which is new in the March 2008 release of HP-UX 11i v3, enables the configuration of
larger volume groups, logical volumes, physical volumes, and other parameters.
• New: MirrorDisk/UX: Is the mirroring component of Logical Volume Manager, and prevents
data loss due to disk failures by maintaining multiple copies of data on separate disks. Newly
delivered as an recommended product in the VSE-OE, HA-OE, and DC-OE.
• Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration: Updated to incorporate
defect fixes.
• New: NUMA policy is a tunable and a set of related kernel enhancements that exploit the
localities within platforms having a Non-Uniform Memory Architecture. This contrasts with the
default symmetric policy that treats all platform resources equally.
• Obsolescence Bundle: Used during an update when obsolete software on the system needs
to be removed; automatically selected for updates. Will remove several obsolete or incompatible
products and/or drivers, including TechSysConf.
• Online Diagnostics: Supports new I/O cards, added support for handling PCI-express errors,
provides support for hot pluggable disks, and more.
• Printer Management tool: Now provides the Text User Interface in addition to the existing
Graphical User Interface.
• Quality Pack Patch Bundles: Stable, defect-fix patch bundles for the OS and applications. In
this release, both the Base Quality Pack bundle and the Applications Quality Pack bundle are
provided.
• Software Distributor: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• Software Package Builder: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
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