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

September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 2: “Introduction to HP-UX 11i Version 3”
• Software Pack (SPK): No SPK content delivered on media in the HP-UX 11i v3 September
2007 release. However, a couple of core enhancements, AccessControl and AtomicAPI, have
been delivered on the HP Software Depot at http://hp.com/go/softwaredepot.
September 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 4: “Hardware-Specific Information”
• New: Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v3 (HWEnable11i): Provides patches
required for new systems and the latest Intel® Itanium® 2 processors, and for add-on hardware
supported on HP-UX 11i v3, including I/O adapters and devices.
• New: HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition: Updated to version A.03.95.510.42.07 to
incorporate defect fixes.
• Mass Storage Stack: New options to manage multi-pathed disks and disk arrays.
• I/O Subsystem: More networking & I/O drivers are DLKM-enabled, which means they can
be dynamically loaded and unloaded from the HP-UX kernel without manually rebuilding the
kernel or rebooting the system.
• Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
Required Networking Drivers◦
– 10GigEthr-00: Updated to support UDP traffic over the destination port-based
multi-queues and to display vital product data (vpd) by using the nwmgr command.
DLKM-enabled.
– GigEther-00: DLKM-enabled and defect fixes.
– GigEther01: DLKM-enabled.
– IEther-00 and Gigabit Ethernet: AD337A and AD338A PCI-Express is now
supported; iether is DLKM-enabled.
– 100BT (btlan): DLKM-enabled.
– Ultra160 SCSI (c8xx): Driver is DLKM-enabled, but not all modules in patch are
DLKM compliant.
◦ Optional Networking Drivers
– InfiniBand Clustering System: Supports additional PCIe cards; DLKM-enabled.
◦ Required Mass Storage Drivers
– CommonIO bundle: Support for additional FC HBAs; delivers SAS-COMMON, which
contains utilities for managing specific SAS HBAs; delivers FC-COMMON, which
contains utilities for managing specific FC HBAs.
– FibrChanl-00: DLKM-enabled.
– FibrChanl-01: DLKM-enabled. Defect fixes.
– RAID-01: DLKM-enabled.
– scsiU320–00: DLKM-enabled.
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