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

◦ 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: The USB stack and drivers delivered in USB-00 replace the legacy USB stack
delivered in drivers hcd, hub, hid, and usbd, with additional functionality.
• 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. Includes error fixes.
• Xserver: Radeon 7500 is supported on rp34x0 and rp44x0 servers in HP-UX 11i v3.
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.
• New: Detect and Strobe: Core-kernel functionality used to limit the amount of time spent in
servicing interrupts to a user-defined maximum. Note: Detect and Strobe was previously
delivered as patch for HP-UX 11i v1.
• New: Disks and File Systems (fsweb): Provides a web-based graphical user interface (GUI)
and text user interface (TUI) for File System and Disks system administration tasks.
• New: Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Provides tools that simplify managing groups
of systems and Serviceguard clusters.
• New: Enhanced User Core File Naming: New command, coreadm, introduced to uniquely
name application core files created by abnormally terminating user processes.
• Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Includes scripts for Oracle, enhancements to the Oracle
Toolkit, support for VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) in a Serviceguard A.11.17 environment,
support for Serviceguard 11.17.01 (non-CFS) for Tomcat, Apache, Oracle 10g, and more.
• New: Event Manager: A comprehensive mechanism for posting, distributing, storing, and
reviewing event information. Composed of a kernel component, user libraries (libevm.so) and
a set of commands.
• Event Monitoring Service: Now enhanced to send WBEM indications, which can be viewed
from the EVWEB tool.
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