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

• HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment
New: Dynamic LCPU: Provides the ability to enable and disable Logical Processors (LCPUs)
dynamically at the processor set boundary. Supported only on systems with the
Hyper-Threading feature available and enabled.
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◦ HP Global Workload Manager: Updated to version A.02.50.00.x with support for Linux
managed nodes, support for Windows virtual machine guests, nested partitions, and
many other changes.
◦ HP Process Resource Manager: Updated with features including integration with HP
System Management Homepage, ability to map UNIX groups to PRM groups, ability to
cap PRM group CPU consumption on a per-group basis. support for Hyper-Threading in
PSET PRM groups, and other features.
◦ HP-UX 11i v3 Patch Bundles and Software Pack: The initial release of HP-UX 11i v3 will
not include the standard Quality Pack (QPK), Hardware Enablement (HWE) and
FEATURE11i patch bundles or the Software Pack that delivers optional new core
enhancements. The delivery of these patch bundles and the Software Pack is planned for
the first update release of HP-UX 11i v3.
◦ HP-UX Virtual Partitions: Updated to version A.05.01 with online memory migration,
mixing A.04.02 and A.05.01 virtual partitions in the same vPars environment, and
hyperthreading. Purchased separately.
◦ Integrity Virtual Machines (VM) Note: The host for Integrity VM is not supported on 11i
v3. However, the virtual machines of the host can run 11i v3.
◦ HP-UX Workload Manager: Updated to version A.03.02.02. Changes include ability to
map UNIX groups to workload groups; extended regular expressions in alternate names
for application records; enhancements to wlminfo output; and other changes.
◦ HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits: Updated to version A.01.10.01. Product label
changed from T1302AA to WLMToolkits. PPUTK obsoleted; SASTK and DMTK
deprecated.
◦ Partition Manager: Updated to v2.0 (version B.31.02.03.01) with the ability to enable
and disable Hyper-Threading for nPartitions whose cells have processors that are
Hyper-Threading capable.
◦ nPartition Provider: Updated to version B.31.01.07.01 with support for WBEM Services
version 2.5.
◦ New: Utilization Provider: Lightweight daemon (utild) that records system-utilization
data on a 5-minute interval; data recorded includes CPU, memory, disk, and network
utilization; also includes a WBEM provider for access to the data.
◦ vPar Provider: WBEM provider displays information about virtual partitions. Read-only;
clients cannot modify virtual partition configurations with it.
• HP Serviceguard: Updated to version A.11.17.01 with support for persistent DSF naming and
dynamic multipathing, large PID, identification of networking interfaces (NICs) that are part
of the Serviceguard cluster configuration, and other features. VERITAS Cluster File System
(CFS) and Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) not supported in initial release of HP-UX 11i v3.
RS232 serial line as cluster heartbeat is obsolete.
• HP Serviceguard Network File System (NFS) Toolkit: Updated to version A.11.31.02 with
new control script template and a defect fix. Can work with Serviceguard A.11.17.01, but
does not support some Serviceguard A.11.17.01 and NFS HP-UX 11i v3 features. Users who
need VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) should not upgrade to HP-UX 11i v3 until CFS is
available on that platform.
• HP System Management Homepage: Updated to version A.2.2.5 to incorporate defect fixes.
In addition, is the addition of the new Web-based solutions for Networking and
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