HP-UX Virtual Partitions Ordering and Configuration Guide (May 2012)

1 Introduction to This Document
This document describes the configuration and version requirements for HP-UX Virtual Partitions
(vPars) and vPars-related products. The information provided in this document is supplemental to
other vPars documents:
• HP-UX Virtual Partitions Administrator Guide (formerly Installing and Managing HP-UX Virtual
Partitions)
• HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes
All vPars documents can be found on the Business Support Center (BSC) website at:
http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-vpars-docs
The vPars documents at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-vpars-docs are intended to cover only user
information on existing vPars products that are officially released. For information on future plans
for vPars products, see the appropriate marketing materials.
This document is cumulative, meaning that it includes information on all supported releases up to
and including the latest vPars release; a specific version of vPars is stated when needed. For a list
of features for a specific release of vPars, see “Features of vPars Software by Release” (page 10);
for detailed information on a specific release, see the HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes
document for that release.
1.1 What's Changed in This Document
This section describes what has changed since the previous version of this document.
This document lists a version number as its edition on the title page. This allows multiple updates
of this document within a given month and allows specifying what has changed in this document
versus what has changed in the vPars software. Note that this version format applies only to the
version of this document and does not apply to the version of the software, which has its own
version numbers, or any other documents.
The publication date is always in a YY.MM.DD format. For example, if the version of the document
is 12.04.03, the estimated date of publication is 2012, April 3rd.
1.1.1 Revision History
Version 12.05.21
• Updated the vPars A.03.05, A.04.07 and A.05.04 minimum end of support; see Table 2
(page 20), Table 3 (page 20), and Table 4 (page 21).
Version 12.03.07
• Updated for the vPars A.05.09 March 2012 release.
Version 11.03.14
• Updated for the vPars A.05.08 March 2011 release.
Version 10.09.19
• Updated for the vPars A.05.07 September 2010 release.
Version 10.03.18
• Updated for the vPars A.05.06 March 2010 release.
• Updated for the vPars A.04.07 release.
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