HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

◦ New: HP Process Resource Manager: Newly delivered as a recommended product in the
BOE, VSE-OE, HA-OE, and DC-OE.
◦ New: HP Virtual Server Environment: Integrates with HP SIM to provide intelligent control
of your virtualized environment from one location. Components assist in planning and
automating system and application management tasks, and allow you to optimize server
utilization in real time by creating virtual servers that can automatically grow and shrink
based on business priorities and service-level objectives. Several individual VSE
products/components are delivered as optional or recommended products on the new
OEs, providing you with a variety of options.
◦ HP-UX nPartition Configuration Commands: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
◦ New: HP-UX Virtual Partitions: Version A.05.03 enables multiple instances of the HP-UX
11i v3 OE to run simultaneously on one server or within one nPartition, with each OE
instance hosting its own set of applications in a isolated environment. Newly added as
an optional product to the HP-UX 11i v3 VSE-OE and DC-OE.
◦ New: HP-UX Workload Manager: Newly delivered as a recommended product in the
VSE-OE and DC-OE. Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
◦ 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.
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