HP-UX 11i v3 March 2012 Release Notes

• New: Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Includes an interface expansion, providing
long username and long hostnames.
• 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 support for VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) in a
Serviceguard A.11.17 environment, support for Serviceguard 11.17.01 (non-CFS) for CIFS,
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.
• New: High Resolution Timer Support: Enhances select timer-related system calls and APIs to
provide a resolution finer than the default 10 millisecond resolution.
• HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak: Updated to version C.04.55 with support for large process
IDs; enhancement to record the Logical Volume (LV) metrics for Veritas Volume Manager,
versions VxVM 4.1 and VxVM 5.0; new metrics for monitoring the UFC; and other changes.
• 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.
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