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

• 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 ability to manage shared
memory, integration with HP Integrity Virtual Machines, integration with HP System
Management Homepage, ability to map UNIX groups to PRM groups, and several 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) and Hardware Enablement (HWE) 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 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 Process
Resource Manager no longer included in bundle; supports HP Integrity Virtual Machines;
communications now secure by default; supports finer granularity for minimum allocations
to FSS groups; supports a maximum of 256 FSS groups; and several other changes.
◦ HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits: Updated to version A.01.10.01. Provides the new
HP-UX WLM SAP Toolkit, which identifies SAP processes based on user-defined criteria
and uses WLM’s process maps feature to place the SAP processes in specific workload
groups. 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 and support for systems based on the HP sx2000 chipset.
◦ 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.
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