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Summary of OpenVMS Version 7.3 New Features
Table 1–1 (Cont.) Summary of OpenVMS VAX and OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.3 Software
Features
System Management Features
OpenVMS Cluster systems The following are new OpenVMS Cluster features:
Clusterwide intrusion
detection
Clusterwide intrusion detection is
enabled by the integration of intrusion
data and information from each system
into a clusterwide intrusion database.
The clusterwide database contains all
unauthorized attempts and the state of any
intrusion event.
Fast Path for SCSI and
Fibre Channel (Alpha)
Fast Path is now supported on KZPBA
(parallel SCSI) and KGPSA (Fibre Channel)
ports.
Floppy disk served in
an OpenVMS Cluster
system (Alpha)
MSCP supports the serving of floppy disks
in an OpenVMS Cluster system, provided
the devices are named in accordance with
the port allocation naming conventions.
Fibre Channel support
(Alpha)
Support for larger I/O packets, for new
Fibre Channel hardware, and for larger
configurations is included.
LANs as cluster
interconnects
Use of ATM as a cluster interconnect
improves performance, scalability, and
manageability. In addition, a new
management utility, the SCA Control
Program (SCACP), performs certain
privileged cluster management functions.
Warranted and
migration support
OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.3 and OpenVMS
VAX Version 7.3 provide two levels of
support, warranted and migration, for
mixed-version and mixed-architecture
OpenVMS Cluster systems.
POLYCENTER Software
Installation Utility qualifier
The /FULL qualifier has been added to the PRODUCT LIST command.
Use of this qualifier produces output in 132-column format and displays
supplemental information about each file in the product kit, such as the
size of the file and remarks about its usage.
Symmetric Multi-Processing
(SMP) performance
improvements
OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.3 contains software changes that improve
SMP scaling.
SYSMAN commands and
qualifiers
Several new SYSMAN commands and qualifiers have been added for
OpenVMS Version 7.3.
System parameters Several new and updated system parameters have been added for
OpenVMS Version 7.3.
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