HP-UX 11i December 2006 Release Notes

General System Administration
HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment
Chapter 5
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Compatibility
There are no known compatibility issues.
Performance
PRM is designed to set resource allocations (CPU, memory, disk bandwidth) for
applications. Misconfiguration can result in degradation.
Documentation
•The prm (5) manpage provides an overview of PRM and points to all the other
manpages.
•Web site: http://www.hp.com/go/prm (“Information library” provides white papers)
• Documents (available at:
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/ha/index.html#Process%20Resource%20Manager):
— HP Process Resource Manager User’s Guide
— HP PRM Version C.03.02.xx Release Notes
Obsolescence
Not applicable.
HP-UX Workload Manager
HP-UX Workload Manager (WLM) A.03.02 provides goal-based workload management.
This management enables automatic resource allocation and application performance
management through the use of prioritized service-level objectives (SLOs). It provides
this functionality by automating features of HP-UX Virtual Partitions, nPartitions,
Processor Sets, and HP Process Resource Manager (PRM).
Summary of Change
WLM A.03.02 includes the following changes:
• Ability to map Unix groups to workload groups
• Extended regular expressions in alternate names for application records
• Enhancements to wlminfo output
• New keyword utility_reserve_threshold enables you to configure the minimum
number of days of Temporary Instant Capacity that must be available for WLM to
use that capacity
Impact
More flexibility in process placement.
Compatibility
There are no known compatibility issues.