HP-UX 11i December 2006 Release Notes

What is New at a Glance

What is New in the Initial 11i v1 Release?

Chapter 3

Chapter 5: I/O and Networking Cards

• Online Addition and Replacement (OLAR) enables the adding and replacing of PCI

I/O cards (adapters) while a system is running.

• By eliminating driver installation and combining multiple drivers into one, the

set-up or upgrade of networking and I/O products has been made easier.

• Gigabit Ethernet (PCI, HSC) provides the means for interfacing to a 1000Base-SX

multimode fiber network.

• Although EISA interface cards are supported on the HP-UX 11i v1 32-bit operating

system, they are not supported on HP-UX 11i v1 64-bit operation.

• HSC FDDI driver enhanced.

Chapter 6: Installation

• Cold install changed to support new media and the new Operating Environments.

• Ignite-UX version B requires at least 64MB of RAM and no longer supports 10.01

and 10.10 machines for 11i v1.

• Update-UX command replaces swgettools to perform OS updates and add

Operating Environments.

• Software Distributor changed in multiple ways, including enablement of multiple

target management capability and POSIX enhancements.

• SD Patch Installation changed to provide more control over patch management.

Chapter 7: General System Administration and Performance Monitoring

• System Administration Manager (SAM) enhanced to support new devices and

features.

• HP Distributed Print Service deprecated.

• Event Monitoring System (EMS) Hardware Monitors enabled to monitor the

operation of a wide variety of hardware products.

• The command ioscan improved to provide clearer descriptions for most common PCI

devices.

Chapter 8: Process, Threads, Memory, and Kernel Parameters

• Gang scheduling for MPI applications and multi-threaded processes enabled.

• CMA threads deprecated and kernel threads implemented.

• Amount of private data space available increased.

• The creation of unique memory windows for shared objects now allowed for 32-bit

processes.

• Dynamic tunables enabled.

• System-V IPC message queue enhanced.

• System-V IPC kernel tunable configuration parameter SEMMSL now a dynamic

kernel tunable.

• SCSI Queue depth management enhanced.