HP-UX 11i June 2003 Release Notes

HP-UX 11i Version 1.0 Operating Environment Applications
Selectable Applications
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— With the delivery of VxVM 3.5
1
in the September 2002 11i version 1.0 release,
customers can select, at installation time, to have their root disk managed by
VxVM. However, to use VxVM for the root disk you must upgrade your depots
and/or golden images to the September 2002 11i release, which includes both the
Base-VXVM 3.5 product and the new FEATURE11-11 bundle, which contains the
required patches for VxVM “rootability.” FEATURE11-11 and the Base-VXVM
product are installed by default when you cold install or update to the September
2002 11i release.
— The expert recovery tool now supports both PA systems with whole disk, LVM,
and VxVM disks.
— Prior to this release, VxVM could not be used to control the root/boot disk on PA
systems. HP’s LVM was the only volume manager that could control the root/boot
disk. In addition, make_*_recovery was not supported on VxVM root disks.
• Changes to make_*_recovery:
— Recovery client systems are no longer forced to be the same version as the server.
Clients running version A/B.3.8 (or later) can use an Ignite-UX server that is
running the same (or later) minor-revision of Ignite-UX. (For example, a client
running the B.3.8 version can use a server running B.3.9, but not a server
running B.4.0). When a client is allowed to be a different version than the server,
a warning message is given.
updated for June
2002
Ignite-UX has been updated to version B.3.7 to incorporate the following changes:
• Default file system parameters tuned for better performance.
• Default stripe size for striped volumes has been increased.
• Secondary swap space on a two-disk system will reside only on disk two for better
performance.
For more information on these changes, including how to use Ignite-UX to maintain
earlier file system settings for these parameters, refer to the Ignite-UX Release Notes for
B.3.7, which can be found in /opt/ignite/doc/release_note and at the web site
http://software.hp.com/products/IUX. For further Ignite-UX documentation, see
“Documentation” on page 154.
updated for March
2002
Ignite-UX has been updated to version B.3.6 to support changes to the Operating
Environments. Changes to B.3.6 include the following:
• An IUX feature has been enhanced so that newly installed core components and
patches will be swmodify’ed with the correct file data to avoid swverify problems
with those files.
• To avoid accidental tape rewinding, the print_manifest command will no longer
call diskinfo (or provide a tape capacity estimate) for tape devices.
For further documentation, see “Documentation” on page 154.
1. For further information about VxVM 3.5, see “Base VERITAS Volume Manager
(VxVM)” on page 101.