HP-UX 11i September 2003 Release Notes

HP-UX 11i Version 1.0 Operating Environment Applications
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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 150.
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 150.
updated for
December 2001
Ignite-UX version B.3.5 includes the following changes:
• Drivers such as X.25 (nioxb) now have their driver binding preserved during a
recovery. This prevents them from becoming “unclaimed” after a recovery.
• The hw_instance_num config file keyword includes a new optional driver parameter.
See the instl_adm (4) manpage for more information.
1. For further information about VxVM 3.5, see “Base VERITAS Volume Manager
(VxVM)” on page 101.