HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes

What is New at a Glance
What is New in the May 2005 Release?
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— HP Pay per use (PPU): Updated to version B.11.23.07.02 to support HP-UX
Virtual Partitions (vPars) and the Node and Host Name Expansion product.
Chapter 5: “General System Administration”
• Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Updated to version B.02.21 with scripts for
Oracle 9i and 10g database applications, HP Apache, and HP CIFS, as well as
enhancements to the Oracle Toolkit.
• Event Monitoring Services: Now supports the Node and Host Name Expansion
feature that is available on Software Pack.
• New Bundle: Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Consists of patches
required for HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) functionality, USB-00, and future
products with new features.
• GlancePlus Pak: Updated to version C.03.86 with new parm file parameters and new
metrics, as well as enhancements to gpm and glance.
• High Availability Monitors: Now supports the Node and Host Name Expansion
feature.
• HP Partitioning:
— New Product: HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM): Allows you to centrally
define resource-sharing policies that you can use across multiple HP servers.
Now delivered with HP-UX 11i v2.
— HP Process Resource Manager (PRM) version C.03.00: Includes integration with
HP-UX 11i Security Containment and HP Systems Insight Manager, as well as
support for 256 PRM groups and other changes.
— New to HP-UX 11i v2: HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) A.04.01: Will be
available as a separate product that can be purchased at
http://software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?produc
tNumber=T1335BC. The vPars product enables multiple instances of a selected
HP-UX 11i v2 OE to run simultaneously on one server or within one nPartition,
with each OE instance hosting its own set of applications in an isolated
environment. The FEATURE11i patch bundle, delivered on the OE media,
includes required patches for the installation of this product.
— HP-UX Workload Manager: Updated to version A.03.00 with more flexibility in
resource management and more secure environments.
— HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits: Pay Per Use Toolkit and its utilitydc
command now deprecated.
— nPartition Provider: Upgraded to version B.11.23.01.04.00.x to incorporate
defect fixes and performance improvements.
— Partition Manager: Now runs as an application under HP System Management
Homepage, which has several effects.
— PRM Libraries: Bundle updated to version C.03.00. PRM-Sw-Krn fileset updated
to version C.01.03. When upgrading HP Process Resources Manager, you will
need to reboot the system.
— New Product: vPar Provider: Extracts information about virtual partitions on a
system. Now delivered with HP-UX 11i v2.
• HP Servicecontrol Manager: Replaced by HP Systems Insight Manager.