HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes
- Legal Notices
- Publication History
- Typographic Conventions
- 1 Overview of the Release Notes
- 2 Introduction to HP-UX 11i Version 2
- 3 What is New at a Glance
- 4 Server-Specific Information
- What is in This Chapter?
- Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle
- HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition
- Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
- Always-Installed Networking Drivers
- Selectable Networking Drivers
- Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers
- Selectable Mass Storage Drivers
- Supported Systems
- Finding Firmware Information
- 5 General System Administration
- What is in This Chapter?
- Distributed Systems Administration Utilities
- Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit Version
- Event Monitoring Services
- Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (Feature11i)
- GlancePlus Pak
- High Availability Monitors
- HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider
- HP Integrity VM Support Library
- HP Partitioning
- HP Serviceguard
- HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit
- HP System Management Homepage
- HP Systems Insight Manager
- HP WBEM Services for HP-UX
- HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups
- HP-UX Kernel Configuration
- HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool
- HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider
- HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces
- HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider
- HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider
- Ignite-UX
- Obsolescence Bundle
- Online Diagnostics
- Quality Pack Patch Bundle
- Software Distributor
- Software Package Builder
- Update-UX
- Utilization Provider
- 6 Disk and File Management
- 7 Internet and Networking
- 8 Security
- 9 Commands and System Calls
- 10 Libraries and Programming
- 11 Internationalization
- 12 Other Functionality
Server-Specific Information
Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers
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IMPORTANT To enable these functionalities, you must install additional patches after installing the
driver from the December 2005 Operating Environments media. For instructions, see the
10GigEthr-00 (ixgbe) 10 Gigabit Ethernet Driver for HP-UX 11i v2 of December 2005
Release Notes, available online at
http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html#10%20Gigabit%20Ethernet
Impact
The multiqueue and TCP packet-reassembly in the driver enhancements can provide
good-to-significant performance improvement.
Compatibility
As of the date of this document’s publication, multiqueue using destination port based
steering may not work optimally when used with Auto Port Aggregation (APA) in LAN
Monitor mode.
Performance
As stated, the multiqueue and TCP packet-reassembly in the driver enhancements can
improve performance.
Documentation
The AB287A PCI-X 10 Gigabit Ethernet Card Installation Guide and the 10GigEthr-00
(ixgbe) 10 Gigabit Ethernet Driver for HP-UX 11i v2 of December 2005 Release Notes are
available online at
http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html#10%20Gigabit%20Ethernet.
For more information about 10 Gigabit Ethernet, such as a current list of supported
systems and switches that work well with the AB287A PCI-X 10 Gigabit Ethernet card,
visit the HP 9000 and HP Integrity Server Connectivity Web site at
http://www.hp.com/products1/unixserverconnectivity.
Obsolescence
Not applicable.
Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers
The following table lists mass storage drivers that are automatically installed. For more
details about changes to these drivers, see the remainder of this section.