HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes

HP-UX 11i v2 Operating Environments

Overview

Operating Environments (OEs) are tested and integrated application bundles designed to work

with the operating system and provide the functionality needed for your system’s purpose. The

following lists the currently available HP-UX 11i v2 OEs:

• HP-UX 11i v2 Foundation OE (FOE) — Designed for the demands of Web servers, content

servers and front-end servers, this OE includes applications such as HP-UX Web Server

Suite, Java for HP-UX, and Mozilla Application Suite. This OE is bundled as HPUX11i-OE.

For more details, see “HP-UX 11i v2 Foundation Operating Environment ” (page 30).

• HP-UX 11i v2 Enterprise OE (EOE) — Designed for database application servers and logic

servers, this OE contains the HP-UX 11i v2 Foundation OE bundles and additional

applications such as GlancePlus Pak to enable an enterprise-level server. This OE is bundled

as HPUX11i-OE-Ent. For more details, see “HP-UX 11i v2 Enterprise Operating

Environment” (page 33).

• HP-UX 11i v2 Mission Critical OE (MCOE) — Designed for the large, powerful back-end

application servers and database servers that access customer files and handle transaction

processing, this OE contains the Enterprise OE bundles, plus applications such as HP

Serviceguard and Workload Manager to enable a mission-critical server. This OE is bundled

as HPUX11i-OE-MC. For more details, see “HP-UX 11i v2 Mission Critical Operating

Environment” (page 33).

• IMPORTANT: HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005 was last release that included the Minimal Technical

OE (MTOE). After May 2005, the HP-UX 11i v2 MTOE is no longer available. If you have

questions, contact your HP sales representative.

• HP-UX 11i v2 Technical Computing OE (TCOE) — This OE contains extensive graphics

applications and Math Libraries. This OE is bundled as HPUX11i-TCOE. For more details,

see “HP-UX 11i v2 Technical Computing Operating Environment” (page 34).

IMPORTANT: The HP-UX 11i v2 May 2005 TCOE was the last release that was supported

on Itanium®-based workstations. It will continue to be updated for servers. If you have

questions, contact your HP sales representative.

HP-UX 11i v2 Foundation Operating Environment

The HP-UX 11i v2 Foundation Operating Environment is the standard OE from which the

Enterprise OE and Mission Critical OE have been derived by adding appropriate applications.

The HP-UX 11i v2 Foundation OE includes the base 64-bit HP-UX operating system, plus the

following features. (For an overview of the features that are new or have changed in this release,

see Chapter 3: “What is New at a Glance” (page 39).)

Always-Installed Features

• Base-VXVM (VERITAS Volume Manager)

• BUNDLE11i

• CommonIO

• Disks and File Systems ( fsweb)

• Event Monitoring Service

• FEATURE11i

• FDDI (PCI)

• FibreChannel (PCI)

1. For definitions of always-installed, default-installed, and selectable, see “HP-UX 11i v2 Software and Driver Bundle

Types” (page 29).

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