HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes

• Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. See
“Distributed Systems Administration Utilities” (page 108).
• Dynamic Root Disk (DRD): Introduces support for root volumes managed by VxVM Release
4.1. See “Dynamic Root Disk” (page 108).
• Feature Enablement Patch Bundle: FEATURE11i bundle consists of all its previous patches
plus new enablement patches for HPVM, PCIe error handling, Audio Development Kit, PCI
Mux, Trusted Computing Services, and vPars. See “Feature Enablement Patch Bundle -
Feature11i” (page 109).
• HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak: Updated to version 4.70. A set of new metrics have been
added in HP Performance Agent. See “HP OpenView GlancePlus Pak” (page 110).
• “HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment” (page 111)
— New: Accelerated Virtual I/O: This solution is composed of four new products:
GuestAvioLan, HostAvioLan, GuestAvioStor, and HostAvioStor. The new
AVIO storage and lan devices deliver a new re-architected I/O path for HPVM, and
provide significant performance improvements over the existing VIO products. All four
AVIO products are Default-Installed. See “Accelerated Virtual I/O” (page 111).
— Application Discovery Agent (AppDiscAgent): Updated to version 3.0.01 to incorporate
defect fixes. See “HP Application Discovery” (page 112).
— HP Global Workload Manager: Updated to version A.03.00.01.x to provide more
flexibility in managing your systems. Changes include conditional policies that take
effect based on Serviceguard events, new gwlmstatus command, and other features.
Support for Linux managed nodes has been removed. See “HP Global Workload
Manager” (page 113).
— HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider (VM Provider): Upgraded from A.03.00 to
A.03.50 to provide support for new features in HP Integrity Virtual Machines. See “HP
Integrity Virtual Machines Provider (VM Provider)” (page 115)
— HP Integrity Virtual Machines (VMGuestLib): Upgrade from version A.03.00 includes
support for the new features of HP Integrity Virtual Machines A.03.50. See “HP Integrity
Virtual Machines (VMGuestLib)” (page 115).
— HP-UX Virtual Partitions: Version A.04.05. provides support for mixed HP-UX 11i v1/v2
vPars environments, which enable virtual partitions running HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11)
and HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) to exist in the same nPartition. Purchased separately. See
“HP-UX Virtual Partitions” (page 116).
— HP-UX Workload Manager (AR Media Release): As of version A.03.01, WLM on the
AR media no longer includes PRM in the bundle. However, with your purchase of
WLM, you are entitled to a PRM license. See “HP-UX Workload Manager (AR Media
Release)” (page 117).
— nPartition Provider: Updated to version B.01.07 to incorporate defect fixes. See
“nPartition Provider” (page 118).
— Utilization Provider: Updated to a new version number (A.01.06.03.01) to correct errors
in the previous release (version A.01.06.02.xx), which does not operate correctly under
HP-UX 11i v2. See “Utilization Provider” (page 119)
• HP System Management Homepage: Updated to version A.2.2.7 to incorporate defect fixes.
See “HP System Management Homepage” (page 120).
• HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups: Updated to support SHA 512-based password
hashing in HP-UX. See “HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups” (page 120).
• HP-UX Kernel Configuration: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. See “HP-UX Kernel
Configuration” (page 121).
• HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. See “HP-UX
Peripheral Device Tool” (page 122).
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