HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes

Chapter 11 (page 163)
• There are no changes in December 2007 for the products or features that are normally
documented in this chapter.
Chapter 12 (page 165)
• There are no changes in December 2007 for the products or features that are normally
documented in this chapter.
What is New in the June 2007 Release?
In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture of how the June 2007 release of
HP-UX 11i v2 differs from the September 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2. For further information,
see the indicated chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2007 Release Notes, available in its most
current version at http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11iV2/.
The following summaries are not exhaustive, so HP strongly recommends that you consult the
HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2007 Release Notes for information that is not included here.
June 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 4: “Hardware-Specific Information”
• CommonIO bundle: Updated with quality improvements.
• Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v2 (HWEnable11i): Includes new
support for PCI-Express I/O adapters in HP Integrity Servers, and HP-UX support for HP
servers with PA8900 processors and the sx2000 chipset.
• HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition (ISEE): Updated to version to incorporate defect fixes.
• Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
— 10GigEther-00: Updated to enable future products.
— FibrChanl-00 (HP PCI Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Fibre Channel Driver): Updated with
several quality and performance enhancements for the td driver, as well as defect fixes.
— FibrChanl-01 (Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2): Updated to
incorporate defect fixes.
— New: FibrChanl-02 (Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2): Supports
a new set of PCIe fibre channel host bus adapters, starting with the AD299A. The driver
name is fclp, which is default-installed.
— IEther-00: PCI Express (PCIe) technology enabled on HP-UX 11i v2 to support PCIe
dual-port cards. New lanadmin option to enable writing VPD asset_tag on eeprom.
HP strongly recommends that the default values of four tunables not be changed.
— RAID-01: Updated with quality improvements and support for Instance Provider.
— scsiU320-00: Updated with quality improvements.
— SerialSCSI-00: Updated with quality improvements, new HBA firmware, and
support for Instance Provider.
— USB-00: Updated to version C.01.04.03 to incorporate defect fixes.
• Utility Pricing Solutions
— HP Instant Capacity (iCAP): Updated to version B.11.23.08.01.01.x with update to the
required version of nPartition Provider, defect fixes, modifications to the installation
procedure, and more.
June 2007 Release Notes, Chapter 5: “General System Administration”
• Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Updated to version 1.4 to incorporate defect
fixes.
• New: DUMPAAEnable: Version B.11.23.0609.01. Enables high-availability features for HP's
Active-Active Disk Arrays when configured as dump devices. Available on Software Pack.
• New: Dynamic Root Disk (DRD): An HP-UX system administration toolset used to clone
an HP-UX system image to an inactive disk for software maintenance and recovery.
44 What is New at a Glance