HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes

What is New in the December 2005 Release?
In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture of how the December 2005 release
of HP-UX 11i v2 differs from the May 2005 release of HP-UX 11i v2. For further information, see
the indicated chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 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 you consult the HP-UX
11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes for information that is not included here.
December 2005 Release Notes, Chapter 2: “Introduction to HP-UX 11i Version 2”
• HP-UX 11i v2 Minimal Technical Operating Environment (MTOE): 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.
December 2005 Release Notes, Chapter 4: “Server-Specific Information”
• Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle (HWEnable11i): Added support for hp BladeSystems
Itanium BL60p servers. Several I/O driver bundles added or updated.
• HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition (ISEE): Updated to incorporate defect fixes and feature
enhancements.
• Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
— 10GigEthr-00: The ixgbe driver updated to version B.11.23.06 for December 2005.
With the installation of separately available patches, the driver supports port-based
steering multiqueue and TCP packet-reassembly in the driver.
— FibrChanl-00: Updated to incorporate driver fixes.
— FibrChanl-01: Updated to version B.11.23.04.01 with defect fixes and support for
to-be-released AB378A and AB379A cards.
— GigEther-00: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
— RAID-01: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
— scsiU320-00: Updated with quality and diagnostic improvements for Ultra320 SCSI
solutions.
— New Product: SerialSCSI-00: Added to the HP-UX 11i v2 Operating Environments
to support cards that will be released in the future.
— USB-00: Updated to version C.01.02.01 with quality improvements.
• Supported Systems: HP-UX 11i v2 not supported on HP Workstations.
December 2005 Release Notes, Chapter 5: “General System Administration”
• New Product: Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Improves manageability of
distributed systems and Serviceguard clusters.
• Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Updated to version B.03.00 with defect fixes and Support
for Cluster File System (CFS) in a Serviceguard A.11.l7 environment.
• Event Monitoring Services: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. Will be deprecated post
HP-UX 11i v3.
• Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Provides new patches required for vPars,
VERITAS products, Infiniband, and Serial SCSI functionality.
• GlancePlus Pak: Updated to version C.04.50 with elimination of the dependency of ttd to
have rpcbind or portmap running: support for both HTTP and HTTPS-based single port
communication; replacement of perfalarm by DCE-based alarm management daemon,
alarmgen; new metrics and other enhancements.
• High Availability Monitors: Updated to support the update of Event Monitoring Service
(EMS).
• New Product: HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider: Allows HP Systems Insight Manager
(SIM) to display information about HP systems that support HP Integrity Virtual Machines.
Not invoked directly by the user.
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