HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes

• Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle (HWEnable11i): Diagnostics qualified with new DAT
and LTO tape drives, and updated for new I/O cards. Updated I/O driver bundles noted.
• HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition (ISEE): Updated to incorporate defect fixes and few
feature enhancements.
• Networking and Mass Storage Drivers:
— New Product: 10GigEthr-00: Adds support for the AB287A PCI-X 10 Gigabit Ethernet
card. Now available as a selectable product in the OEs.
— FibrChanl-01: Now supports the AB465A card.
— GigEther-01: Now supports the AB465A card.
— IEther-00: Now supports the AB290A and AB545A cards.
— RAID-01: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
— scsiU320-00: Supports the A7173A card and now, the AB290A card.
— USB-00 version C.01.00: Enables USB DVD boot support for future HP servers. Now
an always-installed product for Itanium®-based servers.
• Utility Pricing Solutions:
— HP Instant Capacity (iCAP) (formerly Instant Capacity on Demand, or iCOD): Updated
to version B.11.23.07.00. Can now be used in an integrated virtual partitioned
environment. Email connectivity no longer required and boot-time compliance check
now performed.
— HP Pay per use (PPU): Updated to version B.11.23.07.02 to support HP-UX Virtual
Partitions (vPars) and the Node and Host Name Expansion product.
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• Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Updated to version B.02.21 with scripts for Oracle 9i and
10g database applications, HP Apache, and HP CIFS, as well as enhancements to the Oracle
Toolkit.
• Event Monitoring Services: Now supports the Node and Host Name Expansion feature that
is available on Software Pack.
• New Bundle: Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Consists of patches required
for HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) functionality, USB-00, and future products with new
features.
• GlancePlus Pak: Updated to version C.03.86 with new parm file parameters and new metrics,
as well as enhancements to gpm and glance.
• High Availability Monitors: Now supports the Node and Host Name Expansion feature.
• HP Partitioning:
— New Product: HP Global Workload Manager (gWLM): Allows you to centrally define
resource-sharing policies that you can use across multiple HP servers. Now delivered
with HP-UX 11i v2.
— HP Process Resource Manager (PRM) version C.03.00: Includes integration with HP-UX
11i Security Containment and HP Systems Insight Manager, as well as support for 256
PRM groups and other changes.
— New to HP-UX 11i v2: HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) A.04.01: Will be available as a
separate product that can be purchased at
http://software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=T1335BC.
The vPars product enables multiple instances of a selected HP-UX 11i v2 OE to run
simultaneously on one server or within one nPartition, with each OE instance hosting
its own set of applications in an isolated environment. The FEATURE11i patch bundle,
delivered on the OE media, includes required patches for the installation of this product.
— HP-UX Workload Manager: Updated to version A.03.00 with more flexibility in resource
management and more secure environments.
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