HP-UX 11i Version 2 Installation and Update Guide, May 2005

System Requirements for Cold-Installing and Updating
System Requirements
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System Requirements
To cold-install or update HP-UX 11i v2, you must have the following:
• A supported system. See “Supported Servers and Workstations” on
page 36
• HP-UX 11i v2 OE and Application (AR) media (a two-DVD set)
• 1 GB memory, minimum
• 1 GB swap space, minimum
• 1 GB disk space to accommodate the EFI Boot Disk and the HP
Service Partition
NOTE If your system has less than 1 GB of memory, you may need to manually
set VxFS tunables for optimal performance after cold-installing or
updating to HP-UX 11i v2. For more information about these tunables,
see Appendix C, “Controlling Memory Utilization of VxFS 3.5 on HP-UX
11i v2,” on page 165.
System Firmware Requirements
The following minimum firmware requirements exist for systems
cold-installing and updating to HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) September 2004
or later.
• For HP 9000 PA-RISC Servers, you must update to the minimum
firmware revision before cold-installing or updating from HP-UX 11i
v1 (B.11.11) to the HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) September 2004 release or
later.
• For HP Integrity Servers and HP Workstations, Itanium-based
systems, the firmware shipped with the system meets the minimum
firmware requirement for the system for HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23)
September 2004 release.
HP strongly recommends you review the minimum system firmware
matrix for HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) systems at the HP Technical
Documentation Web site:
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/hw/index.html#System%20Firmware