HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2006 Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2006 Release Notes
- Legal Notices
- Publication History
- Typographic Conventions
- 1 Overview of the Release Notes
- 2 Introduction to HP-UX 11i Version 2
- 3 What is New at a Glance
- What is in This Chapter?
- What is New in the June 2006 Release?
- What is New in the March 2006 Release?
- What is New in the December 2005 Release?
- What is New in the May 2005 Release?
- What is New in the September 2004 Release?
- What is New in the March 2004 Release?
- What is New in the Initial (October 2003) HP-UX 11i v2 Release?
- 4 Hardware-Specific Information
- What is in This Chapter?
- Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v2
- HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition
- Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
- Always-Installed Networking Drivers
- Selectable Networking Drivers
- Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers
- Supported Systems
- Finding Firmware Information
- Utility Pricing Solutions
- 5 General System Administration
- What is in This Chapter?
- Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i)
- HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider
- HP Integrity VM Support Library
- HP Partitioning
- HP Serviceguard WBEM Providers
- HP System Management Homepage
- HP WBEM Services for HP-UX
- HP-UX Kernel Configuration
- Ignite-UX
- Online Diagnostics
- Quality Pack Patch Bundle
- Software Distributor
- Update-UX
- Utilization Provider
- 6 Disk and File Management
- 7 Internet and Networking
- 8 Security
- 9 Commands and System Calls
- 10 Libraries and Programming
- 11 Internationalization
- 12 Other Functionality
What is New at a Glance
What is New in the March 2006 Release?
Chapter 3
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What is New in the March 2006 Release?
In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture of how the March 2006
release of HP-UX 11i v2 differs from the December 2005 release of HP-UX 11i v2. For
further information, see the indicated chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 2 March 2006
Release Notes, available in its most current version at
http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11iV2/.
The following summaries are not exhaustive, so it strongly recommended that you
consult the HP-UX 11i Version 2 March 2006 Release Notes for information that is not
included here.
Chapter 4: “Server-Specific Information”
• Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle: New servers with the sx2000 chipset now
qualified.
• HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition: Updated to version A.03.95.043 to
incorporate defect fixes.
• Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
— HyprFabrc-00: Updated to support large user count. Erratum: At the initial
release of HP-UX 11i v2, the/opt/clic/bin/clic_probe superseded the
/opt/clic/bin/clic_ping utility.
— scsiU320-00: Updated to version B.11.23.0603 with disablement of Quick
Arbitration and Selection (QAS), significantly reducing the occurrence of any
SCSI-related issues seen in a mixed speed disk configuration.
— SerialSCSI-00: Updated with quality improvements. Added in December 2005
to support future cards.
— USB-00: Updated to version C.01.03.01 with various quality improvements from
previous releases, a dynamically managed device file system, and USB mass
storage encryption support.
• New Product: PCI Error Handling: Allows an HP-UX system to avoid a Machine
Check Abort (MCA) or a High Priority Machine Check (HPMC) if a PCI error occurs.
Now available on Software Pack media.
Chapter 5: “General System Administration”
• Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
Now delivered as a default-installed product on all OEs, including the TCOE.
• Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Included documentation for version B.03.00 has
been updated to include support for the VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) in
selected HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite bundles.
• Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Added new patches for VERITAS
and Infiniband.
• HP Partitioning