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 September 2004 Release?
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• Networking and Mass Storage Drivers:
— Always-Installed Networking Drivers:
— Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet: Includes TCP Segmentation Offload
(TSO) support for iether and igelan drivers; 64-bit MIB statistics support;
HP-UX LAN provider support.
— PCI FDDI: Enhanced to provide the FDDI network connectivity from
Itanium-based platforms, in addition to existing PA-RISC platforms.
Deprecated and planned for future obsolescence.
— Selectable Networking Drivers:
— HyperFabric: Now supports a transparent local failover feature.
— PCI ATM: Support for A5513A (155 Mbps ATM adapter over MMF) available
on IO expander slots of rp8400 platform.
— PCI Token Ring: Now available on Itanium-based 64-bit platforms, in
addition to existing PA-RISC platforms. Deprecated and planned for future
obsolescence.
— Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers:
— disc3 Driver: Obsolete.
— Fibre Channel Tachlite Driver: Supports A6795A, A5158A. Boot support
provided. Online diagnostic tool changed to support A6826A. Supports
Interrupt Migration and OLAR.
— FibrChnl-01: Default interrupt delay settings tuned to improve
performance.
— HP-UX Ultra320 SCSI Driver: Updated with quality and diagnostic
improvements for Ultra320 SCSI solutions, including core and add-on HP
adapters.
— RAID-01: Delivers the driver ciss, which supports the A7143A, A9890A, and
A9891A cards.
— SCSI Drivers: Support limited to PCI cards. New cards A5149A and A5838A
supported, with limitations on Intel Itanium. HVD cards A4800A,
A5159A, and A5159B not supported. OLAR of A6828A and A6869A cards
supported. Interrupt migration supported.
— Selectable Mass Storage Drivers:
— HP-UX iSCSI Software Initiator: Now available on HP-UX 11i v2.
• Online Addition and Replacement (OL* or OLAR): The rad command no longer
available. SAM no longer used for OL*. The olrad command now used; performs a
critical resource analysis to ensure system integrity will not be compromised.
•On Demand Solutions:
— Instant Capacity on Demand (iCOD) 6.03: Incremented from version 6.02 for
support on HP-UX 11i 2.
— Pay Per Use B.07.00: Updated so that either pricing model can be used as the
metric and so that a processor cap can be specified, as well as other changes.