HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2007 Release Notes

What is New at a Glance
What is New in the June 2007 Release?
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What is New in the June 2007 Release?
In the following summaries, you can obtain a general picture of how the June 2007
release of HP-UX 11i v2 differs from the September 2006 release of HP-UX 11i v2.
For further information, see the indicated sections in the remainder of this document.
Chapter 4: “Hardware-Specific Information” (see page 91)
• CommonIO bundle: Updated with quality improvements. (See “SerialSCSI-00” on
page 101.)
• Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v2 (HWEnable11i): Includes new
support for PCI-Express I/O adapters in HP Integrity Servers, and HP-UX support
for HP servers with PA8900 processors and the sx2000 chipset. (See “Hardware
Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v2” on page 92.)
• HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition (ISEE): Updated to version to incorporate
defect fixes. (See “HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition” on page 93.)
• Networking and Mass Storage Drivers (see page 94)
— 10GigEther-00: Updated to enable future products. (See “10GigEthr-00” on
page 96.)
— FibrChanl-00 (HP PCI Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Fibre Channel Driver): Updated
with several quality and performance enhancements for the td driver, as well as
defect fixes. (See “FibrChanl-00 (HP PCI Tachyon TL/TS/XL2 Fibre Channel
Driver)” on page 98.)
— FibrChanl-01 (Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2): Updated
to incorporate defect fixes. (See “FibrChanl-01 (Fibre Channel Mass Storage
Driver for HP-UX 11i v2)” on page 99.)
— New: FibrChanl-02 (Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2):
Supports a new set of PCIe fibre channel host bus adapters, starting with the
AD299A. The driver name is fclp, which is default-installed. (See “FibrChanl-02
(Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2)” on page 103.)
— IEther-00: PCI Express (PCIe) technology enabled on HP-UX 11i v2 to support
PCIe dual-port cards. New lanadmin option to enable writing VPD asset_tag on
eeprom. HP strongly recommends that the default values of four tunables not be
changed. (See “IEther-00” on page 95.)
— RAID-01: Updated with quality improvements and support for Instance Provider.
(See “RAID-01” on page 100.)
— scsiU320-00: Updated with quality improvements. (See “scsiU320-00” on
page 101.)
— SerialSCSI-00: Updated with quality improvements, new HBA firmware, and
support for Instance Provider. (See “SerialSCSI-00” on page 101.)
— USB-00: Updated to version C.01.04.03 to incorporate defect fixes. (See “USB-00”
on page 102.)
• Utility Pricing Solutions (see page 106)