HP-UX 11i Version 2 June 2007 Release Notes

What is New at a Glance

What is New in the September 2004 Release?

Chapter 3

— 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.

• Supported Servers and Workstations: Many 64-bit PA-RISC servers are supported

on this release. No 32-bit servers are supported. PA-RISC workstations are not

supported.

• Technical System Configuration (TechSysConf): TC-OpenSource tools removed.

Remaining TC-SysSetup alters kernel configurable parameters, as well as selected

system configuration files, for improved system performance.