HP-UX 11i Version 2 March 2006 Release Notes
What is New at a Glance
What is New in the December 2005 Release?
Chapter 3
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— 10GigEthr-00: The ixgbe driver updated to version B.11.23.06 for December
2005. With the installation of separately available patches, the driver supports
port-based steering multiqueue and TCP packet-reassembly in the driver.
— FibrChanl-00: Updated to incorporate driver fixes.
— FibrChanl-01: Updated to version B.11.23.04.01 with defect fixes and support
for to-be-released AB378A and AB379A cards.
— GigEther-00: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
— RAID-01: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
— scsiU320-00: Updated with quality and diagnostic improvements for Ultra320
SCSI solutions.
— New Product: SerialSCSI-00: Added to the HP-UX 11i v2 Operating
Environments to support cards that will be released in the future.
— USB-00: Updated to version C.01.02.01 with quality improvements.
• Supported Systems: HP-UX 11i v2 not supported on HP Workstations.
Chapter 5: “General System Administration”
• New Product: Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Improves
manageability of distributed systems and Serviceguard clusters.
• Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Updated to version B.03.00 with defect fixes and
Support for Cluster File System (CFS) in a Serviceguard A.11.l7 environment.
• Event Monitoring Services: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. Will be deprecated
post HP-UX 11i v3.
• Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Provides new patches required for
vPars, VERITAS products, Infiniband, and Serial SCSI functionality.
• GlancePlus Pak: Updated to version C.04.50 with elimination of the dependency of
ttd to have rpcbind or portmap running: support for both HTTP and HTTPS-based
single port communication; replacement of perfalarm by DCE-based alarm
management daemon, alarmgen; new metrics and other enhancements.
• High Availability Monitors: Updated to support the update of Event Monitoring
Service (EMS).
• New Product: HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider: Allows HP Systems Insight
Manager (SIM) to display information about HP systems that support HP Integrity
Virtual Machines. Not invoked directly by the user.
• New Product: HP Integrity VM Support Library (VMGuestLib): Subset of the HP
Integrity Virtual Machines API Library used by HP Integrity Virtual Machines
Provider.
• HP Partitioning
— HP Global Workload Manager: Central Management Server (CMS), one of the
gWLM components that was delivered on the AR media, has been removed from
the media.
— HP-UX Workload Manager: Updated to version A.03.00.01 with cleaner
installations and the ability to manage a complex with mixed architectures.