HP-UX 11i Version 2 September 2006 Release Notes

What is New at a Glance
What is New in the September 2004 Release?
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— 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.
What is New in
September 2004
for Customers
Migrating from
HP-UX 11i v1
September 2004 Release Notes, Chapter 5: “General System Administration”
• Compressed Dump: New feature with HP-UX 11i v2. Speeds up the crash dump
process.
• Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit B.02.11: DB2, Informix, and Sybase not
supported. Mixed IA-PA failover for the Oracle9i package not supported.
• Event Monitoring Services: Framework and GUI available as 32-bit native
applications on PA-RISC and Intel Itanium. 64-bit EMS Itanium-based native
libraries also available. Deprecated. Will be replaced post HP-UX 11i v3 with
WBEM.
• GlancePlus Pak C.03.85: Contains enhancements to OVPA and GlancePlus,
including new parm file parameters and new process-level metrics, as well as
updated default adviser symptoms and alarms.