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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• Obsolescence Product: New product, used in an update when obsolete software on
the system needs to be removed.
• OnlineDiag: Includes cell-local memory (CLM) support for PA-RISC platform, as well
as various bug fixes and enhancements. Support added for new devices.
• Quality Pack Patch Bundle: All patches that were in the March 2004 HP-UX 11i v2
Quality Pack will be superseded by dual-architecture patches, which will be placed
in BUNDLE11i.
• SAM-NNC: Added support for VLAN, IPoIB, large send, and DHCPv6 functionality,
plus other changes.
• Servicecontrol Manager: Contains only minor updates. All functionality remains the
same. Product has been deprecated.
• Software Distributor (SD): Updated to a new version to support this new release of
HP-UX 11i v2.
• Software Package Builder A.02.00: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• System Administration Manager (SAM): Includes new tools, HP-UX Kernel
Configuration tool and HP-UX Peripheral Devices tool.
• System V Shared Memory: Incorporates the functionality of the now-obsoleted
ShmemExtensions product. Maximum for the shmmni tunable parameter increased.
• Update-UX: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
What is New in
September 2004
for Customers
Migrating from
HP-UX 11i v1
September 2004 Release Notes, Chapter 6: “Disk and File Management”
• 16 Terabyte (TB) File System Support: VxFS 3.5 file systems of up to 16 TB now
certified.
• AutoFS 2.3: Upgraded to include the features of the SUN ONC AutoFS version 2.3
product, as well as performance enhancements, including on-demand mounting.
• DeviceIDS: Provides a significant performance improvement for AutoFS at unmount
time.
• File Systems Backup and Recovery Commands: The commands fbackup (1M),
frecover (1M), and ftio (1) deprecated.
• Hierarchical File System (HFS): Deprecated. Will be removed in a future release.
• HP CIFS Client A.01.09.02: Provides 64-bit PAM-NTLM libraries support and defect
fixes.
• HP CIFS Server 2.2i (A.01.11.01): Provides new LDAP support functionality, as well
as other new features and defect fixes.
• Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and MirrorDisk/UX: Performance improved. LVM no
longer performs software bad block relocation. Defects fixed.
• Network File System (NFS): New option added to the umount command.
Compatibility exception noted.
• Network Information Service Plus (NIS+): Deprecated and planned for future
obsolescence. Valid modification requests to update NIS+ tables will now fail if the
size of the request is larger than 9000 bytes.
• Portable File System (PFS): Obsolete.