HP-UX 11i v3 March 2011 Release Notes (Edition 3)

• Mass Storage Stack: Enhancements include congestion control, server manageability,
ease-of-use, and I/O performance.
• Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
FibrChanl-00: Updated to version B.11.31.0903 for a defect fix.◦
◦ FibrChanl-01: Updated with quality improvements.
◦ FibrChanl-02: Updated with quality improvements.
◦ GigEther-00: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
◦ GigEther-01: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
◦ IB4X-00 Driver for InfiniBand: Supports the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol
for Oracle RAC environments and for connectivity to the HP/Oracle Exadata intelligent
storage cell.
◦ IEther-00: Updated with quality improvements.
◦ RAID-01: Updated with quality improvements.
◦ scsiU320-00: Updated with quality improvements.
◦ SerialSCSI-00: Updated with quality improvements.
◦ USB-00; Version D.11.31.0903 bundle enables the new USB 2.0 support.
• Utility Pricing Solutions
◦ HP Instant Capacity: Updated to version B.11.31.09.01.00. Provides more versatility in
configuring GiCAP groups (with IPV6) and more functionality with gWLM and iCAP
Manager; and defect fixes.
March 2009 Release Notes, Chapter 5: “General System Administration”
• Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: You can benefit from the ease-of-use that the
web-based interface provides for configuration synchronization and consolidated logging.
• Dynamic Root Disk: You will be able to update your OE level on the clone while your original
system remains up and running. Once the update on the clone is done, you can boot the clone
and keep your original image as backup. Defect fixes and packaging changes involving run
time checks and dependencies are also being introduced.
• Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Version B.05.00 includes support for Modular Packages,
Oracle 11g R1, Oracle 10g R2 ASM on Itanium servers, and more.
• Event Monitoring Service: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Updated for HP-UX 11i v3 with patches
that enhance or provide new core features (including performance improvements) and enable
support for improved dump time and dump analysis tools, file system enhancements including
MemFS, performance improvements for multithreaded applications, power minimization and
management enhancements, Internationalization improvements, and many other enhancements.
• FirstBoot: Updated to support Dynamic Root Disk (DRD).
• High Availability Monitors: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment
Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO) (includes GuestAvioLan, HostAvioLan, GuestAVIOStor,
and HostAvioStor): Provide significant performance improvements over the existing VIO
products and support Integrity VM Online Guest Migration with Integrity VM V4.1.
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◦ HP Application Discovery (AppDiscAgent): You will obtain more reliable behavior and
data from Application Discovery agent. You no longer need to configure the agent on
installation.
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