HP-UX 11i v3 March 2013 Release Notes

4 Hardware-specific information
NOTE: For other changes to products and features related to this chapter, see “What is new in
the HP-UX 11i v3 March 2013 release” (page 11).
Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v3
The Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v3 (HWEnable11i) provides patches
required for new systems and for add-on hardware supported on HP-UX 11i v3, including I/O
adapters and devices.
Summary of Change
The HWEnable11i bundle provides support for new HP Integrity Blade Servers, along with HP-UX
support for older HP servers using PA8900 processors or Intel Itanium processors. Minimal HP-UX
support requires other HWE components from this OE Update release (OEUR) that include the
diagnostic products, WBEM Providers, and I/O driver bundles, along with the Ignite-UX product.
HP recommends a full update to the desired OE option from the latest HP-UX 11i v3 OEUR for full
HP-UX support with the updated versions of the manageability and configuration tools.
This hardware enablement bundle includes new HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31) patches for support of the
current HP Integrity systems with the latest I/O adapters, networking, and storage products.
New patches were also added for support of larger than 2 TB disks by bootloader, crashdump,
swapinfo, swapon and efi_utils, as well as other performance improvements. For more information
on the enhanced boot capability for larger than 2 TB disks, see “Enhanced boot capability”
(page 118).
Compatibility
There are no known compatibility issues.
Performance
There are no known performance issues.
Documentation
• Websites
The HP IT Resources Center (http://itrc.hp.com) portal has been retired and was migrated to
the HP Support Center (http://hp.com/go/hpsc) in June 2011. You can find the latest patch
status information on the HP Support Center (HPSC) website. To access the HPSC, you will
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