HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide, September 2008 (Update 3 Release)

Supported Systems

For a list of HP Integrity and HP 9000 systems that this release of HP-UX 11i v3 fully

supports, refer to HP Server Support Matrix at the following website:

www.hp.com/go/hpuxservermatrix

NOTE: HP-UX 11i v3 is not supported on workstations. HP recommends that PA-RISC

workstation users use HP-UX 11i v1, and Itanium®-based workstation users use HP-UX

11i v2. Further information about HP workstations can be found at the following

website:

http://hp.com/go/workstations.

Additional hardware documentation can be found at the following website:

• Enterprise Servers, Workstations, and Systems Hardware:

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/hw.html

Additional information regarding HP servers can be found at the following websites:

• HP BladeSystem: http://www.hp.com/go/blades

• HP Integrity Server Family: http://www.hp.com/go/integrity

• HP 9000 Server Family: http://www.hp.com/go/hp9000

Supported Network Drivers, Mass Storage Drivers, I/O Cards, and Storage

Devices

Before installing HP-UX 11i v3, make sure that the drivers, I/O cards, and storage

devices on your system are supported.

You can run the msv2v3check script to validate whether the drivers, mass storage

I/O cards, and mass storage devices installed on your system are supported on HP-UX

11i v3. This script will report if any unsupported drivers, mass storage I/O cards, and

mass storage devices are found on your system.

This script will also check the minimum firmware versions required for these cards or

devices on your system to run properly on HP-UX 11i v3. You can retrieve the

msv2v3check script from the HP software depot at

http://www.hp.com/go/softwaredepot

For a list of supported and unsupported HP-UX I/O cards and mass storage devices,

refer to the HP-UX Supported I/O Cards Matrix and the HP-UX Supported Mass Storage

Devices Matrix at the HP Technical Documentation website:

http://docs.hp.com

For more details on the msv2v3check script, refer to the white paper called, HP-UX

11i v2 to 11i v3 Mass Storage Stack Update Guide available at

http://docs.hp.com/en/netsys.html#Storage%20Area%20Management

26 System Requirements for Cold-Installing and Updating