HP-UX 11i v3 March 2013 Release Notes

◦ HP-UX nPartition Configuration Commands: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
◦ New: HP-UX Virtual Partitions: Version A.05.03 enables multiple instances of the HP-UX
11i v3 OE to run simultaneously on one server or within one nPartition, with each OE
instance hosting its own set of applications in a isolated environment. Newly added as
an optional product to the HP-UX 11i v3 VSE-OE and DC-OE.
◦ New: HP-UX Workload Manager: Newly delivered as a recommended product in the
VSE-OE and DC-OE. Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
◦ New: Workload Manager Toolkits: Newly delivered as a recommended product in the
VSE-OE and DC-OE.
◦ nPartition Provider: Updated to version B.31.01.10.03 to incorporate defect fixes.
◦ Utilization Provider: Updated to version A.01.06.03.03 to incorporate defect fixes.
◦ vPar Provider: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• HP Serviceguard: Now delivered as a recommended product in the HA-OE and DC-OE. Other
updates available independent of the OEs.
• HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: Documentation updated to include information about support
for Veritas Cluster File System (CFS).
• HP System Management Homepage for HP-UX: Updated to version A.2.2.8 to incorporate
defect fixes.
• HP Systems Insight Manager: Updated to version 5.2. Provides ability to discover all nPars in
a complex, including those not currently active, from information gathered in one nPar and
the ability to discover all vPars in a vparmonitor, including those not currently active, from
information gathered in one vPar. New Manage Communications feature enables you to
troubleshoot communication problems between the CMS and the managed systems. Includes
much more.
• HP-UX Disks and File Systems: LVM operations are more scalable now because of the enhanced
limits on VGs, LVs, and PVs. Includes other changes.
• HP-UX Kernel Configuration: Provides two new features: manage kernel configuration and
restore the kernel configuration values of tunables and modules from the previous boot.
• Ignite-UX: Version C.7.5 includes recovery support for Agile SAS addressing, improved small
memory install performance, support for new hardware.
• Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration: Updated to incorporate
defect fixes.
• New: NUMA policy is a tunable and a set of related kernel enhancements that exploit the
localities within platforms having a Non-Uniform Memory Architecture. This contrasts with the
default symmetric policy that treats all platform resources equally.
• Obsolescence Bundle: Used during an update when obsolete software on the system needs
to be removed; automatically selected for updates. Will remove several obsolete or incompatible
products and/or drivers, including TechSysConf.
• Online Diagnostics: Supports new I/O cards, added support for handling PCI-express errors,
provides support for hot pluggable disks, and more.
• Printer Management tool: Now provides the Text User Interface in addition to the existing
Graphical User Interface.
• Quality Pack Patch Bundles: Stable, defect-fix patch bundles for the OS and applications. In
this release, both the Base Quality Pack bundle and the Applications Quality Pack bundle are
provided.
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