HP-UX 11i v3 March 2013 Release Notes

◦ Integrity VM Note: The host for Integrity VM is not supported on 11i v3. However, the
virtual machines of the host can run 11i v3.
◦ HP-UX Workload Manager: Updated to version A.03.02.02. Changes include Process
Resource Manager no longer included in bundle; supports HP Integrity Virtual Machines;
communications now secure by default; supports finer granularity for minimum allocations
to FSS groups; supports a maximum of 256 FSS groups; and several other changes.
◦ HP-UX Workload Manager Toolkits: Updated to version A.01.10.01. Provides the new
HP-UX WLM SAP Toolkit, which identifies SAP processes based on user-defined criteria
and uses WLM’s process maps feature to place the SAP processes in specific workload
groups. PPUTK obsoleted; SASTK and DMTK deprecated.
◦ Partition Manager: Updated to v2.0 (version B.31.02.03.01) with the ability to enable
and disable Hyper-Threading for nPartitions whose cells have processors that are
Hyper-Threading capable.
◦ nPartition Provider: Updated to version B.31.01.07.01 with support for WBEM Services
version 2.5 and support for systems based on the HP sx2000 chipset.
◦ New: Utilization Provider: Lightweight daemon (utild) that records system-utilization
data on a 5-minute interval; data recorded includes CPU, memory, disk, and network
utilization; also includes a WBEM provider for access to the data.
◦ vPar Provider: WBEM provider displays information about virtual partitions. Read-only;
clients cannot modify virtual partition configurations with it.
• HP Serviceguard: Updated to version A.11.17.01 with support for persistent DSF naming and
dynamic multipathing, large PID, identification of networking interfaces (NICs) that are part
of the Serviceguard cluster configuration, and other features. VERITAS Cluster File System
(CFS) and Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) not supported in initial release of HP-UX 11i v3.
RS232 serial line as cluster heartbeat is obsolete.
• HP Serviceguard Network File System (NFS) Toolkit: Updated to version A.11.31.02 with
new control script template and a defect fix. Can work with Serviceguard A.11.17.01, but
does not support some Serviceguard A.11.17.01 and NFS HP-UX 11i v3 features. Customers
who need VERITAS Cluster File System (CFS) should not upgrade to HP-UX 11i v3 until CFS
is available on that platform.
• HP System Management Homepage: Updated to version A.2.2.5 to incorporate defect fixes.
In addition, many more system management tools are integrated in HP SMH for HP-UX 11i
v3 then HP-UX 11i v1 September 2005.
• HP Systems Insight Manager: Updated to “HP SIM 5.0 with Update 2 - HP-UX” with support
for HP BladeSystem c-Class blade and enclosure, and onboard administrator; HP BladeSystem
Integrated Manager 2.1 with updated functionality; minimum system memory configuration
to run HP SIM on HP-UX 11i v3 is now 3GB, and defect fixes.
• HP WBEM Services for HP-UX: Updated to version A.02.05 with association providers,
internationalization support for CIM operations, CIM schema upgrade, and other major
changes.
• HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups: New TUI in place of the legacy SAM interface; new
Web-based GUI; improved performance with the new TUI; supports long username and groups.
• HP-UX Kernel Configuration: New TUI in place of the legacy SAM interface; New Web-based
GUI; Error Management Technology support; critical defect fixes.
• New: HP-UX Large NPROC: The HP-UX 11i v3 system can support more processes running
concurrently then previous releases, changing from 30,000 to 60,000.
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