HP-UX 11i v3 March 2014 Release Notes

the respective HP Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter Support Matrix. Both documents are
available at http://hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs.
◦ IB4X-00: Delivers the driver ib4-00, a low latency, high bandwidth RDMA based,
industry standard cluster interconnect product. Updated with defect fixes. See IB4X-00
Driver for InfiniBand Release Notes at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-iocards-docs.
◦ IEther-00: Contains the iether driver, which supports a variety of PCIe and PCI-X
Ethernet cards. Updated with quality and performance improvements. See IEther-00
(iether) Ethernet Driver Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3. For information about supported
cards, see HP-UX Ethernet Card Support Matrix. Both documents are located at http://
www.hp.com/go/gigabit-ethernet-100bt-cards-docs.
◦ RAID-01: Contains the ciss driver, which supports HP Smart Array controllers. Updated
with quality and performance improvements. See RAID-01 (ciss) B.11.31.1303 Mass
Storage Driver Release Notes at http://www.hp.com/go/smart-array-raid-docs.
◦ SerialSCSI-00: Contains the sasd driver, which supports the factory-integrated internal
SAS controller on certain servers and the AH303A PCIe SC44Ge Host Bus Adapter. The
CommonIO bundle is also required to support these controllers. Updated with quality and
performance improvements. See SerialSCSI-00 (sasd) B.11.31.1303 Mass Storage Driver
Release Notes at http://www.hp.com/go/sas-hba-docs.
March 2013 Release Notes, General system administration
• Distributed Systems Administration Utilities (DSAU): Delivers defect fixes. See Distributed
Systems Administration Utilities V2.7 Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs.
• Dynamic Root Disk (DRD): Provides reduced downtime in HP-UX with DRD and SoftReboot.
See DRD Release Notes at http://www.hp.com/go/drd.
• New: Enhanced boot capability: Starting with the March 2013 release of HP-UX 11i v3,
maximum boot disk size supported with Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is increased from 2
TB to 16 TB.
• New: HP Operations agent: Version 11.11 helps you monitor the health and performance of
the system. With additional licenses, you can use the HP Operations agent in an environment
managed by HP Operations Manager (HPOM). Newly added as a recommended
(default-installed) product in the DC-OE, HA-OE, and VSE-OE. See HP Operations agent
release notes at http://h20230.www2.hp.com/selfsolve/manuals. (Requires HP Passport.
After logging in, search for “Operations Agent.”)
• HP System Management Homepage: Starting with version A.3.2.5, SMH supports Java™ 7.0.
Also includes defect fixes. See HP System Management Homepage 3.2.5 Release Notes at
http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs. (Select HP-UX System Administration.)
• HP-UX 11i v3 Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Updated for HP-UX 11i v3
with patches that enhance or provide new or improved core features. New patches were
added for support for the Intel Itanium 9500 Processor Series; for support of larger than 2 TB
disks by bootloader, crashdump, swapinfo, swapon and efi_utils support; support of Unicode
6.1; performance enhancements to locking mechanisms, memory management modules,
virtualization and the audit subsystem. See “HP-UX 11i v3 Feature Enablement Patch Bundle”
(page 126).
• HP-UX 11i v3 Quality Pack Patch Bundles: Updated with additional defect-fix patches for the
March 2013 release. See “HP-UX 11i v3 Quality Pack Patch Bundles” (page 127).
• HP-UX Kernel Configuration (kcweb): Delivers defect fixes. See HP System Management
Homepage 3.2.5 Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs.
• HP-UX Software Assistant: Version C.02.95 provides support to Java™ SE7. See HP-UX
Software Assistant Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/swa.
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