HP-UX 11i v3 March 2014 Release Notes

• Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Updated for HP-UX 11i v3 with new patches
that enhance or provide new core features (including performance improvements) and enable
support for base page sizes larger than 4 KB on Itanium, Numeric User Group Name, Integrity
VM (HPVM) support, FIFO performance improvements, Internationalization improvements,
and many other enhancements.
• New: FIFOENH: Provides high and low thresholds on buffered data in the pipe. As a result,
major performance improvement can be seen on a multiprocessor environment when multiple
threads are operating on the same fifo. Software Pack feature, optional on all OEs.
• High Availability Monitors: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
• HP Caliper: Features and changes include support for thread contention analysis and
visualization; data-centric cache profiling; scaling of the system-wide performance view to
larger cell-based systems; and many others.
• HP GlancePlus Pak: New metrics are included.
• HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment
New: Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO): Added are three new Accelerated Virtual I/O
device drivers. Provide significant performance improvements over the existing VIO
products.
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◦ HP Application Discovery Agent: Updated to version A.04.00.07.33 to incorporate
defect fixes.
◦ HP Global Workload (gWLM) Agent: The bundle name has changed from T2743AA to
gWLMAgent.
◦ New: HP Instant Capacity Manager: A web-based interface that can be used to monitor
your Instant Capacity (iCAP) environment. Newly added as a component of the VSE
Management Software (VSEMgmt). Delivered as an optional product in VSE-OE and
DC-OE.
◦ New: HP Integrity Virtual Machines: A soft partitioning and virtualization technology that
provides operating system isolation, with sub-CPU allocation granularity and shared I/O.
Version 4.0 added to the VSE-OE and DC-OE.
◦ HP Integrity VM Guest Support Libraries (VMGuestLib): Includes support for the new
features of HP Integrity Virtual Machines V4.0, which supports the HP-UX 11i v3 operating
system as a VM Host.
◦ HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider (VMProvider): Supports the new features of HP
Integrity Virtual Machines V4.0, including support for the HP-UX 11i v3 operating system
as a VM Host.
◦ HP Process Resource Manager: The prmconfig command now has a -c option, which
performs a subset of the prmconfig -s checks. Also includes other changes.
◦ HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) Management Software (VSEMgmt): Updates to
components such as HP Virtualization Manager, HP Capacity Advisor, HP Integrity Virtual
Machines Manager, PRMSIMTools, and more. VSEMgmt includes a defect fix.
◦ HP-UX nPartition Configuration Commands: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.
◦ HP-UX Virtual Partitions: Updated to version A.05.04. Includes defect fixes, support for
directed LAN boot, support for tunable base page size, and NUMA advisor support.
◦ HP-UX Workload Manager: Supports IPv6. Changes in wlmd -p behavior and more
usernames allowed. Java 1.5 or later required for GUI and wizard.
◦ nPartition Provider: Updated to version B.31.01.10.05 to incorporate defect fixes.
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