HP-UX 11i v3 Read Before Installing or Updating, September 2011

September 2010 Release Notes, General system administration
• Dynamic Root Disk (DRD): Improvements to DRD synchronization, support for LVM 2.2 root
volume groups, support in drd runcmd for kcmodule, kconfig, and mk_kernel. Plus a
new white paper to help with migration to the new HP Integrity server family. See Dynamic
Root Disk A.3.6.* Release Notes at http://www.hp.com/go/drd-docs.
• Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit: Version B.06.00 includes support for HP Serviceguard
A.11.19 and A.11.20, Apache 2.2, HP Virtual Machines 4.1 and 4.2, Oracle 11g R2, IPv6,
Dynamic Root Disk (safe and useful) environments, multiple listeners in the Oracle toolkit, and
alert notification. See Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit B.06.00 Release Notes at http://
hp.com/go/hpux-serviceguard-docs.
• Event Monitoring Services (EMS): Includes fixes for internally found issues. EMS has been
deprecated. Post HP-UX 11i v3 release, EMS will be replaced with Web-based Enterprise
Management (WBEM) based solutions. See Event Monitoring Service Version A.04.20.31.06
Release Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-ha-monitoring-docs.
• Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (Feature11i): Includes performance improvements in
scheduling and boot time, filesystem improvements, Internationalization improvements, and
support for HP-UX N_Port ID Virtualization and storage enclosure identification associated
with LUNs, LUN paths, target paths, and target ports.
• High Availability Monitors (HA Monitors): Upgraded to A.04.20.31.06 to support the update
of Event Monitoring Service (EMS) A.04.20.31.06. HA Monitors has been deprecated. Post
HP-UX 11i v3 release, HA Monitors will be replaced with Web-based Enterprise Management
(WBEM) based providers. See High Availability Monitors Version A.04.20.31.06 Release
Notes at http://hp.com/go/hpux-ha-monitoring-docs.
• HP GlancePlus Pak: HP Performance Agent version 5.00 includes the RC enhancement feature
and supports only http(s) data communication. HP GlancePlus version 5.00 introduces a
daemon (perfd) and a set of clients (cpsh, padv, and mpadv) to access data locally and
remotely. See the HP GlancePlus 5.00 Release Notes and HP Performance Agent 5.00 Release
Notes at http://h20230.www2.hp.com/selfsolve/manuals. (These documents are no longer
available in /opt/perf/ReleaseNotes/.)
• HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment
Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO): AVIO LAN and AVIO storage support Suspend/Resume
(on HP Integrity Virtual Machines v4.2.5) and deliver defect fixes. AVIO LAN supports
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VLAN backed vSwitch in the HostAvioLAN driver (on HP Integrity Virtual Machines
v4.2.5), and AVIO storage supports Mass Storage Critical Resource Analysis in the
HostAvioStor driver. See HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2.5: Release Notes at http://
hp.com/go/virtualization-manuals.
◦ HP Insight Dynamics - VSE for Integrity (A.6.0.1): Provides defect fixes for the components
Application Discovery, Capacity Advisor, HP Integrity VM Manager, and Logical server
management. All other components updated only to incorporate packaging changes.
See HP Insight Dynamics 6.0 Release Notes, February 2010, Edition 2 at http://
www.hp.com/go/insightdynamics-manuals. (Click HP Insight Dynamics Software.) You
are encouraged to check for a newer release of this product at HP Software Depot:
https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?
productNumber=vse. Note that newer servers require the latest version of Insight Dynamics
from the web.
◦ HP Integrity Virtual Machines v4.2.5: Addition of OpenVMS guest support, HP-UX 11i
v3 September 2010 VM Host and guest support, and new suspend and resume
functionality. Support for the latest HP Integrity systems based on the Intel® Itanium®
9300 Processor. Also includes a roll-up of patches released after the HP-UX 11i v3 March
2010 release. See HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2.5: Release Notes at http://
www.hp.com/go/virtualization-manuals.
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