HP-UX Workload Manager A.03.05.xx Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v3 (B8843-90051, February 2011)

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1 Announcement................................................................................................................9
2 New in this version......................................................................................................11
3 Known problems and workarounds ..........................................................................13
System panic when PRM is enabled; install failure in absence of PRM when certain kernel patches
are present.............................................................................................................................................13
Capping issue........................................................................................................................................13
WLM uses only the assigned CPU resources even with utilitypri set..........................................13
Temporary Instant Capacity (TiCAP) expires while WLM is managing nPartitions...........................14
Automatic activation of Instant Capacity core without authorization.................................................14
Partition management affected when cores are deactivated with iCAP on fully owned system........14
Application hangs in FSS group...........................................................................................................15
Shutdown slow; “Waiting for shutdown confirmation” and “Shutdown initiated; however, ... unable
to acquire confirmation” messages displayed......................................................................................15
Unable to get CPU allocation due to number of processes..................................................................16
Collectors abort when updated while running....................................................................................16
GlancePlus/OpenView Performance Agent and processor sets...........................................................16
GlancePlus may not correctly identify processes’ PRM groups...........................................................17
glance Adviser memory consumption increases continually...............................................................17
WLM enables/disables SLOs at end of interval....................................................................................17
No metrics on startup or reconfiguration.............................................................................................17
WLM configurations cannot be activated with fewer than 100 Mbytes of memory available.............17
Secure Resource Partitions: Blocked port on a virtual network interface............................................18
Reaching the system V semaphore limit...............................................................................................18
Configuration wizard requires PRM....................................................................................................19
Processes in transient FSS groups appear unexpectedly in other workload groups...........................19
Modifying a managed partition requires WLM and the global arbiter be stopped.............................19
Performing online cell operations.........................................................................................................20
WLM GUI is not compatible with different versions of WLM.............................................................20
"Message violation" error......................................................................................................................20
Upgrading or installing PRM before upgrading WLM can cause failed swverify checks...............20
4 Compatibility information and installation requirements ........................................21
Disk and memory requirements...........................................................................................................21
Network operating environment..........................................................................................................21
Compatibility with other software.......................................................................................................22
Compatibility with long hostnames.....................................................................................................22
Compatibility with X Windows............................................................................................................22
Compatibility with GlancePlus ............................................................................................................22
Compatibility with HP Integrity Virtual Machines..............................................................................23
Compatibility of WLM virtual partition management and Instant Capacity / PPU............................23
Compatibility of WLM virtual partition management and certain CPU bindings..............................23
Compatibility of WLM partition management and PSETs...................................................................23
Compatibility of psrset and PSETs....................................................................................................24
Compatibility with PRM.......................................................................................................................24
Compatibility with gWLM...................................................................................................................24
Compatibility with Java........................................................................................................................25
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