HP-UX Containers (SRP) A.03.00 Release Notes

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HP-UX Containers
The information in this document is for HP-UX Containers A.03.00 only.
HP-UX Containers documentation
NOTE: This document was updated to include the following:
• A new section: 1.8.3 Disallowed commands in system containers
• A limitation for the SD command in section 1.7 Limitations for HP-UX Containers A.03.00
For more information on HP-UX Containers, refer to these documents:
• HP-UX Containers (SRP) Administrator's Guide
• HP-UX Containers (SRP) White Papers
• CMGR Administrator's and Developer's Guide
These documents are located at:
www.hp.com/go/virtualization-manuals
Select the HP-UX Containers (SRP) Software product.
1 HP-UX Containers
1.1 HP-UX Containers overview
HP-UX Containers, formerly HP-UX Secure Resource Partitions (SRP), provides an environment for
consolidating multiple workload environments within a single image of the HP-UX 11i operating
system. HP-UX Containers is a component of the Virtualization Continuum for HP-UX and offers high
efficiency in resource utilization and performance, while reducing the number of operating systems to
manage. HP-UX Containers enhances the capabilities and ease of deployment for high availability
environments, including Serviceguard.
1.2 HP-UX Containers features
HP-UX Containers offers the following features and benefits:
• Separate user space execution environment
o Controlled isolation of execution environments and system resources, limiting access
to files, interprocess communication (IPC), networking, storage and operating system
capabilities.
o Per container user access controls for login.
o System resources (CPU, memory, and disk) can be managed and scheduled on a per-
container basis.
• Easy setup
o Coordinates and guides the configuration of multiple HP-UX security, isolation, and
resource management features to achieve workload consolidation.
o SRP Manager integrated in the System Management Homepage (SMH) provides a
graphical user interface (GUI) to configure and manage HP-UX containers
• Lifecycle management
o A configuration tool guides the selection of features and options. Use this tool to add,