HP PRM Version C.03.05 Release Notes for HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2, and HP-UX 11i v3

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1 Announcement................................................................................................................7
2 What’s new in this version............................................................................................9
3 Compatibility information and installation requirements ........................................11
Disk and memory requirements...........................................................................................................11
Software requirements..........................................................................................................................11
Installation procedures.........................................................................................................................11
Installation procedure for B3835DA................................................................................................12
Installation procedure for PRMSIMTools........................................................................................13
Required patches...................................................................................................................................13
HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) patches.......................................................................................................14
HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) patches.......................................................................................................14
HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) patches.......................................................................................................14
Compatibility with HP Integrity Virtual Machines..............................................................................15
Compatibility with processor sets (PSETs)...........................................................................................15
Compatibility with WLM.....................................................................................................................16
Compatibility with gWLM...................................................................................................................16
Compatibility with long hostnames.....................................................................................................16
Compatibility with online cell operations............................................................................................16
Compatibility with VERITAS File System (VxFS) ...............................................................................16
Compatibility with Trusted Systems....................................................................................................16
4 Known problems and workarounds ..........................................................................17
PRM does not support disk bandwidth management on VERITAS File System (VxFS).....................17
Degraded performance when starting via RC scripts..........................................................................17
Application hangs in FSS group with capping enabled.......................................................................17
Inconsistent inheritance........................................................................................................................17
No PSET PRM group data from GlancePlus........................................................................................18
Colons in alternate names.....................................................................................................................18
Spaces when using the SMH interface..................................................................................................18
Alternate names have limit on length...................................................................................................18
High CPU load may reduce CPU entitlements of PRM groups with few processes...........................19
Unable to achieve CPU entitlement due to number of processes........................................................19
Secure Resource Partitions: Blocked port on a virtual network interface............................................19
Network Node Manager and PRM’s SNMP structures........................................................................20
prmavail not showing VxVM disk groups........................................................................................20
libprmext “not removed” on PRM upgrade.........................................................................................20
Upgrading or installing PRM before upgrading WLM from C.03.00 or earlier can cause WLM to
fail swverify checks...........................................................................................................................21
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