HP PRM Version C.03.05.01 release notes (B3835-90027), June 2010

Contents
1 Announcement...........................................................................................5
2 What’s new in this version...........................................................................6
3 Compatibility information and installation requirements ..................................7
Disk and memory requirements...................................................................................................7
Software requirements...............................................................................................................7
Installation procedures...............................................................................................................8
Installation procedure for B3835DA.......................................................................................8
Installation procedure for PRMSIMTools...................................................................................9
Required patches....................................................................................................................10
HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) patches..............................................................................................10
HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) patches.............................................................................................10
Compatibility with HP Integrity Virtual Machines.........................................................................11
Compatibility with processor sets (PSETs)....................................................................................11
Compatibility with WLM..........................................................................................................11
Compatibility with gWLM........................................................................................................11
Compatibility with long hostnames............................................................................................12
Compatibility with online cell operations....................................................................................12
Compatibility with VERITAS File System (VxFS) ...........................................................................12
Compatibility with Trusted Systems............................................................................................12
4 Known problems and workarounds ............................................................13
PRM does not support disk bandwidth management on VERITAS File System (VxFS).........................13
Degraded performance when starting via RC scripts....................................................................13
Application hangs in FSS group with capping enabled................................................................13
Inconsistent inheritance............................................................................................................13
No PSET PRM group data from GlancePlus................................................................................14
Colons in alternate names.......................................................................................................14
Spaces when using the SMH interface.......................................................................................14
Alternate names have limit on length.........................................................................................14
High CPU load may reduce CPU entitlements of PRM groups with few processes.............................15
Unable to achieve CPU entitlement due to number of processes....................................................15
Secure Resource Partitions: Blocked port on a virtual network interface..........................................15
Network Node Manager and PRM’s SNMP structures.................................................................16
prmavail not showing VxVM disk groups...................................................................................16
libprmext “not removed” on PRM upgrade.................................................................................16
Upgrading or installing PRM before upgrading WLM from C.03.00 or earlier can cause WLM to fail
swverify checks......................................................................................................................17
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