HP PRM Version C.03.06 Release Notes HP-UX 11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3 (B3835-90030, June 2013)

Contents
1 Announcement...........................................................................................4
2 What’s new in this version...........................................................................5
3 Compatibility information and installation requirements ..................................6
Disk and memory requirements...................................................................................................6
Software requirements...............................................................................................................6
Installation procedures...............................................................................................................7
Installation procedure for B3835DA.......................................................................................7
Installation procedure for PRMSIMTools...................................................................................8
Required patches......................................................................................................................9
HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) patches................................................................................................9
HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) patches...............................................................................................9
Compatibility with HP Integrity Virtual Machines.........................................................................10
Compatibility with processor sets (PSETs)....................................................................................10
Compatibility with WLM..........................................................................................................10
Compatibility with gWLM........................................................................................................10
Compatibility with long hostnames............................................................................................10
Compatibility with online cell operations....................................................................................11
Compatibility with VERITAS File System (VxFS) ...........................................................................11
Compatibility with Trusted Systems............................................................................................11
4 Known problems and workarounds ............................................................12
PRM does not support disk bandwidth management on VERITAS File System (VxFS).........................12
Degraded performance when starting via RC scripts....................................................................12
Application hangs in FSS group with capping enabled................................................................12
Inconsistent inheritance............................................................................................................12
No PSET PRM group data from GlancePlus................................................................................13
Colons in alternate names.......................................................................................................13
Spaces when using the SMH interface.......................................................................................13
Alternate names have limit on length.........................................................................................13
High CPU load may reduce CPU entitlements of PRM groups with few processes.............................13
Unable to achieve CPU entitlement due to number of processes....................................................14
Secure Resource Partitions: Blocked port on a virtual network interface..........................................14
Network Node Manager and PRM’s SNMP structures.................................................................15
prmavail not showing VxVM disk groups...................................................................................15
libprmext “not removed” on PRM upgrade.................................................................................15
Upgrading or installing PRM before upgrading WLM from C.03.00 or earlier can cause WLM to fail
swverify checks......................................................................................................................15
prm2d dumps negative values in the syslog, though real memory pages are available.....................16
prmconfig dumps core when kernel parameter nrpoc is changed online.........................................16
5 Patches and fixes in this version..................................................................17
6 Software availability in native languages ....................................................18
7 Security...................................................................................................19
8 What manuals are available......................................................................20
9 Providing feedback...................................................................................21
10 Training.................................................................................................22
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