HP PRM Version C.03.06 release notes - (March 2012)

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