System Requirements

To cold-install or update HP-UX 11i v2, you must have the following:




	NOTE: If your system has less than 1 GB of memory, you may need to manually set VxFS tunables for optimal performance after cold-installing or updating to HP-UX 11i v2. For more information about these tunables, see Appendix C “Controlling Memory Utilization of VxFS 3.5 on HP-UX 11i v2”.

System Firmware Requirements

The following minimum firmware requirements exist for systems cold-installing and updating to the latest HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) release.

For HP 9000 PA-RISC Servers, you must update to the minimum firmware revision before cold-installing or updating from HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) to the latest HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) release.
For HP Integrity Servers and Itanium-based systems, the firmware shipped with the system meets the minimum firmware requirement for the system for the latest HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) release.

HP strongly recommends you review the minimum system firmware matrix for HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) systems at the HP Technical Documentation Web site:

Technical documentation