What is New in the HP-UX 11i v3 September 2008 Release

Original HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments (OEs): The March 2008 release of HP-UX 11i v3 was the last full Operating Environments Update Release (OEUR) release provided for the original HP-UX 11i OEs.

New HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments: With the March 2008 release, HP first presented a set of new Operating Environments for HP-UX 11i v3. These new OEs provide a richer set of products and improved choices over the original set of HP-UX 11i OEs. In the September 2008 OEUR, several new products and features have been added. See the remainder of this section for summaries of the new products and features.

Software Pack (Optional HP-UX 11i v3 Core Enhancements): Several new and updated Software Pack products are available in the Operating Environments as optional products.

Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle for HP-UX 11i v3 (HWEnable11i): Provides support for new PCI-Express I/O adapters in HP Integrity Servers, and HP-UX support for HP servers with PA8900 processors and the sx2000 chipset. Supports the AMD/ATI Radeon 7000 graphics adapter and improved kernel debugger support for HP LAN cards. Also supports the optional HP-UX Dynamic nPartitions feature for servers without System Bus Adapter devices.

HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition: No longer included. Has reached end of life. New solution: HP Service Essentials Remote Support Pack.

New: HP-UX Scheduler Enhancements for Power Management: A new dynamic tunable is provided to dynamically enable or disable the mechanism to put processors in low power consumption state when idle.

New: HP-UX Swapoff: Provides the ability to remove swap devices without rebooting the system. This feature is enabled by a new command and an enhanced system call. The command is a Software Pack feature and is optional on all OEs.

Networking and Mass Storage Drivers

I/O Subsystem: Includes defect fixes and usability enhancements to enhance the system's availability, performance, and ease-of-use.

Mass Storage Stack: Includes defect fixes and usability enhancements to enhance the system's availability and ease-of-use.

Utility Pricing Solutions

Boot Loader: Includes several enhancements, including, in the Itanium-based Boot Loader, warning that more than one console output devices are configured.

Distributed Systems Administration Utilities: Upgrade to new versions of open source components has the latest features and defect fixes, and further minimizes any complexities. Now that DSAU supports the UPCC-style Serviceguard packages, you can experience better ease-of-use.

Dynamic Root Disk: Supports rehosting, the ability to create a clone on one system, then boot the clone on another system by providing personality information about the new system. The September 2008 release supports this capability for rehosting from blade to blade using Virtual Connect, and from VM to VM.

Event Monitoring Service: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.

Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (FEATURE11i): Updated for HP-UX 11i v3 with new patches that enhance or provide new core features (including performance improvements) and enable support for base page sizes larger than 4 KB on Itanium, Numeric User Group Name, Integrity VM (HPVM) support, FIFO performance improvements, Internationalization improvements, and many other enhancements.

New: FIFOENH: Provides high and low thresholds on buffered data in the pipe. As a result, major performance improvement can be seen on a multiprocessor environment when multiple threads are operating on the same fifo. Software Pack feature, optional on all OEs.

High Availability Monitors: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.

HP Caliper: Features and changes include support for thread contention analysis and visualization; data-centric cache profiling; scaling of the system-wide performance view to larger cell-based systems; and many others.

HP GlancePlus Pak: New metrics are included.

HP Partitioning and Virtual Server Environment

HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit: Now supports highly available NFSv4 servers and now supports SecureNFS with Kerberos environment. .

HP System Management Homepage: Updated to version A.2.2.9 to incorporate defect fixes and support for virtual IDs.

HP Systems Insight Manager: Updated to version 5.2 with enhancements for Remote Support Pack.

HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups: Supports use of numeric login names for local and NIS user names and group names.

HP-UX Kernel Configuration: Allows you to obtain separate graphically represented reports for usage of kernel resources for time intervals of Five Minutes, Hourly, Daily, and Weekly.

HP-UX Peripheral Devices Manager: Supports FC (Fibre Channel) adapters.

Ignite-UX: Updated to version C.7.7. Supports new hardware enabled by the HP-UX release. Includes defect fixes.

New: Kernel Tracing on HP-UX (ktracer): Provides the ability to analyze and troubleshoot HP-UX operating system behavior. Captures information on kernel procedure calls, parameters and timing across all processes and processors, and reports it on demand.

Logical Volume Manager: Increased limits of Version 2.1 volume groups enable much larger and more flexible LVM configurations. Other features improve the availability and usability of the server.

Network Interfaces Configuration and Network Services Configuration: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.

NGROUPS Expansion: Allows users and processes to have group-level permissions based on a larger number of groups than the previous fixed limit.

Obsolescence Bundle: Used during an update when obsolete software on the system needs to be removed. Is automatically selected for updates. During the update process selected obsolete or incompatible products and/or drivers are removed.

Online Diagnostics: Supports updated to support new and future HBAs.

Printer Management (web-based): Provides support in the TUI for adding remote printer and for adding printer to a TSM terminal.

Quality Pack Patch Bundles (QPKAPPS and QPKBASE): Third release for HP-UX 11i v3 with a sizable increase in the number of defect fix patches included.

Software Distributor: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.

Software Package Builder: Updated to incorporate defect fixes. Now supports detection of possible installation errors in addition to the packaging errors.

System Fault Management: Several changes including the introduction of MCA Indication Provider and ComputerSystem Chassis Provider, and support for MCA logs and Agile information.

New: Tunable Base Page Size: Enhancement makes it possible to tune the size of the system base page, which was formerly fixed at 4 KB. Now the additional sizes 8 KB, 16 KB, and 64 KB are available. The larger system base page size reduces the kernel's memory footprint and makes certain memory management operations more efficient.

New: Tune-N-Tools: Delivers the tool tuneserver(1m). When executed, sets kernel tunables to values appropriate for major customer business application workloads.

Update-UX and SW-GETTOOLS: Updated to incorporate defect fixes.

Virtual Server Environment Configuration Assistant (VseAssist): Extended with additional checks supporting new features of VSE Management Software version 4.0, including updated licensing checks and a new iCAP status check.

WBEM Services and Providers

New: Base-VxTools-50: Contains a set of enablers and infrastructure tools for VxVM.

HP CIFS Client: Updated to version A.02.02.02. Maintenance release that mainly contains defect fixes and a few minor enhancements.

HP CIFS Server: Updated to 3.0i version A.02.03.03. Provides security fixes and several defect fixes. Supports new configuration parameters in smb.conf.

HP-UX Disks and File Systems: Additional LVM functions are possible, a paging device can be deleted without having to reboot the system, and the NFS automounter and AutoFS functions can be performed.

ONCplus: Updated to version B.11.31.04. Delivers full NFSv4 functionality. Also delivers IPv6 support for the on, rpc.rexd, rpc.rwalld, rpc.rusersd, rusers, and rwall commands and daemons. In addition, performance has been optimized in several areas of NFS.

New: OnlineJFS 5.0: Available as an optional product in DC-OE, VSE-OE, and HA-OE.

New: VxFS 5.0: Provides you with new commands and features for managing files of increased sizes, and better optimization of storage resources.

New: VxVM 5.0: Provides enhanced volume management features, improved cluster and node functionality and additional multipathing capabilities.

HP-UX Auto Port Aggregation: Supports improved HP Integrity Virtual Machine support.

HP-UX Web Server Suite

Firefox, FirefoxSrc: Updated to version 2.0.0.12. Includes Firefox 2.0.0.12 changes from the Mozilla Foundation. This version fixes several security vulnerabilities reported by the Mozilla Foundation.

Thunderbird, ThunderbirdSrc: Updated to version 2.0.0.12. Fixes several security vulnerabilities reported by the Mozilla Foundation.

Internet Services

New: IPv6 Upgrade for HP-UX 11i v3: Privacy extension to IPv6 auto-configuration feature is available in the IPv6 Upgrade bundle. Software Pack product. Optional on all OEs.

LDAP-UX Integration: Updated to version B.04.17. Maintenance release that provides several fixes.

Red Hat Directory Server for HP-UX: Updated to version B.07.10.40. Maintenance release that mainly delivers defect fixes.

HP-UX Secure Shell: Updated to version A.05.00.023. Added several defect fixes and enhancements.

HP-UX Software Assistant: Updated to version C.01.05. Includes integration with HP SIM, improved HTML report, and improved administration guide.

OpenSSL: Updated to version A.00.09.08g.031. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 OpenSSL is now added to the OpenSSL product.

getaddrinfo(3N) Function: Modified to support Destination Address Selection algorithm defined in RFC 3484.

ioinit(1M) Command: New option -A invokes Critical Resource Analysis and generates usage report, before modifying existing instance number of an IO node.

ioscan(1M) Command: -P option of the command has been enhanced to accept new properties.

mpsched(1) Command: Enhanced to provide the system topology information at Proximity, Socket and Core level. You can use this information to create processor sets by choosing SPUs with appropriate locality.

scsimgr(1M) Command: More user-friendly identifiers enhance the usability of the mass storage stack.

New: Decimal Floating-Point Arithmetic: Includes support for decimal floating-point (decimal FP) arithmetic for C on HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31) September 2008 Update for Integrity servers, following the current draft revision of the IEEE 754 floating-point standard and ISO/IEC Technical Report 24732.

New: Dynamic System V Semaphore Tunables: Allows the system administrator to change the system V semaphore tunable(s) value(s) dynamically without requiring a reboot of the system. Software Pack product. Optional on all OEs.

HP WildeBeest Debugger: Provides decimal floating point debugging support, improved memory debugging capabilities, improved Core file debugging support, and more.

HP-UX Linker and HP Dynamic Loader: Features include improved fastbind mechanism for decreasing program startup time; improved dld startup time; non-suspension of threads; and more.

Java 2 Standard Edition Platform

Libc Enhancement: The printf(3S) and scanf(3S) family of functions have been enhanced to recognize decimal floating point conversion specifiers. Software Pack product. Optional on all OEs.

libIO.so Shared Library: Provides APIs for accessing the kernel I/O system data structures maintained by the HP-UX I/O subsystem. Delivers new shared libraries which are thread safe.

New: MallocNextGen: Provides a totally new implementation of the user space memory allocator. This new allocator may show better performance for multi-threaded applications or applications with small block allocations. Software Pack product. Optional on all OEs.

New: Numeric User Group Name: With this feature it is possible to create user/group names that begin with a numeric character and in turn be entirely numeric. Software Pack product. Optional on all OEs.

Perl: Updated to version 5.8.8 build 822.2 to incorporate defect fixes. Includes performance improvements.

European TrueType Fonts Extension - Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, and Vietnamese: You can now print Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, and Vietnamese characters using the PostScript print filter.

Internationalized PostScript Printing Enhancements: Includes support for the printing and proper shaping of Arabic, Hebrew and Thai characters with enhanced bidirectional printing support; new PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files to support additional HP PostScript printers; illegal command line options will now be listed in the banner page; and more.

New and Updated Asian Iconv Converters: Several Asian character sets now have iconv conversion support added to convert data directly from these character sets to and from various transformation formats of Unicode such as UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32.