Networking and Mass Storage Drivers

GigEther-00 has been updated to incorporate defect fixes. For details, see the GigEther-00 (gelan) Gigabit Ethernet Driver for HP-UX 11i v3 of March 2009 Release Notes, available at http://docs.hp.com under I/O Cards and Networking Software and then under Gigabit Ethernet.

To see what has changed from one release to the next, see the GigEther-00 driver’s release history. It is located on http://docs.hp.com under I/O Cards and Networking Software and then under Gigabit Ethernet.

A list of systems that use the currently supported Gigabit Ethernet drivers is located in the HP-UX Ethernet Driver Support Matrix, Edition 2 (for Releases of Sept 2004 and Later). It is located on http://docs.hp.com under I/O Cards and Networking Software and then under Gigabit Ethernet.

There are no known performance issues.

To see what has changed from one release to the next, see the GigEther-00 driver’s release history. It is located on http://docs.hp.com under I/O Cards and Networking Software and then under Gigabit Ethernet.

A list of systems that use the currently supported Gigabit Ethernet drivers is located in the HP-UX Ethernet Driver Support Matrix, Edition 2 (for Releases of Sept 2004 and Later). It is located on http://docs.hp.com under I/O Cards and Networking Software and then under Gigabit Ethernet.

For the online manual page, see nwmgr_gelan(1M).

Not applicable.

GigEther-01 has been updated to incorporate defect fixes. For details, see the GigEther-01 (igelan) Gigabit Ethernet Driver for HP-UX 11i v3 of March 2009 Release Notes, available at http://docs.hp.com under I/O Cards and Networking Software and then under Gigabit Ethernet.

To see what has changed from one release to the next, see the GigEther-01 driver’s release history. It is located on http://docs.hp.com under I/O Cards and Networking Software and then under Gigabit Ethernet.

A list of systems that use the currently supported Gigabit Ethernet drivers is located in the HP-UX Ethernet Driver Support Matrix, Edition 2 (for Releases of Sept 2004 and Later). It is located on http://docs.hp.com under I/O Cards and Networking Software and then under Gigabit Ethernet.

There are no known performance issues.

To see what has changed from one release to the next, see the GigEther-01 driver’s release history. It is located on http://docs.hp.com under I/O Cards and Networking Software and then under Gigabit Ethernet.

A list of systems that use the currently supported Gigabit Ethernet drivers is located in the HP-UX Ethernet Driver Support Matrix, Edition 2 (for Releases of Sept 2004 and Later). It is located on http://docs.hp.com under I/O Cards and Networking Software and then under Gigabit Ethernet.

For the online manual page, see nwmgr_igelan(1M).

Not applicable.

The IEther-00 bundle has been updated with quality improvements.

There is no impact.

There are no known compatibility issues.

There are no known performance issues.

For further information on specific changes in this release, see the IEther-00 (iether) B.11.31.0903 Gigabit Ethernet Driver Release Notes. For further information on supported cards, see the Ethernet System-Driver Matrix. These documents are available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html (navigate to 1000Base-T and 1000Base-SX (Gigabit Ethernet)).

Not applicable.

With this release, the IB4X-00 product will support the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol for Oracle RAC environments and for connectivity to the HP/Oracle Exadata intelligent storage cell.

The RDS protocol is supported only on AH304A and 448262-B21.

You can deploy Oracle RAC with RDS/Infiniband on HP-UX 11i v3. You can also connect an Oracle database server running on HP-UX 11i v3 with the Exadata cell.

There are no known compatibility issues.

The Exadata cell greatly improves query performance for data warehousing/business intelligence applications.

The following documents will be found at the following website under the Fabric Clustering System for InfiniBand heading:

http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html#Fabric%20Clustering%20System%20for%20InfiniBand

Not applicable.

The CommonIO bundle has been updated with quality improvements.

There are no impacts.

There are no known compatibility issues.

There are no known performance issues.

For further information on specific changes in this release, see the HP CommonIO B.11.31.0903 Release Notes. For further information on supported cards, see the SAS Host Bus Adapters Support Matrix and the HP Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter Support Matrix. These documents are available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html.

Not applicable.

The RAID-01 bundle has been updated with quality improvements.

There are no impacts.

There are no known compatibility issues.

There are no known performance issues.

For further information on specific changes in this release, see the RAID-01 (ciss) B.11.31.0903 Mass Storage Driver Release Notes. For further information on supported cards, see the HP Smart Array RAID Controllers Support Matrix. These documents are available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html (navigate to Smart Array (RAID)).

Not applicable.

The scsiU320-00 bundle has been updated with quality improvements.

There are no impacts.

There are no known compatibility issues.

There are no known performance issues.

For further information on specific changes in this release, see the scsiU320-00 (mpt) B.11.31.0903 Mass Storage Driver Release Notes. For further information on supported cards, see the HP Ultra320 SCSI Host Bus Adapter Support Matrix. These documents are available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html (navigate to SCSI Host Bus Adapters).

Not applicable.

The SerialSCSI-00 driver bundle has been updated with quality improvements.

There are no impacts.

There are no known compatibility issues.

There are no known performance issues.

For further information on specific changes in this release, see the SerialSCSI-00 (sasd) B.11.31.0903 Mass Storage Driver Release Notes. For further information on supported cards, see the SAS Host Bus Adapters Support Matrix. These documents are available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html (navigate to SAS Host Bus Adapters).

Not applicable.

If you wish to retain the existing USB driver functionality (if installed), please deselect the USB-00 bundle from your installation of this OE. This will result in a warning from the pre-install script of PHKL_37815 about the need to remove the current USB-00 bundle to get the new functionality. This warning can be safely ignored since leaving the current functionality is the desired result in this case.

The driver names, hardware paths, and the ioscan output are different for USB devices. Any scripts that rely on the OO versions of these will have to change. If you wish to maintain the current behavior (and known problems) of the object oriented driver, USB-00 D.11.31.0903 bundle should not be installed.

With USB-00 D.11.31.0903 and PHKL_37815, the performance of locally connected (non-vMedia) USB 2.0 devices will be substantially better because they will be accessed using USB 2.0 capable drivers and not at USB 1.1 speeds.

The white paper will be at http://docs.hp.com/en/15027/UpdatetoUSBDriverSupportonHPUX11iv3.pdf.

USB-00 will be discontinued in 11i v4. Meanwhile, USB-00 version D provides a transition vehicle to the new driver delivered as part of the core.

An internal defect is fixed in this release.

The product version number is updated from B.11.31.0809 to B.11.31.0903.

There is no impact.

There are no known compatibility issues.

There are no known performance issues.

The most current documentation for this product can be found in the I/O Cards and Networking Software area on http://docs.hp.com, at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html

Not applicable.

The FibrChanl-01 bundle has been updated with quality improvements.

There is no impact.

There are no known compatibility issues.

There are no known performance issues.

For further information on specific changes in this release, see the FibrChanl-01 (fcd) Fiber Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v3 Release Notes. For further information on supported cards, see the HP Fibre Channel (fcd and fclp) Host Bus Adapter Support Matrix. These documents are available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html (navigate to Fibre Channel).

Not applicable.

The FibrChanl-02 bundle has been updated with quality improvements.

There is no impact.

There are no known compatibility issues.

There are no known performance issues.

For further information on specific changes in this release, see the FibrChanl-02 (fclp) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v3 Release Notes. For further information on supported cards, see the HP Fibre Channel (fcd and fclp) Host Bus Adapter Support Matrix. These documents are available at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html (navigate to Fibre Channel).

Not applicable.