HP-UX 11i v3 Read Before Installing or Updating September 2010 HP Part Number: BA927-90036 Published: September 2010
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Table of Contents Welcome to HP-UX 11i v3.........................................................5 Media kit contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 DVDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Documentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Welcome to HP-UX 11i v3 HP-UX 11i v3 delivers the highest level of integrated virtualization and automation. HP-UX 11i v3 dynamically reduces complexity and cuts deployment times to maximize return on investment. This DVD booklet provides the following information: • Contents of the HP-UX 11i v3 media kit. • Descriptions of the Operating Environments. • New products included in this release. • Critical, late-breaking cold-install and update issues not in the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide.
Media kit contents DVDs • • • 6 HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) OE Multi-DVD Set — Contains an Operating Environment (OE). HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) Application Software Multi-DVD Set — Contains HP-UX application software. HP-UX 11i v3 Instant Information DVD — Contains various HP-UX documentation. Useful if you don't want to go on the web.
Documentation NOTE: Documents at http://docs.hp.com are being migrated to the HP Business Support Center (BSC) website (http://hp.com/bizsupport), which houses both technical documentation and additional product support information. When the migration is complete, under the HP-UX section of the http://docs.hp.com homepage, you will find a link to redirect you to the new BSC location. For more information, see “More info on document moves to BSC” at the bottom of the http://docs.hp.com/ homepage.
HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments Starting with the March 2008 release, HP provides a set of new Operating Environments (OEs) for HP-UX 11i v3. These new OEs, described in Table 1, provide a richer set of products and improved choices over the original set of HP-UX 11i OEs. Detailed information on the new HP-UX 11i v3 OEs can be found at www.hp.com/go/hpux11iv3. For information on transition and mapping from the original OEs to the new OEs, see http://h20338.www2.hp.
Table 1 New HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments New OE Description Base OE (BOE) Provides integrated HP-UX functionality for customers requiring less complex installations. The BOE contains all the applications included in the Foundation OE, and improves the bundle set by adding much-requested products such as HP Process Resource Manager (PRM) and APA. This OE is bundled HPUX11i-BOE.
Table 1 New HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments (continued) New OE Description High Availability For customers requiring high availability for large OE (HA-OE) mission-critical applications, this OE contains all the products included in the BOE (and the original EOE), plus applications such as HP Serviceguard and HA toolkits required to enable a mission-critical server. This OE is bundled as HPUX11i-HA-OE.
Finding firmware Make sure your system meets the minimum firmware requirements for the latest HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31) release. HP recommends that you update to the latest firmware available before installing or updating to HP-UX 11i v3. Verifying and downloading firmware 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Go to http://www.hp.com. Select the Support & Drivers tab, then Download drivers and software. Enter your product name or number and click Go. If necessary, select your specific product from the search results.
HP-UX Virtual Partitions and HP Integrity Virtual Machines are incompatible HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) is not compatible with HP Integrity Virtual Machines (Integrity VM). The vPars and Integrity VM products cannot be installed on the same nPartition or the same virtual partition. Integrity VM cannot be installed on a system that has vPars software installed. There is a check during Integrity VM installation preventing it.
What’s new in this release Unless otherwise noted, see the HP-UX 11i Version 3 September 2010 Release Notes (http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs) for further information about the following new products and features. For information on what has changed, also see the HP-UX 11i Version 3 September 2010 Release Notes (http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs). Numerous existing HP-UX 11i v3 products also provide new features and enhancements in September 2010.
Table 2 New products and features in HP-UX 11i v3 September 2010 14 New Product/feature Description HP Serviceguard Extension for Oracle E-business Suite B.01.00 Provides high availability to Oracle E-business Suite in a Serviceguard cluster. Newly added to the HA-OE and DC-OE. Includes support for HP Serviceguard A.11.19 and A.11.20, Oracle 11g R2, and high availability for databases and the application tier. See HP Serviceguard Extension for Oracle E-business Suite B.01.00 Release Notes at http://hp.
Table 2 New products and features in HP-UX 11i v3 September 2010 (continued) New Product/feature Description HP-UX Apache-based hpuxwsapache has been replaced by Web Server hpuxws22apache (Apache 2.2.8.08), which combines Apache with numerous popular modules from other Open Source projects and provides HP value-added features for HP-UX. See HP-UX Apache-based Web Server v.3.08 Release Notes at https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/ displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPUXWSATW308.
Table 2 New products and features in HP-UX 11i v3 September 2010 (continued) 16 New Product/feature Description io_cdsf_config(1M) command and iocdsfd(1M) daemon Together with HP Serviceguard A.11.20, this set supports the ability to create cluster-wide device-special files across a Serviceguard cluster.
Known problems This section contains critical, late-breaking information that was not included in the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide. Before cold-installing or updating to HP-UX 11i v3, make sure you read “Appendix A: Harmless messages and known problems,” in the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide (http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs). Select the edition appropriate to your release. For information about other known problems, see the product's own documentation at http://hp.com/bizsupport.
Web resources • HP-UX 11i v3 Documentation Includes the HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide, the HP-UX 11i Version 3 Release Notes, and HP-UX 11i v3 Read Before Installing or Updating (this document on the web). Be sure to select the document appropriate for your release. http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs • HP-UX System Administrator's Guide http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs • Ignite-UX http://hp.com/go/ignite-ux • Software Depot http://software.hp.com • IT Resource Center (ITRC) http://itrc.hp.
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