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Data sheet

HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments For processes vital to the business, because your operations can’t fail.

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To compete effectively in today’s business climate, your company must meet and exceed the increasing demands of your customers. As clients expect access to products and services anytime, anywhere, the core business processes supporting your end-customer interactions must be always on and available. Trends in cloud, big data, and mobility play a big role in the demands on your IT landscape. Existing infrastructure is running out of capacity, requiring large amounts of floor space and energy to process data faster without failure. You are likely experiencing cost constraints and need to become more efficient to deliver more capability with fewer resources. Responding to all these challenges requires a proven, reliable infrastructure that you can trust to keep your vital processes up and running while providing you the flexibility and scalability to meet increased demands. The HP Mission-Critical Converged Infrastructure protects your business and keeps your key applications available with a simple and automated environment that can scale to meet even peak demand requests.

Your most demanding application needs can be met with the HP Mission-Critical Converged Infrastructure featuring HP-UX, the industry’s most resilient UNIX® system for processes vital to the business. Deliberately engineered to provide business continuity, HP-UX has been consistently delivering mission-critical availability to core business functions and applications for over 30 years. Today, HP-UX continues to provide the robustness, stability, and security needed to ensure your business keeps running.

The ideal operating environment for your most vital processes

HP-UX 11i v3 is integrated by design to ensure your core business processes are always on and available. Through built-in resiliency and self-healing features of the hardware and operating system, you can maximize your critical applications uptime. In addition, HP-UX enables you to adjust resources dynamically with integrated management and virtualization that “just works”. You can respond more rapidly to business shifts for new or changing infrastructure, and you can protect your mission-critical IT from threats with our comprehensive security offerings. With HP-UX, you can scale your mission-critical workloads quickly and easily. Additionally, our integrated management strategy allows you to simplify your IT with common management across all HP servers and storage. Finally, with HP-UX, you can benefit from infrastructure stability and enjoy decades of support life. You can realize a mission-critical experience today and look forward to continued innovations in the future.

Streamline your operations with the right package

HP-UX 11i v3 comes in four different Operating Environments (OE) packages designed to ease your UNIX experience: Base OE (BOE), Virtualization Server OE (VSE-OE), High Availability OE (HA-OE), and Data Center OE (DC-OE), which is a combination of the VSE and HA OEs. These software stacks run on the full range of the Integrity server family and come pre-integrated and tested by HP engineering, so you can be assured that your UNIX environment is complete and built to work together. You don´t need to buy and integrate the software yourself, or obtain costly external services and manage the additional software and its support separately.

Common to all four operating environments is HP-UX quality that translates into reliability for your solutions—from the smallest project to large-scale data center deployments. You can order OEs and comprehensive support with only a single part number each. HP-UX is available in traditional DVD media kits, which are downloadable worldwide via e-Delivery, or can be factory installed on new HP Integrity servers. E-Delivery gives you the ability to download HP-UX OEs from the HP secure distribution server to your local site, where you can burn DVDs and reduce the time for obtaining the latest OEs onsite from days to hours. Using e-Delivery also allows you to join us in our efforts to reduce environmental impact while increasing your flexibility to access licensed copies of HP-UX.

Data sheet | HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments

“We chose HP primarily because we’re a long term user of HP servers, and over the years they’ve been consistently reliable. The servers often last for longer than five years, and some of the HP machines we decommissioned in this hardware refresh were ten years old—which says a lot about their reliability and Return On Investment.”Poh Choo, IT director, GRID Communications

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Your flexibility and workload availability requirements determine which package best fits your individual needs. Figure 1, below, provides a high-level, functional description of what is included within each OE.

HP-UX 11i v3 Base OE (BOE)—comprehensive security and system managementThe HP-UX 11i v3 BOE delivers the entire UNIX operating system plus comprehensive, integrated security for systems, data, and identity, as well as hard partitions and containers. The BOE includes full HP Systems Insight Manager functionality with power management, health check, and deployment tools. It also provides full performance analysis tools for kernel processes and applications, as well as base file system and volume management.

HP-UX 11i v3 Virtualization Server OE (VSE-OE)—complete virtualized UNIXIn addition to what is included in the BOE, HP-UX 11i v3 VSE-OE integrates advanced file system and volume management with system-level performance analysis, plus a full complement of HP-UX virtualization and infrastructure management software including capabilities for dedicated or shared resource virtualization, goal-based workload management, capacity planning, automated infrastructure provisioning, and advanced physical and virtual infrastructure management.

HP-UX 11i v3 High Availability OE (HA-OE)—when you require the highest levels of availability HP-UX 11i v3 HA-OE supplements the BOE with integrated HP Serviceguard Solutions for high availability, fault protection, downtime-free maintenance, and system-level performance analysis with advanced file system and volume management. HP Serviceguard delivers high service availability and supports both local and stretch clusters for cost-effective disaster recovery. Additionally, tested and proven Serviceguard toolkits enable you to protect key databases, including Oracle RAC and SAP, and Internet servers in minutes, and managed easily with intuitive GUI-based cluster management software.

Data Center Operating Environment—DC-OEIntegrates functionality in VSE-OE and HA-OE

Dedicated or sharedresource virtualization

Capacity planning

Goal-based workloadmanagement

Advanced infrastructuremanagement

Performanceanalysis: system level

Advanced filesystem and

volume management

Availability clusters—localand stretch

Availability toolkits for databases and Internet servers

Intuitive clustermanagement

Performance analysis:system level

Advanced file systemand volumemanagement

Virtual Server OEVSE-OE adds:

High Availability OE HA-OE adds:

Base OE (BOE)

UNIX OS plus:

System and power management

Networking

Hard partitions and containers

Comprehensive security for systems,data, and identity; and auditing tools

Performance analysis: kernel processes and applications

Base file system and volume manager

Figure 1: HP-UX 11i v3: high-level OE functionality


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HP-UX 11i v3 Data Center OE (DC-OE)—flex your workloads while protecting them with highest levels of availabilityHP-UX 11i v3 DC-OE delivers the complete set of HP-UX mission-critical UNIX software in a single package, combining the value in the HA-OE and VSE-OE—both of which include the BOE software. The DC-OE is the ideal environment for resiliency and optimization, leveraging the tight integration of HP advanced infrastructure management software for high availability, virtualization, workload management, and performance optimization.

Depending on your individual needs, you can also add the following software, available for any system licensed with any HP-UX 11i OE:

• For C/C++ developers:

– HP C/aC++ Developer’s Bundle

• For greater solution integration and protection:

– HP Serviceguard Extension for SAP

– HP Serviceguard Extension for RAC

– HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite

– HP Serviceguard Metrocluster and Continentalclusters

• For multisystem I/O virtualization:

– Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM)

• For flexible payment—to pay only for resources you use:

– HP Instant Capacity

– HP Pay per use

Upgrade to v3 to increase flexibility and save costs

You can reduce your software license costs by over 50 percent1 when you choose one of our integrated OEs, as opposed to buying the Base OE plus the individual layered software separately. In addition, when you upgrade from HP-UX 11i v2 to v3 on HP Integrity servers, you can save up to 63 percent in annual support costs2, as software products previously supported individually are now included in the integrated v3 OEs. For example, if you are using HP-UX 11i v2 Enterprise OE plus stand-alone Serviceguard and you upgrade to the v3 HA-OE, Serviceguard is covered in the bundle—so you can turn off the stand-alone support payment.

Double your HP-UX license value on new Integrity servers with per-socket licensingYou can double the value of HP-UX when you upgrade your HP Integrity or HP 9000 system to the latest HP Integrity systems. For systems running the March 2010 update release of HP-UX 11i v3 or later, licenses are sold on a per-socket basis, vs. the per-core basis of prior servers. Upgrading—a free benefit to support contract customers—pays dividends. Applying the HP concept of “a socket is a socket,” you can transition your HP-UX licenses from an old two-core-per-socket server to a four-core-per-socket server—twice the cores for the same price.

Whether you look at it as doubling the horsepower (in cores) for the same HP-UX licenses or as stretching your HP-UX licenses to cover twice as many cores, you get added performance for no extra cost. Consider your current HP-UX needs, and ask your sales representative to put the savings in motion, in the form of an upgrade to HP-UX 11i v3.

1 HP Price List Comparison, BOE vs. value OEs, October 2012.

2 HP Price List Comparison, v2 OE vs. v3 OE Support, October 2012.

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Keep your business up and running in today’s chaotic world

Experience the industry’s most resilient UNIX platform enabling your core business processes to be always-on and secure without compromise. With HP Serviceguard Solutions, a suite of software solutions designed for HP Integrity servers running HP-UX 11i, we help you protect your business with uncompromising resiliency—mitigating and managing risks and increasing the availability of IT to drive business results. With Serviceguard solutions for high availability, protect against faults and enable downtime-free maintenance through resiliency in every component, from CPU to solution. Boost availability with self-healing features, fault tolerant technologies and live upgrades.

HP Serviceguard is the foundation of every HP Serviceguard solution, monitoring the availability and accessibility of your critical IT services, such as applications, databases, and custom applications. Those applications—and everything that they rely on to do their job—are meticulously monitored for any fault in hardware, software, operating system, virtualization, storage, or networking. When a failure or threshold violation is detected, HP Serviceguard automatically and transparently moves your application to a safe location resuming normal operations in seconds.

HP Serviceguard Manager provides a comprehensive visual overview of your entire environment and allows you to manage and control it from a single console. Its intuitive graphical interface and effortless wizards reduce both the need for expertise and the potential for human error, improving the efficiency and productivity of your IT staff.

HP Serviceguard Toolkits and Extensions greatly simplify the integration of complex applications such as SAP, Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC), or Oracle E-Business Suite into your Serviceguard framework. They handle the initial integration of these applications into a cluster, as well as provide ongoing monitoring, failover, and failback operations of the clustered application. All Serviceguard Toolkits and Extensions are also integrated into HP Serviceguard Manager for simple, intuitive management, and configuration.

HP Serviceguard Disaster Recovery Solutions add distance between the cluster nodes so that an outage at one site does not disable the entire cluster. Nodes can be put in different rooms, on different floors of a building, or even in separate buildings or cities. The distance between the nodes is dependent on the types of disaster from which you need protection and on the technology used to replicate data.

HP-UX Security protects your data, systems, and identities through a comprehensive security portfolio available with all HP-UX Operating Environments. Our security offerings enable your data, internal or from a customer, to keep its integrity and confidentiality, whether it’s in transit, in use or at rest. We use built-in mechanisms not only to harden your HP-UX system, but also to detect and react to attacks in real time. All HP-UX security software undergoes numerous third party certifications to ensure you have the best protection.


“Thanks to HP Mission-Critical Converged Infrastructure, system downtime is almost a thing of the past. And what’s more, with capacity to handle up to twice the current application requirements, future growth will not be a problem for the new infrastructure.”Philippe Pulsfort, Head of IT Operations, Accarda AG

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Best utilize and flex your resources

To succeed in today’s unpredictable marketplace, you need an IT environment that mirrors your dynamic business—one that responds to business demands automatically by supplying computing resources as required. You can address these needs by dynamically flexing and optimizing your HP Mission-Critical Converged Infrastructure with the built-in integration of HP-UX virtualization and infrastructure management software. This comprehensive portfolio is part of the HP-UX 11i v3 Virtual Server Environment (VSE-OE), and is also the foundation for the private cloud solution HP CloudSystem Matrix with HP-UX.

With our comprehensive virtualization portfolio, you can consolidate your workloads with the right balance of flexibility and isolation. To fulfill your individual needs, you can choose between any combination of hard partitions (nPars), virtual partitions (vPars), Integrity virtual machines (VMs), and HP-UX Containers. For the most sensitive production workloads, you can utilize nPars for native performance featuring electrical isolation. If you need high performance, scalability, OS isolation, and more granularity and flexibility of resources, you can choose HP-UX vPars. You can use Integrity Virtual Machines if you need OS isolation, and dynamic, shared CPU and mobility. Lastly, you can reduce management overhead and licensing costs by utilizing HP-UX Containers for dynamic, shared resource optimization, within one shared operating system.

Our HP-UX 11i v3 Virtual Server Environment OE (VSE-OE) gives you all of the technology and licensing to meet your virtualization demands. This full Virtualization continuum provides you with the choices to confidently and securely deploy your critical applications and services via appropriate virtualization technology from hard partitions to a full private cloud. Additionally, through the tight integration of HP-UX virtualization and infrastructure management with high availability, disaster recovery, and utility pricing, you can maintain service levels, even in the event of downtime, and pay for spare capacity as needed.

Unify your IT environment

Simplify and unify your environments by consolidating applications with the HP Mission-Critical Converged Infrastructure, which includes a common modular server and management platform. The HP strategy to unify around a single management tool enables your IT staff to use one common interface and consistent processes to manage their server and storage infrastructure.

HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) software provides a common, centralized interface to HP systems management, across Integrity and ProLiant servers, network, and storage. HP SIM is easily extensible, integrating with other HP management products and value-added plug-ins such as the HP Matrix Operating Environment (OE), HP Insight Control management software suites, and the individual HP Insight Foundation products. Individual system management capability is provided through HP Integrated Lights-Out 2 (iLO 2), the HP Insight Display for rack mounted servers, and the HP System Management Homepage (SMH).

HP software and hardware are based on industry standards to increase integration and compatibility with other HP devices and third-party components across the data center. Standardize with common, modular building blocks for servers, enclosures, networks, and management.


“HP’s Mission-Critical Converged Infrastructure is the solution that perfectly fits our requirements. Our HP representative presented us with a mission-critical solution that met our needs for a simple, reliable, and flexible model delivered through HP-UX 11i and HP Integrity server blades.” Martijn Vriens, Manager Business Team, PinkRoccade Healthcare

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Future-proof your mission-critical converged infrastructure

We know that your critical applications and services demand a stable and robust infrastructure that delivers value for the long term. With HP-UX, you can be assured that your investment is protected into the future. We have recently announced extended factory support for HP-UX 11i v3 through at least 2022, giving you a decade (and beyond) of continued value. You can realize a full mission-critical experience today and look forward to continued innovations into the future. Our stable infrastructure gives you the peace of mind you need when it comes to your most critical workloads. HP-UX is the ideal platform to deploy the core processes that are vital to your business, because your operations can’t fail.

Benefit from infrastructure stability and decades of support life. Invest confidently in future-ready enclosures today knowing that you can leverage your investments over time. Develop multi-year plans with sustainable infrastructure investments.

Evolving your mission-critical workloads to the Private Cloud

HP-UX also underlies the HP CloudSystem Matrix with HP-UX, which can transform the economics of your data center. Utilize this ideal Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution to build and manage private cloud deployments for your mission-critical workloads. This mission-critical solution combines automated infrastructure orchestration and provisioning with the robustness, security, and resiliency from our Integrity blades running HP-UX and HP Serviceguard solutions to meet your mission-critical service-level agreements (SLAs). HP CloudSystem Matrix with HP-UX combined with the Serviceguard solution’s high availability makes it easier to protect and automatically recover your most critical workloads. Additionally, HP CloudSystem Matrix with HP-UX includes built-in multi-tenancy, which allows your data center resources to be securely shared between many different tenants.

Free up IT spending to invest more on innovation. The highly automated Matrix Operating Environment included in HP-UX 11i v3 instantly adjusts to your dynamic business demands, enabling rapid design, and modification of a complex infrastructure in minutes, rather than months. Your staff can configure and manage your entire server environment as a single domain, reducing the time required for routine tasks by 60 percent or more, which frees up staff to focus on other priorities.3 This can result in a total cost of ownership (TCO) savings of up to 56 percent.4

Improve your infrastructure, monitor applications, and increase uptime for your cloud and traditional IT by using CloudSystem Matrix with HP-UX self-service portal for auto-provisioning and built-in life cycle management of infrastructure services. With its open, extensible approach, HP CloudSystem Matrix lets you manage IT capacity from a single portal using both virtual and physical servers, giving you predictable quality of service.

Get a unified end-to-end experience through this open, integrated-by-design solution. By moving toward a service-centric private cloud model, you can simplify your IT infrastructure. You can build a highly automated environment with pools of shared resources that can be leveraged on demand and managed from a single portal. You can also have a single services view across all workloads, allowing you to manage both x86 and HP Integrity-based workloads from the same management portal. This means your investment is protected today and into the future.


“HP CloudSystem Matrix with HP-UX gives us fast provisioning, easier system management, and a reduction in physical servers, helping us cut our TCO by about 40 percent.” Felipe Avila Carneiro, Technical Director, Brasilcap Capitalização S.A

3 Based on a comparison of purchasing 100 new, generic, 1U Intel®-based rack servers vs. an HP CloudSystem Matrix environment, using the HP BladeSystem and CloudSystem Matrix TCO Calculator. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/blades/components/matrix/tco/index.html

4 “The business case for HP CloudSystem Matrix,” based on data from the HP BladeSystem and CloudSystem Matrix TCO Calculator, HP Business white paper, July 2011. For more information, visit hp.com/go/matrixtco.

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HP-UX September 2012 enhancements (Update 11)

Unified

Focus areas Enhancements

Systems management Reduce administrative time:

• Improve performance of tools such as ioscan, with Ignite-UX and Dynamic Root Disk (DRD) now supporting agile-only Device Specific Files (DSF) environments.

• For Systems Insight Management:

– Improve search capabilities for Federated CMS

– Automate quiesce operations for unattended backups

– Enable selective suspend/discovery of virtual machines

Always-on


High availability (database support)

Increase high availability by protecting the latest IBM DB2 10.1 and EnterpriseDB PPAS 9.1 versions with HP Serviceguard Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit (ECMT).

Disaster tolerance (storage support)

Avoid data loss and help minimize recovery time when using HP 3PAR Remote Copy with HP Serviceguard Metrocluster (utilizing [periodic] asynchronous replication and automatic failover).

Security (performance) Speed security processing:

• Double the IPFilter performance (vs. previous HP-UX 11i v3 versions)5

• Improve the AAA server detection speed (up to 10 times) by consolidating similar threats across various instances per server (with a common log file)6

Security (enhancements and latest updates)

Fortify your environment:

• Reduce identity breakthrough for SIM with two-factor authentication

• Reduce vulnerabilities and defects: with the latest Secure Shell (SSH) and Open Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

• Enable AAA server one-time password authentication to support the popular Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol

• Improve security key strength with IPSec support for DH Group 24

• Gain cross-platform directory integration: for HP Directory Services

• Utilize quick “start”/“stop” confirmation button for HP-UX Containers

Dynamic


HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM v6.1.5

• Increase virtualization I/O efficiency: Increase scalability of virtualized Fibre Channel, with N-Port ID Virtualization, by:

– Doubling the virtual ports to be created per physical Fibre Channel port (to 32)

– Improving network throughput performance when combining Auto Port Aggregation with direct I/O

– Extending flexibility of network switches during VM migration

• Ease deployment with factory integration option: With this option (available for all Integrity Servers in current production), the virtualization server platform is installed, which is then customized by the customer to provide VM or vPars as required. You can order factory integration with the HP-UX 11i v3 VSE-OE and DC-OE media, or with the standalone HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM v6.1 product (BB068AA).

Matrix OE Capacity Advisor Accelerate performance debugging and capacity planning:

• Reduce the time for debugging performance problems with up-to-date utilization information retrieved in about half the time7

• Easily reduce IT spend by a few percent by identifying idle hardware with monthly viewing of the new capacity analysis tab8

Matrix OE Global Workload Manager (gWLM)

Simplify workload management, with Global Workload Manager support for:

• HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) v5 with the Windows® Central Management Station

• HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM v6.1

Enduring


Development tools Extend development tool support:

• Ensure standard compliance with C/C++11 and improve GNU compatibility

• Include Java 7.0 in the HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environment

Legacy OS support Continue support for legacy HP-UX 11i v2 applications:

• Support HP-UX 11i v2 guests within HP Integrity VM v6.1.5

5HP-UX Security Lab testing, August 20126HP-UX Security Lab testing, August 20127ISS Manageability Lab estimate, May 20128ISS Manageability Lab estimate, based on customer discussions, May 2012


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HP-UX March 2012 enhancements (Update 10)

Always-on


Database enablement • Enable mission-critical deployments of EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus Advanced Server (PPAS) high availability at a lower cost

– Reduce need for custom scripts on EnterpriseDB (PPAS)

– Easily integrate EnterpriseDB into a Serviceguard cluster

– Faster deployment HA protected configurations for high availability

• Protect all major types of SAP databases

– Extend Serviceguard to Sybase ASE 15.7

– Use the full easy deployment feature set SGeSAP provides, now with Sybase ASE 15.7

Virtualized environment high availability

• Improve uptime in virtualized environments

– Easily configure Serviceguard clusters to support vPars v6 failover

– Quickly deploy vPars/HP VM 6.1 with Serviceguard toolkit

Storage enablement • Extend mission-critical high availability to lower cost storage

– Lower costs and configure mission-critical applications using iSCSI shared storage on HP P4000 G2 SAN storage devices with HP Serviceguard

– Simplify cluster management and support single instance DB using HP Serviceguard ECMT

Dynamic


HP-UX Containers v3.1 (now provided within all OEs) consolidates multiple HP 9000 Containers within one HP-UX instance

Converged virtual partition and virtual machine (v6.1) software

Expand scalability and flexibility capabilities for virtualized environments with enhanced functionality in one software product:

• vPars and VM v6.1 now support the full range of Integrity i2 servers (i2 blades, rx2800 i2, Superdome 2) (with additional VM support of legacy Integrity servers)

• Extend vPars to Integrity i2 blades and rx2800 i2, providing greater virtualization scalability, performance, and more efficient resource utilization

• Increase virtualization I/O efficiency for HP-UX vPars and Integrity VM v6.1

– Reduce costs and expand virtualization with shared I/O for virtual partitions

– Improve I/O performance: meet high bandwidth needs with dedicated (direct I/O) network devices

– Access vast amounts of storage (up to 2,048 LUNs per vPar or VM) with NPIV of Fibre Channel host adaptors

• Flex workloads as needed to meet requirements:

– Balance workloads by migrating virtual partitions between servers

– Transform workloads between virtual partitions and virtual machines

Integrity VM (v4.3) vast storage access

Access vast amounts of storage (up to 2,048 LUNs per VM) with NPIV of Fibre Channel host adaptors—enabled in Integrity VM v4.3 (January 2012 patches)

Logical server migration between physical and virtual servers

• Better meet service-level agreements (SLAs)

– Migrate logical servers between physical and virtual servers—with Matrix OE for HP-UX 7.0 and Integrity VM v4.3 (January 2012 patches)

Infrastructure management • Matrix OE 7.0 for HP-UX (Web release)

– Increase scalability and simplify management for large, diverse sets of cloud users in multi-tenancy environments

Enduring


I/O • PCIe SCSI card support now on HP Integrity rx2800 i2 Server SC11Xe

– Migrate to the new HP Integrity rx2800 i2 Server while protecting your investments in local SCSI-based data storage infrastructure

• Deploy HP Integrity Superdome 2 on Cisco networking stack

– Added support for the HP Cisco Fabric Extender Interconnect Module on HP Integrity Superdome 2 8s, 16s, and 32s systems


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HP-UX 11i v3 November/December 2011 enhancements

Increase server uptime, flexibility, and efficiency with strategic enhancements, provided in: firmware, Web, patch, and solution updates.

Dynamic


HP Integrity Superdome 2 dynamic enhancements

• Increase server uptime and flexibility by dynamically flexing Integrity Superdome 2 processor cores between HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) v5

• Reduce costs, mitigate risks, and improve utilization; dynamically activate and deactivate reserve capacity (HP Instant Capacity [iCAP], Temporary Instant Capacity [TiCAP], and Global Instant Capacity [GiCAP]) between partitions, within or across servers

• Increase efficiency by dynamically and automatically triggering resource adjustment, for server workloads based on set policies and real-time demand with HP gWLM, which is enhanced for vPars v5 dynamic cores and iCAP

• Increase uptime by dynamically upgrading firmware

• Increase server uptime and resiliency with dynamic replacement of failed processors

• Increase financing flexibility by paying only for what you use with pay-per-use support of vPars v5 dynamic cores

HP-UX Virtual Partitions (vPars) v6 (for Integrity blades)

Via November 2011 Web release:

• Extend highly scalable virtualization to Integrity blades; reduce costs by providing greater virtualization scalability, performance, and more efficient resource utilization

• Reduce costs and gain management control with shared I/O; iLO Remote Console and NPIV storage access; and a new, easy-to-use, full-control GUI

HP VirtualSystem for Integrity Superdome 2/HP-UX

Accelerate deployment of virtualized, mission-critical solutions with a proven, highly optimized, and preconfigured solution. Instantly adjust to dynamic business demands and scale to support virtualization of any workload

Enduring


Java 7 • Java 7 is now optimized for HP-UX for a robust platform for mission-critical applications

• Protect your investment in Java applications, supporting the next generation of Java technologies

• Gain substantial performance increase on the Java Virtual Machine using support for dynamic languages

• HPjmeter software is optimized for Java 7 to identify and diagnose performance problems in Java applications


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HP-UX 11i v3 September 2011 (Update 9)

Unified


File systems Increase performance for file systems mounted on HP Logical Volume Manager (LVM) volumes with OnlineJFS file system version 5.0.1—now a default within HP-UX:

• File system “lock contention” is no longer an issue, thanks to direct and concurrent I/O available in base Veritas File System (VxFS) and OnlineJFS, respectively

System management Ease installation with new Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) provider “mega bundle”

Application development Ease software development with updates to C/C++ compiler and HPjmeter (Java performance optimizer)

Always-on


High availability and disaster recovery (HP Serviceguard)

• Increase availability of IBM DB2 High Availability Disaster Recovery replication with Serviceguard by using HP Serviceguard Toolkit for Database Replication Solutions

• Increase availability of HP 3PAR Storage Array data with new HP Serviceguard Metrocluster and Continentalcluster disaster recovery for HP 3PAR, with synchronous data replication and automated failover

High availability (HP Serviceguard Extension for SAP—SGeSAP)

Increase availability:

• SGeSAP supports “easy deployment” of SAP applications

• Keep SAP highly available with SAP Web Dispatcher integration

• Simplify SAP deployment using Serviceguard Manager

• Enable failover success using SAP cluster verification

• Reduce Oracle licenses with SGeSAP and workload containers

Security • Increase data security with the latest cryptographic libraries and an encrypted network in the latest open source versions of Secure Shell (SSH) and OpenSSL (OpenSSL 0.9.8q and OpenSSH 5.8)

• Reduce security threats with updated security definitions within OpenSSH, Bastille, and IPFilter

• Increase the robustness and isolation of HP-UX Containers by adding auditing and HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System

Dynamic


Infrastructure management Increase your benefits from private cloud today with HP Matrix Operating Environment 6.3—now included in the HP-UX 11i v3 VSE-OE:

• The expanded Matrix OE enables an existing Matrix environment to also manage virtual machines (VMs) from an Integrity Superdome 2 environment with HP Expanded Matrix Conversion Services

• Increase scalability and simplify management for large, diverse sets of cloud users in multi-tenancy environments

• Simplify storage management with HP 3PAR storage integration

• Manage utilization of multi-initiator NPIV

HP-UX Containers 3.0 (now provided within all OEs) increases isolation and control:

• Enable consolidation of multiple private environments within an HP-UX instance with new system containers

• Gain control with per-container administrator domains

• Gain enhanced compliance with force-to-wire capability, which sends networking to the wire if external monitoring or auditing is required

3.1 (now Web released) simplifies container manageability:

• Easily update HP-UX in a container environment

• Replicate containers for faster setup of new containers

Enduring


Networking (HP X.25) Enable legacy X.25 software applications to run unchanged on HP Integrity servers over TCP/IP on Ethernet hardware

HP 9000 Containers Leverage the power of Integrity servers by consolidating multiple HP 9000 environments onto a single Integrity server


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HP-UX 11i v3 March 2011 (Update 8)

Dynamic


Infrastructure management Increase your benefits from private cloud with Matrix Operating Environment 6.3—available in an April 2011 Web release:

• Increase provision scalability up to 3,200 nodes (with Federated CMS)

• Manage any VM host as part of the HP CloudSystem Matrix resource pool (with HP CloudSystem Matrix Extended Infrastructure)

• Convert existing HP BladeSystem hardware into Matrix-managed nodes (with HP CloudSystem Matrix Conversion Services)

• Simplify storage management with new HP 3PAR storage integration

• Reduce costs by managing utilization of multi-initiator NPIV

HP Integrity Virtual Machines Version 4.3:

• Double the virtual machine size,9 supporting larger mission-critical workloads, with up to 16 virtual cores, 128 gigabytes of memory, and 256 HP Integrity Virtual Machine Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO) storage LUNs

• Reduce management costs with new administrative capabilities

• Quickly manage VM guests wherever they are running with virtual HP iLO Remote Console, which provides a specific IP address for each guest console. This helps in the following:

– Reduces costs and enables network-attached storage with shared NFS storage

– Automates deployment with a new tool, which edits Extensible Firmware Interface variables for guest virtual firmware from within a VM host

HP-UX Containers10 3.0 HP-UX Containers 3.0 increases isolation and control in an April 2011 Web release; new system containers:

• Enable consolidation of multiple private environments within an HP-UX instance

• Gain control with per-container administrator domains

• Gain enhanced compliance with force-to-wire capability, which sends networking to the wire if external monitoring or auditing is required

Always-on


HP Serviceguard A.11.20 Patch A enhancements (released in April 2011):

• Simplify and increase availability—with robust replication capabilities of the HP 3 Data Center solution

• Ease deployment—with command line and graphical user interfaces in HP Serviceguard Manager

• Increase serviceability and manageability—with manual site switching—to further reduce downtime and to validate a cluster configuration

• Increase integration and modularity—with simple configuration for partner products

HP Serviceguard Extension for Real Application Clusters (SGeRAC)

Now bundled into the HP-UX 11i v3 High availability Operating Environment (HA-OE) and HP-UX 11i v3 Data Center Operating Environment (DC-OE) with no additional cost for licensing or support

HP SGeSAP Licensing now made consistent with Integrity servers—with per-socket, tiered pricing

HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite (SMS)

Simplify suites, with or without a cluster file system:

• One suite is now targeted for single-instance Oracle customers.

• The other suite is targeted for Oracle RAC customers (with the cluster file system). Customers with Serviceguard SMS, which will be obsolete, can be migrated to a higher-level bundle.

Security HP-UX 11i v3 introduces a new capability called HP-UX Whitelisting, which:

• Protects all critical system files from being modified

• Enables only authorized applications to access protected files and data

• Simplifies certification efforts like PCI Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS)

• Seamlessly integrates into current environments: HP Serviceguard clusters, HP Data Protector, and Symantec

The SSLCipherSuite, which specifies the suite of encryption ciphers that the server uses to make communications more secure, is now customizable.

Unified


System management • DRD now synchronizes volume characteristics, reducing the length of planned downtime

• HP SMH is now more efficient—you no longer need to refresh your screen to see issues; status icons are auto refreshed

Application development • Performance analysis is improved: pinpoint problems more efficiently and exactly with HP Caliper 5.3

• Reduce troubleshooting time with the improved, central WBEM Assist Utility

9 While Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2 has a maximum of 8 processor cores, version 4.3 has a maximum of 16 processor cores.10 Formerly HP-UX Secure Resource Partitions.


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11 Based on 2010 testing on mean time between failures in HP BCS Hardware and Systems Technology with analysis of hardware crash rates, comparing the previous generation of Integrity Superdome with Integrity Superdome 2.

12 Based on 2010 analysis by HP Labs, referring to Integrity Superdome 2 Crossbar Fabric. All data paths within the chipset are fault tolerant, with end-to-end retry and rerouting.

13 HP performance engineering 2010 testing.14 Comparison of time to configure storage and package using the previous release and the new Serviceguard Manager easy package storage enhancement (as of

testing by HP Availability Clusters Solutions Lab [ACSL], 2010).15 Maintenance outages usually take 3–12 hours and may require scheduling planned downtime as frequently as every month (according to information provided by

Oracle, 2010).16HP Availability Clusters Solutions Lab (ACSL) 2010 comparison of Serviceguard 11.19 with Serviceguard 11.20.17 Based on HP experience with the Solaris to HP-UX Porting Kit (SHPK) and customer testimonials (as of 2010), such as from a large European logistics provider that

automated about 90 percent of its code with SHPK, reducing its deployment time on HP-UX to weeks from months. Because the AHPK technology is similar to that of SHPK, we assume similar benefits from AHPK.

18 The European logistics provider estimated (in 2010) 4–5 months of porting effort and was able to complete the porting in 4–5 weeks by using SHPK. We expect similar benefits from AHPK when porting AIX code.

19Based on 2010 SHPK experience and testimonials.

Unified


A common converged platform • Consolidate applications on a common platform based on a unified blade architecture from x86 to Integrity Superdome 2 servers

• Keep applications up and running using power-on-once technology, which provides a boost of more than 4.5 times to infrastructure reliability11

• Scale up with HP Integrity Superdome 2 Crossbar Fabric featuring fault tolerance in 100 chipset data paths12

• Improve performance by up to four times and pay an entry price that is up to 40 percent lower13

• Take advantage of the new bladed HP Integrity Superdome 2, including 100 mission-critical innovations that make it more reliable, affordable, and flexible than ever before

Always-on


HP Serviceguard Extension for Oracle E-Business Suite (SGeEBS)

• Reduce the time and the cost of clustering Oracle E-Business Suite by 93 percent14 with the new HP SGeEBS

• Reduce 12 hours of planned downtime a month for Oracle E-Business Suite maintenance15

• Enhance resource utilization and reduce costs by integrating with HP Matrix Operating Environment software

• Scale easily with full support for disaster recovery

HP Serviceguard Toolkit for Oracle Data Guard

• Manage databases with high availability and zero custom coding

• Integrate HP Serviceguard and Oracle Data Guard to achieve high availability and disaster recovery for Data Guard

• Protect your systems with automatic Data Guard failover and switchover

• Provide enhanced resiliency against data corruption

Faster startup for Oracle RAC after failover

• Speed startup time by 90 percent16 for multi-instance applications such as Oracle RAC, SAP, and cluster file systems

• Restart multinode packages simultaneously instead of sequentially

Dynamic


HP 9000 Containers • Consolidate applications in days, not months, with new HP 9000 Containers that virtualize PA-RISC environments on Integrity servers to reduce resource burn

HP Integrity Virtual Machines • Enhance resource utilization by running multiple instances of operating systems; use Integrity Virtual Machines to run HP-UX 11i v2 as a guest on an HP Integrity Superdome 2 server that is running HP-UX 11i v3

HP-UX Porting Kit • Port AIX to HP-UX 80 percent faster17 with the new AIX to HP-UX Porting Kit (AHPK), which automatically identifies porting issues, accurately estimates effort, and recommends solutions. Reduce porting time by 85–95 percent against manual processes,18 and achieve 90–95 percent automation19—all with a completely free, fully supported product from HP


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Unified


HP-UX Software Assistant (SWA) • Faster and more options in generating reports with SWA

• Patch flagging in SWA clearly explains why patches are recommended

HP Caliper Caliper with ktracer delivers improved reliability, expanded support, and ease of use

Always-on


Security • The first commercial UNIX to be successfully evaluated against the new commercial common criteria

• Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) compartmentalized operations protection profile

• Bastille certified by the Center for Internet Security as providing a system-hardening tool that reflects the best practices across the industry by independent experts

• Enhancements to IPFilter firewall

• HP Online VM Migration can employ data encryption during migration, an option to paying for expensive private networks to perform online migrations

• Secure resource partitions are easier to deploy with new reference architectures for Oracle and SAP

Dynamic


HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2 • Delivers automatic memory reallocation

• lvmove command for Linux LVM reduces manual steps when moving logical volumes

• New storage reporting tool

• Suspend and resume guests with Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2; less interruption in online VM migration

• Tighter management of SLAs with memory entitlements, which are part of HP Integrity Virtual Machines automated resource allocation

• Boot a logical volume in LVM Layout 2 in addition to LVM Layout 1

• Online VM Migration for Integrity Virtual Machines is now included in HP-UX 11i v3 virtualization bundles (VSE-OE, DC-OE, and HP Matrix Operating Environment Suite) and Accelerated Virtual I/O (AVIO)

• Drivers are now bundled with Integrity Virtual Machines OpenVMS guest support and are integrated with HP Insight Orchestration

• Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2 improves VMs-as-a-Serviceguard-package functionality, including integration with application monitoring

Dynamic Root Disk • Provides the ability to compare and synchronize a clone with the running system with DRD LVM snapshots

Enduring

Enhancements

• Latest standards for Java, C++, and Fortran improve quality and speed porting to HP-UX 11i


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Unified


Locality-Optimized Resource Alignment (LORA)

Performance optimization now includes a new “loratune” command to simplify retuning after a configuration change. Also, the new “parconfig” command simplifies the configuration of nPartitions (nPars)

File system I/O New direct I/O and concurrent I/O make it possible to bypass the typical computing overhead associated with file systems and approach to raw disk performance, which more than doubles the I/O performance for all involved applications and users, compared to the prior release

Direct I/O in VxFS Lite 5.0.1 • HP delivers direct I/O in VxFS Lite 5.0.1, which is part of the HP-UX 11i v3 Base OE, and concurrent I/O in VxFS Full (OnlineJFS) 5.0.1, which is part of high availability, VSE, and DC-OEs

• Compared to the prior release, the new VxFS Lite performance, as a percent of raw disk performance, is more than double, up from about 10–15 percent to 30–50 percent. VxFS Full more than doubles I/O performance also, up from 30–50 percent to 80–99 percent of raw disk performance

HP Instant Capacity iCAP version B.11.31.09.02.00 includes the following new features and changes:

• Enhanced performance of GiCAP by efficiently using locally available TiCAP (speed up initial activation of cores)

• Group Manager is now enabled to accept members with longer passwords (up to 80 characters)

• More efficient OE upgrade process

HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Update 1 increases management scope with:

• The ability to monitor and manage HP ProLiant G6 servers

• Support for HP Insight Management WBEM Providers v2.3 as well as WBEM providers for Linux on Integrity servers

Driver updates • Extended support for PCI Express

• Support for tape devices using LTO-5 format

• IBX4-00 driver for InfiniBand now includes support for Reliable Datagram Sockets in Oracle RAC installations

• Support for USB 2.0 high-speed devices and DVD write capability

Always-on


HP Serviceguard Manager • Serviceguard Manager B.02.00.10: Cut cluster management time by half. Utilize the Cluster Topology Map to view cluster status at a glance, drag and drop packages from one node to the other, and view the integration with HP Serviceguard ECMT, SGeRAC, Metrocluster, and built-in log viewers for faster troubleshooting

• The industry’s only fully IPv6-ready clustering solution: A Serviceguard cluster can now operate on a set of nodes where a single IPv4 address would not be configured and all network traffic must be IPv6 (with no IPv4 traffic at all). IPv4-only and mixed IPv4/IPv6 clusters are also supported

• Auto Port Aggregation (APA) support: HP Serviceguard SMS Suite provides support for APA as a cluster heartbeat, online changes to cluster configuration, and automatic resynchronization between cluster nodes

Security • HP helps you achieve new file-level encryption to protect your data in transit. Together with our existing volume encryption, HP-UX 11i provides the granularity of encryption for every business need

• HP-UX 11i is the only UNIX system to offer both levels of encryption services

• HP helps you meet recently heightened auditing requirements for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and CIS requirements. Update 5 reduces system resources used during security auditing and reporting, and provides PCI/SOX report templates to save you report-creation time

• The HP-UX 11i automation-enhanced system-hardening tool, Bastille, is now aligned with the latest hardening checklist from the CIS—the leading industry-consensus security benchmark organization

• HP-UX 11i comes enabled with new capabilities, including keystroke logging and capturing terminal session logs

• The Disk Scrub capability with mediainit now includes the ability to validate the scrubbed data written during the last pass of the disk scrub

HP-UX Software Assistant (SWA)

• Scales further to enable security bulletin analysis and patch maintenance for more systems in a single view when integrated with HP SIM—now up to 100 systems instead of just 10

• SWA software’s further integration with SIM leads to additional boosts to productivity, including consolidated logging and option selection. Users no longer have to exit SIM or open a new window to edit the SWA configuration file on the CMS


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Dynamic


Online package maintenance mode

Package can be put into a partially started state for maintenance purposes

Dynamic Root Disk HP-UX 11i DRD hot recovery and hot maintenance are now supported for Serviceguard upgrades. Perform Serviceguard upgrades on clones while nodes and cluster continue to run, and use hot recovery to revert if needed

Cluster-aware SAN congestion control

HP-UX 11i v3 Update 5 and Serviceguard work together to reduce timeouts and SAN congestion by automatically managing I/O queues to save hours or even days on storage management

HP Logical Volume Manager and Mirrordisk/UX

Multinode online reconfiguration is available for SGeRAC clusters; vgmove can move LVM volume groups (VG) from one array to another with no application downtime; pvmove can now rebalance all volume groups at the same time; and LVM VG forced deactivation allows faster failover in a Serviceguard clustered environment because nodes can be deactivated without waiting for resynchronization

Enduring

Enhancements

• Legacy support: Serviceguard Metrocluster helps provide support for legacy and modular packages and Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) for single-instance databases, dynamic provisioning, and Metrocluster rolling upgrades


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HP-UX 11i v3 April 2009 (Update 4)

Unified


Memory file system • Doubles the performance of temporary file operations in memory, compared to v2

System Management • Now includes SMH setup wizards and graphical icon views

HPjmeter 4.0 • Features zero preparation analysis: it discovers, monitors, profiles, and troubleshoots Java applications without restarting the applications, with reduced memory and CPU overhead, and achieves results faster

HP Wildebeest Debugger • New release for core file, thread, and memory debugging, with expanded control and increased performance

HP Caliper 5.1 • Delivers simpler performance analysis, richer reports, and more efficient storage of the results

HP 9000 servers • Cross-development environment on Integrity servers for development of applications for HP 9000 systems

HP Mixed Mode Translator • Enables HP 9000 server customers to move native Java applications to Integrity servers, where they can invoke HP 9000 shared libraries and, therefore, Java Native Interface functions on HP 9000 servers

• All HP 9000 applications can run on Integrity servers with HP-UX 11i using the HP ARIES Dynamic Binary Translator, a long-proven tool supported by HP

Always-on


HP Serviceguard 11.19 • 83 percent faster failover; significant reduction of planned downtime associated with cluster maintenance and configuration; and fully integrated advanced resource management to reduce custom scripting, avoid human error, and provide a fully supported environment

• SGeSAP reduces recovery time for SAP liveCache from days or hours to two minutes when used in conjunction with the SAP supply chain

• Serviceguard ECMT now includes toolkits for IBM DB2, Sybase, and MySQL at no extra charge, and new support for Oracle ASM files speeds up the deployment of ASM into a cluster by 8x

• Serviceguard Manager now delivers more virtualization integration, tool tips, and cluster wizards to reduce the time and expertise required for cluster setup and maintenance

HP Mirrordisk/UX • Increase data and application protection through greater redundancy

• The number of mirror copies increased from 3 to 6

• Concurrent clustered node access to mirrors increased from 2 to 16

• Reduce time to resynchronize with improved mirror write cache and parallel resynchronization enhancements

• The number of shared cluster nodes with extended distance (100 km) increased from 2 to 4

Dynamic


HP Logical Volume Manager • Reduce downtime when making a provisioning change to volumes when your requirements grow or shrink

• Improve performance up to 88 percent in volume group scan and import operations

• Upgrade L1 volume group layouts in place of the highly scalable, modern L2 layout

Dynamic Root Disk • Enables online upgrades from earlier releases of HP-UX 11i v3 to the Update 4 release and later, with only the reboot time left as planned downtime

• Integrity Online VM Migration enables guest migration with no downtime

• Enhanced Bastille offers 50 percent more system items, which can be hardened to further reduce the time and expertise required to make your HP-UX 11i v2 and v3 systems more secure and meet security benchmark standards

Enduring

Enhancements

• New controls to reduce active processor energy use:

– Go green with the HP-UX v3 environment’s savings from power-managed processors, I/O, and cells

• SAN target port congestion management allows for extra workloads on physical systems or more guests in a virtualized system without adding more storage resources

• The disk sanitization tool is built in, for erase-in-place convenience that is compliant with U.S. Department of Defense standards


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HP-UX 11i v3 February 2007 (Initial release)

• HP-UX 11i v3 VM Host with AVIO

• More robust and automated cluster failover

• Advanced security integration and automation

• Improved multisystem manageability

• Dynamic power savings

• Faster application deployment and performance

• Expanded OE integration

• Enhanced regulatory compliance and data encryption

• Simplified blade management

• Comprehensive capacity planning

• Cluster-wide file system and volume management

• Dynamic nPars

• Online addition, replacement, and deletion of I/O drivers

• Optimized for Integrity server blades

• Multicore utilization from the compiler

• OS performance improvement of around 30 percent

• Next-generation mass storage stack

• Automatic device discovery and configuration; dynamic handling of SAN changes

• Self-configuring multipathing for automatic load balancing and failover

• Reduction of planned and unplanned downtime reduction

• In-depth security protection that is easier to deploy

• Memory migration included in virtualization

• Accelerated deployment with reference architectures


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