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HP-UX 11i—HP UNIX® powers the mission-critical Converged Infrastructure

Adapt and Unify IT. Always-on Resiliency. Dynamic Optimization. Investment Protection and Stability
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HP understands that critical environments endure, and our HP-UX roadmap extends longer into the future than any other UNIX in the market. HP-UX 11i v3 is designed to simplify and unify IT; and deliver the always-on resiliency, dynamic optimization of resources, and investment protection and stability demanded in mission-critical computing. It integrates proven UNIX functionality with advances in high availability, security, virtualization, workload management and instant capacity; and delivers it within the industry’s first mission-critical Converged Infrastructure driving up flexibility reducing risk and delivering compelling value.

The core of the mission-critical Converged Infrastructure: HP-UX

With zero tolerance for downtime and a mandate to contain costs, increase innovation, improve IT productivity, and generate better business outcomes, you understand the need for a mission-critical Converged Infrastructure.
HP has been delivering mission-critical systems for decades, so when we set out to design the newest generation of our HP Integrity servers we designed them with your future in mind. With a unified architecture from x86 to Superdome 2, flexibly scaling of resources to meet any workload, always-on resiliency, and proven virtualization and infrastructure management, you can be confident that your mission-critical applications are protected now and in the future.
HP protects your UNIX environment with a 100% trade-in policy for support customers, and ensures forward binary compatibility for applications version to version, server to server.
» Learn more about HP-UX 11i Licensing and Trade-in Policies
HP-UX 11i v3 is pre-designed, pre-integrated, and application-ready. By integrating HP-UX 11i v3 with pre-packaged software, ISV solutions, and HP Integrity servers; the HP mission-critical Converged Infrastructure creates an ecosystem with four key objectives:

Simplify and unify IT

HP provides a common, modular architecture from x86 to Superdome 2 with common management.

Always-on resiliency

HP provides a proven operating environment delivering the industry's most resilient UNIX platform that ensures your mission critical applications are always-on and secure without compromise.

Dynamic optimization

HP-UX delivers built-in integration of virtualization and management software to dynamically optimise IT infrastructure.

Investment protection and stability

HP-UX is a stable operating environment powering the core of your mission-critical applications today and for many years to come, delivering exceptional value.

Overview of HP-UX 11i v3 Update Releases

We know that Unix is an essential platform for you and will remain so indefinitely. As part of our committed investment to HP-UX, HP is dedicated to bringing you the easiest UNIX to maintain and operate. Since we released HP-UX 11i v3 in February 2007, we have delivered Update Releases every six months. Through our Update Releases, HP delivers functionality improvements that span your entire UNIX stack in a single upgrade, significantly reducing productivity impact and maintenance downtime.
» Learn more about the enhancements in our HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environment Updates data sheet (PDF, 617 KB).
Advance capabilities of your mission-critical Converged Infrastructure with innovations that:
  • Improve: server and I/O efficiency, virtualization scaling and flexibility; extend high availability; and continue to protect your investment in HP-UX and Integrity servers with enhancements released in the March 2012 timeframe.
  • Increase dynamic capabilities of your HP Superdome 2 servers with a number of software and firmware enhancements released in November/December 2011.
Explore these and other enhancements in the recent HP-UX and Integrity releases.

Mission Critical Matters webinars

HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments allow you to purchase, install, and maintain a package of up to 160 or more software components as one. This built-in integration means you reduce risks, time and costs through faster deployment and simpler lifecycle management.

HP-UX 11i v3 Base OE (BOE)

  • Ideal for simple, less complex installations
  • Basic resource management
  • Workload containers
  • Utility pricing enablement
  • Built-in security
  • Sophisticated system management
  • Basic filesystem
  • Volume management
  • Comprehensive tools for Java development

HP-UX 11i v3 Virtual Server OE (VSE-OE)

Everything in the Base OE, plus:
  • Near raw filesystem performance
  • Disk mirroring
  • Virtualization from HP Matrix OE:
    • Goal-based workload management
    • Capacity planning
    • Virtual machines with online migration
    • Automated infrastructure provisioning
    • Advanced virtualisation management

HP-UX 11i v3 High Availability OE (HA-OE)

Everything in the Base OE, plus:
  • Near raw filesystem performance
  • Disk mirroring
  • System performance analysis
  • Availability:
    • Local clusters
    • Stretch clusters
    • Toolkits for plug-and-play availability for NFS, Oracle database, IBM DB2, MySQL Server, Sybase ASE, CIFS, Tomcat and Apache

HP-UX 11i v3 Data Center OE (DC-OE)

Everything in the Base OE, plus:
  • Near raw filesystem performance
  • Disk mirroring
  • System performance analysis
  • Availability*:
    • Local clusters
    • Stretch clusters
    • Toolkits for plug-and-play availability for NFS, Oracle database, IBM DB2, MySQL Server, Sybase ASE, CIFS, Tomcat and Apache
  • Virtualization from HP Matrix OE:
    • Goal-based workload management
    • Capacity planning
    • Virtual machines with online migration
    • Automated infrastructure provisioning
    • Advanced virtualization management

Compare the HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments

The following table provides a high level comparison of technology available in each of the HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments. Note that this is not a complete list, and highlights the software likely of most interest. For an exhaustive listing of the contents in each HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environment, please refer to the HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments Data Sheet (PDF, 546 KB).
HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environment

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Development and Performance Tools
Looking for something specific? Get to know the HP-UX software ecosystem.

» Availability

HP Serviceguard Solutions position you to survive and thrive by protecting your business with resilient operations—mitigating and managing risks and increasing the availability of IT to drive business results.

» Security

HP-UX's certified security solutions protect data, systems and identities against both external and internal threats and facilitate regulatory compliance.

» Virtualization

HP-UX delivers built-in integration of virtualization and management software to dynamically optimize IT infrastructure, enabling you to respond more rapidly to business requirements and reduce costs by insuring that IT resources are used most efficiently.

» Utility Pricing

HP offers the most advanced Instant Capacity portfolio available that lets you defer hardware costs, simplify capacity planning, improve resource utilization and eliminate over-provisioning. HP offers options for on demand processors, cell boards and memory, temporary capacity, and even the ability to automatically move hardware and software between servers.
To truly align IT costs to usage, HP Pay per use for HP Integrity servers measures how much capacity you use and bills you accordingly. If you use less, you pay less. Plus, HP caps the total payments to ensure you will never pay more than you would for a comparable lease.

» System Management

HP-UX delivers a common management infrastructure that integrates physical and virtual environments. Filesystem and volume management grow and shrink as well as most general administration tasks can be easily performed through HP System Management Homepage, simplifying manageability and reducing reliance on the Command Line Interface. The HP OnlineJFS filesystem for single instance, and Storage Management Suite with Cluster Filesystem and Volume Management for multi-node configurations truly cover all data management needs for your most critical environments.

» Storage Management

HP-UX 11i filesystems and storage management tools provide you with the flexibility and adaptability needed to manage your applications and data. The HP-UX Logical Volume Manager provides a time-tested and highly robust storage virtualization interface that enables you to both increase uptime and take advantage of your existing physical storage assets.

» Development and Performance Tools

The HP-UX 11i application development environment is available through open source or through a number of reputed partners, providing a rich environment in which you can build, edit, debug, and deploy your applications.

» Migrate to HP-UX 11i

HP provides proven, low risk, and cost-effective approaches to moving your applications from other systems to HP-UX 11i v3 on HP Integrity servers.
Preserve your software assets and take advantage of the latest advancements in HP's strategic UNIX® operating system. HP-UX 11i compatibility ensures that your applications will run on the latest release of the operating system, and on HP Integrity servers.