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Vigilance: Introducing HP-UX 11i v3 Update 5

Calling all UNIX fans: Register now for the CIO Web events with HP and Gabriel

For the second year in a row, HP-UX 11i climbed in UNIX user preference and topped AIX and Solaris in a number of critical mission-critical UNIX survey topics.

View two CIO Web events with Gabriel Consulting Group’s Dan Olds and HP’s Brian Cox, plus CIO’s Jim Malone, and HP’s performance expert Martin Whittaker.

»UNIX: More strategic now than ever—recorded October 29, 2009

» Mission-critical UNIX performance: Beyond benchmarks

» Download the Gabriel companion papers HP ups Integrity performance; Customers laud UNIX availability; and UNIX: Alive, well, and strategic

» View Computerworld's 2009 survey—UNIX, alive and kicking for some time to come

HP-UX 11i v3: mission-critical UNIX®

HP-UX 11i v3 is a 64-bit UNIX operating system at its core, with over 25 years’ service in the technical, commercial, government and education sectors of the world economy. HP-UX 11i v3 runs on HP Integrity and HP 9000 servers.

HP-UX 11i v3 integrates proven UNIX functionality with HP’s advancements in high availability, security, partitioning, workload management, and instant capacity-on-demand for the benefits of risk avoidance, flexibility, quick time-to-solution, and lowered TCO.

»Explore HP-UX 11i v3 advantages versus Solaris and AIX.

The majority of HP-UX 11i v3 functionality ships in an operating environment (OE) package. Click on the image below for detail on each of the technology areas, or download the HP-UX 11i v3 QuickSpecs (PDF).

Additional software is available where specialization is called for:

Today, HP-UX 11i holds performance leadership across the range of industry benchmarks compared to other UNIX competitors who publish benchmark results, across the range of Integrity servers, from blades to entry-class to Superdome systems.

HP extends full HP-UX 11i value to users of all sizes. All HP-UX 11i v3 functionality is available equally across all Integrity server family members as appropriate. Here’s an example of ‘as appropriate’: nPars and vPars are hard and soft partitions for cell-based servers. HP Integrity mid-range systems and above are cell-based servers; entry-class servers and blade servers are not. Integrity Virtual Machines are provided as the partitioning solution for entry-class and blade servers.

HP guarantees application and data compatibility (PDF, 121 KB)—from the 1997 release of HP-UX 11.00 forward—including transitions from HP 9000 to HP Integrity servers. HP encourages current HP-UX 11i users to upgrade to v3 for the highest ROI. HP labs offer best practices and resources to make the upgrade as fast and easy as possible.

The Open Group certifies that HP-UX 11i v3 conforms to the UNIX 03 standard (PDF) Non-HP site

HP-UX 11i v3: unique advantages

World-wide UNIX operating system users of all sizes talk to us about what matters to their success. The focus is singular: for critical applications, beyond the necessary high performance, reliability and security, the systems must be flexible and simple to manage.

Flexibility and simplicity may sound like opposing goals. HP meets those goals with its ‘integrated by design’ engineering and packaging strategy, anticipating and automating what can be automated to relieve system administrators where possible. Each technology area advances HP-UX 11i v3’s position versus other UNIX operating systems; the integration is untouched by any competitor.

HP-UX 11i v3 drives down cost, not confidence, in mission-critical virtualization environments.

Then, contact a local sales representative to explore how HP can go to work for you.

Upgrade to v3: advantages vs. prior releases

Upgrade to HP-UX 11i v3 for the most cost-effective and productive HP-UX 11i environment yet.

»Learn how HP has packed up to 81% more software value into v3 OEs than what was in prior releases’ OEs.

Plus, the new OEs can reduce your support cost up to 10%— more in some cases. HP-UX 11i v3 exceeds the prior release’s functionality advantages in several substantial ways that combine to drive up your ROI when you upgrade to HP-UX 11i v3. Here are a few v3-only advantages:

»Visit ‘Why v3’ for details on the advancements that explain the improvement.

See what you’re missing until you upgrade!

Additionally, v3 customers can achieve more of their HP-UX 11i systems’ potential performance more simply with LORA (PDF) and Tune-N-Tools, tools that optimize HP-UX 11i v3 for key workloads like SAP and Oracle
Self-healing of failed I/O paths and devices
SAN device auto-detection and configuration
Increased availability in single-system and clustered environments
Expanded system and cluster limits in multiple dimensions, delivering scalability far beyond requirements today and projected into future years
Sub-CPU partitioning performance, scalability and online guest migration capability with Integrity Virtual Machines
Energy cost savings through HP-UX 11i v3 power management—control cells, I/O and active and idle processors to lower your electric bills!

Percent of Customers Who See HP-UX 11i v3 to be Better than HP-UX 11i v1/v2

Source: TechWise Research, Inc.:
Quantifying the Total Cost of Upgrade (TCU) for HP-UX Environments to HP-UX 11iv3

Real help

HP offers assistance in multiple ways to help you get the full HP-UX 11i v3 value:

Let your sales rep know how else we can help!

HP-UX 11i v3 updates & releases

The release notes linked below describe the functionality included in HP-UX 11i v3 initial release and subsequent update releases.

Release	Announcement page	Data sheet	Release notes and latest Quickspecs
Update 5, September 2009	» HP announcement	» Get features and benefits, and key changes in Update 5 (PDF, 262 KB)	Release notes: HTML Release notes: PDF Quickspecs: HTML Quickspecs: PDF
Update 4, April 2009	» HP announcement	» Get features and benefits, and key changes in Update 4 (PDF, 197 KB)	Release notes: HTML Release notes: PDF
Update 3, September 2008	» HP announcement	» Get features and benefits, and key changes in Update 3 (PDF, 103 KB)	Release notes: PDF
Update 2, March 2008	» HP announcement		Release notes: HTML Release notes: PDF
Update 1, September 2007	» HP announcement	» Get features and benefits, and key changes in Update 1 (PDF, 109 KB)	Release notes: HTML Release notes: PDF
Initial release, February 2007			Release notes: HTML Release notes: PDF

*Results from Gabriel Consulting Group 2008/09 Unix Vendor Preference Survey. Survey period covered 12/08-03/09 with 266 survey respondents representing small, medium and large enterprise data centers. For more information see

» For more information see www.gabrielconsultinggroup.com