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HP-UX 11i v3 Update 4: overview

Driving down costs, not confidence, in mission-critical environments
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HP announces the availability of Update 4 for HP-UX 11i v3 and Serviceguard A.11.19 – shipping since 9 April 2009.
» Ideas International: Read Tony Iams' blog on the HP-UX 11i v3 Update 4 launch Non-HP site
» Ideas Read the press release: HP puts more 'UP' in uptime
HP-UX 11i v3 power saving features
Existing HP-UX 11i users: Your support contract entitles you to upgrade to the latest version at no cost! If you're currently running v2 or older, you will

What's new at a glance

Read the detail in your area of interest by following the links under each topic. For descriptions of enhancements related to system administrators and developers, click in the appropriate green heading.

For technical descriptions of what's new, please see:
HP-UX 11i v3 Update 4 release notes HTML | PDF
HP-UX 11i v3 QuickSpecs HTML | PDF

Cut costs, avoid risk                                          

Add 'faster and easier' to your failover cluster expectations – 83% faster failover than Serviceguard A.11.18, with automatic workload balancing for optimal performance
Update HP-UX 11i v3 online, with up to 50% less downtime
Turn on power savings
Protect more, more automatically: 50% more system items to harden
Configure and relocate as needed: Virtual Machine guests with no downtime
Increase data and application redundancy
Make logical volume provisioning changes online – eliminate the reboot!

» Drive up productivity: system administrators

Double the performance, compared to HP-UX 11i v2, of in-memory operations for key workloads, e.g. SAP NetWeaver.
Increase performance or consolidate more workloads with fixed storage costs.
Perform 100% of the most common actions typically performed on a cluster while the cluster is running.
Simplify IBM DB2, and other new apps' set-up.
Set-up wizards and graphical icons for HP-UX 11i management.
Gain 88% faster volume group scan and import operations.
Render sensitive hard drive data unrecoverable with erase-in-place convenience.

» Drive up productivity: software developers

For Java developers
Reduce time and effort for Java application performance analysis, with reduced system overhead.
For C/C++ developers
Simplify application performance analysis and expand control, with optimised data storage.
Debug shared libraries automatically, and more.
Simplify porting to HP-UX 11i with the new pthreads library function.
From HP 9000 to Integrity servers
Deploy Java applications written for HP 9000 on Integrity servers with performance faster than when run under ARIES, and with no
modification to the application.
Deploy the HP 9000 C/C++ development environment to preserve C/C++ applications and scripts when transitioning from HP 9000 to Integrity servers.

What's new: a packaging perspective

Update 4 enhancements benefit customers deploying any of the four HP-UX 11i v3 Operating Environments OEs. We've enhanced the operating system plus nine integrated products that ship with the Base Operating Environment (BOE). Three of seven software products have significant enhancements in both the High Availability OE (HA-OE) and Virtual Server OE (VSE-OE).

View the chart below to see which OEs and sold-separately products deliver new capability with Update 4, as well as what's offered at no charge to customers.

Chart of HP-UX 11i v3 operating environments enhancements

New or updated HP-UX 11i documents and related links

Product documents

HP-UX 11i v3 Update 4 release notes HTML | PDF
HP-UX 11i v3 QuickSpecs HTML | PDF

Resources

Related to SMH

A Guide to Migrating Hardware Diagnostics from EMS to WBEM-Based Solution: HP-UX 11i v3 HTML | PDF
Kansas City Power & Light weighed up the choice between Linux and HP-UX 11i. Dickey's analysis: 'If you don't count downtime, outages, availability issues and time to patch the OS, Linux might be cheaper. It has a place – just not as the foundation for our core applications.'

– Kelli Dickey, Systems Architect, Kansas City Power & Light