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HP-UX 11i v3 Update 5 September 2009

Drive mission-critical UNIX® costs down, security and productivity up
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Update 5 delivers enhancements that root out risk and reboot and crunch costs—to make life a lot easier for HP-UX 11i system administrators.

HP invests to widen its mission-critical UNIX advantage.
» Read what analysts and press are saying about HP-UX 11i v3 Update 5 September 2009

HP-UX 11i v3 leads AIX, and Solaris trails by 25 percent

HP introduces our latest v3 release, HP-UX 11i v3 Update 5, to broaden our lead over AIX, and cut operational costs for HP-UX 11i customers. Update 5 increases mission-critical security, file systems, cluster and system management, and partitioning.

See if you agree with the 266 enterprise UNIX customers who voiced their UNIX preferences, as they compared HP-UX 11i, IBM AIX, and Sun Solaris.

Register now to attend the two live HP Webcasts with Gabriel Consulting Group's Dan Olds presenting the 2009 results of his annual enterprise UNIX customer preference study.

What’s new in Update 5 September 2009

HP-UX 11i v3 Update 5, now shipping worldwide, runs on HP 9000 and HP Integrity servers.
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This release delivers enhancements engineered to cut costs, not confidence, from your mission-critical environment.

Key features and benefits

The new features of HP-UX 11i v3 Update 5 help you to reduce risk, increase availability, and drive up your team’s productivity.

Reduce security risk

  • Encrypted File System (EVFS): 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 to offer both levels of encryption services.
  • Meet recently heightened auditing requirements for compliance with 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.
  • Bastille: Take advantage of the HP-UX 11i automation-enhanced system hardening tool, Bastille. It is now aligned with the latest hardening checklist from the Center for Internet Security (CIS)—the leading industry-consensus security benchmark organization. Enjoy new capabilities including keystroke logging, which can capture terminal session logs, an emerging security compliance requirement.
  • Validate the scrubbed data written during the last pass of the disk scrub process, through Disk Scrub capability with mediainit.

Increase productivity and performance

  • Software Assistant (SWA): Scales further to enable security bulletin analysis and patch maintenance for more systems in a single view when integrated with SIM—now up to 100 systems instead of just 10.
  • Additional boosts to productivity resulting from SWA’s further integration with SIM include consolidated logging and option selection. No more having to exit SIM or open a new window to edit the SWA configuration file on the CMS.
  • Locality-Optimized Resource Alignment (LORA): Performance optimization now includes a new loratune command, to simplify re-tuning after a configuration change.
  • Logical Volume Manager (LVM):
    • Minimize performance impact to applications, saving up to seven hours per week on storage array reconfiguration.
    • Eliminate performance impact to clustered applications during changes to logical volumes, with Logical Volume Manager (LVM) Multi-node Online Reconfiguration.
    • Avoid up to two hours of application downtime with new online VGMove features in LVM that allow applications to continue to access data, even while it is being moved between arrays.
  • OnlineJFS 5.0.1: Achieve 99 percent of raw performance with all of the manageability of a filesystem.

Improve service availability

  • Serviceguard integration with HP-UX 11i Dynamic Root Disk (DRD): Reduce downtime when updating Serviceguard up to 75 percent
  • Serviceguard integration with HP-UX 11i v3 Mass Storage Stack: Reduce congestion and I/O timeouts in clustered SAN environments with automatic, dynamic coordination of I/O traffic within a cluster automatically and dynamically.
  • Online Package Maintenance Mode: Enables you to modify a Serviceguard package while the application continues to run.
  • Serviceguard Manager B.02.00.10: Cuts cluster management time in half. Use the new Cluster Topology Map to view cluster status at a glance and drag and drop packages from one node to the other.
  • Save time and effort with new integration with ECMT, SGeRAC and Metrocluster, built-in log viewers for faster troubleshooting, and load time that's three times faster.
  • Modular Packages for the Serviceguard NFS Toolkit
  • Full IPv6 support: Support your needs for network growth and security and choose either mixed IPv4/IPv6 or fully IPv6 clusters.
  • Serviceguard Storage Management Suite A.03.00: Auto-Port Aggregation as cluster heartbeat, online cluster configuration changes, 4 node EDC RAC clusters up to 100 km and more
  • Metrocluster: Support for modular packages including a Legacy-to-Modular Package Migration Tool, Oracle ASM support for single instance Oracle Database, EVA 6400/8400, MC SRDF—Dynamic provisioning, and Metrocluster Rolling Upgrades

Other new features and benefits

  • iCAP version B.11.31.09.02.00 now includes enhanced performance of GiCAP by efficiently using locally available TiCAP (speed up initial activation of cores). The GiCAP Group Manager is also now enabled to accept members with longer passwords (up to 80 characters).
  • More efficient OE upgrade process: HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) 5.3 with Update 1 increases management scope with the ability to monitor and manage the leading HP ProLiant G6 servers
  • HP Insight Management WBEM: Support for HP Insight Management WBEM Providers v2.3, as well as Integrity Linux providers:
    • Driver updates
    • Extended support for PCI-e
    • Support for tape devices using LTO5 format
    • IBX4-00 driver for Infiniband now includes support for RDS in Oracle RAC installations
  • Support for USB 2.0 high speed devices and DVD write capability

View customers’ direct results: new case studies

See how power users like you are reaping the benefit of HP-UX 11i, its integration, and HP’s overall portfolio of IT solutions and services. Consolidate today to HP Integrity blades or servers running HP-UX 11i, and reap the benefit of cost savings, higher performance and IT efficiency.

ICA Fluor

ICA Fluor consolidated Solaris SPARC systems' workload to an HP Integrity Superdome running HP-UX 11i v3 and benefited from integrated virtualization. ICA Fluor integrated information from multiple sites with main office for operational efficiency, improved business decision-making and coordination on large projects, reduced IT costs and risks, and paved way for planned exponential company growth.

AAR

By migrating from Solaris on SPARC to Integrity server blades running HP-UX 11i v3, AAR achieved higher performance and increased IT efficiency.

FAW-Volkswagen

HP helped FAW-Volkswagen upgrade from Oracle 9 and SAP R/3 on HP 9000 systems to Oracle 10g and SAP ERP 6.0 on an HP Superdome server. FAW-Volkswagen gained the latest functionality benefits from SAP and Oracle software, and reduced the burden and unnecessary expenditure on extensive secondary development resulting from system applications

Tatung WiMAX

Tatung WiMAX’s mission-critical UNIX infrastructure now builds on HP Integrity rx7640 servers, HP Integrity BL860c with HP-UX 11i v3, HP ProLiant BL460c running Windows, and a SAN comprising an HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array 8100 system.

General Mills

General Mills consolidated mission-critical Oracle and SAP workloads with HP-UX 11i on HP Superdome and other Integrity servers.

NACF

The National Agricultural Cooperative Foundation (NACF) in Korea migrated from Unisys mainframes to HP Integrity Superdome servers to reconstruct their core banking system on HP-UX 11i to be ready for the future.

NACF reduced product development time from one month to five days, reduced costs by at least $40 million US annually, improved customer satisfaction by delivering innovative new products faster, and enabled the rapid adaptation that is necessary for today’s changing financial environment.

Citrix

Citrix upgraded to the latest Superdome systems with HP-UX 11i v3. The company gained 5X performance improvements for SAP users and applications, zero downtime, the ability to restore operations in less than 20 minutes, savings of 85 percent in annual disaster recovery preparedness costs, and dynamic allocation of storage, processor, and memory resources.

“There is nothing better we could have chosen for our SAP environment—we are very happy with the Superdome platform, and it just gets better and better.”
—Dimitri Mundarain, senior manager, data center services and IT operations, Citrix

HP-UX 11i v3: the road ahead

HP recommends that existing customers update to the latest release of HP-UX 11i v3 for its performance, scalability, high availability, virtualization, and management advantages over earlier releases. Now, Dynamic Root Disk with Update-UX makes those updates simpler and with less downtime than ever before. Come to the latest—to cut costs, not confidence, reduce and avoid risk, and improve your productivity to drive growth.

For mission-critical applications, the maturity and stability of UNIX® is unmatched.

HP-UX 11i v3 delivers over 25 years of UNIX innovation and reliability, and sets itself apart from other UNIX offerings with its integrated-by-design approach to high availability, simplified system management, security, automated performance optimization, and virtualization.

The unique HP Utility Pricing portfolio helps reduce capital expenses, more than any other vendor’s offering. Fully integrated with HP-UX 11i workload management and clustering products, you can turn on and pay for more resources only when they are needed—completely automatically.

HP-UX 11i v3 ships in integrated pre-tested operating environments (OEs) that shorten your time-to-solution and reduce the risk inherent in gathering and testing operating environment components. The HP-UX 11i v3 OEs reduce software and software support costs 48 – 74 percent compared to purchasing the component software and its support separately.

  • Base OE (BOE) is for general UNIX use. BOE includes all HP-UX 11i Java, security and UNIX system management software.
  • Virtual Server OE (VSE-OE) is for consolidation-focused and soft partitioning use. VSE-OE includes global goal-based workload management, capacity planning, advanced file system and volume management, and virtualization management—one console provides for both physical and virtual systems.
  • High Availability OE (HA-OE) keeps applications available and accessible to your end users. HA-OE includes Serviceguard Solutions high-availability cluster software, plus advanced filesystem and volume management and performance management.
  • Data Center OE (DC-OE) is the superset of virtualization and clustering software for total mission-critical virtualization

Keep current: related new technical resources

View HP-UX 11i Knowledge-on-Demand—34 free, 1-hour technical how-to Webcasts for software developers and system administrators on using the latest HP-UX 11i v3 features to optimize your environment.

New in the last six months:

Release notes: HP-UX 11i v3 Update 5 September 2009 release PDF (1.7 MB) | HTML

Read before installing: HP-UX 11i v3 Update 5 September 2009 release PDF (320 KB) | HTML
Installation and Update Guide: HP-UX 11i v3 Update 5 September 2009 release PDF (2.3 MB) | HTML

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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.

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