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Welcome to HP-UX 11i Version 2
What is HP-UX 11i v2?
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What is HP-UX 11i v2?
HP-UX 11i v2 is the latest Enterprise Release on Itanium-based systems
with extended software solutions and new hardware platforms.
Features and Applications Available in HP-UX 11i v2
The HP-UX 11i v2 release includes the following major features and
enhancements:
• All Operating Environments: Foundation OE, Enterprise OE,
Mission Critical OE, Minimal Technical OE, and Technical
Computing OE
• Support for 64-way capable Itanium-based version of Superdome
with 64-CPU performance scaling
• HP-UX Partition Manager support for HP-UX 11i, Windows, and
Linux running in separate partitions
• Multi-OS system management for HP-UX, Windows, and Linux
running in separate hard partitions
• Support for 1 terabyte of main memory
• Support for all previously released Itanium 2 servers: HP Integrity
rx5670 and HP Integrity rx2600
• Cell local memory for Superdome/Itanium-based performance
scalability
• PCI and PCI-X Doorbell for one-touch online I/O card removal or
replacement
• Six more dynamically tunable kernel parameters: dbc_max_pct,
dbc_min_pct, nflocks, nfile, maxfiles, and fs_symlinks
• nPars (hard partitions)
• VxFS/VxVM/CVM 3.5 (Veritas File System, Veritas Volume
Manager, Veritas Cluster Manager) with up to 1024 ACLs (Access
Control Lists), 2 terabyte maximum file size, and 4 terabyte
maximum file system size. VxFS is the default file system
• Performance improvements in Aries dynamic code translator
(executes PA-RISC binaries on Itanium systems) versus HP-UX 11i
v1.6 (B.11.22)
• iCOD (instant Capacity on Demand)
• Pay Per Use (PPU)
• Dynamically Loadable Kernel Modules for File System
• Java Virtual Machine (JVM) v1.4.1 with 32- and 64-bit hotspot