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HP-UX 11i — Value leadership for integrated mission-critical UNIX® virtualization

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.

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).
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operating environment (OE) package Advanced file system and volume management High availability: Failover cluster software and related toolkits System performance analysis System management Security Kernel & application performance analysis Base file system and volume manager Advanced file system and volume management Goal-based workload management Partitioning Capacity advisor Virtualization manager System performance analysis
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)—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).

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.

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

Releases and updates

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

Update 4, April 2009 – HP announcement | Release notes HTML or PDF | QuickSpecs PDF or HTML
Update 3, September 2008 – HP announcement | Release notes PDF | QuickSpecs PDF
Update 2, March 2008 – HP announcement, Release notes HTML | PDF
Update 1, September 2007 – HP announcement, Release notes HTML | PDF
Initial release, February 2007 – HP announcement, Release notes HTML | PDF

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