Upgrade from 11.22 to 11.23

[Speedware]

Hi,

I would to know if a lot of person are using 11.22 as production box or if most people upgraded to 11.23 by now ? Are people and software compagny dropping 11.22 in favor of 11.23 ?

I am asking because we are looking at upgrading a rx5670 from 11.22 to 11.23 because for example the latest version of Oracle won't install on 11.22 only on 11.23.
The server is use to compile the production version of the software that we produce on Itanium.

[Steven E. Protter]

Though this upgrade may be small, you may find a cold install, followed by applicatoion(re oracle) installation is a safer, more reliable path to take.

update-ux has proven problematic in recent years, though some stand by the process.

It should be planned and include an Ignite make_tape_recovery backkup either way you choose to go.

SEP

[Torsten.]

I agree to Steven - a cold install is the better way to upgrade the OS.

BTW, I have seen systems updated from HP-UX 9.xx to 10.xx and later to 11.00. You won't believe what you can see on such a system ...
confusion everywhere

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi,

I hope this link may help.

http://docs.hp.com/en/5990-6728/ch06s04.html

Regards,

[Ted Buis · Accepted solution]

I think your question is not how to do the upgrade, but whether the majority of your customers are going to want a product to run on 11.23 or 11.22. Unlike the pa-risc systems, where 11i v1 has more installs than 11i v2, for Itanium based Integrity servers sales have been doubling every year, and it hasn't been out for two decades, so there is a greater number of 11.23 users out there than 11.22 users. Both 11i v1.5 and 11i v1.6 were short time releases where customers were expecting to get the feature set of 11i v2. I would suggest that you go for the upgrade and freeze your 11.22 code, except for major defects. If you bought another disk, you could install 11.23 to it and keep your present 11.22 system. Just pick which disk you wish to boot from and the system would be there. You might need to check to see if both 11.22 and 11.23 are using the same JFS release for external storage so that you can go back and forth on that too.

[Speedware]

Thanks.
That's I wanted know.

[Ted Buis]

One other point is that 11.23 (11i v2) is also available for pa-risc now, so you can have one source code stream for both platforms. However, the number of 11i v2 installation is still below that of 11i v1 (11.11) on pa-risc.