VM Possibility

[jkingsbury]

Hello,

Is it possible to somehow get HP-UX (version B.11.00 U 9000/800) onto a virtual instance so my company can get rid of the vast amount of hardware it takes to support it.

I see a lot of info on 11.11 but not for my specific version (so sorry if this has been mentioned). 

If anyone has any info on this you would be helping me out greatly!

Thank you!

[Dave Olker · Accepted solution]

There is no way to run HP-UX 11.00 in a VM.   Your best bet would be to use HP 9000 Containers to move your application onto a supported hardware platform.  Here's where you can read more about this.

https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HP9000-Containers

http://h20565.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?sp4ts.oid=4146123&docId=emr_na-c03939459

http://h20565.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?sp4ts.oid=4146123&docId=emr_na-c03147980

Dave

[jkingsbury]

Yeah I kinda figured. Thank you so much for the reply and links!

[Bill Hassell]

As Dave mentions, the containers (aka, SRP) work very well for lightweight applications. I have a small rx1620 that is running  10.20, 11.00 and 11.11 systems at the same time. There is no migration needed - you just restore the old system's Ignite image into a container and then boot it up. This is especially easy when you want to test the new container -- there isn't anything to change in the old OS version, just boot up and try it out.

Real world caveats:

-- Although the Itanium hardware (especially i2 and i4) will be much faster, a CPU-intensive PARISC application may not seem quite as fast in a container. Now if the original boxes are old K-series or T500's, then you'll not see much of a problem.

-- SRP (containers) is not quite the same at the low level for networking and disk volume management. If your old applications play nicely and don't poke around in the kernel or hardware, you should be fine.

If you don't need more than 3 or 4 Itanium boxes, the rx2800's are screamers with none of the baggage that blades bring along. For average applications and databases, you could probably replace several K360's with just one rx2800.