topic Re: OS Support in Virtual Environment in Operating System - HP-UX

OS Support in Virtual Environment

Garry McCandless — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:21:20 GMT

Can someone tell me if it's possible to install HP-UX 11.11 as a guest OS. We have a very old application and need to look at migrating from Physical to Virtual.

Re: OS Support in Virtual Environment

Torsten. — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:33:29 GMT

No, this doesn't work. 11.11 is for RISC systems only.

Re: OS Support in Virtual Environment

likid0 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:47:14 GMT

Torsten I think you mean Itanium systems only. nope?

Re: OS Support in Virtual Environment

Torsten. — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:54:05 GMT

11.11 is for PA-RISC systems only.

HPVM runs on Integrities only.

Re: OS Support in Virtual Environment

Dennis Handly — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:58:58 GMT

>very old application and need to look at migrating from Physical to Virtual.

How old? You might be able to run the application under Aries on Integrity.

Re: OS Support in Virtual Environment

likid0 — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:44:52 GMT

Ah! OK, I din't read your sentence correctly

Re: OS Support in Virtual Environment

Garry McCandless — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:21:26 GMT

Thanks for the replies, one more question. What is the oldest version of HP-UX that will sit on a VM?

Re: OS Support in Virtual Environment

Torsten. — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:27:33 GMT

11.23, release around 2006 (need to look this up), but definitely 11.23.

Re: OS Support in Virtual Environment

Torsten. — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:32:45 GMT

Minimum guest version for HPVM4.1 is HP-UX 11i v2 September 2006 or any HP-UX 11i v3.

Re: OS Support in Virtual Environment

Garry McCandless — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:41:33 GMT

Thanks Torsten, Can you point me in the direction of some documentation. I need to report to my IT Director and he's not likely to accept that I got the information on a forum.

Re: OS Support in Virtual Environment

Torsten. — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:53:48 GMT

All the docs are just moved and it is not possible to send a direct link.

:-(

Here they are:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&taskId=101&prodClassId=10008&contentType=SupportManual&docIndexId=64255&prodTypeId=18964&prodSeriesId=4146186

Focus on

HP Integrity Virtual Machines Version 4.1 Release Notes

and

HP Integrity Virtual Machines Version 4.1 Installation, Configuration, and Administration

Brand new (with out notes yet):

HP Integrity Virtual Machines 4.2: Installation, Configuration, and Administration

Re: OS Support in Virtual Environment

Garry McCandless — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:59:28 GMT

Thanks once again. Totally spot on.

Cheers

Garry