HP-UX 11.00 is supported on cells sx1000 or sx2000?

[Ramón Montes]

Hi, HP-UX 11.00 is supported on cells sx1000 or sx2000?

Thanks!!!

[James George_1]

See this posting

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1065378

Rgds / James

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

The OS is not supported any more on any hardware. Its past end of life.

SEP

[whiteknight]

Ramon,

you need at least 11.11 OS to support the capability of npartition.

http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-1247B/ch01s01.html#v934360


WK

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33

[Ramón Montes]

well, my trouble is the next:
I need to do ignite to 5470 server and this server works with hp-ux 11.00. Then, that ignite works in a cell sx1000 with 8 cores?

Thanks!!

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Ramon:

The "sx" designates an Itanium architecture. For that, you must have 11.23 or 11.31. You are not going to get 11.0 to Ignite. That turkey won't fly!

Regards!

...JRF...

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

"The "sx" designates an Itanium architecture"

James, don't mix this up with "rx"
;-)

The sx1, sx2, sx1000 and sx2000 are the chipsets used in the servers.

For example:

HP 9000 rp7440 Server with sx2000 can run 11.11

HP 9000 rp7420 Server with sx1000 can run 11.11

(both can run 11.23 and 11.31 too).

BUT - even the latest 11.00 version cannot servers having this chips installed.

Your answer to

"Then, that ignite works in a cell sx1000 with 8 cores?"

is NO.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

>Torsten: James, don't mix this up with "rx"

Ooops! Torsten, thanks, I did in fact :-((

Regards!

...JRF...

[rick jones]

Actually sx simply implies mckinley bus interface, and the PA-8800 and PA-8900 sport the McKinley bus interface. IIRC, just as there are some PA-RISC systems using the zx2 chipset, there are some with the sx1000. I'm not sure about sx2000.

However, 11.00 is definitely not supported on the sx[12]000. I've not tracked UX releases as closely as I used to, but IIRC the sx1000-based PA-RISC systems require 11.23 or later.

So, if the goal is to use an sx1000-based partition as a recovery site for an rpmumble, the best thing to do, apart from perhaps engaging HP consulting :) would be to get that system up to 11.23. As far as dumping an ignite image from an rp5400 onto an sx1000-based system, the I/O is rather different, and might pose some challenges.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

The hardware is very different rp5470 versus sx series. A make_tape_recovery or make_net_recovery image may work or may not, but there will be some challenges or extra reboots to handle the hardware differences.

An Ignite Golden image is a little more hardware independent and essentially has a cold OS install behind the scenes and is more likely to work.

SEP