replacement for D310 with K, N or L class servers

[Edward J. Segura]

I have a D310 server and was wondering about a replacement server. I have K580's, L2000, N4000, rp2470 and rp7410's. Would any of these serve the purpose of replacing the D310 and can it be done? Thx

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Any of these can replace your D310 and the application code will be compatible. None of these support EISA cards so if you need to move EISA cards from your D-box then forget it. If for some reason, you must run HP-UX 10.20 then only the K-box can run it. Also, if you are connecting FWD/HVD SCSI external devices only the K-box is assurred to have HVD SCSI controllers. HVD SCSI is available but optional on the other boxes; for the others LVD SCSI is the standard.

[Ted Buis]

The D310 used the 32-bit PA7100LC chip at either 75 or 100MHz. It had 4 HSC slots some of which also offered EISA connections as an alternative in the same physical slot.
The K-class started with PA-7200 (more advanced chip than the PA7100LC) at 100 or even 120 MHz CPUs. In 1996, HP offered the K-class with the 64-bit PA-8000 processor at higher clock rates, and even later the pa-8200 processor. The 64-bit processors required HP-UX 10.20 as a minimum OS level, but had no problem executing code from 10.20 or later on a D310.

[John Carr_2]

Hi

you may also wish to look at the Ignite-UX s/w package free from HP. This will make the process of migrating your system much simpler than building a replacement server from scratch.

:-) John