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Michelle Barton
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PA-Risc 11i vs. Itanium 11.23

We're getting in a new Itanium server that will be partitioned in to 7 VM servers. I need to come up to speed quick and establish best practices in the golden image, install and configure and deal with everything else that I need to learn. Anybody have any good pointers? Any good docs?

Thanks,
Michelle
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spex
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Re: PA-Risc 11i vs. Itanium 11.23

Steven E. Protter
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Re: PA-Risc 11i vs. Itanium 11.23

Shalom Michelle,

A virtual machine needs a boot device, a network device and at least 1 dedicated CPU. The amount of memory is variable within reason.

What model number are we thinking about here.

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Jaime Bolanos Rojas.
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Re: PA-Risc 11i vs. Itanium 11.23

Hi Michelle!

Also you might want to check this other document,

http://docs.hp.com/en/7042/T1335-90041.pdf

Very good, it will give you a lot of advice and managing and installing your Vpars.

If you got any issue setting it up, post a new question and plenty of people will help you out.

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Jaime.
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Michelle Barton
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Re: PA-Risc 11i vs. Itanium 11.23

We're getting the 8600 (I think, whatever is equivalant to the 8400 PA-RISC).

We're doing virtual machine, not virtual partition.

Any good 3rd party books?

Thanks,
Michelle
Jaime Bolanos Rojas.
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Re: PA-Risc 11i vs. Itanium 11.23

Uuupss, Sorry about the Mistake Michelle!

I do not know about any book, but this short document should be able to give you a start up on what you need!

http://docs.hp.com/en/T2767-90008/T2767-90008.pdf#search=%22virtual%20machine%20hp-ux%20book%22

Regards,

Jaime.
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James R. Ferguson
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Re: PA-Risc 11i vs. Itanium 11.23

Hi Michelle:

I suppose that you are aware of the following. If not, I'd begin here:

http://docs.hp.com/en/hplex.html#HP Integrity Virtual Machines,

http://docs.hp.com/en/7949/BestPractices.pdf

Regards!

...JRF...
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Gene Laoyan
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Re: PA-Risc 11i vs. Itanium 11.23

Michelle,
As soon as it is released, get the latest copy of HP IVM. It is currently in beta (we're testing right now) but it will open doors for you to virtualize Windows machines.

We have sucessfully created a Windows 2003 Cluster and a SQL 2005 Cluster on it. It works great and it's efficient. We have an HP rx8640 and we will be installing it on that box. Each virtual machine will run as a serviceguard package for failover. Each node (2node) will reside on seperate nPars.

Again, we have already completed a proof of concept and the new IVM works very efficient.
inventsekar_1
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Re: PA-Risc 11i vs. Itanium 11.23

Michelle Barton,

may be it will take sometime.but interesting.

Its always good to start with Release Notes:
HP-UX Virtual Partitions Release Notes
vPars A.03.02

http://docs.hp.com/en/6019/a.03.02.rls.notes.pdf

and download the software(evaluation or full copy..depends..)
http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=T1335AC

install it and again the docs.hp.com contains the remaining docs:
http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11i.html#Virtual%20Partitions

and the White papers is the interesting place. that will provide strong understanding.
http://docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11i.html#Virtual%20Partitions
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