Difference between HP-UX and Solaris

[Charles_151]

Dear All

Can you please let me know what are the difference between HP-UX 11 and Solaris 9. I am in the project of migration of application from HP-UX to Solaris,so I would like to have Platform diffrence.

Can you please help me?

[Peter Godron]

Charles,
can you please clarify what sort of information you are after.
Are you looking for expected differences when recompiling the application, or performance differences (depends on which servers are used). Are you using POSIX shell?
As a start you may want to look at:
http://www.bhami.com/rosetta.html
Regards

[Peter Leddy_1]

Hi Charles,

Maybe some of these links might help but if you are porting to Solaris then the Sun website would be the best place to start, there are a few links that might get you started.

This link is going to opposite to you but might help you.

http://devresource.hp.com/drc/topics/solaris_hpux_tr.jsp

The others

Also check the related links on the right.

[broken link removed on <4/4/2017> by Mod]

http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/portingUNIXapps.html

http://developers.sun.com/

Regards,

Peter

[Charles_151]

Dear Peter

I am just looking for New/Modified feature on the target platform i.e.Solaris 9.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Charles,

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/prod/solaris.9u904#hic

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Charles_151]

Dear Robert,

Thanks for your concern.

But I couldn't find any relevent docs here.

Regds

[Dieu de Belle Fontaine]

Hi,
there are large number of differences :

-Drivers configuration easy on HP(menu driven), harder on Sun
-Disk configuration is very hard on Sun when you use F.Channel cards (patches).
-Software installation more stable on Sun
-Patches installation more stable on Sun except for VxVM :-(critical!
-Tunning quiet easier on HP than Sun
-NFS is faster on Sun but more configurable on HP
-System starting is different
-Compilations are more dificult on HP because more near C-ANSI than Sun whitch have a larger number of options.
- More softwares free on Sun
- HP is more stable in production environnement (HPUX run with 90% hardware swapping, SUN and IBM falldown before) and easier to update because VM is integrate in O.S. not on SUN
- On Sun you can start even if a fsck on VM structure is break, not on HP

It's easier to migrate from Sun to HP.
If you want to migrate, you should have time.
B.R.

[Geoff Wild]

A Sysadmin's Unixersal Translator (ROSETTA STONE):

http://bhami.com/rosetta.html

Rgds...Geoff

PS: Solaris doesn't have as nice a forum as HP-UX :)