Building Itanium-based HP server

[Latvian]

Hello everyone,

I have posted before about finding a HP server to run Oracle on HP-UX. The search for a good cheap server is rather difficult so I have decided to build a one myself. I will highly appreciate if you could give me any advice/tip/guide/HowTo about builidng HP itanium baser server that could run HP-UX.

Thanks in advance

Ammar

P.S. This thread has been moved from Servers > General to Integrity Servers - HP Forums Moderator

[Matti_Kurkela]

I guess you're familiar with the PC architecture, where you can get standardized parts from various sources, and have them work together with an off-the-shelf OS. For any other computer architectures, this is not necessarily true.

The problem is, HP-UX only runs on HP server chipsets with HP firmware. You will only find those on HP system boards. (Are there any non-HP Itanium system boards for private system builders at all???)

You'll notice that HP server system boards are not designed to fit into any standard PC chassis, so buying just a system board is not a very satisfactory option.

So the situation is more like with Macs, except that there are no HP-UX equivalents of Hackintoshes.

Of course, nothing is impossible if you really want to, but I think the requirements will probably be even more expensive:

• get an education on high-frequency digital circuit design (about a Master's degree at least)
• license the chipset and firmware from HP (dream on!) or be a HP employee in the Itanium server design department... or scavenge parts from broken server components & reverse-engineer (if legal at your location)
• design your very own system board and fabricate it
• then write any necessary firmware extensions and drivers to add support for it

I'd say this is not doable for most people, but some CS/EE dual-major supergenius might be able to pull it off, just because s/he can. If you could manage that, however, I guess you could also easily get a job that pays so well you could buy several Itanium servers just to play with them.

[Adnan_4141]

Dear sir.

i have itanium based server accorading to youe requirement. so you can contact me on my e-mail address.(adnan.barwaniwala@gmail.com)