A new High Availability cluster on Itanium servers?

[Enrico Venturi]

Hello colleagues,
I knew that a new family of HP servers is incoming: teh one based on Itanium processor.
I knew also that with this new family a new cluster, "VMS like", will be available.
Can anyone help me in finding docs on this subject?
Will it replace MC/SG for Itanium servers?

regards
Enrico

[Bernhard Mueller]

Enrico,

as I've heard the latest plans are to incorporate TrueCluster features into MC/SG.

Anyway, as of today there seem to be no official commitments as to what will be available when.

For more details see:
http://www.enterpriseunix.org/stories.php?story=03/07/11/6865850

Regards,
Bernhard

[melvyn burnard]

Currently you can purchase ands use ServiceGuard 11.15.01 for the Itanium based servers on HP-UX 11.23 (11i v2).
Or you could use the Linux version on United Linux on the Itanium Integrity servers

There may be in the future a release based on the Tru64 Clustering solution, but I can tell you no more than that

[Duncan Edmonstone]

The new clustering software will be more 'Tru64 TruCluster like' than 'VMS like'. That said it will offer functions such as clustered file systems and single system image.

It won't 'replace' serviceguard as such, rather the features of TruCluster will be built into ServiceGuard. I expect you will still be able to run a ServiceGuard cluster in a similar fashion to existing implementations if you want to.

As for any docs on this, HP are keeping quiet about the details, which isn't surprising given that it could be another 18 months before we see this product. Its discussed briefly on the HP UNIX roadmap:

http://h30097.www3.hp.com/unix/downloads/tru64_unix_roadmap.ppt
http://www2.tru64.org/stories.php?story=02/05/09/2006384
http://alpha2.farmer.org/ppts/HP_UNIX_STRATEGY_AUG2003.ppt (see slide 35)

HTH

Duncan