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booting HP9000 machine from same HDD

 
Pulse001
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‎09-12-2008 08:40 AM

‎09-12-2008 08:40 AM

booting HP9000 machine from same HDD

Is it possible to boot 2 HP9000 servers from same had disk ? the disk is shared.
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Torsten.
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‎09-12-2008 08:43 AM

‎09-12-2008 08:43 AM

Re: booting HP9000 machine from same HDD

No.

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Patrick Wallek
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‎09-12-2008 08:55 AM

‎09-12-2008 08:55 AM

Re: booting HP9000 machine from same HDD

Not if both are running at the same time.

Since your primary swap space is vg00/lvol2 having 2 servers running at the same time using the same swap space would thoroughly confuse both of them.
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Bill Hassell
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‎09-12-2008 11:23 AM

‎09-12-2008 11:23 AM

Re: booting HP9000 machine from same HDD

Even if you could boot from the same disk, there is nothing in HP-UX to properly handle shared disk directories. Both systems would try to change the same directories at the same time and within seconds, your data would be trash.


Bill Hassell, sysadmin
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