Consolidate and migrate (P2V) of multiple HP-UX machines

[kellyjon15]

Greetings,

I work for a company moving out of a data center with older HP-UX servers and many legacy apps. I know very little about HP's offering around virtualization but am hopeful there are migration options using virtualization to allow "cloning" of existing systems. We've had significant turnover and have little faith in the ability to greenfield the installation on different hardware.

Ideally, I would like to P2V current systems to a cluster of new generation HP servers running virtualization software.

Any hints on where to begin trying to understand options? I've called my HP rep but have not had much response yet. Holiday weekend probably had staff out last week.

Thanks for your help - Jon Kelly

[Dennis Handly]

What HP-UX version are you running?

What architecture, Integrity or PA-RISC?

[kellyjon15]

RISC for sure - Itanium is the product line I think. I don't have the UX version but have requested that. I will update the post with it when received. Do you know if HP offers solutions that allow customers to get away from older HW to newer through virtualization?

[Dennis Handly]

>Do you know if HP offers solutions that allow customers to get away from older HW to newer through virtualization?

There is HP9000 containers for PA to Integrity:

http://www.hp.com/go/containers

[kellyjon15]

Dennis,

Two versions running accross 10 machines. HP-UX 11.11 and 11.23 - This is a mix of prod and dev and as mentioned, I would really like to see if there are consolidation potential through virtualization.

I'm brand new to this product line from HP - I believe they are all in the Integrity family - no HP9000.

Gathering more information on this as well.