HP-UX PA-RISC vs HP-UX Itanium performance & Reliability for Oracle Applications E-Business Suite

[Neural Ninja]

Dear All,

I am considering HP for our Oracle Applications EBS implementations.

I have 2 options. HP-UX on PA-RISC and HP-UX on IA64.

I am looking at the better option in terms of performance and reliability(stability).

Given that PA-RISC is an older architecture, I am also looking at the future of this architecture(i.e. supportability).

Pl let me know
Thanks

[Steve Lewis · Accepted solution]

Forget PA-RISC, it was discontinued either last year or the year before. Second hand would be your only option.
The fastest PA-RISC was still only half as fast as an Itanium2. You will save lots of money on per-cpu licences by going Itanium2. Itanium2 (IA64) has been out for several years now.
The support for these chips is mature, both from HP and from Oracle. If you find a new bug on a PA-RISC version I don't think you will get much support for it going forward.
Go for HP-UX 11iv3 as well. Its faster, more flexible and that is where the money is being spent. 11iv3 also has a longer support life than 11iv2 or 11iv1 which both end on the same date.

[Rasheed Tamton]

Hi,

Please see the below links. Would give you some info.

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=787103

http://www.intel.com/performance/server/itanium/summary.htm

http://www.ideasinternational.com/benchmark/ben010.aspx

Regards.

[Neural Ninja]

What about rp3440/PA-8900 server processor.
Should I go for this or think of IA64?

This cpu was released in 2005.

[Tim Nelson]

EOL for HP PA-RISC is December of 2008.
http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/direction.html

If you have no application dependancy on a PA-RISC server then IPF (IA) is the way to go.

Regards

[Torsten.]

end of sales, not end of life.

From the page mentioned:

"We plan to sell HP-UX 11i on HP 9000 entry-class, mid-range and Superdome systems until at least December 2008, with support until at least December 2013."

http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/direction.html

[Tim Nelson]

I stand corrected by Mr. T. :)

Thanks for the correction.

[Rasheed Tamton]

Because of Itanium support of multi-OS, your comany has the flexibility to host any OS and applications on the server in the future, can be migrated to Linux, Windows, or openVMS and buy more powerful boxes at that time.