IA-64 emulation ?

[otagg]

As with the passing of PA-RISC hardware for sale, their will be EOL for sales of Itanium / Integrity line of servers.
When this happens, I would certainly like to get my workloads under virutalization as much as possible. In fact, most hpux servers i've seen are always under-utilized, thus the interest in moving these systems to commodity x86 hardware.

has anyone encountered IA-64 emulation ? Stromasys would be a good bet, but as of right now, they only have PA-RISC emulators for HPUX.

[dedmonst]

There isn't one, and I think it's fairly unlikely there will be one (it's probably not commercially viable).

HPE did get an itanium emulator on x86 as far as an alpha product that was even demo'd at a few shows, but I think it was found to be painfully slow and unreliable.

In your shoes, I'd be planning a migration to Linux for the few apps/services you have left on HP-UX/IA64. I wish it weren't the case, but here we are.