RP4440

[KPS]

Hi,

My company is looking at purchasing a few RP4440 Servers, which would be a new system to our present server layout in out datacenters. I realize this server is part of the HP9000 Server Family, but my question is, can we use pre-existing Golden Images from RP-5470's and RP-7410's to image this system, or is this not recommended because of SCSI BUS Configs or any other restrictions?

Thanks,
-Ken

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

The golden images from those systems probably would not work. The main reason is the new PA880 CPU that the rp4440's have.

At a minimum you would probably need to install the latest Hardware Enablement patches onto your existing systems and then recreate your golden images.

My preference would be to install the first rp4440 from scratch according to your standards and then create a golden image from that machine to use on the rest of the rp4440's.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Ken,

You should be able to if you have the latest Ignite/UX loaded. It is a good idea to install/reinstall OnlineDiag and the latest patches once the systems are installed with images.


-Sri

[KPS]

Thanks alot guys for your inputs and help.

[Wim Rombauts]

In case this thread is not yet closed :

We have recently received our first rp4440 which will replace an rp5470 system.

When you have the Dec2003 release of HP-UX patches & diagnostics installed on your old system, and use at least Ignite/UX B.5.3.x, you can use the Ignite/UX recovery tape to install your new system.

You will have to interact with the recovery process to cover the hardware changes, but after all, yes, it is possible to clone an rp5470 to an rp4440.

I advise you to play with this cloning a few times until you are familiar with it, and know how to map the new I/O card layout to the device file numbering that existed on your old machine.