Running images of HP-UX v11 and v11i concurrently?

[Mott Given]

We have an HP N4000 with 4 processors and 4 GB RAM which is 3 years old. What software or hardware specs would I need to check to see whether the server can run 2 OS images, v11 and v11i, concurrently on 1 server?

If this server did not come with features allowing 2 OS images to be run at the same time, what would be cost effective ways of adding software or hardware to the machine to allow it to run 2 OS images? The purpose of all this is to do consolidation of old servers onto a newer server that would be to run 1 image to test patches to v11 and run the 2nd image to test patches to v11i.

Mott Given

Mott Given

[harry d brown jr]

Nope.

BUT, you can use virtual partitions and run multiple 11i instances. You will need to get rid of your 11.00 and go with 11i (11.11).

live free or die
harry

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi Mott,

Check this link.

http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=T1335AC

Kind regards,
Robert-Jan

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

you can run 2 images of 11i using v-par as specified by Harry.
whereas you can't run both 11.0 and 11i on the same machine simultaneously

check the white paper for Virtual partition specification

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

You can also, boot 11.00, do your thing, then shutdown and boot 11i (11.11) and do your thing - to do this you build two different boot disks.

If that doesn't work for you, then I'd suggest getting an A-class server and do your 11.00 testing on and then getting vPars (virtual partitions) for your N and run two instances of 11i.

live free or die
harry

[Ted Buis]

As mentioned, you can't do this with 11.0. If you need more reasons to move to 11.11, then consider that 11.0 is no longer sold by HP and the end of support life is not too far off.