ServiceGuard between PA-Risc and Itanium

[Trojan36]

Does ServiceGuard function properly between Oracle and SAP applications between system with PA-Risc and Itanium? My production system are on older PA-Risc servers and I like to have the Itanium servers as failover servers. If yes, what are the limitations.
Thx in advance.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

I would recommend you not use that configuration. If you were to try it, you would need to have the exact same version of SG and equivalent patches on all servers.

I asked this question in SG class a few years ago and was told it was not supported.

If its changed, I have not seen the notice.

It may be possible with HP-UX 11i v2 and the same SG version across the board. You need to ask HP support however if the configuration is supported. If not, they won't help you with support calls.

SEP

[melvyn burnard]

Well HP supports the use of mixed architecture in a cluster, but currently Oracle does NOT support this, so it comes dpown to the application vendor whether this is supported or not.

Take a read of:
http://docs.hp.com/en/6055/SG%20mixed%20cluster_WP102704.pdf

[Kent Ostby]

You'd have to be at minimum level of A.11.11v2. That's one of the primary restrictions.

[Geoff Wild]

Oracle won't - though you might get it to work - requires re-linking the Oracle Binaries - however - if each node had its own local copy of Oracle - well....then it may work....

Be interesting to try - you would need to setup a test cluster with a test Oracle db - and give it a try.

Rgds...Geoff