Speciallity in HP-UX

[Mridul Dutta]

HI all

What is the speciallity in HP-UX OS in sence of performance , software upgrade, new techology etc


MRIDUL

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Mridul,

Kind of a broad question.

HP-UX emphasizes reliability, high availabilty add in products and configuration. It sets the standard by which other OS's are measured concerning time between boots.

It perfoms nicely if you know how to tune it, and SD-UX is a unique but very good way to handle software installation/upgrade.

SEP

[Rick Garland]

Not an easy question to answer.

An answer to this question depends on what you are doing, or trying to do.

Example, performance is relative to what you are running on the systems and with what kind of load.

In technology, HP has the Itanium systems but IBM has something similar and SUN is reportedly close to marketing something else that is similar.

As to SW upgrades, each has their own ethod of installing - HPUX has SDUX, SUN has pkgadd utility, IBM has BOS (I think) or something similar as well.

There are all kinds of research companies/organizations that do benchmark testing on the various platforms. A lot of these I feel I biased.

The respective companies (HP, IBM, SUN, etc) also produce benchmarks and these are biased.

Remember, you are in HPUX 'land' so a lot of the information you see will be biased to HPUX.

[HGN]

Hi

HP Servers are very reliable and have good support, OS performace is very good on databases like oracle,sybase(I have worked only these 2 )SAP, it is on par with the technology, here are a few threads which may be of some use
They also have cluster(service Guard)

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=981788
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=973193
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=861425

Hope this helps

Rgds

HGN

[Geoff Wild]

Here's some info on HP-UX 11i:

http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/operating/index.html

http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/operating/hpux11iroi.html

Rgds...Geoff

[Ted Buis]

It is the only major UNIX that has a complete suite of virtualization technology, from secure resource partitions within an OS, to virtual (software) partitions, to support on larger servers for hard partitions. AIX has no hard partitioning. Solaris lacks true (independent OS) virtual (software) based partitions.

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Hi,

You find good doc concering HPUX on this links

http://www.docs.hp.com/

http://www.docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv2.html

[dirk dierickx]

hpux speciallity is expensive big bussiness support.

[Muthukumar_5]

Repeated responses are there in forums.

Such as,

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=986487

You can search in forums search with appropriate words.

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Muthu