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HP-UX: HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations.; Full HP-UX Definition >>

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Sabotage and the cost of change: Sabotage and the cost of changeNot doing a very good job......of keeping the confidentiality of your clients. From what you have written, it's easy to guess that there is only one provincial political party that you would even consider doing work for, and it's not the Liberals.Only question is...; Tags: Operating systems, Servers, I.T, Only Question, Office 07, Sun Microsystems Inc., HP-UX, Unix, Microsoft Office, Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2008-05-29
The Next Generation Mass Storage Stack: HP-UX 11i V3: HP-UX 11i v3 introduces a new representation of mass storage devices called the agile view. The central idea of the agile view is that disk devices and tape drives are identified the actual object, not by a hardware path to the object. Paths to a device can change dynamically, and...; Tags: HP-UX, Oracle11i, Path, Storage, UNIX, Operating Systems, Databases, Hardware, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management; White papers 2008-04-01
HP-UX 11i v3 Delivers Superior Capabilities for Virtualized Data Centers: This paper presents a technical comparison of HP-UX 11i v3, AIX 6.1, and Solaris 10 UNIX operating systems, focusing on their functional capabilities in terms of scalability, virtualization, reliability, security, and manageability. In each of these areas, the paper identifies some critical technical requirements, describes the significance of these requirements...; Tags: HP-UX, Data Center, Oracle11i, UNIX, Operating Systems, Databases, Servers, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware; White papers 2008-03-01
HP-UX 11i v3 Dynamic nPartitions: Features and Configuration Recommendations: This white paper introduces the Dynamic nPartitions feature that will debut with HP-UX 11i v3 Update. The nPartitions Background section summarizes the properties of nPartitions on HP-UX 11i before the update. The Dynamic nPartitions operations section explains the operations that make nPartitions dynamic. The Dynamic nPartitions commands section illustrates the...; Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle11i, nPartitions Background Section, Dynamic nPartitions Operations Section, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Databases, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management; White papers 2008-02-01
Why Enterprises Should Choose HP-UX 11i v3 for Their Data Center Migration Plans: Many IT executives today are looking at consolidating IT operations for several reasons. First, the rash of mergers and acquisitions dictates a rationalization of duplicate processes and infrastructure. Second, the move to streamline operations has resulted in moving from distributed systems to a centralized IT infrastructure. Third, concerns about power...; Tags: HP-UX, Data Center, Information Technology, Oracle11i, Robert Frances Group, Virtualization, Data Centers, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Strategy, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Management; White papers 2007-12-12

HP-UX 11i Knowledge-on-Demand: Performance Optimization Best-Practices From Our Labs to You: This paper provides an update on HP-UX 11i v3 and Serviceguard. It looks at Serviceguard 11.18 on v3, Serviceguard Storage Management Suite version 2 on 11i v3, and the Disaster Tolerant Clusters products, Continentalclusters, and Metrocluster. This paper shares the latest information regarding ACSL Serviceguard HA and Disaster Tolerant Clusters...; Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Optimization, Oracle11i, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2007-10-22
FibrChanl-02 (fclp) Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i V2 Release Notes: This paper provides information about the B.11.23.0712 release of the FibrChanl-02 fclp Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2. This release of the FibrChanl-02 fclp Fibre Channel Mass Storage Driver for HP-UX 11i v2 (version B.11.23.0712) now supports online firmware updates, optical diagnostics, and enables the ns_query_ports option...; Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Fibre Channel, Oracle11i, IBM Lotus Notes, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Storage, UNIX, Operating Systems, Databases, Servers, Hardware, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management; White papers 2007-10-01
Oxford University Press wins oldest HP-UX prize: Oxford University Press wins oldest HP-UX prizeLike the old Texas Instruments watches ...Some things just keep on keeping on like the old Texas Instrumentswatches made in Mexico Timex!RE: Oxford University Press wins oldest HP-UX prizeI was just wondering if this meant that they were just looking for old hardware running...; Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, HP-UX, HP-UX prize, oldest HP-UX, Oxford University Press, Oxford University; Discussion threads 2007-09-19
The sysadmin job: what's changed in ten years: The sysadmin job: what's changed in ten yearsP550 slow? Say it ain't so!Everything about IBM just sux. Their hardware is overhyped and underdelivering. Their software won't work unless you TOTALLY BUY IN to their "message" - i.e. Don't just BUY Tivoli - hire an entire team of experts to struggle...; Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, job, SCO Group Inc., Unix, HP-UX, Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2007-09-19
HP OpenView Storage Data Protector 6.0: HP-UX Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters (RAC) R2 With HP StorageWorks XP Disk Array Zero Downtime Backup (ZDB) White Paper: This white paper provides complementary information for installation and configuring HP OpenView Storage Data Protector with Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g Release 2 running HP-UX operating system for Zero Downtime Backup ZDB in HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP environments. There are variety of choices with regard to the installation and...; Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Storage, Backup, HP OpenView, Oracle Real Application Cluster, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, UNIX, Operating Systems, Databases, Enterprise Software, Servers, Hardware, Software, Data Management; White papers 2007-09-01
HP-UX Logical Volume Manager and MirrorDisk/UX Release Notes HP-UX 11i V3: Logical Volume Manager bundle BaseLVM is the HP-UX default Volume Manager. It provides the user with flexibility in configuring and managing mass storage resources. In HP-UX 11i v3, the LVM kernel and commands are bundled with the core HP-UX product. This white paper provides information about the Logical Volume Manager...; Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle11i, IBM Lotus Notes, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Databases, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management; White papers 2007-09-01
HP-UX Linker and Libraries Versions B.11.61 and B.12.46 Release Notes: HP-UX linker and dynamic loader provide linking and loading functionalities supported in Unix (SVR4 (System V Release 4) standards). The linker toolset uses the ELF Executable and Linking File format object file format on Integrity systems and PA64 systems, and the SOM System Object Module file format on PA32 systems....; Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle11i, IBM Lotus Notes, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware; White papers 2007-09-01
MCA Error Recovery: HP-UX Feature for Recovering From Machine Check Aborts: HP Integrity servers provide superior reliability and availability. Nevertheless, even the best of computers can occasionally experience hardware problems that lead to unplanned downtime. Some of these problems are caused by transient events such as an alpha particle strike on memory, cache, or a processor data structure. Intel Itanium-based servers...; Tags: HP Integrity, HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Recovery, Operating System, Operating Systems, Servers, UNIX, Processors, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components; White papers 2007-09-01
A dumb prediction: IBM will buy HP's Unix customers: Just over a year ago Scott McNealy offered to have Sun extend support for HP-UX and begin a process to migrate HP's remaining Unix customers to Solaris. Most of the press laughed, and HP's people, presumably too busy bugging journalists to watch what was going on in the Unix part...; Tags: Operating systems, Linux, Servers, Processors, Paul Murphy, HP Unix, Hewlett-Packard Co., Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., HP-UX, Unix; Blog posts 2007-08-17
HP's expanding software portfolio: Since Mark Hurd took over the reigns of HP on March 29, 2005, the company has been leaning into software, mostly through acquisition. With the last 24 months, HP's software group has made six acquisitions, totally nearly $7 billion. It's not acquisition at Oracle scale, but it's a big shift...; Tags: IT Management, Hewlett-Packard, Hardware Infrastructure, General, Datacenter; Blog posts 2007-08-01
HP-UX 11i TCP/IP Performance: The HP-UX Networking Stack is especially engineered and tested for optimum performance in an enterprise mission-critical environment. HP-UX 11i v3 exhibits excellent performance on NFS server performance and in the TPC-C benchmark, a measurement of intensive online transaction processing OLTP in a database environment. This white paper is intended as...; Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Environment, Oracle11i, OLTP, HP-UX Networking Stack, Performance Management, UNIX, Operating Systems, Databases, Servers, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware; White papers 2007-08-01
Storage MultiPathing Choices in HP-UX Serviceguard Environments: Serviceguard protects users and applications from a variety of failures (e. g. software, system, and network failure to name a few) by forming a cluster of multiple nodes and providing sufficient redundancy to remove single points of failure from the configuration. This paper gives an overview of what multi-pathing solutions...; Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Environment, Storage, Failure, Serviceguard, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware; White papers 2007-08-01
MemFS V2 - A Memory-Based File System on HP-UX 11i V2: MemFS requires a user process to be associated with each of its instances. The memory allocated in the process address space of this user process is used to store the data from the reallocated pages. These user memory pages can be paged out to the system swap device whenever there...; Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle11i, File System, Memory, MemFS, UNIX, Operating Systems, Databases, Servers, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware; White papers 2007-08-01
Quantifying the Total Cost of Upgrading HP-UX Environments From HP 9000 Servers to HP Integrity Servers: HP has been shipping HP 9000 servers with PA-RISC microprocessors since about 1990. Since that time, nearly 100 different models of servers have been introduced ranging from single-CPU entry-level machines to enterprise-class Superdome models that support 128 cores. Today, thousands of companies worldwide rely on HP 9000 servers and the...; Tags: HP Integrity, HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., HP 9000, Environment, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components; White papers 2007-07-01
Backing Up and Restoring Data on HP-UX EVFS Volumes Using HP OpenView Storage Data Protector 6.0: For enterprise customers, backing up and restoring data stored on HP-UX Encrypted Volume and File Systems EVFS volumes are critical. However, the available native backup tools such as cpio and dd pose some limitations. To overcome these limitations and to offer a reliable, easy, and efficient method to back up...; Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Storage, HP OpenView, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware; White papers 2007-06-21