Successful System Cloning using Ignite-UX

This issue however is no longer relevant since HP-UX 11.0 is no longer supported. Now all

supported releases of HP-UX are installed with an install kernel that runs that revision of HP-UX.

New System Support

Now you must consider when the hardware became available from HP. If the system is relatively

new, was support provided for it with the initial release of 11i v1, or was support added with an

Operating Environment (OE) quarterly release?

Information about newly supported systems is located in the Read before Installing or Updating to

HP-UX 11i v1 and the HP-UX 11i v1 Release Notes. You should note that each OE release contains

the information related to that particular release, so you may have to review several editions of

these documents to locate the information relevant to your system.

If support was added by means of an OE quarterly release, you must determine the release in

which support was added. Once you have the release date of the given OE quarterly release, you

must determine the corresponding version of Ignite-UX that was released with that release.

To be certain of the version of Ignite-UX that was shipped with a particular OE quarterly release,

you can use swlist(1M) on the OE media and review the output to get the version information.

For example, on an rp8400 system the following OE quarterly releases added support for the

following

• September 2002 added support to boot using Ultra160 cards

• June 2002 added support for the faster PA8700 Central Processing Unit (CPU) (750 MHz and

875)

• December 2001 added support for the PA8700 CPU (650 MHz)

• First Release supported at 11i v1 with 550Mhz CPUs

• Ignite-UX B.3.7.x release added support for 750 and 875Mhz CPUs

• Ignite-UX B.3.6.x release added support for 650Mhz CPUs

• Ignite-UX B.3.0.x initial major release added support for 550Mhz CPUs

A newer example of this is with the HP Integrity rx3600/rx6600 systems running HP-UX 11i v3.

There are multiple backplanes supported with these systems. They are a PCI-X based backplane

and a PCIe/PCI-X combo backplane. In this case the Ignite revisions are required are:

• Ignite-UX C.7.1 for PCI-X backplanes (supported on 11i v3 from first release)

• Ignite-UX C.7.3 for PCIe/PCI-X combo backplanes (supported with the September 2007 11i v3

OE)

So it’s not only a question of whether a system supports a version of Ignite-UX, but also if there

have been hardware changes in a system that require an updated version of Ignite-UX. Therefore,

the question “What version of Ignite-UX does an rx3600 or rx6600 need?” requires the answer,

“That depends.”

This information was gathered from Read before Installing or Updating to HP-UX 11i v1 and the HP-UX 11i v1 Release Notes.