HP-UX HB v13.00 Ch-21 - Itanium

HP-UX Handbook – Rev 13.00 Page 3 (of 35)
Chapter 21 Itanium Architecture (IA)
October 29, 2013
TABLE OF CONETENTS
Introduction ______________________________________________________________________ 4
Overview of the Itanium Architecture _________________________________________________ 4
Main features of EPIC _____________________________________________________________________ 4
The Itanium processor family (IPF) ____________________________________________________ 6
HP-UX Itanium Releases ____________________________________________________________ 8
Differences between HP-UX for PA and IPF ____________________________________________________ 8
Impact of EFI interface and boot disk layout ___________________________________________ 10
How an IPF system boots _________________________________________________________________ 10
Boot disk layout and EFI __________________________________________________________________ 10
How to configure the Console input/output devices ____________________________________________ 12
The boot process ________________________________________________________________________ 15
How to mirror the root disk _______________________________________________________________ 22
How to replace a failed disk (LVM) __________________________________________________________ 25
How to configure additional boot options ____________________________________________________ 26
The ARIES emulator _______________________________________________________________ 28
Basics _________________________________________________________________________________ 28
Performance ___________________________________________________________________________ 29
IPF vs. PA-RISC Terminology ________________________________________________________ 30
Introducing UX 11.23PI ____________________________________________________________ 31
Update paths ___________________________________________________________________________ 31
Installation Requirements _________________________________________________________________ 31
Identifying 11.23 Sep 2004 release __________________________________________________________ 32
New features ___________________________________________________________________________ 33
Additional Information ____________________________________________________________ 34