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

HP-UX Handbook – Rev 13.00 Page 8 (of 35)
Chapter 21 Itanium Architecture (IA)
October 29, 2013
http://www.hp.com/products1/itanium/servers_workstations
HP-UX Itanium Releases
These are the different HP-UX releases. The current PA release is UX 11.11. The current IPF
release is UX 11.31.
release
identifier
official
release name
architecture
supported processors
UX 11.00
n/a
PA only
PA7000,PA8000
UX 11.11
11i v1
PA only
PA7000,PA8000
UX 11.20
*
11i v1.5
IPF only
Itanium
UX 11.22
11i v1.6
IPF only
Itanium,McKinley
UX 11.23
11i v2
IPF only
McKinley,Madison
UX 11.23PI
11i v2 update 2
IPF & PA
>=PA8700 / >=Madison
UX 11.31
11i v3
IPF & PA
>= Itanium 2
*
: UX 11.20 is obsolete. It was intended for prerelease customers only.
Besides HP-UX you can also run Linux, OpenVMS or MS Windows® on HP Itanium systems.
Cell based systems (sx1000 chipset) are able to run these operating systems in parallel on
different hard partitions. Requirements are:
HP-UX: HP-UX 11i v2 or later
Linux: Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 or 3.0, SuSE Enterprise Server 8
Windows®: Microsoft® Server 2003 Enterprise or Datacenter Edition
OpenVMS: at least V8.2
Differences between HP-UX for PA and IPF
From the operating systems point of view there should be no noticable difference between HP-
UX for PA and HP-UX for Itanium. The following table highlights the features that are not
common between the OSes. Altough some applications are not bundled for the Itanium releases
they might run in emulation mode through Aries. on the other hand there are some bundled
applications, that are not Itanium native but do also run in emulation mode (e.g. SD-UX).
Feature
UX 11.11
UX 11.22
UX 11.23
UX 11.23PI