Container is a convenient way to migrate from a RISC system to HP Integrity.
Although, since 2003, three generations of HP Integrity Unix servers based on Intel Itanium have already been released, many HP customers still continue to use HP 9000 servers built on PA-RISC processors. HP promises to support the HP 9000 system until the middle of this decade, but, nevertheless, the owners of these servers should think about planning the transition of their applications running in the HP-UX 11i environment to the more modern HP Integrity hardware platform and the modern version of the HP-UX OS 11i v3, especially since many of the HP 9000s in operation today have a lifespan of more than ten years.
To simplify the transfer of applications for the HP-UX 11i from the HP 9000 platform to HP Integrity, our company developed the HP 9000 Containers technology, which allows you to clone the entire HP Integrity server created in the HP-UX 11i v3 OS using the Secure Resource Partition mechanism. the application environment running on the HP-UX 11i on the RISC system. As a result, the application will run on the HP Integrity platform in an independent resource section in the dynamic translation mode (using the ARIES binary translator) without any modification. Using the HP 9000 Containers eliminates the need to analyze interdependencies when migrating applications from the HP 9000, re-compiling or installing them on a new server and, thus, it greatly reduces the cost of working time and effort when moving from RISC architecture to Itanium.
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The HP 9000 Containers container has its own file system, its own user groups with access rights and its own IP address where accredited users can connect to the container and start or stop the application. When combined with HP Integrity Virtual Machines virtual machines, containers allow you to securely consolidate applications from multiple HP 9000 systems to a single HP Integrity server from multiple HP 9000 systems. In addition, HP Serviceguard clustering tools can be used to ensure the resiliency of applications running inside an HP 9000 container.
Our company always strives to ensure that the change of the server platform is as smooth as possible for the customers and, together with the tools that simplify the migration process itself, gives them the opportunity to choose the moment when to start such a migration.
To simplify the transfer of applications for the HP-UX 11i from the HP 9000 platform to HP Integrity, our company developed the HP 9000 Containers technology, which allows you to clone the entire HP Integrity server created in the HP-UX 11i v3 OS using the Secure Resource Partition mechanism. the application environment running on the HP-UX 11i on the RISC system. As a result, the application will run on the HP Integrity platform in an independent resource section in the dynamic translation mode (using the ARIES binary translator) without any modification. Using the HP 9000 Containers eliminates the need to analyze interdependencies when migrating applications from the HP 9000, re-compiling or installing them on a new server and, thus, it greatly reduces the cost of working time and effort when moving from RISC architecture to Itanium.
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The HP 9000 Containers container has its own file system, its own user groups with access rights and its own IP address where accredited users can connect to the container and start or stop the application. When combined with HP Integrity Virtual Machines virtual machines, containers allow you to securely consolidate applications from multiple HP 9000 systems to a single HP Integrity server from multiple HP 9000 systems. In addition, HP Serviceguard clustering tools can be used to ensure the resiliency of applications running inside an HP 9000 container.
Our company always strives to ensure that the change of the server platform is as smooth as possible for the customers and, together with the tools that simplify the migration process itself, gives them the opportunity to choose the moment when to start such a migration.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/117962/
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