We did the upgrade on our RP4440 (PA-RISC) which runs HP-UX
11.11 a few weeks back. No real performance hit noticed there. (The server is
dedicated to NBU.) The main thing we noticed there and on the other HP-UX
media servers was that the space used in /usr/openv grew significantly. If
you’re tight on space already on any of your servers you might want to
consider adding some before doing the upgrade.
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of briandiven AT northwesternmutual DOT com
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 4:17
PM
To:
VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 to
6.0 Upgrade and Itanium vs. PA-RISC
We are upgrading from
NBU 5.1 MP6 to NBU 6.0 MP4 on HP-UX 11.11 Master/Media servers. The underlying
architecture is HP RP7420 PA-RISC.
Has anyone seen an
increase in memory or CPU utilization after upgrading to 6.0? Has the catalog
increased in size after the conversion?
Digging a little deeper
– has anyone experienced the 1.7 GB memory limitation running NBU as a 32
bit app on HP-UX? Any experience out there with Itanium? Does NBU actually
run today as a 64 bit app on Itanium (vs. just having NBU support the
architecture)? How about an Itanium server running in PA-RISC compatibility
mode?
Any and all feedback
would be greatly appreciated !!
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