Re: Questions on Informix

Mark Jamison wrote: > Hi Neil and Andrew, > > Actually, and I'm sure Madison will correct me if I'm wrong, > > but I'm pretty sure that if both boxes are HP-UX 11.23, The primary can > be an Itanium box and the Secondary can be a PA-RISC box. HDR requires identical binaries on primary and secondary - which means the same basic type of chip. HDR between PA-RISC and Itanium would not be supported. ER does not require the same platform. > IDS and HP worked on this. > > Of course if you use ER, or the newer 11.10 Replication, this is > possible as well. > > Now the caveat will be that in HDR the engine versions must be identical. Not merely engine versions - it needs to be the same binary. > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Neil Truby <neil.truby@ardenta.com> > To: informix-list@iiug.org > Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:15:42 AM > Subject: Re: Questions on Informix > > <andrewr@cornasys.com> wrote in message > news:1187276793.520647.132750@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > > > 3) Is it possible to run Infomrix on HP-UX on Integirty servers at the > > production site, and HP-UX on HP9000 servers at the DR site? > > Does Integrity use the Itanic chipset? In which case, no, you can't in a > supported fashion mix chipsets between live and DR (using a traditional DR > methodology), and it probably wouldn't work either. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2007.0226 -- http://dbi.perl.org/