HP-UX System Management

Dynamic Root Disk (DRD):

Can help you dramatically reduce the downtime required to perform system maintenance and updates.
Lets you create and modify an inactive system image (clone) without shutting down the system―the only downtime required is the rebooting process.
Provides an efficient recovery mechanism, and can be used to provision blades and virtual machines (VMs).

What's new

HP-UX 11i DRD Revision 3.10

DRD clone operation can now copy autofile, so that customizations are retained on the clone

Dynamic Root Disk (DRD) provides customers the ability to clone an HP-UX system image to an inactive disk, and then:

Automatically synchronize the active image and the clone―eliminating the need to manually update files on the clone
Perform system maintenance on the clone while their HP-UX 11i system is online
Quickly reboot during off-hours—after the desired changes have been made—significantly reducing system downtime
Utilize the clone for system recovery, if needed
Rehost the clone of an LVM-managed root on another system for testing or provisioning purposes
Perform an OE Update on the clone from an older version of HP-UX 11i v3 to HP-UX 11i v3 update 4 or later

At a Glance

Operating systems supported: HP-UX 11i v2 (11.23) September 2004 or later, HP-UX 11i v3 (11.31)
Root Volume Groups supported:

Hardware supported: All HP PA-RISC and Itanium®-based servers and workstations that support HP-UX 11i v2 or HP-UX 11i v3: Hard partitions (nPars), Virtual partitions (vPars), Integrity Virtual Machines (Integrity VMs)

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