[Info-vax] Difference(s) bw Itanium and Integrity Servers ?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-06-12 06:56:36 +0000, DTL said:

> Reading about HP, HPE, VSI and such (Hi Clair, we don't know each 
> other, do we?), I read the 2019 RoadMap and noticed something new (to 
> me): Integrity Servers.
> I found something on WP about it, but the article is not clear.
> An Integrity server is a cluster of Itanium systems?
> Or a new marketing name for Itanium?
> Or what?

For the purposes of reading VSI-related and OpenVMS-related materials, 
the use of Itanium and usually Itanium 2 processors can be assumed.

However, other replies here are unfortunately somewhere between 
incomplete and incorrect on the topic of the use of the Integrity brand 
at HPE.

HPE Integrity is a marketing brand targeting what HPE deems 
"mission-critical" and "high-availability" server applications.

Here's where the other replies go wrong: these  HPE Integrity servers 
can be built using either Intel Itanium or Intel x86-64 processors.

Intel Xeon x86-64 was used in what was marketed as Integrity Superdome 
X, and the server known as Integrity NonStop X NS7 uses x86-64 
processors. Prolly some other servers, but I've not researched that.

With some server configurations, it's permissible to mix both 
architectures in the same enclosure: "HPE Integrity and HPE ProLiant 
server blades run in almost the same operating environment as other HPE 
servers, but with the advantages of a BladeSystem infrastructure. You 
can mix and match different Integrity and ProLiant server blades and 
run multiple operating environments in the same enclosure."

The use of Integrity as a brand name at HPE is seemingly less common 
than it once was, though examples can still be found around the HPE web 
site.  Not that finding stuff on the HPE web site is getting any 
easier, unfortunately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Integrity_Servers
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/nonstop-hardware.html
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/hp-ux.html
https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/V2/getpdf.aspx/4AA1-4286ENW.pdf?  (source of quote)
etc.


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