Unix Admin

HP-UX
HP-UX is based on the UNIX System V Release 4 and was designed by HP for the RISC architecture of Motorola. It is a pure server operating system with high availability and flexible memory and security management.

HP-UX is equipped with a variety of tools for use in enterprises for the monitoring (costs, work load) as well as for the logging and visualization. Next to the base version there is a Enterprise Edition with resource management and the Mission Critical Edition for companys with enterprise critical applications for highest availability and security. This operating system has a built-in host intrusion detection (H-IDS). This oeprating system is used for content servers, web server, databases or also for cluster systems.
The VUE (Visual User Environment) and CDE are available as a GUI, the last named is the standard GUI since the HP-UX version 10.20. HP develops HP-UX 11i version 4 and plans HP-UX 11i version 5 as a longer-term goal. HP-UX 11i version 3 still shall be ready in autumn 2006. The PA-RISC platform shall be cancelled to 2012, the migration to Itanium HP systems becomes accomplished.

HP-UX 11i version 3 (Release February, 2007) offers at average an 35 percent higher performance on Itanium systems than the previous HP-UX version. Improvements in the security management, integrated Multi-Pathing for the access to the same storage system with redundant controllers and the parallel use of HP certified operating systems are part of the innovations. A combined cluster can be created with the help of the Serviceguard and Integrity Virtual Machines. HP-UX can adress 100 Petabyte (100,000 TByte) of memory.

- Operating system for 32-bit and 64-bit systems
- File system and max. file size up to 2 tbyte
- max. 256 gbyte RAM addressable
- File systems: VxFS, JFS, HFS, LIF, ohne Format: FAT, UFS, BFFS, NFS
- SMP capable up to 128 CPUs
- Software development: Java (ported), C/C++, Fortran 90, COBOL, Perl
- EAL4-CAPP certify #1
- TCSEC-2 certify #2
#1 Evaluation Assurance Level 4, Controlled Access Protection Profile
#2 Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria Class C2 (without ACLs and boot authentification)

- PA-RISC (cancelled), Itanium and Alpha Systeme
- HP9000/500 Server Familie, up to 7 CPUs
- HP9000/300 Workstation Family
- HP9000/400 Family (Apollo)


File structure of HP-UX

/
/dev
/etc
/export
/home
/lost+found
/mnt
/net
/opt, /var/opt
/sbin
/stand
/tmp
/usr
/lib
/var Root directory

Tru64 UNIX
This UNIX derivative of the company DIGITAL was developed for the alpha platform. Originally it resulted from the operating system OSF/1 out and is also called DUNIX (DIGITAL UNIX). It is used on alpha servers and HP TruCluster servers. Tru64 UNIX was certified for the security level C2 and supports ACLs.

- 64-bit operating system
- File system and max. file size up to 16 tbyte
- up to 256 gbyte RAM addressable
- need at least 128 mbyte RAM, 1 gbyte harddisk storage
- based on the Mach 2.5 Kernel design, BSD 4.3/4.4 technology and UNIX system V
- AdvFS file system (Advanced File System) with journaling function - up to 256 Data medias for each AdvFS domain, up to 231 files
- File systems AdvFS, UFS, NFS, MFS, ISO 9660, UDF
- SMP support
- X11 R6.5 Window manager, CDE 1.0 user interface with Motif 1.2
- SVID (System V Interface Definition )
- Administration with SysMan tools in Java, X11, Curses or CLI interface
- Remote Installation Service (RIS )
- IPv6, IPsec, TCP/IP, SNMP, DHCP, PPP, ONC 4.2, DNS, NTP
- ATM 3.0/3.1, Slow-, Fast-, gigabit ethernet, FDDI, token ring
- LPD printing manager
- Windows 2000 single Sign-On with Kerberos, LDAP technology
- X/Open UNIX 98, UNIX 98 workstation, CDE certified
- Multithreading, Shared Libraries
- POSIX, C, Bourne and Korn Shell


File structure of Tru64 Unix

/
/dev, /devices
/etc
/home, /usr/users
/lost+found
/mnt
/opt,/usr/opt,/var/opt
/sbin
/vmunix, /subsys, /sys
/tmp
/usr
/usr/lib, /usr/shlib
/var
/cluster
Root directory
Device files
Configuration files
contains the user directory

Mount directory (temporary)
Additional software
System programs
Kernel directory
Temporary files
Application programs
Libraries
various files, some logging files
specific files for Cluster membership







OpenVMS
VMS (Virtual Memory System) was designed in 1976 especially for 32-bit computers and used on VAX computer as well as the PDP-11. There also is a 64-bit version of the operating system for alpha systems. DIGITAL (DEC, Digital Equipment Corporation) were founded by Ken Olsen on 25. Octobers 1977. PDP system as well as the VAX and VMS architecture lasts never developed without DIGITAL. It is used for mainframes, servers and clusters and in the desktop area too. With Ultrix DIGITAL had a BSD based UNIX. In the 80s DIGITAL has placed itself as No.2 behind IBM. OpenVMS is used at most in the application area of health service, CPU production, stock exchanges and lotteries. 1996 were counted about 500,000 installations with OpenVMS. The complete technology was taken by Compaq in 1998, HP took the company Compaq and thus also OpenVMS in 2002.

- SMP, multitasking, multiprocessing, multi-user
- Alpha systems, VAX, Intel Itanium (since OpenVMS 8.0)
- POSIX standard
- consists of code of the programming languages like Ada, DEC C, Fortran, DEC C++, and others
- max. 32 CPU per system up to 96 systems in a cluster
- DCL Shell as CLI, X-11 and MOTIF GUI
- TCP/IP protocol
- File system: ODS-2, ISO 9660 (Read), FAT (R/W), NFS and SMB
- File system supports Record Management Services (RMS)
- Java Development Kit
- Netscape Fasttrack Web Server



Page created: 2004-03-04 [SB]
Last update: 2008-01-21


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Versions
Date Version
1982 HP-UX 1.0 - based on SVR3
1988 HP-UX 2.0
1988 HP-UX 3.0
1989 HP-UX 7.0
1991 HP-UX 8.0
1993 Nov. HP-UX 9.04
1995 July HP-UX 10.01
1996 Feb. HP-UX 10.10 - first time with CDE
1996 Aug. HP-UX 10.20
1997 Nov. HP-UX 11.00 - max. 32 CPUs
--- HP-UX 11.10 - max. 128 CPUs
--- HP-UX 11.11
--- HP-UX 11.20 - for Intel Itanium systems
1988 DEC OSF/1
1993 March Tru64 UNIX 1.2
1994 March Tru64 UNIX 2.0
1994 Aug. Tru64 UNIX 3.0
1996 June Tru64 UNIX 4.0
1999 Aug. Tru64 UNIX 5.0
2000 Aug. Tru64 UNIX 5.1
1977 VMS Version 0.5 released
1978 Aug. VMS Version 1.0, multiuser, ODS-1 and 2 file systems
1980 April VMS Version 2.0
1981 VMS 2.2
1982 April VMS 3.0
1984 Sept. VMS 4.0
1986 VMS 4.4
1988 May VMS 5.0 - 5 million code lines
1989 Sept. VMS 5.2
1990 Oct. VMS 5.4
1991 Nov. VMS 5.5
1992 Nov. OpenVMS/AXP 1.0 - based on VMS 5.4
1993 June OpenVMS/VAX 6.0 - first time with ISO-9660 support
1994 April OpenVMS/VAX 6.1 - May: OpenVMS/Alpha 6.1
1995 May OpenVMS/VAX 6.2 - June: OpenVMS/Alpha 6.2
1995 Dec. OpenVMS 7.0 VAX and Alpha - 64-bit addressing - I/O optimized
1996 Dec. OpenVMS 7.1 VAX and Alpha - 25 million code lines, PPP
1998 OpenVMS 7.2 VAX and Alpha
2000 OpenVMS 7.3 VAX and Alpha
2003 June OpenVMS 8.0 Itanium
--- OpenVMS 8.2