HP OpenVMS Systems

» Securing your future with HP—Moving forward with OpenVMS [PDF]
This document provides strategies and resources for evolving your OpenVMS environment to the HP Integrity server ecosystem. (October 2007)

» Performance comparison: HP OpenVMS on HP AlphaServer and HP Integrity systems [PDF]
HP and customer tests compare the performance of applications running on OpenVMS AlphaServer and OpenVMS Integrity systems. Results strongly indicate that OpenVMS users can obtain substantial performance improvements on the HP Integrity server platform. Moreover, ongoing enhancements in the OpenVMS operating system itself can also improve application performance.(September 2007)

» HP OpenVMS on Integrity server blades for HP BladeSystem c-Class [PDF]
This white paper discusses the well-documented attributes of OpenVMS running on innovative, flexible, future-proof HP Integrity server blades in the HP BladeSystem. It highlights the benefits of OpenVMS on Integrity server blades, including the ability to meet specific business outcomes (accelerating growth, lowering costs, and mitigating risks) in a "best-run" infrastructure—meaning one that is cost-savvy, change-ready, energy-thrifty, and time-smart. (September 2007)

» Virtualization and HP OpenVMS [PDF]
This white paper describes how the HP OpenVMS operating system is addressing rapidly changing business demands, now and in the future. (June 2006)

» HP Superdome Hybrid Servers [PDF]
This white paper describes how HP Superdome servers based on the HP sx1000 chipset can support configurations with both PA-RISC nPartitions and Intel® Itanium® 2 nPartitions in the same server. It addresses the hardware, firmware, operating system, and management tools required. (January 2006)

» Business practices for HP OpenVMS on HP Integrity servers [PDF]
This whitepaper provides an in-depth, business practices overview of OpenVMS on HP Integrity servers, including operating environment bundles, license types, license management, license trade-in policies, and software support offers. (December 2006)

» HP OpenVMS cluster support on HP Integrity servers [PDF]
This white paper provides detailed information about HP OpenVMS cluster software running on HP Integrity servers and how the design of the OpenVMS cluster architecture facilitates the integration of OpenVMS on HP Integrity servers into an existing OpenVMS cluster environment. (September 2005)

» Integrating HP Integrity servers into the OpenVMS AlphaServer environment [PDF]
This white paper provides background information that supports the decision to transition from OpenVMS on HP AlphaServer systems to OpenVMS on HP Integrity servers. It highlights the benefits of OpenVMS on Integrity servers and explores planning the integration of HP Integrity servers into the OpenVMS environment. (August 2005)

» Making the transition from HP OpenVMS VAX to HP OpenVMS on Integrity servers [PDF]
This white paper provides a background to support the decision to transition from VAX systems running OpenVMS to OpenVMS Integrity servers. It highlights the benefits of OpenVMS on Integrity servers and presents an overview of migration business practices in the areas of licensing and trade-ins, while also discussing technical considerations of the migration process. (June 2005)

» Porting applications from HP OpenVMS AlphaServer systems to HP OpenVMS Industry standard 64 for Integrity servers [PDF] (January 2005)

» IT Consolidation Solutions from Hewlett-Packard [PDF]
This IDC whitepaper sponsored by HP examines the new role consolidation is playing as IT infrastructures evolve. It looks at the business value of consolidation and the steps organizations must take to plan and implement a successful consolidation effort. HP IT consolidation alternatives are profiled, along with the experiences of several of its customers. (January 2003)

» HP's disaster proof solutions: ensuring application availability [PDF]
This white paper produced by The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. provides independent validation and analysis of the HP disaster-proof live demonstration. (June 2007)

» OpenVMS disaster tolerant reference architectures [PDF]
OpenVMS environments deliver a full continuum of high availability (HA) and disaster tolerance (DT) from basic clusters to widely separated disaster tolerant data centers. This white paper explores a concise description of sample OpenVMS disaster tolerant architectures. (March 2007)

» Delivering high availability and disaster tolerance in a multi-operating-system HP Integrity server environment [PDF]
High availability and disaster tolerance are the IT elements that contribute to business continuity. The purpose of this document is to illustrate how the HP Adaptive Infrastructure enables enterprises to achieve their HA and DT objectives in multi-operating system environments with HP Integrity servers. (September 2006)

» Disaster Tolerance Proof of Concept: OpenVMS Host-Based Volume Shadowing and Oracle 9i RAC over Extended distances [PDF]
This concept paper demonstrates how OpenVMS Host-Base Volume Shadowing (HBVS) along with Oracle9i® RAC, as well as the connectivity technology from LightSand and Digital Networks, ensures high availability and data integrity over a variety of significant distances, including those formally supported by OpenVMS Clusters. (January 2006)

» Achieving the highest levels of IT security with HP OpenVMS [PDF]
This whitepaper presents an overview of OpenVMS security and its role in enterprise business continuity. The whitepaper supports the conclusion that IT environments requiring elevated security capabilities need OpenVMS now more than ever, whether on HP Integrity servers, AlphaServer systems, or a combination of both. (November 2005)

» The HP OpenVMS Approach to High Availability Computing [PDF]
This whitepaper examines the capabilities that contribute to a high-availability environment and explores the industry-leading high-availability features of the HP OpenVMS operating system. HP OpenVMS solutions combine industry-leading high-availability and disaster-tolerance capabilities with open database and application support, and the power of HP AlphaServer systems and HP Integrity servers delivers unrivaled flexibility and breadth of customer solutions. (December 2004)

» Fibre Channel in a Disaster-Tolerant OpenVMS Cluster System [PDF]
This whitepaper highlights the general underlying principles of traditional disaster-tolerant OpenVMS Clusters and describes the impact of adding multiple interconnects for storage. Illustrating how HP OpenVMS is addressing rapidly changing business demands now and in the future, this paper also presents options that are available today for configuring multisite OpenVMS Cluster systems, as well as mechanisms that may be implemented in the future to provide additional disaster-tolerant capabilities. ([updated] November 2004)

» The Adaptive Enterprise and OpenVMS [PDF]
This whitepaper outlines OpenVMS contributions to the HP Adaptive Enterprise (AE) initiative, and gives customers a better understanding of how to plan the integration of their current and future OpenVMS environments into the Adaptive Enterprise. (July 2004)

» Quantifying the Total Cost of Ownership for Entry-Level and Mid-Range Server Clusters
TechWise Research, Inc.
This whitepaper compares equivalent configurations of HP Integrity servers running OpenVMS against IBM/AIX and Sun/Solaris. OpenVMS Integrity configurations consistently perform with significantly lower TCO than the competition when considering real-life environments and requirements such as application uptime, system management, and typical life cycles. (June 2007) Posted with permission from TechWise Research, Inc.

» Quantifying the Total Cost of Upgrading HP OpenVMS AlphaServer systems to OpenVMS on HP Integrity servers
TechWise Research, Inc.
This whitepaper provides a detailed Total Cost of Upgrade^TM, or TCU^TM, analysis for upgrading OpenVMS AlphaServer systems to OpenVMS Integrity servers. It quantifies the costs and benefits from the upgrade and provides detailed cash flow analyses for four upgrade and two consolidation scenarios. The analysis shows that in many cases companies cannot afford not to upgrade from AlphaServer to Integrity. In some of the scenarios studied the payback period is so short that it is measured in months, not years! (April 2007) Posted with permission from TechWise Research, Inc.

»  Improving Availability and Lowering TCO with HP Integrity Servers and OpenVMS
Alinean, Inc.
This whitepaper compares OpenVMS mid-range clusters with IBM and Sun UNIX mid-range cluster TCO, availability, and business value. This TCO analysis helps decision makers invest more intelligently by analyzing the total cost of assets over their useful life. This ensures that the purchase decision is not made simply on the lowest initial purchase price, but considers change cost, ongoing support and maintenance, and service levels that include availability of applications and data. (January 2005) Posted with permission from Alinean, Inc.

» Are some RISC-Based Clusters More Secure Than Others? [PDF]
TechWise Research, Inc.
This whitepaper provides a detailed comparison of potential vulnerabilities and security-related cluster crashes for HP OpenVMS, IBM AIX, and Sun Solaris Server Clusters. (June 2004) Posted with permission from TechWise Research, Inc.

» Are Some RISC-Based Clusters Easier to Manage Than Others? [PDF]
TechWise Research, Inc.
This whitepaper provides a detailed comparison of the resources required to manage HP OpenVMS and IBM AIX server clusters. (May 2004) Posted with permission from TechWise Research, Inc.

» Total Cost of Ownership for Entry-Level and Mid-Range Clusters [PDF]
TechWise Research, Inc.
This whitepaper provides a detailed analysis of the total cost of ownership (TCO) of three different RISC-based server clusters: HP OpenVMS, IBM AIX, and Sun Solaris. (February 2004) Posted with permission from TechWise Research, Inc.

» OpenVMS VAX to OpenVMS AlphaServer Upgrades [PDF]
TechWise Research, Inc.
This whitepaper provides a detailed analysis of the benefits realized and satisfaction achieved by upgrading VAX systems to AlphaServer systems running OpenVMS. ([updated] September 2000) Posted with permission from TechWise Research, Inc.

» International Securities Exchange scales off the charts [PDF]
International Securities Exchange (ISE) is the world's largest equity options exchange. In March 2004, HP and OMX Technology of Sweden performed a benchmark test at the request of ISE to determine the performance parameters of running the OMX Technology CLICK XT trading application on the firm's HP OpenVMS platform. Designed by OMX, the benchmark was conducted at the HP OpenVMS Solution Center in Nashua, New Hampshire, and tested essentially the same application code that is used in daily production at ISE. (March 2005)

» OpenVMS Calling Standard Manual [PDF]
This standard defines the requirements, mechanisms, and conventions that support procedure-to-procedure calls for HP OpenVMS on VAX systems, HP OpenVMS systems, AlphaServer systems, and Integrity servers. The standard defines the run-time data structures, constants, algorithms, conventions, methods, and functional interfaces that enable a 32-bit or 64-bit native user-mode procedure to operate correctly in a multilanguage and multithreaded environment on VAX, Alpha, and Itanium® processors. (April 2003)

» PL/1 to C/C++ translation services [PDF]
Software Resources International
This is a whitepaper from a third party, Software Resources International. HP makes no claims about this document, its authors, or the company. HP provides this as courtesy to OpenVMS users who may want to consider translation of PL/1 code to C/C++ in preparation for moving applications to the Itanium®-based Integrity platform. (2003)

» Documentation in presentation form for KP services as they apply to OpenVMS on Integrity servers [PDF]
KP services, originally named Kernel Processes, should be used by developers who are porting code that switches or manipulates stacks. Stack switching code is much more complicated on OpenVMS for Integrity servers than it is on OpenVMS for AlphaServer systems or VAX systems. Therefore, HP recommends that developers use the KP services rather than porting their stack switching code. This presentation describes the functions of KP services for OpenVMS. (2004)

» OpenVMS Terminal Driver Port Class Interface for Itanium [PDF] (November 2003)