28 Aug 11 Finding someone for your next HP-UX build

Core competencies of our owner and fearless leader

• npar/vpar build up from the bare metal, virtualization. How to build a cloud on the big iron
• HPVM Virtualization on Itanium
• Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
• Vertias Volume Manager VxVM(1 year on platform)
• HP Serviceguard High Availability Cluster.
• APA Auto Port Aggregation
• Work Load Manager (WLM)
• Kernel Tuning, optimization, tuning for large database servers.
• HP tools such as kmeminfo, SysInfo (and much much more)
• Automation Scripting to improve outcome of repetitive systems administration tasks.
• SD-UX Software Distributor, building patch sets.
• OE(Operating Environment) update to roll out improvements in networking and input/output subsystems that are not in the bi-annual patch set.
• Audit Scripting
• Health Check scripting for day to day use after routine work.
• DRD, Dynamic Root Disk for OE updates and bi-annual patching to minimize downtime.
• Ignite-UX (see an article on this upcoming)

Quality Assurance Improvements done on previous assignments:

• Boot host before patches or major updates. Make sure system still boots and that major applications have not been modified into a non-starting state.
• Check that a kernel can be compiled before patching (basic health check needed for any major update)
• Run a patch consistency check prior to major work.
• Use system health check before patching to insure pre update health.

Maybe ISN Corporation should be working on your next big HP-UX system build