Red Hat Migration Center

HP®-UX® to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

In light of recent acquisitions and vendor consolidation in the IT industry, many organizations are concerned that they're at risk of becoming too dependent on a single vendor. Faced with the reality?that decisions made today will limit future options, many of these organizations have chosen to migrate from proprietary technologies, such as HP®-UX® , to alternatives based on open standards like Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®.

For more than a decade, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been successfully replacing HP-UX and other Unix workloads across the enterprise--reducing operating costs and offering hardware vendor neutrality and increased flexibility for global customers large and small. Explore the tabs below for tools like whitepapers, case studies, webinars, and more.

Tools and Resources

Browse through our ever-expanding list of whitepapers, online tools, on-demand webinars and more. (Some of these require registration.)

Strategic Migration Guide

Developed by Red Hat's global team of architects and enterprise consultants, this comprehensive guide details the recommended process for moving from HP®-UX® to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AP. It includes the planning steps that should be taken when preparing for such a migration as well as common implementation and training standards and best practices.

Quick Guides

Whitepapers

Webinars

Migrate to Enterprise Linux in Six Steps

  • Deploy a test lab or pilot project. Many customers opt for a test lab approach where a small number of application environments can be evaluated on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  • Qualify your software stack. Only after all software components are qualified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux should a migration proceed. Thousands of third-party software applications are certified to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and can be checked in our online software catalog.
  • Port your in-house applications. Porting of code from UNIX to Linux is typically straightforward. Red Hat ships with a broad range of developer tools and compilers to accelerate the effort.
  • Train your IT staff. Key staff should be trained as early in the process as possible. Learn more about Red Hat Training, and encourage relevant administrators to take a free online pre-assessment test to determine their specific course level.
  • Prepare a Red Hat Enterprise Linux standard build. Current provisioning methods using KickStart are able to codify organizational requirements in a flexible and repeatable manner.
  • Deploy a pilot. Install the target systems using a repeatable provisioning (closed-loop) approach, leveraging Red Hat Network to ensure fully-up-to-date provisioning.

For more detail on how to migrate from UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux in six steps, download the whitepaper.

Start a conversation with Red Hat

Every migration project, no matter the size or scope, requires detailed planning to ensure success. Understanding the risks, savings, and cost structure of a migration project is critical if you are to accurately project net improvements and realize actual return on your IT investment.

When you are ready to embark on your Solaris to Enterprise Linux migration, we encourage you to give us a call to discuss how Red Hat can help you make the right decisions from the start, reduce risk, and accelerate the impact of your deployed technology.

Success Stories

Red Hat has helped many customers--including growing businesses, government agencies, and Fortune 100 enterprises--develop and execute Red Hat Enterprise Linux migration plans. These companies successfully reduced both capital expenditures and operating expenditures while improving operational flexibility and efficiency. Here are their stories.

Sherwin-Williams Consumer Group Takes on Rosy Hue with Help from Red Hat

In 2005, the Consumer Group segment of The Sherwin-Williams Company migrated its web application infrastructure from a combination of HP/UX and Windows to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, primarily for standardization and reliability reasons. Among other goals, Sherwin-Williams wanted this standard platform to create a new portfolio of applications to promote operational excellence and green initiatives.

Odyssey Logistics & Technology Migrates from UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux On Intel® Xeon®Pro processor-based IBM servers to Run Mission-Critical Supply ChainÊOperations

OL&T's HP-UX and Windows operating system cold not support it's rapidly growing business, and the company decided to do a complete decided to do a complete infrastructure ÒrefreshÓ that involved migrating all of these to Red Hat Enterprise Linux running on Intel Xeon based servers.

Salt River Project Migrates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM Mainframes for Flexibility andÊPerformance

"The implementation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on our IBM System z mainframe was straightforward and didnÕt take long at all," said Masaryk. Migrating from HP-UX, SRP has nearly 50 Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based servers and the implementation is on-going.

Red Hat Solutions Deliver Performance and Cost Savings Boosts for Central Queensland University

"We knew the time was coming for a change, particularly when we knew we would need more than eight CPUs for a single database server," said Bruce Young, Peoplesoft Systems Engineer, CQUniversity. "HP Tru64 UNIX was a discontinued product, and we didnÕt have unlimited funds to throw at the problem, so we were forced to look at more cost-effective alternatives for expanding our capacity."

Read why other customers migrated from HP-UX and other UNIX variants to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Red Hat Consulting Offering

Red Hat Consulting is pleased to a strategic HP-UX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux offering to accelerate and optimize your migration efforts.

Red Hat Consulting - Strategic Migration Planning Solution

Red Hat's Strategic Migration Planning provides you the product expertise and strategic roadmap for an efficient migration from HP-UX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The duration of the engagement is based specific business needs, with engagements typically spanning 3 to 6 months. During the engagement, a Red Hat architect with deep product expertise will work with you to define a streamlined migration strategy that encompasses your complete solution stack, identify high risk mitigators, and speed time-to-production.