Experience worth writing down.

Notes, guidance and hard-won detail from decades of running HP3000 and HP9000 environments — written for the people who actually operate them.

Where to start.

Understanding the MPE/iX date limitation

What the 2028 boundary is, where it appears, and how to assess exposure in a production environment.

Performance investigation on HP-UX

A practical order of investigation when an HP-UX system slows down under existing workload.

Housekeeping that prevents outages

The routine administration tasks most often deferred on legacy systems, and what each one prevents.

Attaching modern storage to legacy hosts

Compatibility, layout and migration considerations when replacing original media.

Connectivity for hosted legacy systems

Access patterns, interfaces and security considerations when a system moves off-site.

Hardening long-running environments

Access control, account hygiene and change management for systems past vendor support.

Verifying a backup actually restores

Why a successful backup job is not evidence of recoverability, and how to prove it.

Planning an MPE/iX readiness programme

Sequencing assessment, remediation and validation across a multi-year window.

Some questions are faster to ask than to read.

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