A9791A Upgrade, HP 9000 rp7420 to Integrity rx7620

A9791A is the upgrade product for taking an HP 9000 rp7420 to an HP Integrity rx7620. The HP 9000 rp7420 can be upgraded to Intel Itanium 2 Madison, HP Integrity mx2 and future PA-RISC processors, and A9791A is the chassis upgrade kit for the board level upgrade. It contains a new server name insert for the front bezel, new firmware and various labels to apply to the server.

No new cell boards or memory are needed: the cell boards are the same between PA-8800 and PA-8900 servers and the Intel Madison 2 and HP mx2 based servers. The processor modules are separate products. HP sells two processors per module, and a new module replaces two processors of the older modules. The Itanium 2 dual processor module at 1.6 GHz with 6 MB cache is AB548A, the module at 1.5 GHz with 4 MB cache is AB439A, and the HP mx2 dual-processor module at 1.1 GHz with 4 MB L3 cache and 32 MB L4 cache is A9767A.

When upgrading to mx2 modules with one processor module per cell board, a cell board processor terminator, AB225A, may be needed, and one cell board baffle, A9792A, must be bought for each cell board being upgraded. Return credits are available for old processor modules and are single processor credits: the rp7420 900-MHz credit is A6436AN option 001 and the 1-GHz credit is A6437AN option 001. For the HP Integrity servers, the operating system needs to be upgraded to HP-UX 11i version 2.