7.0 will not boot on any 9x7-series system. There is, however, no technical
reason for it not working. HP marketing simply decided to try to goose up
sales of new systems by forcing the obsolescence of the 9x7s.

As for Netbase shadowing to multiple machines, absolutely it can do that. Of
course you'd need the license for the extra machine. Talk to Quest.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lurk [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 8:32 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] 7.0 on a 987?
> 
> 
>  Hello,
> I'm a new sys admin.
> 
> I started this job in July, just before the new N-Class came 
> to replace the
> 987 as a development/production shadow machine, and we upgraded the
> production 969 to 7.0.
> 
> Now we've got this perfectly good 987 on our hands, and my 
> boss is wondering
> if we can move it to our out-of-state site and use it for 
> disaster recovery.
> But we would need to upgrade it to 7.0 in order to shadow 
> (Shareplex) our
> production machine to it. (right?)
> 
> And can we shadow to two different machines in the first 
> place?  We would
> need to continue shadowing production to the N-Class to use in the
> development mode.
> 
> Maybe I'm asking the wrong questions, I'd be interested in 
> any discussion
> related to this issue any of you folks would care to offer.
> 
> Thanks,
> Greg Bétit
> 
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