Hi Managers,
My organisation may be introducing a high end Silicon Graphics boxes
into what has until now been a straight Digital Unix (4.0B) environment.
The SGI boxes would be running predominantly an Oracle database with
supporting C and Perl scripts for batch operations.
There is a chance that the application requiring the SGI box could be
ported to DU (SGI specific functionality is restricted to use of
semaphores in a few places). If maintaining a heterogenous environment
introduces significant ongoing overheads then this could help offset the
cost of porting.
I'll be testing a box on site and will look at a range of issues
including: BSD vs System V flavour, compatibility of enhanced security,
NIS compatibility, GID numbering schemes co-existence, dump
compatibility, NFS co-existence, timezone synchronisation, etc.
What are your experiences on administration / management / compatibility
overheads that moving to this sort of heterogeneous environment will
introduce?
Steve Jirik
UNIX Systems Administrator
sjirik_at_citipower.com.au
Received on Mon Dec 01 1997 - 05:53:39 NZDT