On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Graham C. Knight wrote:
After a 5 hour period yesterday upgrading the OS on an HP Series 800 server, which included loading software from 5 different CD's, installing so many patches that i lost count, rebuilding the kernel and rebooting three times (20 ^%@#$^% minutes each), I think it's fair to compare the difference between the platforms as "never having to upgrade the OS". Mainly because if you told someone it took 10 minutes work (on the high end) and 30 seconds of downtime (that most NFS clients don't even know happened) in order to upgrade the OS on a *major* file server, they would think you were totally full of shit.
Amen to that!! I was blown away when we upgraded our filers from 3.1 to 5.3.2R1 (a jump of 2 major changes) and it was the most painless thing in the world - took less then 5 minutes, most of which was verifing it was working well after the upgrade. The other admin and I just stood there looking at each other saying "that's it????" I've dealt with SGI and Sun upgrades and they are no small feat either (I'd usualy plan those for a weekend stint). The toaster upgrades were less painful then finding the upgrade on the web site.
---------------- Jay Orr Systems Administrator Fujitsu Nexion Inc. St. Louis, MO