From: Paul Henderson (Paul.G.Henderson@hp.com)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 13:43:53 EDT
A survey was sent to Tru64UNIX system administrators who use both Tru64UNIX
and HP-UX asking five questions:
1) what features of Tru64UNIX do you like best?
2) what features of HP-UX do you like best?
3) what migration tools would you like to see when performing a migration
from Tru64UNIX to HP-UX?
4) if you use Tru64UNIX's EVM (Event Management) features, what features
would you like brought forward to HP-UX (event channels, command line
interface, event subscription, etc.)
5) Any additional comments/requests
45 customers responded to the survey.
AdvFS and TruCluster are the Tru64UNIX features that system managers like
best (77% for AdvFS and 63% for TruCluster). The other favorite features are
(in order of most frequently noted): compilers (Tru64UNIX compilers were
noted for their excellence) (27%), SysMan (25%), and system stability (20%).
Other Tru64UNIX features, in order of most frequently noted, are:
- hwmgr, C2 security (14%)
- syslog, syslog.dated (11%)
- I/O multipathing, sys_check, collect, ease of installation, LSM (9%)
- "real SCSI", dupatch, system V, dynamic kernel tuning (7%)
- EVM, DCE, decEvent (4%)
- text management files, NFS perf., atom, binary compat version to version,
>65K uids, DSN link, SNMP, class sched., IPV6, IPsec, Kerberos, ACKs, ladebug, ASDU, LAG (2% or less)
>From HP-UX, SAM is the most frequently noted best feature.
Other HP-UX features, in order of most frequently noted, are:
- VxFS, OpenView, swinstall, ioscan, ignite (6%)
- netinstall, snmp, LVM, documentation, glance/perfview, lanscan, stability
(2% or less)
These survey results verified our initial plans for the merged Tru64UNIX and
HP-UX, namely to add TruCluster and AdvFS to HP-UX. These results will also
be used in prioritizing the convergence of other features.
Migration tools requested were:
- an easy move of core system files (like passwd and hosts)
- filesystem translation
- SAP and Oracle data migration tools
- a comparison guide
- setld/depot interoperability
- a tool that flags shell inconsistencies
- a Tru64UNIX-like shell that supports Tru64UNIX commands and syntax
15% of the respondents said they use EVM, and asked for the CLI, mail
notification, paging, consolidated logs, and the Event Viewer in equal
amounts.
The additional comments and requests ranged from one liners like "make it
work" to volumes that match the size of War and Peace. We are working
through these comments to find common threads, and we certainly appreciate
your candor, thoughtfulness, and support.
Thank you to all that replied to this survey. Your feedback and ideas are
extremely valuable to us. If you have any further feedback or ideas on this
subject, please feel free to email me directly.
Regards,
Paul
-- Paul Henderson Tru64 UNIX Engineering, HP Corp. mail: Paul.G.Henderson@hp.com || 200 Rt 9, Manalapan, NJ 07726 voice: (732)577-6044 | fax: (732)577-6003
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