SCO Unix Server

[Richard Kreiss]

I will only address hardware as I am a Windows person.

I have one client who has replaced his servers(2) recently with HP servers
and another who has installed Dell R-430 rack server and a T-330 backup
server.  I installed a R-330 Dell server.  All server hardware has shown no
problems.  The one exception was the R-430 had motherboard issue and Dell
replaced it promptly.  It did require a reinstall of the Windows Server 2012
and a rebuild of the arrays and filePro re-install.  During that time my
client continued to use their old HP server which was having some issues.
Once the motherboard was replaced in the r-430, and the filePro data files
to the new server an xcopy task copied the updated files to the new server
each night. The new server was allowed to burn-in for about two weeks before
everyone was switched to that server and the old server was shut down.

Neither client has had any issues that I am aware of with these servers.

If your client has the funds, I would suggest installing SSD's as this will
allow for faster startups and placing the filePro temp file on an SSD will
speed up our outputs and anything else filePro uses the temp directory for.
One array for the SSDs and another for the HDDs.

As I am running Windows10 & Server 2012, my temp directory is on my local D
drive which is a Samsung 500GB 860 EVO M.2 SSD. Even with the network
traffic outputs are very fast. Except for some very large client files,
index rebuilds are from my workstation.  Some index rebuilds are much faster
when run directly on the server.  When I say large files these file have
25,000 records plus and the indexes are multi key.  The still rebuild faster
then on the old server.

Richard Kreiss

PS:
Don't forget to get a new license for the new server if your filePro
requires it.  You can always point the license manager to the old server
until the new license is installed and tested.




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> Subject: SCO Unix Server
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> I have a client that has finally agreed to consider a new server for their
filePro
> application.  Their current server is a Dell PowerEdge 1300, which was
purchased
> in 1999 making it 19 years old.   They are running SCO Unix 5.0.5   The
server
> itself is still going strong, what made them consider a new server was the
scare
> they just had when the server would not boot into Unix.  It wouldn't even
allow
> you to boot into Single-User mode, it would just crash.  What made matters
> worse was their backups were failing.  I tried mounting their hard drive
in my
> SCO Unix system and mount the drive, even then I could not mount the
drive.  It
> said the hard drive was full and/or the filesystem was corrupt.  I was
able to get
> them back up and running with a new hard drive and tape drive and was
finally
> able to read 1 tape that was backed up July 13.  I told them they were
living on
> borrowed time with a 19 year old server.  The next time they have a
problem it
> will be the server itself and n
>  ot the hard drive or tape drive.
> 
> So my question is has anyone recently setup a new server running SCO Unix.
I
> would prefer to install 5.0.5, but I would go to  5.0.7 if necessary.  If
so what
> server did you use.  I don't see anything on the compatibility list for
Dell or HP
> that I would consider late model, anything on the list is at least 4
generation old.
> I could move them to Linux but that would require them to purchase a Linux
> version of filePro but I'm trying to keep the price down.  My goal would
be to
> use their existing copy of SCO and filePro if at all possible.
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