[Info-vax] Do you (or someone you work with) sysman on Windows?

[Hans Vlems]

Op dinsdag 12 mei 2015 14:05:31 UTC+2 schreef Richard Maher:
> Look, this has been doing my head in for years :-(
> 
> I understand the transition we went through from isolated nodes to 
> clusters and from VAX to Alpha to IA64 to x86. But given a hardware 
> platform and an upgrade from 32 Windows to 32 Bit windows why would you 
> possibly start with a virgin disk and then search the web for matching 
> packages DLLs (version close enough) anyone got the Inventory/manifests?
> 
> Why don't they understand Image-Backup -> upgrade -> go/no-go decision?
> 
> I keep telling them that 2008 R1 will give them 5 more years but Oh No. 
> Go 64 bit, Microsoft no longer support Oracle so change DB DLLs, Go 
> LOG4Net, Go Web Farm, GO CRAZY :-(
> 
> Why, Why, Why do they always rebuild the system disk from scratch???

The Windows installation procedure customizes the distribution kit according 
to the hardware layer present at installtion time. There are just too many permutations possible to install all drivers. 
Now compare that to VMS where all hardware variants were both known and 
under control by the OS vendor. This allows for a neat design and makes it
feasible to create a generic system disk.
Given the combinations of cpu's, pci bridges, peripheral controllers, you name
it, that Microsoft has to deal with and still always come up with a bootable
disk for a given platform is good engineering.
Moving a system disk to a different platform is simple: find all the hardware
differences and pre install the required new drivers :-)
Hans