' ... I think I'm the only person in the team who knows Unix as well, so that's not going to help. So we will have to get people up to scratch with Unix, ... there's a department with a team downstairs who will essentially do most of that [Unix installation] but I want to keep a fairly careful eye on..it's a very different ball-game to using Unix to a fileserver. Things, particularly things like how memory's allocated, how file systems are set up, are very very different. ... In Unix you set up file systems and normally the file systems would use up all your disk space. In this particular case large chunks of the disk are not going to have file systems put on them. ... That's one difference, not too major. The other one that can be a real pain to work out is memory configurations. ... So we split memory between Unix and Sybase. It's quite a tough issue. We'll talk to a consultant from Sybase about that. ...X042 page 001.03c (tape 04.2.02c) Matt Notes/Tape 14/06/94If you don't know Unix at all it's a fair bit to pick up. I mean nobody will really need to know Unix inside out but obviously they're going to have to..every one who does administration will have to grasp at least how all the scripts are set up. The way Sybase is set up, it is very different, it's pulling information from all over the place, ... It gives you massive flexibilty how you set Sybase up. But it also means you need to know a little bit about Unix and you need to know your way around to know where to change things. ... as a very rough estimate I've put down for 5 days of consultancy. They breakdown essentially 2 days to make sure we've got all the things configured and tuned properly, 2 days to aid with migration, and 1 day to set up the standby which will be used as a Replication server which we're all new to ... '
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