hp sim 5.3 install problems

[mark q]

I just tried this weekend updating to sim 5.3.. here's and had to back out of it..

- memory issues - java is running worse in this version (and no java config settings in the globalsettings.props file)
these are the normal lines
java_plugin_cache=disabled
java_plugin_classid=clsid\:8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93
java_plugin_codebase=/ui/classes/j2re-1_4_1_04-windows-i586-i.exe\#version\=1,4
java_plugin_param_type=application/x-java-applet;jpi-version\=1.4


- no cluster identification
- rsp hangs continually and why does it take 45 minutes to install?
- database issues when nic teamed - after the installation my nic team went into failover mode and then would not come back. I tried re-building the team and some component that was updated caused the team to go south.
- re-poplulation of the database - could not use mxnode or old host file to restore the hosts into the database.
- disabled systems - when I installed and tried to use it when it saw the devices it disabled them - which means I have to manually discover them.
- manual discovery is gone
- subnet discovery (automatic dicovery) says it's running and then doesn't - was quirky
- rsp installs but when you go into the sim menu's to set it up gets an error.

Fatal error: Call to undefined method DOMDocument::document_element() in C:\hp\hpsmh\data\htdocs\isee\isee-functions.php on line 1852

- java tried adding the following line
JVMMAXHEAP=1500
on the advice of hp - mxdomainmgr.exe gets to 400 meg and restarts continously.

- when rsp updates the webes database goes south?

- why is rsp installing a local msde database when I'm using remote sql for insight manager?

- can't import host file from previous version

- can't use mxnode to repopulate the database

- osem 1.47 disables itself after about 24 hours of operation

so far I've tried to go back to 5.2 sp2 and the memory errors are just as bad.

Why is hp turning out such bad software?