Hi I must migrate my servers to Compaq Proliant DL360G3 machines. We're looking several IDCs, and all of them say "Only support for RedHat, SuSE and Caldera". I want to use Debian (I don't like very much SuSE, I've not used neither Red Hat nor Caldera, and it's hard to change distro when you're happy with the one you have), but when I comment this point to the salesman, he says a lot of "It's difficult" "It's not supported" and things like that. Even I've found on a budget "We don't take any responsibility on the installation, functionality or support in case you decide to install Debian".
In this situation, my boss is evaluating the convenience of installing Debian on the servers, and he says he likes Red Hat. I've looked at Compaq website and I have not found any reference to Debian. As there are RAID controllers and specific server hardware that I don't know so far (I've never used hardware RAID at home ;P), I'm afraid of the difficulty I can find installing Debian in spite of everybody telling me to install Red Hat. Anyway... Does anybody have any experience with this machine (or similar) and Debian? Is there any website where I can take a look on the compatibility of this machine (or similar) and Debian? Do you recommend me to be stubborn and install Debian anyway? Thanks all
