Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> > Andrew C Henle said ...
> > In summary ...
>
> Yup, it sounds like you're basically agreeing with the same thoughts I was
> having. If Dell says solaris is supported and they sell it with their
> server, probably it will be fine, although it might not perform as well
ILOM ftw.
I have seen Dell racks blow breakers out of the electric junction box and imbed
the resulting shrapnel in the walls on the other side of the electric closet.
There's nothing quite like watching a large explosion to help clarify your
choices in hardware.
Tim
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Dude, listen to me. I work as a Linux and Windows 2003 administrator in a data
center that has a thousand plus Dell servers in it and as a result of Dell's
badly designed hardware, my life is a never ending nightmare! The hardware RAID
cards they use in their older servers are SO BAD (especially
> I'd love it if anyone can point me onto anything concrete -
> - Something that doesn't work right with Dell servers running solaris
> - Some benchmark that indicates the dell isn't as good ..
> - Some admin who uses solaris/Dell and says everything is fine ...
> Or something concrete like that ..
> Andrew C Henle said ...
> In summary ...
Yup, it sounds like you're basically agreeing with the same thoughts I was
having. If Dell says solaris is supported and they sell it with their
server, probably it will be fine, although it might not perform as well as a
more expensive (Sun) server and
1. Hardware quality
Well, first off, with hardware you pretty much get what you pay for if you're
buying off-the-shelf gear. Yes, there are exceptions.
There's a reason that Dell is cheaper. For one example, I tried to used a Dell
SC440 in an IO-intensive role. The onboard SATA controller t
> >The one thing I can think of,
> > which would be a possible
> > problem point for a Dell is – In order to swap
> > a failed disk without
> > taking the system down, you need to be able to
> > identify the failed disk, remove
> > it and replace it, without shutting down into
> > BIOS. Traditiona
>The one thing I can think of,
> which would be a possible
> problem point for a Dell is – In order to swap
> a failed disk without
> taking the system down, you need to be able to
> identify the failed disk, remove
> it and replace it, without shutting down into
> BIOS. Traditionally on
> Windows
I have to admit the state of Sun doesn't look too good right now, and that
makes me nervous switching to sun/solaris.
That being said - speculation and fears aside .
Is there any reason to choose Sun vs Dell vs something else, to be a solaris
server? The goal is to use ZFS and create a C
