On 10/25/10 08:39 PM, Markus Kovero wrote:
You are asking for a world of hurt. You may luck out, and it may work
great, thus saving you money. Take my example for example ... I took the
"safe" approach (as far as any non-sun hardware is concerned.) I bought an
officially supported dell server, with all dell blessed and solaris
supported components, with support contracts on both the hardware and
software, fully patched and updated on all fronts, and I am getting system
failures approx once per week. I have support tickets open with both dell
and oracle right now ... Have no idea how it's all going to turn out. But
if you have a problem like mine, using unsupported hardware, you have no
alternative. You're up a tree full of bees, naked, with a hunter on the
ground trying to shoot you. And IMHO, I think the probability of having a
problem like mine is higher when you use the unsupported hardware. But of
course there's no definable way to quantize that belief.
My advice to you is: buy the supported hardware, and the support contracts
for both the hardware and software. But of course, that's all just a
calculated risk, and I doubt you're going to take my advice. ;-)
Any other feasible alternatives for Dell hardware? Wondering, are these issues
mostly related to Nehalem-architectural problems, eg. c-states.
So is there anything good in switching hw vendor? HP anyone?
Sun hardware? Then you get all your support from one vendor.
--
Ian.
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