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Sun Announces New x86 Servers

Posted by michael on from the slumming-with-linux dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sun announced the new V60x and V65x servers (1U and 2U respectively). The 1U has 2.8GHz Xeon CPUs and the 2U has 3.06GHz Xeon CPUs. They also announced a partnership with RedHat and Oracle running on these boxes. RedHat will also start shipping Sun's Java with their distribution."

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  1. Re:Sun is taking the same route as SGI by phraktyl · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've actually been looking at Sun's new entry level servers, the v210 and v240 servers.

    The v210 starts at $2,995US, and the large configuration, with 2 1Ghz UltraSparc IIIi processors, 2GB of RAM, 2 36GB 10,000RPM SCSI-III drives, and 4 10/100/1000 network intarfaces comes in at $5,795US. I've seen comparible x86-based servers for more than that.

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  2. Price Comparasion by Deathlizard · · Score: 5, Informative

    IBM's 1U Server
    Sun's 1U Server

    At least they are price competitive with IBM. I'm not too sure about Dell but it's a start.

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  3. Re:Sun is taking the same route as SGI by joeykiller · · Score: 5, Informative
    Because people in purchasing and management are stupid. There hasn't been a Sun worth the premium since the SS20.

    Actually, I don't know if I agree with you about Sun not being worth the premium.

    We run a very large web site that mainly consists of cheap Intel based hardware. But at the core of it all we've always used Sun servers with Solaris. Sure, the Sun servers have always cost us 10 times the price of comparable Intel hardware, but the Sun hardware comes with two things the Intel hardware does not:

    1) The hardware (and the OS) is remarkably stable. One server ran for five years under heavy load the entire time without needing any maintenance. In the same time period we had to replace a lot of the Intel hardware.

    2) In the unlikely event that something actually breaks, even if it's at 2AM in the morning, a guy comes rushing in and repairs the machine. The most amazing thing is that he always seems to have the right spare parts stored away, just in case. It's a fantastic service, and when you run a large scale, business critical operation, that kind of service is _extremely_ valuable.

    And although this has nothing to do with hardware, there's (for me) an important point that concerns the OS too:

    3) Even when upgrading the OS from 2.6 to 9, old software and strange old Apache modules (which we have to continue using, even though it's developer has stopped supporting them a long time ago) keeps working. I can't think of many Linux binaries from 1997 that would work for me out-of-the-box on a modern distribution today.

    I'm not saying Intel hardware or Linux is bad, but I say that there are a few cases where the safety that overpriced Sun hardware can give you, gets more or less priceless.