Solaris Now an Option for IBM Blades

Amiga Trombone writes to tell us that IBM and Sun have reached an agreement allowing Solaris 10 to be supported on IBM BladeCenter servers. From the article: "IBM confirmed the move in a statement, saying Sun is among more than 700 partners in the "BladeCenter ecosystem" and that as an operating system option, Solaris joins Windows, Linux for x86 and Power chips, and IBM's AIX version of Unix. IBM won't sell Solaris or support for the operating system to customers, IBM said. Anyone interested will have to purchase the software and support from Sun."

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News from the future

[hritcu]

IBM buys Sun.

Solaris on POWER/PowerPC

[turgid]

It's no secret that AIX sucks and IBM wanted to battle Solaris with Linux, but Solaris has a lot of advantages over Linux still. Give it another 3-5 years,thoug.

It's an open secret that Solaris doesn't just run on SPARC and x86. It's highly portable, and earlier this year, there was an official port of Open Solaris to PowerPC announced over at opensolaris.org. Heck, there was even an itanic port of Solaris last decade to prove that itanic sucks compared to everything else.

I reckon we'll see Solaris on big multi-processor POWER iron soon. Watch this space.

Re:Solaris on POWER/PowerPC

[idontgno]

I reckon we'll see Solaris on big multi-processor POWER iron soon. Watch this space.

With pSeries logical partitioning? I kinda doubt it. IBM just got 'round to adding it to the Linux kernels they support for Power4 and Power5, and other than that it's been AIX's ace in the hole.

I can't check the Polaris project blog, since the repressive net-monitoring regime at work blocks blogspot. Are they planning to try to fit LPAR into the Polaris kernel, or is a p6 or p5 series box just gonna be a really big SMP box? The former seems like a daunting task, and the latter seems like a waste of true POWER-series iron. (Not to mention totally incompatible with various frame-level features, like the capacity on demand systems.)

Nifty idea, but probably not worth the trouble on the true POWER houses. For a pSeries bitty box, cool, if it works.

It's a paper-launch, for gods sake!

[rainer_d]

Immediately as "new" broke about this, I mailed the guys who sold us our LS20-bladecenter.
The reality is that as of today, no specific information is available.
Rumor has it that it will be certified still in Q4, but Q1 2006 is as likely.
Officially, you won't get anything out of IBM about this.

I'd love to run Solaris on our Dual-Core, Dual Opteron blades, but I doubt that:
  - I can get SAN-boot to work
  - I can get MP-failover to work
  - overall support for our HP EVA3000 SAN for the above two features.

We don't have disks inside the blades and we will not buy any (they're not hot-swappable anyway).

IMO, it's mostly a publicity-stunt.

cheers,
Rainer

No, you are right, the Commedia is all 3 parts

[Flying pig]

The Commedia ("Divine Comedy" is not an appropriate translation into modern English) consists of the Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso. You are referring to the first part and are thus quite right, though you are wrong in thinking that (a) IBM is bundling Solaris - they aren't and (b) that inferno has anything to do with heat. It's just the word for Hell.

But did you realise that there is actually a Vita Nuovo who produce an OS called Inferno? These are deep waters indeed.

In any case, there are clearly references to Slashdot in the Commedia. There is a verse which is clearly an attack on the moderation system:
"One set of people advance to power and another falls back according to the judgement of the one who lies hidden like a snake in vegetation"
Perche una gente impera e l'altra langue
secondo la giudicio de costei
che est occulta come in erba l'angue
Apologies for any spelling errors, I'm writing from memory and I'm too lazy to look it up.