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."

Comments

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