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Linux Servers Break out of HPC into Enterprise

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rooting-for-the-underpenguin dept.

Jane Walker writes "Watch out, IBM, Dell and HP. Linux server vendors that have carved out a space in high-performance computing markets are taking their tailor-made servers into new enterprise markets, providing a welcome change for businesses that want to save money and get customized products."

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  1. Hmm... by corychristison · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've always been a fan of building, installing and maintaining my own Linux server. :-)

  2. Linux the Only Solution by gurutc · · Score: 5, Interesting

    We need to back up 2 Terabytes nightly from 65 schools for our district. RSYNC on a Linux backup server has been the only way we have found that works for this. And we are saving a cool quarter million dollars yearly versus a commercial enterprise solution.

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  3. Take my PowerEdge's please by wsanders · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, it's difficult to find reliable free distros that will support the features of higher-end woes. I still subscribe to the Poweredge Linux list and it is full of tales of woe from people trying to use free distros, mostly due to RAID controlelr problems.

    OTOH, Dells with supported (RHEL and SUSE) distros seem to be OK, and DL380s (The Cheap Server of the Gods) seems to be even better, although I had a heck of a time a few months ago tring to get the serial port and LOM to work together during boot. (Mostly that was incompetent HP support. Eventually we figrued out the magic BIOS settings to get it to work.)

    So realible hardware is out there but it seems to be going hand in hand with the pay-for-support distros nowadays.

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