The Itanium ecosystem is as unhealthy as ever with HP totally dominating sales. HP moved 4,789 of the 5,665 boxes shipped in the second quarter, earning $250m in revenue. That total is roughly equivalent to the RISC server business done by IBM or Sun in one week.
Apples - Oranges. A workstation with a Celeron is not the same as a 1u SPARC server. Compare it to a Dell PowerEdge 1650 with similar hardware please (scsi disk, 4 gbit nics).
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Looking for administrative tools? What, you mean "admintool?" Or SMC? The former is featureless and the latter is new, slow, and full of bugs.
You are right, they suck.
volume management? Oh, you mean DiskSuite, which only very recently acquired the ability to expand a filesystem/volume?
Not true. You have been able to do that since at least Disksuite 4.1 which is like 5 years old.
NIC failover in Solaris is still just a glorified shell script
Wrong. in.mpathd is a deamon (ELF executable, not a shell script).
and there's no adapter teaming or round-robin capability to speak of
There is round-robin for outbound connections IF you have 2 active interfaces. You can buy SunTrunking for a better load-balancing solution
(a 10-second delay for failover is rather pathetic, too.
You can adjust that to a minimum of 100ms in/etc/default/mpathd.
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Look at the DNS... all of them come through Sun
So?
I like having a GOOD central point of information. There are also newsgroups and mailing lists for solaris, I particularly love the sunmanagers mailing list, I wish I knew of a similiar list for linux.
I also wonder why they didn't compare the new entry level sparc servers priced at 3000$3500$ with the IBM o Dell equivalents.
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I whole heartedly agree. I have been dissecting linux implementations for a few years now to become effective in it's administration. I cannot do that as easily with Solaris. There is a cornicopia of info for linux on the web. Solaris? NADA.
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The Itanium ecosystem is as unhealthy as ever with HP totally dominating sales. HP moved 4,789 of the 5,665 boxes shipped in the second quarter, earning $250m in revenue. That total is roughly equivalent to the RISC server business done by IBM or Sun in one week .
that's $15,000 NOT $150,000. If you only need madhatter it's 100 * 100 = $10,000
Apples - Oranges.
A workstation with a Celeron is not the same as a 1u SPARC server.
Compare it to a Dell PowerEdge 1650 with similar hardware please (scsi disk, 4 gbit nics).
Looking for administrative tools? What, you mean "admintool?" Or SMC? The former is featureless and the latter is new, slow, and full of bugs.
/etc/default/mpathd.
You are right, they suck.
volume management? Oh, you mean DiskSuite, which only very recently acquired the ability to expand a filesystem/volume?
Not true. You have been able to do that since at least Disksuite 4.1 which is like 5 years old.
NIC failover in Solaris is still just a glorified shell script
Wrong. in.mpathd is a deamon (ELF executable, not a shell script).
and there's no adapter teaming or round-robin capability to speak of
There is round-robin for outbound connections IF you have 2 active interfaces. You can buy SunTrunking for a better load-balancing solution
(a 10-second delay for failover is rather pathetic, too.
You can adjust that to a minimum of 100ms in
Look at the DNS... all of them come through Sun
So?
I like having a GOOD central point of information. There are also newsgroups and mailing lists for solaris, I particularly love the sunmanagers mailing list, I wish I knew of a similiar list for linux.
I also wonder why they didn't compare the new entry level sparc servers priced at 3000$ 3500$
with the IBM o Dell equivalents.
I whole heartedly agree. I have been dissecting linux implementations for a few years now to become effective in it's administration. I cannot do that as easily with Solaris. There is a cornicopia of info for linux on the web. Solaris? NADA.
What about:
docs.sun.com
sunsolve.sun.com
blueprints
And have you ever seen this line on a solaris vfstab file? /tmp tmpfs - yes size=512m
swap -