On Jun 24, 2004, at 09:52, Barry Books wrote:
The Sun is a 64 bit machine and has LOM so you can manage it completely from the serial port. I've never used Compaq. Can you power it up and install it without being there?
The Proliants have a pretty nice management interface that allows you to power-up/down, etc... the console redirection is really bad though. They have something called the "management pass-thru" that's not too bad, but you can't see the entire boot-up process.
The serial on the DL 360s we have is not too bad, but Sun so far is pretty superior in that aspect.
We have a team that handles the imaging of our machines before they're passed to us, so we don't really have a need for remote network installs.
Not that is matters but did you test the 1 gig or 1.28 gig Sun box. the 1.28 just came out. Also in that config the v210 would be $4945 with the 1 gig processors. Basically $2500 cheaper than the Compaq and within 10% of the performance.
I did neglect to mention the box configuration in my first email. My bad.
The Sun V240 is a 2x1Ghz UltraSparcIIIi running Sol9... I didn't have a 1.28Ghz box available at the time I was doing the tests. The DL 360 is a 2x2.8Ghz Xeon. The Proliant is a 2x3.2Ghz Xeon. All with 2 GB of RAM. So yes, you could argue that the Proliant results are possible skewed because of the difference in processor speed.
That wasn't the question we were trying to answer though... we wanted to find out whether we could get the same performance out of a Linux 2x2 that we currently get out of a Sun 2x2... in the front-end applications that we tested, the answer was yes. That's certainly not ALWAYS the case... but in our findings it was true. I didn't do any scale testing on databases or other backend apps of that nature.
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