The servers I've built 4 years ago were running RHEL 4, or even 3 in some cases. All since migrated to RHEL5. With the pace of today's software development (apps, OS, etc)-- will you *really* still have this very server build in 2014?
RHEL5 is nearing end-of-development with RHEL6 just around the corner. I cannot imagine that ANY of my servers (hundreds..) will still be running RHEL5 after 2013.... Building a nagios/etc server (as you listed) is something that I think could easily be done in well under a day. At least for me, the "future proofing" argument kind of fails here, unless you have some kind of "ok, it's finished, we're not going to touch it for almost half a decade" policy. You hinted at that, but I have to offer the opinion anyway... Those comments aside-- there are obviously plusses and minuses to the 32-bit/64-bit case. And unless you have a server with a large amount of physical memory, the issue is really a matter of preference - which your boss has, and well, you work for him... see Adam's comments about emotion getting in the way :-) I know this group, and there's going to be tons of arguments for either side of the fence. Maybe go un-scientific, and just tally the results? ;-) --Kent _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
