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Date: Wed Jul 23 02:46:31 2003
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On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Shannon Roddy wrote:
> On another note... Anyone here using the "pay" versions of redhat? As
> in the Enterprise WS stuff? Or the Advanced Server stuff? If so, what
> do you think? Worth it? No? I have never bothered with it, but I
> might need to if they have superior management tools. I am getting more
> and more people around here running Linux and if it has tools that will
> make my life easier, I might look into it. besides, if it comes with a
> support contract, that might be nice... since googling doesn't work 100%
> of the time, though it seems to most of the time.
We are using Advanced Server on our mail servers. Unless you want HA
clustering, it probably isn't worth it. Basically AS2.1 is RH7.2 with the
Oracle-enhanced enterprise kernel (AIO, big-O scheduler) and the cluster
package. The cluster package is neat. It is easy to setup
high-availability NFS, Samba, or Apache servers, or setup custom HA
services (like Sendmail). It also does IP address takeover. But unless
you have both systems connected to a SAN, i don't think it'd work very
well. AS only supports 2-node cluster...
As far as "superior management tools", all you get is a few commands to
monitor the status of the cluster. That's it. Worth it? For the level
of support you get, i would say yes. I've used phone support a few times,
but can normally find solutions on google. Considering the amount of
money we send Microsoft, Novell, IBM, and Compay/HP to use/support their
OS's, i don't feel bad at all sending Redhat $3k/year for our two
servers. also considering almost half of all our servers are redhat...
Also keep in mind you are only paying Redhat for services/support... the
software is still free in accordance with the GPL. All the AS2.1 src
rpm's are on redhat's ftp. You could get the kernel and clumanager rpms
and try them out. Let me know if you can get them to build... :)
ray
