I have tried both and have decided that the best way to choose a distribution has nothing to do with their performance on a zSeries. For me, both worked well enough with our web workload, that I would have needed extensive instrumentation (your queue, Barton) to tell the difference. I think there are two other aspects of your installation that will serve as better criteria for picking a distribution. First, look at your expected workload, do you or will you run a particular application that is only or preferentially supported on a particular distribution. This is why we chose SUSE, at the time of our decision, Oracle was supported on SLES 9, so we run SLES 9. If that doesn't give you a clear cut choice, then look to your own staff and see which distribution they are most comfortable with. If we needed to revisit our choice of distribution, we might go with RedHat because we have lots of ad-hoc RedHat (fedora) machines around the network, or OpenSolaris (?) since the nearest help I can get are the Sun/Solaris support staff.
/Tom Kern /301-903-2211 Eatherly, John D [EQ] wrote:
We are looking at Red Hat and SUSE. Does anyone have any input on which one is better for the z platform. Any advantages or disadvantages? The only difference that I can see is that SUSE seems to be a little ahead on the maintenance releases. I have done some searching but cannot find much more that would help us make this decision. Any input on this would be appreciated. Thanks in advance... John Eatherly
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