Your management doesn't really have reason to be concerned. If something horrific happens to CentOS you could pretty much migrate to RHEL with minimal effort.
-Aaron On Feb 14, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Steden Klaus wrote: > > CentOS is a de-branded version of Redhat enterprise, so they are > effectively binary-compatible. CentOS does not provide commercial > support. > > Our clusters use it exclusively with no issues, and I frequently mix > RPMs from both. > > Klaus > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu Feb 14 12:37:02 2008 > Subject: [Lustre-discuss] Centos 5 with Lustre > > Greetings, > > (This my second try at getting this post to the list; > hope this one goes through ;-) > > Next week I'll start installation of our test lustre > cluster. If everything goes well it will eventually > hold all our data (we have about 350 TB). > > Would it be unwise to use Centos rather than RHEL? > > In my pre-tests (running with vmware) it seems to > run fine with CentOS 5. > > Management, however, is concerned. Do they have > reason to be? > > thanks much, > JR > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss > _______________________________________________ > Lustre-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss Aaron Knister Associate Systems Analyst Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (301) 595-7000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss
