On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 02:46:32PM +0000, Ronnie Wallace wrote: > Hi All, > > Just a little tale of woe that may be of interest to those of > you running SL on Sun kit. > > About 18mths ago we bought a couple of X4150s each with a J4400 > storage array attached. Only populated 12 of the 24 drive bays > in each of the J4400s at the time of purchase. > > Time passes, grants come in, storage needs grow .... > > Approach Oracle reseller to get quote about getting additional drives, > only to discover that not only did Oracle EOL the J4400 in Dec 2010, > they also EOLed accessories so it is no longer possible to get the > drives. EOLing the array itself is fair enough, but the drives too, > what a way to treat customers that have invested in their products! > Apparently this is the case with quite a lot of "older" Sun hardware > not just the J4400.
If you like Solaris you might check out Nexenta. Runs great on SuperMicro hardware (or even Dell + MD3000's). We are a fairly big "Sun" shop, but the decision to go with more and more Dell/IBM/HP is becoming easier and easier -- especially for running Linux. Also, Solaris is real expensive on non-Oracle hardware ($1K/yr for Premiere support for 1-2 sockets -- goes up after that). > > cheers, > Ronnie Ray
