[OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
So I'm constantly searching the interwebs for a good hardware vendor who ships well supported Solaris/Illumos-compatible kit. I know of the offerings by all the big names in the field (HP, IBM, Dell) and while their hardware is generally good, their Solaris support is often times a story of

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Mark Creamer
Silicon Mechanics On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Sašo Kiselkov skiselkov...@gmail.comwrote: So I'm constantly searching the interwebs for a good hardware vendor who ships well supported Solaris/Illumos-compatible kit. I know of the offerings by all the big names in the field (HP, IBM, Dell)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/02/2012 09:08 PM, Mark Creamer wrote: Silicon Mechanics Do they ship to and offer support in the EU? Cheers, -- Saso ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: At the moment I use Dell hardware, but seeing as their new line of internal HBAs (H310/H710) lack Illumos support, I'll probably be forced to go somewhere else. Do you guys know of somebody who ships servers and If the internal HBA is removable (or can

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 07/02/2012 10:03 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: At the moment I use Dell hardware, but seeing as their new line of internal HBAs (H310/H710) lack Illumos support, I'll probably be forced to go somewhere else. Do you guys know of somebody who ships

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: That's why I try and avoid servers like those from SuperMicro - since the box is designed to be generic, you get plenty of loose ends, overly long cables, missing wire guides, etc. Essentially, it's a The number of system vendors who are capable of