Hello Chris,
I hope that you are well. We were running SRSS 3.0 on WBEL with
loads of issues, now I have swapped to SRSS 3.0 on CentOS 3.5 and the
install was flawless with SW raid. This is on a Dell PE2650. Our proper
gear arrives in 2-3 weeks which is a Netapp with 2 x Dell PE2850 on RedHat
Enterprise AS 3.x with SRSS 3.0 licenses and more Sun Ray DTUs.
The point of the blurb above is:
- A 220R we set up dragged for performance, can't remember
config on Solaris 8.
- Commodity hardware. A Dell PE2650 with 2.4GHz hyperthreaded
processors improved efficiency a great deal. 2 GB of RAM was great. The
new machines coming in are 3.0GHz hyperthreaded machines with 4GB of RAM.
A V40z is a different thing. We can use a Dell server for 3 years under
gold support with RedHat support for 3 years and chuck the machine, Sun
support costs are quite high per annum. Galaxy servers may hold loads of
hope.
- Linux is great for getting packages via yum, you can download a
whole bunch of updates, extras and such. I don't want to go looking for a
compiler and then dependencies for the software I am trying to compile.
Blastwave is great but Linux for quantity of pkgs is way ahead. So the
name of the game is how fast can I get the required apps for my collegues
on to the system.
- I believe that Solaris is a great OS no doubt, kernel and shell.
But for some odd reason, there is way more hardware support on the x86
side OSes. Linux being one of them. Pkgs galore.
- The guys on the floor prolly use Linux for their desktops for
admin stuff - atleast a majority do - on to Solaris servers in our
data center. So Linux is popular here.
Things that would be nice to see in SRSS 3.x + would be to have
the ability to use the USB with USB Pens, Printers, external hdds,
whatever USB items we can lay our hands on for which Linux has a driver. I
had to tell my director well you can attach your external hdd on a Solaris
based SR server but not on a Linux one. Correct me if I am wrong on this.
He wasn't extremely impressed.
Ability to mix and match, so I should be able to setup a failover
to a Sun Solaris 10 box on a V40z. Is there support for 64bit Linux
coming? That would be a plus as well.
I think that someone mentioned on this list, atleast I saw it in
the archives, but I would love to have NOT to replace the gdm everytime. I
read the the gdm maintainer has the patches but hasn't applied them, that
is sad. I would love to be able to update my GDM and not worry about
breaking my SRSS install.
HTH, I am sure that you are working on most of these things. I
will contact our TELUS rep and get them to send me some of the roadmap for
Linux stuff, I am most interested in seeing the tarentella stuff that you
guys just bought and how it fits into the SRSS world.
Cheers,
Aly.
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Christopher Saul wrote:
Hi Aly
Support for newer versions will arrive. To get the details you'll have to get
in touch with your local Sun office or partner as that info will be NDA at the
amount. I or the other Sun people on the list can help you get in touch with
the right people if need be.
I would be surprised to see support for other Linux flavours, but never say
never. These decisions are market driven of course and Red Hat and Suse are
the market leaders.
It would be interesting to know what reasons you have for preferring Linux
over Solaris in your environment. I know that there are all sorts of
arguments either way, but it's always good to hear things straight from the
customer!
Chris
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Hello One and All,
I hope that you are well. Do the Sun folks have a roadmap for the SRSS
software on the Linux platform ? Would there be proper official support for
the 2.6 Kernels and the ability to install the software on more than just
RedHat and SuSE Linices.
Some thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Aly.
--
Aly S.P Dharshi
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"A good speech is like a good dress
that's short enough to be interesting
and long enough to cover the subject"
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