Hey all,
I moved our network engineering and development departments to SunRay on
a V240 while ago and it worked very
well. We just needed more speed and a DELL 2850 was they way to go. We
have 12Gb of ram and an external
RAID10 array using rdesktop for Windows access. We had some problems
running Eclipse on RedHat and I would
really like to mose to SuSE. For a while I put Solaris 10 on a spare box
(1750) and that worked well. We did want to
run Solaris 10 x86 on the DELL but Solaris 10 does not seem to support
the DELL raid card, we even called DELL support
and SUN and we could not get a driver.
Linux won because it supported the RAID card, had the apps and was what
we were all happy with.
Solaris lost because it did not support the hardware.
The only other thing I would love is a SunRay JAVA client :)
--
Leigh
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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.
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