> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Roy McMorran > > Is anyone using a 3rd party organization for hardware support for Sun > servers? In general we're moving away from Oracle/Sun but I do still have a > few systems that need support. Budget is tight though, and I expect to be > challenged on support contract costs.
I think the big question here is *why* use sun/oracle hardware? If you're just running Windows Server or Linux on it... Then there's not a lot of reason to use Snoracle. They're generally solidly out-competed by Dell for these purposes. But if you're dependent on Solaris, or ZFS... EXPECIALLY if your system is internet-facing... Then you really need to pay snoracle for support, at least for the OS. I know I've heard lots of success stories of people running snoracle OS (solaris) on non-snoracle hardware... But my experience has been bad enough for me to say, just don't do it. It's not well tested, and it's unsupported, and in my experience, real problems do happen (which can't be fixed.) For example, runing solaris on dell hardware. Even with snoracle software support contract, it's a bad idea. There is one direction I would be willing to consider - nexenta on silicon mechanics, or anything that nexenta recommends for hardware. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
