In our case, high performance & clock speed is likely not a make or break issue, we have a relatively small pool of concurrent users (40-50 at most) and a fairly simple billing and nascent medical records system that doesn't tax the current system tremendously, it's mostly in terms of networking to external applications servers that has caused our desire to upgrade -- that and the last time we had to get a spare part we found what may be the last one in the US on eBay.
Has anyone else got any performance on Solaris issues that might be relevant?
I plan on testing out the Linux version on Solaris 10 unless/until we get Solaris binaries, in which case I'll try to do some comparison load lifting, that's a good point.
Thanks very much for the input, greatly appreciate the assist.
Adrian Matthews wrote:
We've been through a very similar exercise recently (as you've probably guessed) and we came down to using IBMx445 servers with RHEL AS 3.
As the clock speed of the SPARC is relatively low compared to a Xeon MP we found that combination outperformed the Sun (and was a lot cheaper once a large disk array was added in). There was nothing that Sun could do to improve the performance due to Universe being compiled against a very old solaris (7) version.
You can probably imagine what the Sun engineers reaction to that was! He wasn't very complimentary about IBM.
Interestingly Solaris 10 is supposed to be able to run any Linux application.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ivanick Sent: 11 February 2005 12:34 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [U2] Has anyone played with/tested UniVerse 10+ under Solaris 10
Right, the two would be separate, either we'd be running Linux on Xeons or Opterons, or we'd be running Solaris on Sparc, not Solaris on Opteron
or Intel.
I've got the Solaris 10 CDs down and will try to do an install on a SunBlade we have here, with any luck I can get a copy of the U2 Solaris binaries from IBM in relatively short order to test this out, at least in a proof of concept stage.
Adrian Matthews wrote:
What I meant was it won't run as a supported platform. I spoke to IBM last week and they said they only support Solaris on a SPARC.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen B Sent: 10 February 2005 23:54 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [U2] Has anyone played with/tested UniVerse 10+ under Solaris 10
It will as a 32-bit application. You can run a single Opteron on a dual-board and you still get the benefit of 64-bit hardware. I have Win2K Pro running on that setup right now serving huge files.
Glen
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Yes (v490). Problem is that Universe is compiled against Solaris 7 so you get absolutely no benefit of later versions.
Also as far as I know Universe does not run on Opteron.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ivanick Sent: 10 February 2005 21:04 To: [email protected] Subject: [U2] Has anyone played with/tested UniVerse 10+ under Solaris 10
Hola all -
We've suddenly had some resources freed up from another project and
are
looking to rapidly replace the 12-14 year old SGI Challenge Ls (which, truly, are still performing magnificently in most respects) we have
our
UniVerse 9.6 installation on.
We've so far primarily tested on U2 10.1.x running on redHat AS 3.2
and
we're starting to get quotes for hardware, and we've concentrated on
x86
so far; the Sun guys came by today & pitched a very nice price for 4 way Opteron based 40Zs, but they also made a fairly strong case for
the
virtualization/compartmentalization features of Solaris 10. I know
it's
kind of early yet, but has anyone tried running U2 in these
containers?
I'm fascinated by the idea (as we could dual-purpose the box and not have to worry so much about our high-availability needs), but it will take a while before I can actually get to trying it out on the
SunBlade
100 here, so I'm interested if anyone's tried this, perhaps from the Solaris 10 betas.
Thanks very much for any input.
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