Re: Sun Servers
- From: George Leonard - Business Connexion <George.Leonard@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "merrickronan1@xxxxxxxxx" <merrickronan1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 04:40:58 +0000
:ets get back to your original question.
Advantages of the Sun X4-2, well technically it is JUST a Intel server, running
either:
It Can: OS wise:
Solaris for Intel
Linux, any Linux
Windows.
Now With Advantages:
If you pay the 12% premium support per year, you're allowed, well thats strong
words, lets rather say "at no additional cost", run any of the Oracle Supplied
OS's or Virtualization engines:
in Other words:
Oracle Solaris for Intel, with LDOM's Zones etc.
Oracle Linux, be it the un supported download, the Unbreakable Linux (Supported
version of previous) Unbreakable Kernel (The New Kernel provided on top of the
base build with some optimizations)
This then further include KSplice,
Soon to include DTrace for Linux
Soon to include LDOM's for Linux.
Also include usage of OVM for Intel, which then allow you to carve the intel
machine up, nice for Multi Tenancy between systems, companies if hosted
platform or inter departmental.
Oh and you can you use Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud control 12c and Opc
Center to manage/monitor you environment (Hardware, base OS's, patch levels, HW
performance, OS performance) at no additional cost,
Yes you can do all of this with other hardware also, but then you have to pay
Red Hat or Suse, You have to pay VMWare (oh and remember the support problems,
and not recognising the hard partitioning of VMWare for license considerations
which are recognised with OVM), you have to pay for monitor software stack.
RED Stack: Biggest thing, One Throat to choke, and well an awesome 5 year
(although with Intel I prefer 3 yr) TCO,
Yours Sincerely
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George Leonard
Oracle Engineered System Specialist
Mobile: +27.82 655 2466
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On 08 Jul 2014, at 10:59 PM, Ronan Merrick
<merrickronan1@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:merrickronan1@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi all,
I hope this doesn't seem like too much of a noob question but I have been
getting more involved with the hardware aspect of things lately.
I am currently buying some new servers and I was going to go with Dell machines
as these are what I used previously. However I also got a quote for some Sun
X4-2 machines which priced favourably when compared with the Dell, with the
additional support costs for Oracle Linux factored in.
My question is what is the general consensus among the Oracle community here on
Sun machines?
Have your experiences been positive/negative?
Thanks guys,
Ronan
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