From: Wilson, Jeff (Jeff.Wilson@GWL.COM)
Date: Fri Jan 16 2004 - 16:49:06 EST
We have a mixed environment to and I like both. I have never seen cost
be a big issue both SUN and IBM are about the same price. I have had
major issues with the CDROM but nothing we could not handle. I would
recommend Fugitsu we started buying these after SUNS resent hardware
problems. It runs Solaris and costs a lot less. We seen much better
performance and support from Fujitsu.
Jeff Wilson
303-737-5399
-----Original Message-----
From: John Jolet [mailto:john.jolet@FXFN.COM]
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 2:08 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Solaris9 and AIX5
Are you sure they know what they are doing? all of our front-end
webservers are running solaris 8, all of our db servers are running
aix. we don't reboot either for those sorts of changes. I've never
seen any problems mounting the cdrom, or unmounting it.
I have used solaris 9 in a v880, with none of those problems.
I mostly like ibm's lvm better.
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 14:47, Theresa Sarver wrote:
> Thanks everyone for the responses.
>
> Well, believe it or not they have had to reboot several times to clear
up CDROM mounting issues --- where it appears that a phantom process has
the CDROM hung up. All joking aside I have not seen them mount a cdrom
in under 8 minutes --- and we have done A LOT of application installs in
the past 3 months! I have seen them reboot to change the IPA on a NIC
which kinda suprised me. They also rebooted to fix [communication?]
problems with the L700 Tape library and the 6800. I've seen them reboot
several other times for things that I wouldn't have done on AIX, but I'm
drawing a blank right now. ?
>
> I mainly grew concerned when I heard them talking about not ever
wanting to manually edit "anything under /etc" (specifically the passwd
file) -- else risk the server not [re]booting. ????
>
> Thanks again for the insight, and I'll try not to be quite so biased!!
> Theresa
>
> >>> RyeR@SCHNEIDER.COM 01/16/04 02:21PM >>>
> What types of reboot's have you had to do?
>
> Working in a mixed shop, the main difference I see between Solaris and
AIX
> is configuring devices [mainly luns/disk devices]. What I mean by
this
> configuring a jni or emmulex HBA card and then having to do a
configuration
> reboot to build the devices. Also Solaris devfsadm command doesn't
> clean-up devices as well as advertised, so we end up rebooting to
clear out
> devices [mainly SAN storage] after we removed them from the system.
>
> Ralph
>
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> Theresa Sarver
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> Hi All;
>
> My company is an AIX shop; however, SUN has a Solaris 9 lab setup in
an
> attempt to [try to] sell us some hardware...the one thing I've noticed
is
> that there is an awful lot of reboots required for Solaris (in
comparison
> to AIX)...does anyone know off the top of their head what all requires
> reboots on SUN?
>
> It also appears (as an outsider looking in) that the amount of
> sys_admin_time on Solaris would be greatly increased. Is this an
accurate
> presumption or is my *bias* overpowering my vision! :)
>
>
> Thanks for your info!
> Theresa
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