We've been OK with IBM's best-effort support for CentOS for both client and server, but we don't have a lot of complexity beyond our size (no TDP, no VTL, no replication, no de-dupe, etc.).
I would definitely be interested in seeing real support for CentOS, though, and up-voted the RFE Del passed along (thanks, Del!). On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 12:09:53PM -0400, Zoltan Forray wrote: > This is mostly targeted at IBM folks, but we are also looking for feedback > from others who gone through this. > > Since RHEL licensing costs have increased almost three fold over the last 5 > years, we are going to push moving to CentOS. There are no licensing fees > for CentOS and our current RHEL licensing does not include support. CentOS > is functionally compatible or binary compatible with RHEL. > > So how, if at all, will this effect IBM support in the ISP server arena? > As far as I can tell, IBM only officially supports AIX, SUSE, RHEL, Debian, > HP-UX, SOLARIS versions of *NIX for a server. Then of course there is the > lin_tape driver compatibility/support. > > -- > *Zoltan Forray* > Spectrum Protect (p.k.a. TSM) Software & Hardware Administrator > Xymon Monitor Administrator > VMware Administrator > Virginia Commonwealth University > UCC/Office of Technology Services > www.ucc.vcu.edu > zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 > Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will > never use email to request that you reply with your password, social > security number or confidential personal information. For more details > visit http://phishing.vcu.edu/ -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine
