> From: Joe McDonagh [mailto:[email protected]] > > HP's Linux support is nothing less than stellar and has been for a > while. Hell some of the best Linux books are from HP press... Were you > using what was at the time a dated Linux distribution?
I don't think it's fair to generalize and say "HP is good at linux" or "HP is bad at linux." I think the right thing to say is: If you buy an HP server that is meant for Linux, it will work well on at least the distros that it is supposed to support. If you buy an HP server that is meant for windows, and does not have linux as a supported operating system, then you can expect linux to work poorly, if at all. I think the same is true vice-versa. If windows is not sold as a supported OS on some HP server (if it's meant only for linux) then you should not count on being able to run windows either. I have not had the same problem on Dell servers. On Dell servers, even if some OS is not listed as a supported OS, I have never had a problem running it anyway. The only exceptions are when I needed to obtain a later version of the unsupported OS in order to include a later version of some hardware driver. (I feel like I'm repeating myself now.) Also, unsupported OSes on Dell servers sometimes cannot install things like firmware updates in any reasonably easy manner. Specifically, if you want to run OMSA, on something other than RHEL or SLES, it can be difficult or impossible. Personally, I use MegaCLI as an alternative. The times when I experienced this problem (and other similar problems) on HP servers, Windows was the only supported OS on that particular model of server. I used the "rescue" disk of a recent linux distro at the time. I don't recall if it was fedora, centos, or something else. But it was almost certainly both the latest fedora and centos. Because if one failed, I would have very likely tried the other before giving up. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
