> You are asking for a world of hurt. You may luck out, and it may work > great, thus saving you money. Take my example for example ... I took the > "safe" approach (as far as any non-sun hardware is concerned.) I bought an > officially supported dell server, with all dell blessed and solaris > supported components, with support contracts on both the hardware and > software, fully patched and updated on all fronts, and I am getting system > failures approx once per week. I have support tickets open with both dell > and oracle right now ... Have no idea how it's all going to turn out. But > if you have a problem like mine, using unsupported hardware, you have no > alternative. You're up a tree full of bees, naked, with a hunter on the > ground trying to shoot you. And IMHO, I think the probability of having a > problem like mine is higher when you use the unsupported hardware. But of > course there's no definable way to quantize that belief.
> My advice to you is: buy the supported hardware, and the support contracts > for both the hardware and software. But of course, that's all just a > calculated risk, and I doubt you're going to take my advice. ;-) Any other feasible alternatives for Dell hardware? Wondering, are these issues mostly related to Nehalem-architectural problems, eg. c-states. So is there anything good in switching hw vendor? HP anyone? Yours Markus Kovero _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
