Informix on Linux on VMWare

Hi It looks like I am going to have to migrate an IDS instance from Solaris to Linux. Current machine is a 16Gb dual chip SPARC T5120 with twin path, fibre attached disk (Raid 1) running IDS 11.5 on Solaris 5.10. Target machine is likely to be similar memory on a generic Intel platform with what-ever disk the hosting company provides :-( This will run VMWare v 4 or 5 and have Linux running in a VM and IDS latest. Machine is only used as a transient area (currently) acting as the target for ER and a source for CDC onward to $Q1$erver. Any thoughts to help me along the way would be appreciated such as the 'best' Linux distro to use, number/speed of processors required. Data migration will not be an issue as I will build from scratch using extracts/loads from the ER Source to re-instantiate ER. Many Thanks Keith

Keith Simmons wrote: > Hi > > It looks like I am going to have to migrate an IDS instance from Solaris > to Linux. > Current machine is a 16Gb dual chip SPARC T5120 with twin path, fibre > attached disk (Raid 1) running IDS 11.5 on Solaris 5.10. > Target machine is likely to be similar memory on a generic Intel > platform with what-ever disk the hosting company provides :-( This will > run VMWare v 4 or 5 and have Linux running in a VM and IDS latest. > Machine is only used as a transient area (currently) acting as the > target for ER and a source for CDC onward to $Q1$erver. > Any thoughts to help me along the way would be appreciated such as the > 'best' Linux distro to use, number/speed of processors required. > Data migration will not be an issue as I will build from scratch using > extracts/loads from the ER Source to re-instantiate ER. FWIW the Informix Virtual Appliance ( http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/im/ibm+virtual+appliances#IBMVirtualAppliances-ids ) seems to be based on SLES 11. -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk