Re: Hardware Comparison between SUN E6900 and IBM P570

>From: "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> >To: "bozon" <curtis@crowson1.com> >CC: informix-list@iiug.org >Subject: Re: Hardware Comparison between SUN E6900 and IBM P570 >Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:51:34 +0100 (BST) > > >bozon said: > > We are buying new production servers. We are coming off our current > > hardware platform and trying to decide between SUN and IBM servers. > > > > The particular server candidates are SUN E6900 16 way dual core versus > > IBM p570 12 way servers. > > > > I would like to know about your experience on these platforms? > >I seem to be in a minority here, my experience with Sun has been uniformly >horrible: rubbish components, memory failures, disk failures, bad >performance, tons of downtime. I'd always go somewhere else than Sun. But >I am in a minority ... aren't I? Yes you are :) > > > Does Informix run better on one than the other? > >It depends. > > > How reliable has Informix been on each of the platforms? > >Yes. > > > How much "database" does each seem to support? > >Eh? > > > I am very sketchy on hardware platforms so any help would be greatly > > appreciated. > >I've never been disappointed with IBM tin, to be honest, and I was >violently opposed to it to start with. It's good kit, and touch wood, it's >been really reliable. Performance has always been great, too! > >-- >Bye now, >Obnoxio We are a big Sun user and are very happy with the hardware (and support). We use upgraded E6800's - dual core CPU's added in empty slots. I've also used IBM but only up the time when AIX 5 was released. IMHO The hardware from both manufacturers is good, I prefer IBM because I like AIX as it is more easily manageable and configureable on-the-fly than Solaris. Are you intending to run the DB in a cluster? Sun Cluster is not nice. Veritas Cluster is far superior and IBM HACMP is also good. Regards Colin There are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't