Re: Informix on SUN vs HP

I'm with you Arun. I haven't looked into how HPUX 11 is doing, but it has to be a complete ar$e out rewrite, so good luck with that for awhile anyway. Solaris 2.5.1 or 2.6 vs. HPUX 10.2x is no contest for a system of any size. Solaris can give informix up to 4 GB of shared memory *for each instance on the machine*. Not sure where the limits are there, but it's probably beyond any sane config. HP runs out of gas at between 1 and 1.75 GB systemwide. The basic Ultrasparc CPU's are generally a bit slower than PA RISC, but you can get much larger SMP's from Sun. I suspect Sun's performance per buck is better too. I'm also of the opinion that Informix's best ports are to Sun. Use Veritas volume manager, Sun's stopped developing Disk Suite. Personally, I prefer raid 0+1 on a budget, or heavily cached disk arrays (EMC or Clariion) if you have the money and want screaming performance. That should keep you busy and break your budget.... Greg Arun Shastry wrote: > > Call me prejudiced, but I'd take a Sun box anytime over an HP box. > HP needs to weed out their bugs on their new 64 bit HP-UX 11.x, > their multithreading works like a dog, there're more, but these are > definite show stoppers. > > Solaris has great thread library and the Ultra 3500 we have works > great. The only thing Solaris doesn't have that HP-UX has is SAM, > comes in handy sometimes. > > Take a look at SGI's Origin and O2, I was impressed with the Origin > with 8 CPU's and 2GB memory. Also, Digital Unix is another good > environment. > > Good luck, > Arun > > joanned@seanet.com wrote: > > > Hello Informix World, > > > > I would like to hear your comments if you are using Solaris/Sun and/or > > HP/HP-UX in your shop, and what your satisfaction has been with these > > hardware and Operating systems. > > > > We have an OLTP application with a relatively small number of users > > (approx 35), and a 6 gig database running under SCO today, and we > > plan to mirgate to either a SUN or HP solution. We plan to grow > > quickly over the next several years with the number of users approaching > > 200. We are considering an HP K360 or a SUN E4000. The HP K box does > > not appear to scale over 6 CPUs, but HP is convinced the performance is > > competetive with Sun. > > > > I'm very interested in hearing about OS tools/admin tools, > > the ease of allocation of disk space under RAID, and the stability > > of the Informix/OS combination. > > > > Thanks for your comments .... > > > > J. Dority