http://www.osnews.com/story/17186/Sun_Updates_Solaris_10_HP_To_Support_Solaris Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:46:59 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?209861 http://osnews.com/thread?209861 We've deployed 11/06 last year on HP DL380 G5.

Is it news? Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (dilidolo) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?209924 http://osnews.com/thread?209924 HP has kind of supported Solaris for a while now, but I would argue that they don't do a very good job at it. Some of their blade server that support solaris don't have working drivers, etc...

Hopefully hp solaris driver support gets better as HP in general makes nice hardware. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Matt Giacomini) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?209949 http://osnews.com/thread?209949 What About those Amazing opteron blades and not blades for HP, will those get support too?. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nehemoth) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210008 http://osnews.com/thread?210008 HP could see the writing on the wall...their customers were moving to Sun's x64 servers running Solaris. By certifying Solaris HP at least gets to keep its hardware sales.

Great news for Sun in that this grows the Solaris ecosystem. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 07:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chekr) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210020 http://osnews.com/thread?210020 1. Solaris supported SATA
2. Solaris supported Itanium

I see no reason for HPUX. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fithisux) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210030 http://osnews.com/thread?210030 >>1. Solaris supported SATA Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Dubhthach) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210061 http://osnews.com/thread?210061 Solaris 10 shipped with the SATA Framework in the 6/06 Release, the chipset support is limited though. Check out the article I wrote for OSNews on 6/06 here:

http://www.osnews.com/story.php/15911/A-Look-at-Solaris-10-606

Or you can check docs.sun.com for what new features are in each release of Solaris 10. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Robert Escue) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210094 http://osnews.com/thread?210094 As long as Solaris does not support PowerNow! for the Dual Core Opteron, it simply is no option. And even the PowerNow! solution for the Single Core Opteron is a solution not officially supported by SUN. From the discussions on opensolaris.org I can see that it is difficult to implement and won't happen for some time to come.

Well, Linux supports it ... Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (deb2006) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210108 http://osnews.com/thread?210108 Unless you are building clusters or other high density solutions, I really don't see this as a show stopper. If most data centers are like the one I work in, the problem is let's cram as much gear as possible into a space and not take into account things like AC until you have a near "meltdown". And what I just described is more common than you think, the last three places I have worked at (large Government Contracts) have had problems with AC.

And so what if Linux supports it, since Linux cannot support virtualization methods other than Xen, does not support fine grained resource controls (think Oracle licensing here) and infinitely better trace functions, I wouldn't short myself on these capabilites for this one "feature". I'll take a little extra heat for better administration capabilities. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Robert Escue) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210119 http://osnews.com/thread?210119 I'll clarify my last comment in regards to virtualzation, I am speaking of commercial Linux (RedHat and Novell), not other distros which support UML, vserver and other virtualization technologies. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Robert Escue) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210137 http://osnews.com/thread?210137 It would be nice if Solaris did support PowerNow! but as far as I can see, it's not for heat reasons that that companies chose to run Solaris.

Although Linux is caching up, and fast, the pure flexibility of Solaris in terms of high-end computing, coupled with almost infinite fine grained tweaking as well as unbeatable virtaulisation and sandboxing options are, IMO, it's most attractive selling points.

Now for true power consumption control with Solaris, Spark has got to be your best bet.

Someday we might be able to run Solaris at it's full potential on commodity hardware. Thank would be nice! Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SReilly) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210639 http://osnews.com/thread?210639 Does Solaris support free VMWare Server? If not, that is a show stopper for us. We are really using VMWare server to its full potential to virtualize older x86-64 hardware - the ones that do not have native hardware support for virtualization. At this point, we are happy with VMWare and have no plans to move to Xen or anything else. Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SujaiNath) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?210646 http://osnews.com/thread?210646 The problem isn't whether Solaris supports VMware, but whether VMware supports Solaris. My limited testing of VMware Workstation 6 Beta lists Solaris 10 (and 9) as Experimental, I was able to use Solaris 10 11/06 without incident, but I wasn't using it as a server. I would look at the VMware forums for more information. Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Robert Escue) Comments