Soldato
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I have a couple of databases running in Oracle 10g, as well as ESRI ArcSDE on a Sun Fire v240 server (2x SPARC 1.2GHZ CPU's, 4Gb RAM) with Solaris 9.
This box has been uber reliable, but it's over 5 years old, were getting a bit tight for space and our suppliers want us to upgrade to Oracle 11g so it's new server time. We want to continue running Solaris, but will probably use v10 on the new box.
Our suppliers have reccomended we get a Sun T5120 or T5140 as a replacement, but these look damn expensive at list price - like £15k. I've never bought Sun kit before - are they really this expensive or are there generally big discounts off list price? An M3000 looks cheaper at £10k, but this is only a single CPU box. The applications are more reliant on fast I/O rather than pure number crunching.
The other option is to go for Solaris on an Intel box, which looks to be considerably cheaper to purchase. Any disadvantages to running Solaris on Intel hardware?
This box has been uber reliable, but it's over 5 years old, were getting a bit tight for space and our suppliers want us to upgrade to Oracle 11g so it's new server time. We want to continue running Solaris, but will probably use v10 on the new box.
Our suppliers have reccomended we get a Sun T5120 or T5140 as a replacement, but these look damn expensive at list price - like £15k. I've never bought Sun kit before - are they really this expensive or are there generally big discounts off list price? An M3000 looks cheaper at £10k, but this is only a single CPU box. The applications are more reliant on fast I/O rather than pure number crunching.
The other option is to go for Solaris on an Intel box, which looks to be considerably cheaper to purchase. Any disadvantages to running Solaris on Intel hardware?