Silicon Mechanics On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Sašo Kiselkov <[email protected]>wrote:
> So I'm constantly searching the interwebs for a good hardware vendor who > ships well supported Solaris/Illumos-compatible kit. I know of the > offerings by all the big names in the field (HP, IBM, Dell) and while > their hardware is generally good, their Solaris support is often times a > story of extensive searching and checking of compatibility lists. Even > simple operations, such as getting a proper pure HBA instead of their > craptalistic hardware RAID often times turns into an uphill battle. And > no need to recommend Oracle, I used to be a big fan of Sun kit, but ever > since Oracle turned them evil, I want to have nothing to do with them > (e.g. I'll never forgive them for killing off the Sun Fire X4540). > > At the moment I use Dell hardware, but seeing as their new line of > internal HBAs (H310/H710) lack Illumos support, I'll probably be forced > to go somewhere else. Do you guys know of somebody who ships servers and > storage similar to the big-names and has a similar level of support? > (e.g. call to repair, 6-hour response, etc.) > > Cheers, > -- > Saso > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- Mark _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
