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racman
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:39 pm Post subject:
AIX vs Solaris
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I need to give a presentation on the benefits of AIX vs Solaris.
The native LVM and ease of management with smitty is a plus for
starters but I need more.
Can everyone share your thoughts. Keep in mind that I`m not looking
to dismiss Solaris, I think it works very well with specific databases,
storage and apps.
What does AIX work well with and why? Thoughts please!
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Frank Fegert
*nix forums Guru Wannabe
Joined: 04 Mar 2005
Posts: 213
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Re: AIX vs Solaris
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racman wrote:
| Quote: | I need to give a presentation on the benefits of AIX vs Solaris.
The native LVM and ease of management with smitty is a plus for
starters but I need more.
Can everyone share your thoughts. Keep in mind that I`m not looking
to dismiss Solaris, I think it works very well with specific databases,
storage and apps.
What does AIX work well with and why? Thoughts please!
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This (most likely incomplete) list comes to mind:
AIX:
+ LPARs: more flexible than Domains on Solaris
+ If found day-to-day mgmt. task are a bit easier, even
without smit(ty).
Solaris:
+ Zones: especially nice for devel & test environments
+ Zones integration in Sun Cluster
+ DTrace
+ ZFS: unfortunately no long term experiences available
at the moment.
+ available for x86
+ Sources mostly available via OpenSolaris
- Patch management and service in general are a complete
mess at the moment.
- Future of SPARC arch uncertain.
Feel free to correct 
On the other hand, i found that most arch decisions are
made by what your applications supports, or what your staff
is able to support, but YMMV.
Regards,
Frank |
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base60
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 07 Sep 2005
Posts: 322
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| Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:15 pm Post subject:
Re: AIX vs Solaris
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Frank Fegert wrote:
| Quote: | racman wrote:
I need to give a presentation on the benefits of AIX vs Solaris.
The native LVM and ease of management with smitty is a plus for
starters but I need more.
Can everyone share your thoughts. Keep in mind that I`m not looking
to dismiss Solaris, I think it works very well with specific databases,
storage and apps.
What does AIX work well with and why? Thoughts please!
This (most likely incomplete) list comes to mind:
AIX:
+ LPARs: more flexible than Domains on Solaris
+ If found day-to-day mgmt. task are a bit easier, even
without smit(ty).
Solaris:
+ Zones: especially nice for devel & test environments
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We've had a number of issues with them....
| Quote: | + Zones integration in Sun Cluster
+ DTrace
+ ZFS: unfortunately no long term experiences available
at the moment.
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Not supported by Sun... at least not yet.
| Quote: | + available for x86
+ Sources mostly available via OpenSolaris
- Patch management and service in general are a complete
mess at the moment.
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At best.
| Quote: | - Future of SPARC arch uncertain.
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Given my experience with Sol10, I'd say the future of Sun is
uncertain :-)
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Feel free to correct
On the other hand, i found that most arch decisions are
made by what your applications supports, or what your staff
is able to support, but YMMV.
Regards,
Frank |
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Frank Fegert
*nix forums Guru Wannabe
Joined: 04 Mar 2005
Posts: 213
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| Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 8:24 am Post subject:
Re: AIX vs Solaris
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base60 wrote:
| Quote: | Frank Fegert wrote:
This (most likely incomplete) list comes to mind:
AIX:
+ LPARs: more flexible than Domains on Solaris
+ If found day-to-day mgmt. task are a bit easier, even
without smit(ty).
Solaris:
+ Zones: especially nice for devel & test environments
We've had a number of issues with them....
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Really? Can't say that i have. Although updating a machine
with zones looks like a real pain, if possible at all. Sun
has definately some homework to do!
| Quote: | + Zones integration in Sun Cluster
+ DTrace
+ ZFS: unfortunately no long term experiences available
at the moment.
Not supported by Sun... at least not yet.
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That would mean that Sun doesn't support its own Sol 10
6/06 update/release, doesn't it? Somehow i doubt that very
much, but i lack some evidence at the moment ;-)
| Quote: | - Future of SPARC arch uncertain.
Given my experience with Sol10, I'd say the future of Sun is
uncertain 
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Well put I'm also observing the current developments
at Sun with a great deal of scepticism. It'd be a shame
if the management at Sun finally succeded in driving the
company down the drain. That would cancel out another Unix
flavor - which is IMHO a bad thing per se - and just make
free market shares ready for that M$ and Linux crap to
pick up :-/
Regards,
Frank |
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