Thinking aloud
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ocelotIt appears that I have convinced my boss that ditching the previously discussed linux/sparc monstrosity is a necessity. Yay.
Now I must decide what should take its place. Linux on Intel or Solaris on Sparc would be the two obvious choices.
Benefits of Solaris:
It's what our other servers will be running
Solaris is better suited for being an NFS server than Linux.
Solaris may be prefered by the Data Center, where the box may be located.
<Insert heliocentric views here>
Benefits of Linux:
Either less initial downtime or less cost, as switching would be a simple matter of unplugging the disk array from the current box and plugging it into the new one. With Solaris, I'd have to either reformat/reload the current disk array, buy a new one, or implement an ext2 kludge.
Linux is known to work acceptably for this particular functionality, and since the current system is Linux, a lot of the configuration (firewall script, for example) is ready to go. I'm also significantly more familiar with Linux at this point, so there's more change that things (like that firewall script) would be done quickly and correctly.
In other words, Linux is the best quick solution, Solaris would probably work equally well, if not better, in the long run. Either should perform adequately.
Time is not really a huge issue. While minimum downtime would be ideal, the non-disk-array portions of the configuration aren't a huge rush.
It also depends on whether or not we need to buy new hardware for this thing. We're already quite a bit over budget, so cheaper Intel hardware might be better at this time if we need to buy a new server. If we don't need to buy a new server, it doesn't really matter, as we have both spare Intel and Sun boxes lying around. The cost in that case would depend on whether any other additional hardware was needed (disk arrays, SCSI cards, etc.).
Thoughts?
Now I must decide what should take its place. Linux on Intel or Solaris on Sparc would be the two obvious choices.
Benefits of Solaris:
It's what our other servers will be running
Solaris is better suited for being an NFS server than Linux.
Solaris may be prefered by the Data Center, where the box may be located.
<Insert heliocentric views here>
Benefits of Linux:
Either less initial downtime or less cost, as switching would be a simple matter of unplugging the disk array from the current box and plugging it into the new one. With Solaris, I'd have to either reformat/reload the current disk array, buy a new one, or implement an ext2 kludge.
Linux is known to work acceptably for this particular functionality, and since the current system is Linux, a lot of the configuration (firewall script, for example) is ready to go. I'm also significantly more familiar with Linux at this point, so there's more change that things (like that firewall script) would be done quickly and correctly.
In other words, Linux is the best quick solution, Solaris would probably work equally well, if not better, in the long run. Either should perform adequately.
Time is not really a huge issue. While minimum downtime would be ideal, the non-disk-array portions of the configuration aren't a huge rush.
It also depends on whether or not we need to buy new hardware for this thing. We're already quite a bit over budget, so cheaper Intel hardware might be better at this time if we need to buy a new server. If we don't need to buy a new server, it doesn't really matter, as we have both spare Intel and Sun boxes lying around. The cost in that case would depend on whether any other additional hardware was needed (disk arrays, SCSI cards, etc.).
Thoughts?
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Date: 2002-04-25 06:21 pm (UTC)