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Oracle and HP make a deal for Solaris on ProLiants
In the story from earlier this week, when IBM announced it would stop selling Solaris 10 on its System x rack and BladeCenter blade servers, a few comments popped up referring to Joerg Moellenkamp's c0t0d0s0.org blog posting asserting that HP had renegotiated its Solaris distro contract.
The Reg contacted Oracle for confirmation of this and got stonewalled, as usual, and after three days all that HP would say is: "HP is committed to helping customers manage and transform their IT environments and we are always evaluating partner relationships to support this. We will share more detail regarding Solaris support in the future."
Well, in about 16 hours, as it turned out.
So Oracle's yanking of HP's Solaris(HP laptop battery) 10 OEM contract back in May or early June (the precise time was never made clear) was less about HP being in the Unix business, competing with Solaris, and more about HP peddling the whole Oracle operating system and virtualization stack. Something Oracle clearly wanted HP to do, and something that HP must have balked at or it wouldn't have gotten its OEM deal yanked in the first place.
With Oracle's database driving a large percentage of midrange and high-end server sales and Solaris perhaps driving more than a few ProLiant sales, HP can only push Oracle so far.
If you read the text of the Oracle announcement carefully, it says Dell and HP will certify and resell Oracle's Solaris, Enterprise Linux, and VM as well as Oracle's premier support contracts for these products. It is not clear how the support money is carved up, and who is paying for the certification. Dell, HP, and Oracle representatives were not available for comment as El Reg went to press. Presumably the terms of the OEM contracts are different - and likely to favor Oracle - or the Sun contracts would have still be in effect.
The current Dell PowerEdge operating system support matrix shows Dell supporting Solaris 10 Update 6 and 7 on a mix of the currently shipping Xeon and Opteron rack servers, with Update 8 only being available on the PowerEdge R910. Dell also has Solaris 10 Update 7 certified on its M605, M610, M710, M805, and M905 blade servers, with Update 6 on the three Opteron-based machines and Update 8 on none of the blades. No Dell tower servers have ever been certified to run Solaris 10 as far as we know, and but it could happen if customers ask for it.
Over at HP(hp battery), the ProLiant operating system compatibility matrix has Solaris 10 Updates 6, 7, and 8 on ProLiant G5, G6, and G7 rack (DL) and blade (BL) servers and two tower boxes as well. Older Solaris 10 releases going back to 2006 and 2007 have a smattering of support, too, on older iron.
Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 has somewhat thinner support, as you can see here. HP certified OEL on selected ProLiants back in 2006, and gradually expanded support through 2007.
Now that HP and Dell are certifying and supporting Solaris 10 on their respective x64 platforms, that portion of the Solaris customer base that was running on x64 iron outside of the Sun/Oracle fold will no doubt let out a sigh of relief.
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Please tell me the difference between below processors?
Hello,
AMD Opteron 1000 Series processors can be used in one-way servers and workstations
AMD Opteron 2000 Series processors can be used in two-way servers and workstations
AMD Opteron 8000 Series processors can be used in up to eight-way servers and workstations
--What is the main difference between abeove one-way,two-way,8-way processors?
--What is ECC REG DDR2 RAM and NORMAL DDR2 RAM
THANKS FOR YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION
You pasted the difference. 1000-series processors can only be used in machines with a single physical processor. 2000-series processors can be used in pairs. 8000-series processors can be used in computers with up to 8 processors.
There are no "one-way, two-way, 8-way processors". As your own excerpts says, these processors can be used in one-way *servers* and *workstations*, two-way servers and workstations, or up to eight-way servers and workstations.
A "one-way" computer has one physical processor. It may have more than one core. A "two-way" server or workstation has two physical processors, each of which may have more than one core.
ECC RAM can correct for most common errors automatically. This makes them much more reliable.
Registered RAM has a buffer on the memory chip. This means that if you have a large number of memory chips connected to the same memory channel, the memory controlled doesn't have to drive all those chips on each stick of memory -- just the single buffer. Registered RAM is generally slightly slower, but allows more RAM to be used in a machine and sometimes more RAM to be used on each stick. Arguably, registered RAM is more reliable. Many servers require ECC registered RAM.
ScaleMP Makes Virtual SMP Systems Out of Opterons (issj.sys-con)
ScaleMP has announced a strategic collaboration with AMD in the name of its
high-end vSMP Foundation virtualization. It’s the first time the eight-year-
old ScaleMP has supported AMD. Its heart has previously belonged to Intel but
customer demand reportedly pushed it to add AMD. So starting in a couple of
weeks, it will scale Opteron-based servers beyond four processors into a
single virtual symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) system with a maximum 512 multi-
core processors and 64TB of memory. vSMP Foundation will support the current
eight- or 12-core Opteron 6100 Series chips, AMD’s Magny Cours, as well as the
upcoming Opteron code-named Interlagos based on AMD’s new x86 Bulldozer core.
Interlagos, which should be out next week as the 6200 Series, is supposed to
deliver eight, 12 and 16 cores.
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