In production environment, which platform should we use? Solaris 10 U4 or OpenSolaris 70+? How should we estimate a stable edition for production? Or OpenSolaris is stable in some build? This message posted from opensolaris.org
hex.cookie wrote:> In production environment, which platform should we use? Solaris 10 U4 or OpenSolaris 70+? How should we estimate a stable edition for production? Or OpenSolaris is stable in some build?All depends on what you define by stable. Do you intend to pay Sun for a service contract ? If so S10u4 is likley your best route Do you care about patching rather than upgrading ? If patching S10u4 If you can do upgrade (highly recommened IMO) using live_upgrade(5) then a Solaris Express For an OpenSolaris based distribution I think the realistic choices are from the following list: Solaris Express Community Edition (SX:CE) Solaris Express Developer Edition (SX:DE) Belenix Nexenta OpenSolaris Developer Preview (Project Indiana) Another important consideration is what ZFS functionality you need since not all features available in OpenSolaris releases were backported to Solaris 10u4 (because some of them were completed *after* S10u4 shipped). -- Darren J Moffat
On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 17:20 +0000, Darren J Moffat wrote:> hex.cookie wrote: > > In production environment, which platform should we use? Solaris 10 U4 or OpenSolaris 70+? How should we estimate a stable edition for production? Or OpenSolaris is stable in some build? > > All depends on what you define by stable. > > Do you intend to pay Sun for a service contract ? > If so S10u4 is likley your best route > > Do you care about patching rather than upgrading ? > If patching S10u4 > If you can do upgrade (highly recommened IMO) > using live_upgrade(5) then a Solaris Express > > For an OpenSolaris based distribution I think the realistic choices are > from the following list: > Solaris Express Community Edition (SX:CE) > Solaris Express Developer Edition (SX:DE) > Belenix > Nexenta > OpenSolaris Developer Preview (Project Indiana)or Martux if you want to run on Sparc. -Mark