Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 16, 2006 01:25 PM
Sounds to me like you're making a good business case for Solaris, but not Nexenta.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
You raise an interesting point, though. There are indeed niche markets for 64-core, and even 96-core, systems like that which Sun sells. I've seen a Sun Fire 25K (64-core) system exactly once, and I doubt that the vast majority of enterprises out here have seen such a box even that many times. But there is a market.
However, the folks who buy that kind of gear (US $4 million and up) are also the kind of folks who won't run Nexenta on it; they'll run Solaris. Why? Because Sun supports it. Now, were Nexenta itself a Sun product with Sun support behind it, then I could see people perhaps considering it. But it's not. If you see a business case for this big gear to run Nexenta--instead of Solaris--that I'm not seeing, then of course I'm willing to listen.
As for SMP stability in Linux itself, I have yet to see a problem over several years running it on SMP boxes, even back from the Linux 2.2 days. Maybe your systems are crashing, but mine aren't. In fact, they're running like a top. Given this, can you give us something a little more concrete regarding the business case for Nexenta for systems up to eight cores?
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Re:Why Nexenta when I already have Debian/Ubuntu?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 16, 2006 01:25 PMYou raise an interesting point, though. There are indeed niche markets for 64-core, and even 96-core, systems like that which Sun sells. I've seen a Sun Fire 25K (64-core) system exactly once, and I doubt that the vast majority of enterprises out here have seen such a box even that many times. But there is a market.
However, the folks who buy that kind of gear (US $4 million and up) are also the kind of folks who won't run Nexenta on it; they'll run Solaris. Why? Because Sun supports it. Now, were Nexenta itself a Sun product with Sun support behind it, then I could see people perhaps considering it. But it's not. If you see a business case for this big gear to run Nexenta--instead of Solaris--that I'm not seeing, then of course I'm willing to listen.
As for SMP stability in Linux itself, I have yet to see a problem over several years running it on SMP boxes, even back from the Linux 2.2 days. Maybe your systems are crashing, but mine aren't. In fact, they're running like a top. Given this, can you give us something a little more concrete regarding the business case for Nexenta for systems up to eight cores?
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