support for bladeframes

[Marc M]

I currently have an IBM LS-20 blade system at my work which we are
evaluating.  Fujitsu makes some good stuff but I haven't gotten my hands on
it yet.  The IBM blade unit is suppossed to support all of the recent RHEL
distributions as well as M$ and SuSE, (the CEO-less distribution lol).  I
run into driver issues with all sorts of servers (especially Dell since they
are so linux UNfriendly in my opinion).  We ran into a vesa issue with RHEL
but that is nothing that a little bit of xorg.conf tweaking wouldn't fix.

Right now the market is really neck and neck with HP and IBM having about
85-90% market share.  How you use it really affects the configuration and
all of the choices involved. When you say 'spread the load out' over more
blades -  are you truly referring to some sort of clustering?

Questions for you

1.  The statement 'currently we install important/heavy-loaded systems twice
or triply, '  ---doesn't make sense.  Explain?

2.  why on earth would you run Fedora on a blade in a production
environment?  Is it truly that or something like  a test environment?

3.  kickstart is not a firewall, that does not make sense, please
explain....


HTH
Marc



On 6/23/06, josef radinger <cheese at nosuchhost.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We are currently evaluating (without the actual hardware, just by
> reading whitepapers) a bladeframe system from Fujitsu-Siemens, which
> should be a relabeled egenera-system.
>
> maybe someone had such a system at work.
>
> my concerns are:
> a) does fedora (4,5,...) work on that?
>
> b) el4 seems to be supported, but would i need to have some special
> drivers. i dont like those closed-source drivers, as we always have to
> wait for vendors to get their supported kernel patched.
>
> c) most of their key-features (fast installation, balancing,
> redundancy,...) are already solved by kickstart, our
> firewalling-system,...
> currently we install important/heavy-loaded systems twice or triply, and
> use round-robin and load-balancing to achieve the same. without fancy
> gui, but who cares. the only feature i see is that hardware is better
> used, as the load gets spread over more blades, which is not the case
> with our standalone boxes right now.
>
> any input would be highly appreciated.
>
> yours
> josef
>
>
>
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