RedHat on Sun Equipment

[Bob Smith]

The E-450 is a solid server, and if you're running a Solaris farm, not a 
bad investment.  Run's up to 4 x 450Mhz processors, unless it's a much 
older version, and perhaps 4x1GB RAM cards.

However, for probably about the price of a good, cheap, used E-450, you 
can buy at least 1 2.4 GHz Intel box, and possibly more, and get much 
more and better performance than you would on an E-450.  Personally, I'd 
spend my $ there.

-Bob

Ted Beaton wrote:

>I've spent most of my time running Solaris on Sun equipment.  The past 6 months I've been working with RedHat on intel pc's (as "servers").  Management doesn't want to spend any money.  I've got an opportunity to pick up a Sun Enterprise 450 Workgroup server for very cheap money.  I would like to use it to replace a pc that has been pressed in to service as a "server" but we are running RedHat on it.  I have a copy of Solaris that I could put on the 450 but the apps we have on the "pc server" are running on RedHat now.  I don't know if it would be a seamless transition to move them to Solaris. Will RedHat run on a Sun Enterprise 450 server without any special configuration?  Also, does anyone know if Sun's Solstice DiskSuite will run on RedHat.  It is a pretty good software RAID solution that I am already familiar with.  I'm sure there is another one out there somewhere but I'd rather not learn another right now.
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>Ted
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