[OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

[Mark Creamer]

Silicon Mechanics

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Sašo Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com>wrote:

> So I'm constantly searching the interwebs for a good hardware vendor who
> ships well supported Solaris/Illumos-compatible kit. I know of the
> offerings by all the big names in the field (HP, IBM, Dell) and while
> their hardware is generally good, their Solaris support is often times a
> story of extensive searching and checking of compatibility lists. Even
> simple operations, such as getting a proper pure HBA instead of their
> craptalistic hardware RAID often times turns into an uphill battle. And
> no need to recommend Oracle, I used to be a big fan of Sun kit, but ever
> since Oracle turned them evil, I want to have nothing to do with them
> (e.g. I'll never forgive them for killing off the Sun Fire X4540).
>
> At the moment I use Dell hardware, but seeing as their new line of
> internal HBAs (H310/H710) lack Illumos support, I'll probably be forced
> to go somewhere else. Do you guys know of somebody who ships servers and
> storage similar to the big-names and has a similar level of support?
> (e.g. call to repair, 6-hour response, etc.)
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Saso
>
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Mark