Re: support for bladeframes

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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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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