Solaris x86 VS Solaris SPARC

Can any one tell me the merits and deerits of the x86 and SPARC

Thanks

[93 byte] By [54645a] at [2007-11-27 10:28:14]

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# 1

x86 has quite a price/performance lead these days.

So ts pretty hard to justify sparc these days except for a few things.

If your looking specifically at web service, the sparc cool threads servers are very good performance/watt and power density is getting more important.

The sparc boxes are designed from the beginning to live in an enterprise environment so their well suited for things like remote management. Eg they are easy to manage via a remote command line interface.

x86 boxes tend to make a lot of assumptions about having screen/keyboard/mouse attached.

Then you start getting to the high end gear with features like hot swap components. Redundant power supply. Splitting boxes into redundant hardware domains etc. These features are insanely expensive in the sparc world, but pretty much don't exist in the x86 world...

So it all depends on what your looking for. But for generic low end servers, x86 is getting hard to beat.

robert.cohena at 2007-7-28 17:50:30 >

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# 2

No current Adobe Reader for x86 Solaris :(

DoxBriana at 2007-7-28 17:50:30 >

# 3

> Then you start getting to the high end gear with

> features like hot swap components. Redundant power

> supply. Splitting boxes into redundant hardware

> domains etc. These features are insanely expensive in

> the sparc world, but pretty much don't exist in the

> x86 world...

Why such features don't exist is x86 world?

There are a lot of servers based on x86 (Compaq/HP ProLiant, HP Netserver, IBM NETFINITY atd etc.), they have redundant power supplys, hot plug/swap hard drives and other redundant hardware.

I worked few years with Compaq/HP ProLiant servers, they are entry level in pricing, but giving a nice performance and redundancy. Actually, in 3 years of my work, they never failed, exepting hard drives failure and hot swapping them to new ones without work interruption.

x86 based servers can be even up to 8 CPU's and more.

Still largest servers are based and will be based on RISC architecture.

TheNetWalkera at 2007-7-28 17:50:30 >

# 4

i think by 'don't exist' he meant that these things are not that expensive in the PC world.. there are tons of new surplus servers on ebay that could be picked up virtually for free. e.g. a year back i was able to get a brand new SPSH intel quad xeon machine (with 3 hot swap power supplies) for less than 400 british pounds.. i sold it this year as it sounded like an aeroplane and was not suitable to use in the office.

Alex_Sa at 2007-7-28 17:50:30 >

# 5

is there is any diffrence in security level and configuration level

Thanks in advance

54645a at 2007-7-28 17:50:30 >

# 6

there are many companies out there selling used Sparc equipment. This is a very viable alternative, but you need to be able to do your own maintenance on the machines to make it worth while.

As far as security and configuration is concerned, it's going to be based on which OS you choose, more than it would be on the architecture. The sunfreeware site and other similar sites offer a wealth of free software that can help you with security and configuration. If you are trying to run the latest version of Solaris, however, you might have trouble getting some of it to work. This is also true for sophisticated hardware. The newer and more sophisticated the machine is, the more problems you are likely to have getting the software that you want to run.

If you choose a slightly older version of the OS on a slightly more predictable and debugged hardware platform, then everything will work and you'll be very happy.

aliansa at 2007-7-28 17:50:30 >

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