On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 10:39 am, Robert Rozman wrote:

I will purchase one of these :

-Dell PowerEdge 1750 -Dell PowerEdge 2650 -Compaq ProLiant DL380 G3 -Siemens TX 200f.

I wonder if anyone has any idea how well they behave under suse 9.2 ?

I'm running a cluster with 66 Dell 1655 Blades and 5 PE2650s, which has run Suse Pro in every version from 8.1 through 9.2. I'm now moving to SLES 9 on the 2650s because the 6 month release/2 year support cycle of Pro is too hectic for servers with significant setup. Suse 8.1 Pro took some fiddling to install but ran well. Since 8.2 they all go on easily and run well for me. The Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com list has reported a lot of trouble with drivers for broadcom network chips, but this seemed to affect Redhat not Suse. Disks and controllers have been another area of concern. Despite saying they support Suse, Dell only provide their disk control and monitoring software for Redhat 3 (read 2.4 kernel). It has been ported to Debian (2.4 kernel only) but the Suse support is bad (non-existant). Through a mixture of confusion and their and my slackness, I am still running disk arrays where my only way of modifying or even checking errors is to drop down to BIOS and run the configuration tool. Not good on a production server. It has to be said, Dell disk performance sucks. I don't know if the other vendors on your list are any better. Please, please, please, let it be known that better support is important to your decision. michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166