On 15/10/04 11:58 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:

I'm about to buy a couple of new servers. It looks like they'll use Opterons, with which I have no experience. Am I likely to have any problems running applications? Are there good sites to learn about any practical issues there may be?

There shouldnt be any major issues if their acting as servers. The only issue we had with ours was when we were doing a network install of 9.1 we had to download a 64_bit boot cd from suse ftp site.

Also, my supplier is suggesting using SLES9 rather than Pro. I've never had anything to do with SLES and don't understand what it buys me. Is there somewhere that explains the differences without giving pages of marketing fluff?

SLES provides you with a guranteed life (5 years) in regard to updates, upgrades and so on. Its also got numerous vendor approvals from Oracle and others and comes with support from suse, as opposed to the box sets which dont. Regards, Ben

Hello Dave, What kind of applications are going to be deployed on your new servers ? Opteron is basically x86_64 arch which means all your existing 32bit apps can work along with 64bit apps. you can even choose to install 32bit os on top of it . one of the problem that you might face with x86_64 is that a library present in lib/ dir in 32bit may appear in lib64/ folder in x86_64. maybe you want to check out x86-64.org SuSE Pro is basically a community release with all bleeding edge packages. while SLES is more hardened for enterprise use to ensure stability, security etc, most know bugs wud have been taken care of etc . so if you are looking at deploying on production servers for biz critical apps and also need support you may want to consider SLES . my 2 cents harsh On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:58:22 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:

I'm about to buy a couple of new servers. It looks like they'll use Opterons, with which I have no experience. Am I likely to have any problems running applications? Are there good sites to learn about any practical issues there may be?

Also, my supplier is suggesting using SLES9 rather than Pro. I've never had anything to do with SLES and don't understand what it buys me. Is there somewhere that explains the differences without giving pages of marketing fluff?

Thanks, Dave

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