I just reviewed the HCL for solaris 9 & 10 x86 and noticed none of the
top HBA's are listed. I'm sure that at least 1 out of QLogic, Emulex,
and JNI would be supported correct? Sun even has new HBA's that use
JNI's chipsets and I believe they used QLogic's chipsets in the past.
If JNI has a driver for the x86 platform can I assume it works well
enough for entperprise purposes and that Sun will support my system?

We are wanting to move an Oracle RAC to 10g on AMD64/Solaris x86 but
are honestly shocked at the lack of hardware support. Sun claims to
have a 'renewed dedication to supporting and developing Solaris x86
with version 10' but the current HCL doesn't give me much confidence
in that claim. I don't desire moving to the Linux 2.4 kernel and 2.6
kernel certification/support is still lacking and just too new to
risk. (currently testing on Fedora Core 2 and not very impressed with
the 2.6 kernel under heavy enterprise loads, we still see issues with
the scheduler which was supposed to be completely re-worked and
rock-solid in the 2.6 kernel)

Thanks for any usefull info
rhugga

On 2004-10-28 11:22:36 -0400, rhugga@yahoo.com (Keg) said:

> I just reviewed the HCL for solaris 9 & 10 x86 and noticed none of the
> top HBA's are listed. I'm sure that at least 1 out of QLogic, Emulex,
> and JNI would be supported correct? Sun even has new HBA's that use
> JNI's chipsets and I believe they used QLogic's chipsets in the past.
> If JNI has a driver for the x86 platform can I assume it works well
> enough for entperprise purposes and that Sun will support my system?
>
> We are wanting to move an Oracle RAC to 10g on AMD64/Solaris x86 but
> are honestly shocked at the lack of hardware support. Sun claims to
> have a 'renewed dedication to supporting and developing Solaris x86
> with version 10' but the current HCL doesn't give me much confidence
> in that claim. I don't desire moving to the Linux 2.4 kernel and 2.6
> kernel certification/support is still lacking and just too new to
> risk. (currently testing on Fedora Core 2 and not very impressed with
> the 2.6 kernel under heavy enterprise loads, we still see issues with
> the scheduler which was supposed to be completely re-worked and
> rock-solid in the 2.6 kernel)
>
> Thanks for any usefull info
> rhugga

Most HBA's will come with their drives even Sun dont bundle all drivers
with Solaris.
Qlogic has always shipped drivers for Solaris so I dont see this as an
issue really.

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