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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks to everyone for the comments on my
question.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am in the process of trying an eval of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (update 1) and then Solaris 10 x86 to see if there
are any performance differences or ease of installation / maintenance issues on
either OS.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=rmillisl@gdcanada.com href="mailto:rmillisl@gdcanada.com">Randy
Millis (lists account)</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:56
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [rt-users] Moving RT from sparc
to x86 OS on VMWare? </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We are looking at moving our RT server from a
SPARC Sunblade 150 running Solaris 9 over to an x86 OS on a VMWare ESX
virtual infrastructure node.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyone done this?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any comments?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm looking to answer a few things:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Which OS would I be better off using in terms of
ease of setup and performance / cost / support:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Fedora Core 3</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (update
1)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Solaris 10 x86</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any ideas on how to migrate from on RT release
(3.0.3) on SPARC over to the new OS / platform and RT 3.4.2?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I was thinking:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Install a minimal OS on the new Virtual
node</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Satisfy RT 3.4.2 dependencies</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Install and configure 3.0.3 on the new virtual
node</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Copy the existing 3.0.3 database over and
test</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Upgrade to 3.4.2</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Cut over the from the SPARC to the new virtual
node</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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