How many of you are using Solaris in production?

It's not really a linux question, but I was just wondering how many of
you are using Solaris in production?  I've moved all our file storage
over to a mixture of Nexenta, and SXDE, and am running VMWare server
on Ubuntu machines pulling the images off of ZFS backed NFS shares.
ZFS snapshots have already saved us a fair amount of trouble ("Oh
crap, that upgrade toasted the whole DB!", "No problem, I'll just
rollback to last hours snapshot.")  Probably not as good as VMWare
Infrastructure, but a good poor mans replacement.

I'm also in the process of moving all my hosted accounts over to a
co-located OpenSolaris 2008.05 machine.  VirtualBox has been running a
Zimbra VM very well, and Zones are so much better than my old VServer
setup.  Solaris's predictive self healing and fault management has
caught and disabled a of couple flaky network interfaces (that would
just be unreliable under Linux/Windows), and disabled them for me.
All in all I'm very happy w/ it and will probably end up using
[Open]Solaris for all new servers I do, although I still like Kubuntu
for my desktops.

Just wondering if anyone has any Solaris experiences to share.

Matt

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Steve Browne <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jonathan Lindsey wrote:
>> I used to be a big gentoo person. Matthew is right, compiling can be a pain
>> in the arse.  I actually worked for an ISP at the time, and the other users
>> in the office, they were using some version of linux but were rdesktop into
>> a windows ts server.  So since they weren't using their machines cpu cycles
>> anyways, I loaded distcc and cc (a cross compiler) to their boxes, and had a
>> cluster setup for my gentoo laptop.  It made the process a little bit
>> easier.  Not all packages were distcc capable, but hey it did help out in
>> the long run.  The major reason I don't run gentoo now, although I've been
>> thinking about going back to it.  I want something that just installs and
>> works, turnkey, like ubuntu or fedora.  I don't really want to spend the
>> time recompiling a kernel when I get home from work.  And as far as package
>> managers go, emerge is great, but it has borked things up for me in the
>> past.
>>
>> -Jonathan Lindsey
>> Network Engineer
>> 3D Research Corporation
> The "turnkey install" aspect is a big attraction and is why I stayed so
> many years with Mandriva, which early on was superior in correctly
> detecting hardware and providing admin access to it on the desktop.
> However, Mandriva's semi-annual releases have failed me too often in
> trying to upgrade, leaving me with a mess.
>
> So at the moment I've switched to Debian Etch 4.0 R3. Which is STILL not
> turnkey: install did not give an option for the "bigmem" kernel; the
> Nvidia driver required a separate download and compilation, and setting
> the default screen to 1080p (1920x1080) @ 120dpi took some research and
> modification of xorg.conf. Now I read on this list that there is a "new"
> Xorg release with incompatibilities; it never stops. But at least with
> Linux you can hack it yourself.
>
> Steve
>
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