From: Jeff Hanson (jhanson_at_sgi.com)
Date: Wed Jan 11 2006 - 17:00:08 CET
Message-ID: <43C52B88.9080001@sgi.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:00:08 -0500 From: Jeff Hanson <jhanson@sgi.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] x86 or itanium?
jorgecab@intra.net.gt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to setup 2 new servers (no cluster) with SLES9 that will act as
> webservers. I can do it in 2 x86 intel servers or in 2 itanium servers. I know
> that itanium has its problems but I don't know how well does it works with
> SLES. Can anybody tell me their experience please?
>
Caveat - SGI (where I work) sells Itanium servers and not x86.
SLES runs fine on Itanium but I would rather look at applications and future
needs than chips. That is are the apps you want available on ia64? Looking at
our internal install servers I think every rpm shipped with x86 is shipped with ia64
so from an OS standpoint everything should be there. SLES ships with the ia32el
package if you need to run ia32 only binaries on an ia64 platform.
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