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HP Ships Over 1 Million Linux Servers
HP has
announced its sale of over 1 million Linux servers.
"HP today announced that it has set an industry-first milestone by shipping more than 1 million Linux servers to customers since 1998, 45 percent more than any other major hardware vendor.
HP has led the worldwide Linux server market for 29 consecutive quarters. In the first quarter of 2005, HP grew 2.5 percentage points faster than the market in units on a year-over-year basis, shipped nearly 10 times as many Linux servers as Sun, led IBM by almost 8 percentage points in quarterly revenue share and outpaced Dell in both units and revenue."
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HP Ships Over 1 Million Linux Servers Posted Jun 16, 2005 23:03 UTC (Thu) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link] I can see why HP has taken the lead in linux servers. Their kit is first rate, and so is their support. We recently switched from dell to HP hardware, and I was impressed with the quality all around.
Our new DL360 and DL580 servers all run Suse Linux enterprise 9. The HP provided Proliant Support Pack was a pleasant surprise - when I ran the install program I found a great native X windows GUI installer, and set up system monitoring tools, and a small dedicated web server which made the information easily accessible via a web browser. I also installed Glance Plus, which failed to run - after a call to HP they directed me to a patch, which updated the program to work with the 2.6 kernel, and we were in business.
OTOH, we still have a few legacy Dell boxes, and after installing SLES 9 on one former redhat server, there was a syslog message about the raid controller battery needing to be "reconditioned". I got on the line with Dell to find out what tools were available to bring about this needed reconditioning, and was told they don't support SLES 9 since it is based on the 2.6 kernel. All they could offer was some old redhat binaries, and "who knows, it might work", but no quarantees. I still haven't been able to resolve the issue, despite the fact that we supposedly have "platinum" support from Dell.
The difference between the 2 vendors is like night and day!
HP Ships Over 1 Million Linux Servers Posted Jun 16, 2005 23:18 UTC (Thu) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link] That's not really fair. HP is a real computer vendor, Dell is a supply-chain management firm. Nobody expects actual support from Dell beyond shipping out spare parts.
Also, I agree completely regarding the PERC controller utilities. They're horrible. Try running them on Debian with kernel 2.6...
One does wonder how HP calculates "Linux server shipments". Only servers shipped preinstalled with RH or SuSE? Probably something limiting along those lines. After all, there are clearly far more than 1m Linux installations brought up since 1998.
HP ProLiant DL385 and DL585 Posted Jun 17, 2005 5:07 UTC (Fri) by JohnBell (guest, #12625) [Link] 'Nuff said. AMD's choice to demo dual core Opteron to the public for the first time was a DL585 running a Linux 2.6 kernel. A 4-chip dual core DL585 running Oracle or PostgreSQL causes most people to go on medication to keep from hooting and hollering :-). It can support up to 64 GB of main memory for cryin' out loud! You used to have buy freakin' HP SuperDomes or Sun ExxK or IBM p690 Regatta machines to see numbers like that... these days, it's commodity hardware that is within reach of the typical Small/Medium business customer. Crazy!
So, HP has announced that they are working on a *16-chip* dual core Opteron server. That's 32 cores hooked up to Hypertransport goodness, folks. I mean, wow. That's all I can say - "wow". Can you say "buh bye Itanium"? Let's see a solid Xen implementation running on a machine like that. Good stuff.
HP ProLiant DL385 and DL585 Posted Jun 23, 2005 20:56 UTC (Thu) by j0el (guest, #1764) [Link] Where did HP announce the 16 chip Opteron server?
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