Re: AIX vs Solaris

>>> Interesting question.
>>> This are just my 2 euro cents..
>>>
>>> AIX
>>> has a more complete O/S (asynchronous I/O is standard)
>>
>>Oh you have to pay for asynch IO with sun? Not.
>
> Are you sure? People in my firm always state you have to buy Veritas
> Advanced Edition or Veritas Database Edition. The vxfs that comes with
> Solaris doesn't support asychronous I/O, or everyone here is very
> mistaken.

Very mistaken indeed. AIO is built into Solaris. No Veritas needed.

>>
>>> better management tools
>>
>>For example ... what exactly?
>
> Smit: System Management InTerface. And there is smitty for non-X
> access. As far as I know the equivalent Solaris tool is limited

I would say Smit is better on AIX and SMC is better on Solaris.

>>
>>> Less parameters to tune
>
> No need to tune semaphore parameters and the like.

That is kind of trivial to mention. There are also some parameters needed tuning on AIX but not on Solaris.

>>
>>At least oracle doesn't have many parameters.
>>
>>> More diagnostic tools.
>>
>>More is better? Let's see some specific examples.
>
> errpt, diag

syslog, DTrace.

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>>> The hardware breaks less often.
>>
>>All hardware breaks eventually.
>>
> We had a Sun motherboard break within 3 months after delivery.

Sun hardware has been very reliable for us. Solaris also runs on x86 systems so you have choices from many vendors other than Sun. Received on Thu Jul 20 2006 - 23:34:34 CDT