Red Hat hardware advice

[Bohmer, Andre ten]

>On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 01:13:33PM +0100, Bohmer, Andre ten wrote:
>> We have Red Hat EL AS v3 and v2.1 running on top of about 40 
>HP Proliant
>> server (dl-140/145/360/380). Due to serious problems 
>regarding stability
>> of a number of those servers (HP is looking into this 
>problem) and the
>> HP firmware craziness, just in case we have to make the 
>though decision
>> to change hardware brand, a question to you all. The grass 
>always seems
>> greener on the other side, so are there people who want to 
>share their
>> experience regarding Red Hat EL AS on top of let's see IBM or Sun
>> hardware or maybe an other A brand? 
>
>We had this discussion on this list (or taroon-list) a month or so ago.
>Many of us run exclusively on Proliants without any problems.
>Personally, I have about a dozen Proliants at work and have never
>experienced any stability problems of any kind.  They're rock solid and
>we only reboot them for kernel updates.
30 Servers are running rock solid, 10 not. Problem is confirmed by HP
and Red Hat, we've followed their instructions but the problem remains.
So we do have a problem with HP and Red Hat and I'm happy for you you
don't.

Andre