Am 11.01.2010 15:26, schrieb Pasi Kärkkäinen:
It seems X4500 (not available anymore) had Marvell SATA controllers, that are not supported with RHEL5.
X4540 uses LSI SATA controllers, that are supported.
Indeed:
http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4540/os.jsp
5.3+ is needed.
Of course, for a true Solaris-admin, this would be a big waste. ;-) But if you have an application that runs on Linux (but not Solaris) or runs much more stable on Linux, this is a viable option.
Regards, Rainer