On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 04:04:56PM -0500, Nicolas Ross wrote:
Hi !
We are curently deploying an 8 nodes cluster where we have a RHEL 6 license at great costs (~14 k$/y). It will be our new production environment for mission-critical services.
Now our aging developpement server (old p4 with 1.5 gig of ram) need to be updated. We will be installing on hardware as close as possible to the new production servers, just not in a rack...
For the developement server, I won't be needing the RH support (and price that goes with it). So I wsish to install it under CentOS. But 6 isn't out yet. (by the way, when ;-) ?). I do have a spare slot in my rhn that I can install the new server with.
Will RHEL 6 be as easy to switch to CentOS 6 as were RHEL/CentOS 5 ? That is install a couple of rpms, yum update and voilà ?
Thanks,
There are procedures to convert for RHEL5, and no doubt something similar will work for RHEL6 as well.
Antother option is ScientificLinux 6.0, which although not out yet either has a public rolling 6.0 release available that I recently installed from for similar reasons as you.
I'll likely try to convert it to CentOS 6 when it's available, so we'll see how that goes. :)
Ray