Has anyone here deployed Redhat Advanced Server in a production environment?

[Sunner]

We're currently looking at a few options for our future platforms.

We've been looking alot at RH's Advanced Server, on paper it looks like a great product that would very much suit our needs, but as we all know, paper and reality can sometimes differ greatly.
So, Im trying to find testimonials from people who have actually deployed and used AS, been searching Googlea bit, but unfortunately most hits for Advanced Server leads to Win2000 AS, not RH AS.

Anyone?

 

[Poontos]

Are you referring to RedHat 8.0? If so, production envrionments IMO should not be created with version #.0. And my experience with 8.0 so far (on top of needing to download a minimum of 3+ CD's) has not been all that great -- e.g. flaky install, & partitioning, but hey, this is just my experience so far.

Does 7.3 offer an AS edition?

 

[TheOmegaCode]

Originally posted by: Poontos
Are you referring to RedHat 8.0? If so, production envrionments IMO should not be created with version #.0. And my experience with 8.0 so far (on top of needing to download a minimum of 3+ CD's) has not been all that great -- e.g. flaky install, & partitioning, but hey, this is just my experience so far.

Does 7.3 offer an AS edition?

RedHat Advanced Server is a lot different from their desktop version. It doesn't even follow the same numbering scheme.

I've never used RedHat AS, but I know a company that uses Stronghold and love both the quality and support. I figure that has something to say about RedHat in a corporate situation.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: TheOmegaCode

Originally posted by: Poontos
Are you referring to RedHat 8.0? If so, production envrionments IMO should not be created with version #.0. And my experience with 8.0 so far (on top of needing to download a minimum of 3+ CD's) has not been all that great -- e.g. flaky install, & partitioning, but hey, this is just my experience so far.

Does 7.3 offer an AS edition?

RedHat Advanced Server is a lot different from their desktop version. It doesn't even follow the same numbering scheme.

I've never used RedHat AS, but I know a company that uses Stronghold and love both the quality and support. I figure that has something to say about RedHat in a corporate situation.

At the last company I worked for we used stronghold for a fairly high sec webserver situation, and RedHat did not release the chunking code vuln very quickly.

 

[Sunner]

Well, AS has a number of differences from RedHat's regular products.
For one thing, clustering, they have load balancing as well as failover cluster functionality, including shared disk systems and such.
Then there's a bunch of kernel improvements, and several of those look like they could benefit a DB server, such as asynch I/O.
But there's a whole bunch of differences really, everything from release schedules and numbers to the more technical aspects, in short I'd describe it as a somewhat "Solarisified" version of RedHat Linux.

But anyways, at first we'll be running IBM DB2 on this box, and right now the contestants are pretty much the various Linux vendors that offer strong support options, which pretty much narrows it down to SuSE and Redhat.
Another option is Solaris, but the HW costs kill smaller companies, especially during these times, so it's rather unlikely that we'll go that route, despite the benefits.

Oh well, enough ranting, this is just really a glorified bump