Anyone need a Sun 6500? Or two...or three?

[Rhune Lord]

I want to try everything Lisa mentioned and I can get the vehicle to
move them.  But I need the hardware to learn on and if your offering I
am all over this.  Anything I find I can't use I will be thrilled to
pass on to others.

Tuna that mobo is still waiting for you, nudge nudge.

Thanks,
Brian

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Charles Jones
<charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:
> All very good suggestions!
>
> Note I just opened the cabinets and noted that no storage is included...I
> havn't checked yet to see if any of them have an internal disk board or not.
> I might be able to scrounge up a couple of D130's
>
> -Charles
>
> Lisa Kachold wrote:
>
> I have built and maintained Sun hardware like SunFire v490's E250's &
> E5500's.  E6600's.  (Although it's been a few years since I opened a 6600
> "fridge" [as we called them at Nike]).
>
> I know well what they are.  They expand to seat 30 processors?  I am
> interested to know the specs (how many and which procs).  These are fine Sun
> hardware (although EOLife) UltraSparc processors and therefore would be
> great for many uses.
>
> They would make fine Solaris 10 zone/container multi-zone DNS, Mail, and
> development servers: Glassfish or Weblogic (requires UltraSparc processors
> under Solaris), or Apache/Continuium/Maven/Tomcat/Ant can all run fast and
> furious (depending on memory and J2EE code).  And yes Oracle 10g would
> install fine in ONE zone, protected via SFC.
>
> How much disk space?  Can you throw in an extra fiber channel 2540, so we
> can build up a respectable N1 cluster with multipath I/O to backend my
> SERIOUS web app farm?
>
> They would also make a fine Solaris 10 zone container test farm, whereby the
> SFC could limit processing and other resources for development of J2EE.   We
> could run a /jumpstart to /kickstart Linux/Solaris build in one zone, a DNS
> server in another, sendmail in another, web systems however it goes or
> whatever J2EE we are testing that week!
>
> Heck we could even run a Doom wad on them (sourceforge.net has C source
> version that should build under Solaris 10?)
>
> We can run blastwave.org packages and install a fine Wiki, awstats, pretty
> much anything they have for Sun4u Ultra.
>
> Imagine screaming fast rock solid Linux but with a much deeper tcp/ip stack
> and actual swapping proc rather than rather than paging memory!
>
> Oh, and did I mention dtrace tools?
>
> Charles Jones <charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:
>
> I don't think they would work as game servers. They are Sun servers, they
> are not x86. even if you could get sparc-linux installed on them, no game
> server binaries would run on them.
>
> I've been flooded with requests for the servers, mostly for the wrong
> reasons, from everything from using them for wireless network testing, to
> using them for a "media center", to "just want to play with one".
>
> I think folks aren't realizing exactly what these are...they are literally
> 700+lbs cabinets that require 220v power. They will not fit in the trunk of
> a car, or an SUV. The actual server component is rack mounted inside and
> could be removed or powered seperately via 110v (the 220v is for the cabinet
> which includes integrated fans etc).
>
> I've been too busy since I posted to give more info, but I will try to hook
> them up soon to verify the RAM and CPU specs, as well as post some pics of
> them so you know what you are getting into.
>
> These would probably make a good Oracle database server, but its definitely
> not something you would want to plug in on your kitchen table just to play
> with...well maybe in the winter time, as they do make good space heaters :)
>
> -Charles
>
>
> alexanderhenry at cox.net wrote:
>
> Er...  Put me on the list, if it's still empty enough.  I'm having visions
> of co-lo'ed game servers.
>
>
> ---- Charles Jones <charles.jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:
>
>
> We have some spare Sun 6500's (basically a 4500/5500 racked in its own
> cabinet).  If
>  anyone is interested in them, let me know and I will find
> out the specs.  Hans can probably provide pictures of them. They are in
> a full Sun cabinet, so don't plan on putting one in the trunk of your car :)
>
> -Charles
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