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

Fri Jun 13 18:54:41 MST 2008

Yea the "no storage" bytes it bigtime!

Prolly want to try to snag a iscsi fiber channel card [check carefully that it's not toast and compatible with that chassis] and say an old StorageTek 3310 [and resident drives] from Ebay!

The StorageTek's became boat anchors when their cards fried in the old days before managed power, so if you can test it out first?

Course, I think you should be able to find reconditioned drives, right Charles?  If you want to run Zones and Containers, under Solaris 10 (you do) it's gonna need disk...

Course everything else, Doom, DNS, sendmail, and glassfish don't take too much?

Charles, you look like the benevolent organization to me!

Rhune Lord <rhunelord at gmail.com> wrote: 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
 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  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  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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