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@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 > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > ___________________________ > Charles R. 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