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. Jones II > Senior Systems Engineer > Cisco Learning Institute IT Dept > work: 602.343.1534 cell: 602.738.9993 > charles.jones@ciscolearning.org > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 > >