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@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@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@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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