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

[Charles Jones]

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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