Do you work as an SA with large Sun Enterprise/Sun Fire systems ?? I am interested in seeing what sort of machines are about and what people are doing with them.

Dave

 

Used to mate - but then you know that

Just look after a few Sparcs/E5000 and some Ultra 10's/3500 etc...

 

We've deployed our system on a E420R and E220R for a customer, and have it in house running on an Ultra80 and an E420R. We've also tested on an Ultra60.

Solaris 2.6 and 8, I did the port.

Check out the product at sirenic.com

I know there are people on here who work with the really BIG Suns, but won't name them in case they want to be anonymous

Simon.

 

We have 5 E450's which I used as a bed once

 

not really big end servers.. but a friend of mine has worked on e10k stuff.. some real big *****'s!!!

we only got ultra 60's, one sunblade 1000.. well nice machine..
prefer costwise.. getting dell poweredge's with solaris.. extremely reliable..and a third of the cost!!

 

Just a ye olde Sparc10 and a Sparc LX The real big boys are offsite.

 

Our Sun kit is generally Ultra 10's , E220's , E250's, E450's and Sunfire 880's.

So, your general mid-range stuff.

Steve

 

Tinsta - the problem with Solaris on Intel servers is that Sun are withdrawing Solaris on Intel very soon.

 

Oh, forgot to say the largest Solaris machine i worked on was a 64 CPU Fujitsu Siemens Primepower 2000 running Solaris 8, but i have seen a 128 CPU machine running a SAP benchmark and it is MASSIVE !!!

 

Tinsta

Solaris 9 will be available for Sun and Fujitsu Siemens Primepower machines aswell.

Dave

 

Oops....true..

bit of a shame their cutting the x86 support..as it meant a cheap easy way of learning solaris at home....suppose lots of companies are happy with the solaris 2.x and 8 machines and probably won't upgrade till they really have/need to.

cheers

Tin

 

I know, i have s Solaris partition on my PC at home, and it will be a bugger that i cant continue to put the latest versions on there. Oh well, will have to swipe a small Primepower from work hahaha.

Out of curiosity, have you seen anything about the Primepowers at all ?

Dave

 

Got my hands on a F15K around 2 months ago. Its just 108 x SS1 stuck together with
Ultra Sparc III cpus and a fast interconnect. Makes little difference to Solaris
what the hardware is.

Takes next to know time to spit out a Seti unit

 

hehe

We sell Primepower kit instead of Sun kit bigger - upto 128 processors - more efficient etc etc. People forget that Sun aren't the only people who sell SPARC based kit. The SPARC processor was a joint Fujitsu/Sun development and Fujitsu are the major shareholder.

Want to buy some? Demo boxes available!! maybe I should have a banner with Scoobynet.

 

we have currently deployed loads of enterpise boxes!

last count was:

14 6800's, each with 4 domains
10-15 E4500's
5-10 E450's, E420's.

and a couple of V880's that are arriving next week.

We use the sunfire's as general servers, mostly database stuff and apps servers. All of them are clustered using vcs, and we use campus wide cluster and symmetrix (emc) srdf for failover from site to site.

nice setup - still building it though!

 

i have just deployed a sunfire 6800 with 4 domains, running oracle. interesting situation, its going head to head against a rs/6000 s80 to see who can shift and process the data quicker. at the moment i think the sun is ahead slightly.

now if they put it against one of the new rs/6000 regattas, might be a diferent story....

my contracts up in august if anyone wants to give me a job....

 

If they put the winner of that up against a Primepower, then that would be an interesting result (Primepower currently holds SAP R3 and Oracle benchmark world records)

 

Could of E10Ks...

Dont ya just love E-commerce nowadays..

J.

 

does the primepower support solaris features native on all other sun servers? e.g. ap, dr, the usuall stuff...??

 

We've got 4 E450s in our test bed. Whenever we actually try and use them for something on the live network, the rackspace costs so much its cheaper to buy new 1 or 2U boxes

Still - they keep crunching seti units for the SIDC group

Deano

 

Primepower runs certified Sun Solaris, so all the standard Solaris features are supported, such as SCOD, DR, and there are some addition bits like an Active Resource Manager (that works).

 

I've got one or two Sun servers

Everything from Netra T1 --> E10k's

Most stuff is E220r/420r/450/250.

Get some 280R's soon.

And I run Seti on them as well (well some of them)

 

Mike how many you got....

2606 - 42261 Hrs 6 mins


Run it on any old bit of kit that stays still long enough hence the highish average time. If they released a client for Cisco IOS - now then I could throw some spare cylces at it

 

druddle,

yes, the solaris 9 is avail for sun machines only. Beta download is now available from sun.com (somewhere).. haven't installed it yet..but will do soon!

Still Solaris 8.. is pretty stable and good for workgroup servers.. beats re-booting the NT PDC once every week!

cheers

[Edited by Tinsta - 2/7/2002 3:18:21 PM]