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Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services.

On January 27, 2010, Sun was acquired by Oracle Corporation for US$7.4 billion, based on an agreement signed on April 20, 2009. The following month, Sun Microsystems, Inc. was merged with Oracle USA, Inc. to become Oracle America, Inc.

Sun products included computer servers and workstations based on its own SPARC processors as well as AMD's Opteron and Intel's Xeon processors; storage systems; and, a suite of software products including the Solaris operating system, developer tools, Web infrastructure software, and identity management applications. Other technologies include the Java platform, MySQL, and NFS. Sun was a proponent of open systems in general and Unix in particular, and a major contributor to open source software.Sun's main manufacturing facilities were located in Hillsboro, Oregon and Linlithgow, Scotland.

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unable to install sun jdk on ubuntu

I have Ubuntu 12.04 x64 and I'm trying to install sun jdk for opennms. sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk when i run above given command i get following msg: root@fido:~# sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk Reading package lists... Done Building…
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How can I connect to some old Sun servers?

We have some old Sun servers (V125, V210, V240, T2000 amongst others) sitting unused and I've been asked to find out if there is anything useful on them before they get wiped and disposed of. However, I've been unable to connect to any of the…
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How do I wipe a Sun Santricity SAN Array

I need to wipe all data from an out of support SUN Santricity array before we send it to EMC for a trade in. (Yes EMC is took our SUN in part for a CX-480) Does anyone have advice on how to wipe this?
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Updating OpenBoot PROM on Sun Fire v440

After i have updated ALOM firmware on Sun Fire v440, i decided to update OpenBoot PROM, but when i try to load the patch using boot disk /flash-update-SunFire440 i get: SILO Fatal Error: Multiple loadable segments in your ELF image Program…
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Sun Tool-less Slide Rails Removal for X4150

I have some tool-less slide rails for some 1ru x4150 sun servers. I can't seem to see how to remove them. Sun in their wisdom did not include this seemingly important information in their documentation; they simply (possibly with a cheeky smile) say…
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Prevent owner to change permissions on network share

we have a Sun Storage Appliance (7110) with a SMB/CIFS share configured. It is joined to our Active Directory. What I am trying to accomplish is: ordinary Domain Users (builtin AD-group) should have access on the drive with rights to modify files…
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Compatibility of (legacy) Sun Hardware?

I have a couple (well a lot more than that..but for the sake of the brevity.) of sun enterprise 250 servers with solaris installed on them. I want to know if any version/flavor/distro of linux can be installed on…
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How to easily Install "make" utility on Sun 5.10 server?

I have this machine, which doesn't have installed "make" utility, and I need it in order to install other utilities, have you folks done this before on a Solaris 10 machine? This is the output I got with "uname -a" command: SunOS qsunx02 5.10…
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Can a SUN ALOM system (non-CMT) send SNMP traps?

I configured Nagios to receive passive service checks via SNMP traps from SUN remote management boards (ILOM/ALOM in their slang). This works great for ILOM-based SUN servers, but i couldn't find out if ALOM systems support sending SNMP traps. I…
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SunFire LOM - MIBS?

I've got a collection of SunFire hardware here, X2100, X2200 and X4250. Sun seem to have made it spectacularly difficult to find MIBs that I can use with net-snmp to monitor the state of the hardware using the LOM hardware. Can anyone point me in…
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Using one power supply for my SunFire x4100

Is there a risk on using just one power supply on this server?, I just found out that you can POST and run stuff with only one power supply (even tho I still get the LED errors) , I read the manual but it doesn't say much about running it like that
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Can I install oracle linux or debian in Sun enterprise m4000 sparc?

I would like to install a linux OS on this server but after trial and error always came back with a error, i know that the installation is fully compatible with SPARC architecture, every time i used oracle linux, debian, gentoo... After i boot cdrom…
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Is it possible to copy the firmware from one SUN server to another SUN server?

There is no valid account for the oracle support site. I could not download the latest release. V440,Sun Fire V440 and Netra 440 Flash PROM Update POST 4.30.4.a OBP 4.30.4.a OpenBoot…
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Sun Fire v440 does not power on

I have an old Sun Fire v440 server which was in working condition before a shutdown a few months ago. Today I tried to power it on but nothing happens when I press the power button. On both PSUs green led "Standby Available" is on, but "Power OK" is…
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Can't send commands to server via Serial connection in putty/termite

I acquired a Sunfire v215 server from work (they were recycling it) to fiddle around with in my spare time. I'm trying to start it up - the installation guide says you need to use a serial terminal or terminal emulator (currently using putty) to…
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