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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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X4500 harddrive to device name mapping

I have to manage a couple of X4500 boxes. We have some automated install script (using SUNWjet) which assumes root disk is c5t0d0 and mirror at c5t4d0. These are the only disks the X4500 can boot from But on machine that failed. After long fiddling…
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Sun X4170 squealing after disk eject. How do I fix this?

I just ejected one of the "hot swappable" hard drives from a Sun X4170 running RAID 10 and it is making quite a loud noise. It's like a system beep that's one long continuous note. I'm wondering what is causing this and how I fix it. Preferably fast…
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Sun Fire X4200 (not M2) Firmware (BIOS/ILOM)?

i've running BIOS/ILOM 1.0 and it sucks with the hyperthreading sync error flood :( I just got my hands on a nice Sun Fire x64 server but I'm in a bit of a bind.  I need BIOS and ILOM files for a Sun Fire x4200 (not M2) but can't find them…
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"Inserted disabled" while upgrading Sun Sparc t5120 memory

I'm trying to upgrade a Sun t5120 server from 4GB to 8GB of RAM memory: I followed all the steps described on the section "Upgrade Memory Configuration With Additional FB-DIMMs" "Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 Servers Service Manual" When I…
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Has anyone obtained an invitation to SUN Cloud?

Does anyone here know how to get an early invitation to the Sun Cloud?
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How does an UltraSPARC IV+ compare to Intel

I'm trying to compare an 2.1 GHz UltraSPARC IV+ to something I'm more familiar with, and Intel seems to be the benchmark. What would be a comparable processor on the Intel side?
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"Attach to native process failed" with Apache 2.0 Agent 2.202 for RHEL5 Linux 64bit

In trying to install Apache 2.0 Agent 2.202 for RHEL5 Linux 64bit, the dialogue appears as follows. # export JAVAHOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_24/; echo $JAVAHOME /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_24/ # ./setup Launching installer... Attach to native process…
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cdrom redirection fails on ILOM for Sun x4600 M2

We have been able to successfully redirect the ILOM on this x4600 M2 in the past, but for some reason now we are getting an error that says "CD-ROM image redirection failed to start": We have also launched the Storage Redirection service and that…
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Manually installing Sun Java and Debian/Ubuntu virtual java packages

I've installed Sun Java 6 manually since Canonical has removed it from its package repo (I use Ubuntu 12.04). Now I have the following problem: when I want to install a package which depends on Java via a virtual Java packages (java2-runtime or…
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Pinout: RJ-45 to DB25 adapter for SunBlade 2000

Our suite got new carpet this weekend, and as I was moving the machines out of the way I pulled apart the serial adapter. The RJ-45 clip held fast, and the metal body was screwed tight to the machine - so the metal body pulled out of the plastic…
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3rd party memory for SUN T2000

I am considering to use 3rd party memory for an upgrade for a T2000. Are there any special things to consider? I have checked the memory banks and I would use the same size of chips for the upgrade? How is your general experience with non-SUN memory…
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Sun LOM alerts

I'm monitoring Sun hardware using SNMP to gather information from the LOM card. One of the datapoints I'm monitoring is a voltage status MIB which alerts if any of the internal voltages becomes too high or low - with the thresholds being set,…
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Lowering fans noise level on Sun Fire v440

Sun Fire v440 has been placed in the same room, where i'm working. It seems that it makes much more noise, than reactive plane does. I've already updated ALOM Firmware and even OpenBoot PROM, expecting that there were some new features in these…
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Remotely Installing Windows 2008 on SunBlade 6000/6250... any gotchas?

I'm preparing to remotely install Windows 2008 Standard onto a 6250 blade module mounted in a SunBlade 6000 chassis rack. Are there any gotchas (aside from the predictable issues related to bandwidth in transferring the ISO, etc.) for this? Has…
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Centos: Package Managed Sun JRE

Is there no yum repository with Sun's JRE available (don't really need the JDK)? From looking around everyone simply recommends manually downloading and installing the binary that Sun/Oracle provides. Used to it being managed in a Debian/Ubuntu…
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