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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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Disk not available for use under Linux on Sun hardware

We have a Sun 4140 running Linux (CentOS 5.5). A disk failed in a software RAID-1 array. We powered off the system and added a two new disks to empty slots in the chassis (we couldn't simply replace the failed disk due to some GRUB…
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Did the solar event mess up my wireless printers?

I have 5 wireless printers on my network, Brother HL-2170CWs, and not long after the massive solar flare on Tuesday, 2 of the 5 wireless printers are failing to connect to the network.
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Best practices for mounting Sun SAN NFS on Linux (Debian Squeeze)

Anyone got bestpractices for how to mount a nfsshare from Sun(Oracle) Unified Storage? We run the usual hard and nfs4 on debian squeeze. We run our VMs through this NFS share with Xen. When our SAN on friday losed a disk and started…
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Sun Power Button Won't Shut Down System

Background: We are running NIS and have NFS mounts from a Solaris 10 workstation to a Solaris 8 server. If the workstation loses its network connection for some reason, when I look at the workstation's console I see repeated messages of the…
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Horror stories with Sun ZFS?

My companny is considering purchasing two 7320's in a cluster. Anybody have anything good or bad to say about the platform?
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Sun Java keytool importing EV certificates into a single keystore

At my current job we are using tomcat, customers have custom web portals setup on their own local machines. EV certs are new to me, they have 2 part intermediary and a primary certificate. For our product to work it appears I need to get all three…
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Does ILOM on recent Sun rackmount servers fully support Linux?

Do the recent Sun rackmount servers with ILOM fully support installation of Linux (Ubuntu or Fedora maybe) via the ILOM (connected by ssh) without having to hook up a display, kbd, and mouse? I have an old Sun v20z right now that will install…
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How to disable HTTP options on Sun servers

Using BURP to send a OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 request to Sun Web Server 7.0 returns: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Sun-Java-System-Web-Server/7.0 Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:05:14 GMT Allow: HEAD, GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, TRACE, OPTIONS, MOVE, INDEX, MKDIR,…
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Sun 280R architecture

How do I find out which architecture my Sun 280R is based on (eg . 501-6485 or 501-6690 etc) The command arch returns "sun4". Im running Solaris 10 Thanks
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Sun Java VM does not create a crash report

When a Sun Java VM crashes it usually creates a hs_err_pid* file (crash report). However we have a Open SuSE Linux server where java crashes without leaving a crash report behind. A core dump is created (SIGSEGV) but no hs_err_pid* file. Are there…
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no contents shown when using ILOM Web Interface on SPARC

I accessed to ILOM web interface but the problem there isn't any content just Tabs and description as shown Below: Info: SP firmware 3.0.6.1.d SP firmware build number: 48331 SP filesystem version: 0.1.22 OpenBoot 4.30.4 Server: Sparc T5240 I…
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prtdiag PS output explanation

Hi I have a SUN machine V240 which is reporting power supply failed. In the prtdiag voltage sensors you can see FF_UV and P_PWR for PS1 is reporting failed. What does these sensor refer to? other that power supply PS1 what else need to be…
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Will Sun/Oracle HDD work in a non-Sun system?

I know that Sun/Oracle-branded HDD's have a modified firmware, but can these drives work in a non-Sun system? Specifically Sun ST32000SSUN2.0T (which are 2 TB 7200 RPM Seagate Constellation ES drives) and LSISAS2108-based or similar 6Gb/s SAS…
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Have I bricked my Sun V20z?

I have a small pile of Sun V20z computers. I was trying to update the SP and BIOS firmwares in order to bring them all up to the same standard -- mostly to get the updated (ie actually useful) SP functionality, and figured that I would just do the…
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How to set up an Sun SPARC T5120 from scratch?

Hello I am a newbie when it comes to server set up, especially SUN SPARC server since I never worked with this architecture. At work I have an Sun SPARC T5120 server that is not used anymore, I want to set it up as a completely new server. I don´t…
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