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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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Sun Fire X4100 RAM Upgrade Error

I apologize if this question is not appropriate to ServerFault, but I have been Googling for hours to no avail and Sun doesn't really exist anymore and I don't have a support contract with Oracle so I can't really ask them for directions... Anyways,…
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Is it possible to install a solid state drive into a Sun Ultra 40 M2 workstation?

Our Sun Ultra 40 M2 workstations came with SAS drives, but my understanding is that the backplane will support both SAS and SATA. Sun's docs specify a very limited number of supported drives, but I'm wondering if anyone has actual experience…
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Comparing 1x Xeon multi core vs 4x UltraSparc IV

I'm in the process of reviewing specs for hardware running an Oracle server. The new hardware will be running using Xeon processor compared to the old servers (Solaris) running on UltraSparc IV. So the comparison is: 1x Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs 4x…
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#raidctl - Operation not support with volume of this level

I am having problem to create a RAID volume on the internal disks of a Sun Server (Sunf Fire V440) When I type the below command raidctl -f -c -r 5 c1t0d0 c1t1d0 c1t2d0 c1t3d0 it displaysOperation not support with volume of this level. My…
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Setup SunFire 440 Raid Configuration

How can I setup Internal Hard disk RAID5 configuration? I have SunFire 440 machine with 4 internal hard disk. I have never worked on Sun systems except for now and I am exploring google for the above solution. If anyone could help me out.
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Solaris missing memory

I have two identical Sun/Oracle Netra X4250s both with 16 x 4096MB DIMMs (as reported by memconf.pl, prtdiag and the ILOM) On one, prtconf shows 64768MB but the other shows 57344MB 16 x 4096 = 65536 so where is the missing memory and why is one…
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Using Sun Netra 240 to Host asp.net Web page

My boss was offered a Sun Netra 240 server, still in the box. The machine,purchased in 2008, is has two single core 1.5GHZ processors and two gigabytes of RAM. My boss asked if it would be worth installing Windows Server and running our site from…
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access preboot menu sun x4170

I bought a second hand sun x4170 and need to reset the ilom password. I get output to serial console, but can't access the preboot menu as described by oracle. (by pressing the locate button) Can anyone please give me a detailed instruction starting…
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Accessing iLOM configuration from Solaris on SPARC

Is there any way to get network configuration of iLOM in Solaris SPARC? I want to get the IP address of iLOM console at least. It's pretty easy on x86 by ipmitool lan print, but for SPARC I can't find something that do the same. I found some…
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ipmitool and ALOM (Sun T2000)

ipmitool -vv -I lan -H srv-alom -U admin sdr ipmitool -vv -I lanplus -H srv-alom -U admin sdr or ipmitool -vv -I lan -H srv-alom -U admin sensor ipmitool -vv -I lanplus -H srv-alom -U admin sensor i get this error: Querying SDR for sensor…
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Find number of unused disk bays on a Sun/Oracle server running Solaris

How can you find the number of unused disk bays on a Sun/Oracle server running Solaris? I have a Oracle T3-1 server with four disks. Now I would like to find out how many disks more I can insert. According to the specs a T3-1 server has 8 or 16 disk…
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How many domains can you configure on a Sun M5000 system?

We have a few Sun M5000 servers with the following configuration: Each system has 2 system boards each containing 2 x 2.5Ghz quad core processors Each system board has 16GB of RAM Each system has 4 x 300GB disks I would like to know how many…
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Sun Grid Engine : jobs are not well balanced

I use Open Grid Scheduler (a fork/copy of Sun Grid Engine). I have tried this configuration from master: # qconf -mattr exechost complex_values slots=8 slave2 # qconf -mq all.q | grep slots slots 100,[slave1=1],[slave2=8] slave1 is…
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Solaris: information on sparc hardware

I'm having 2 solaris machines to manage, So i want to write my own scripts for getting various information. I'm able to get most of the information but not able to retrieve following: Chassis type Mother Board S/N OS Language I have no physical…
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Where to get FW/BIOS for Sun Fire X4150

I have been trying to get the lastest software for the X4150. I get to this link http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/patches/firmware/release-history-jsp-138416.html#X4150 but it gets me no where so.. just curious if anyone has ILOM…
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