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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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ILOM (Integrated Lights Out Manager) "Too many users are logged in" message

Upon entering the web interface of a sun server and when trying to login the following message appears: Too many users are logged in Can anyone advise me on what this means, or how to fix it?
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Corrupt label; bad magic number

While trying to install Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 2500 Silver, I got an error: OpenBoot indicates me a problem with the hard drive: "Corrupt label; bad magic number". Later, during the Solaris installation process, the hard drive is not…
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Installing Solaris 10 on a Sun Blade 2500 Silver

I recently bought a used Sun Blade 2500 Silver. The system has been completly wiped, so I get an OpenBoot prompt when I boot. When I look on Oracle's compatibility page, I can see the station is able to run Solaris 10 8/11. So I downloaded the OS…
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Ultra 20 won't boot if second hard drive added

I have an aged Ultra 20 (AMD) running Solaris 10 that boots fine as long as another hard drive has not been added to the bus; with the second drive added, I can't even get to BIOS settings, instead seeing "Sun Microsystems" logo, never getting any…
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Updating ALOM firmware Sun Fire v440

I have Sun Fire v440 server with old bios (or ALOM?) release. So the fans installed in the server make a lot of noise, even if processors aren't heated. I have some image files to update bios (alombootfw (boot image file) and alommainfw (main image…
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-h not working for 'ls' command in Sun SPARC

I was trying this command for listing files in human readable form: $ ls -lh ls: illegal option -- h usage: ls…
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Sun T2000 Solaris 10 Watchdog

Any ideas where the watchdog properties/settings are located on a T2000 running SPARC Solaris 10? Thanks.
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Sun T2000 SC Log file

Is there a SC log file for the Sun T2000? I'm hoping to track down a possible power problem. So if you have any suggestions outside of a log file... that would be great. What makes me think its a power problem is that the T2000 turns off…
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Sun T2000 mysteriously turning off

We have a Sun T2000 running Solaris 10 that likes to (seemingly) randomly turn off... We have left it hooked up to the "ser mgt" port... hoping it would report some information. It would have the Solaris login prompt before the system would die,…
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Sun X4100: "LSI Configuration Utility Text Strings Image memory error!"

We have a used X4100 (not M2). It has an option during the boot process that says LSI Logic Corp. MPT SAS BIOS MPTBIOS-6.04.07.00 (2005.11.03) Copyright 2000-2005 LSI Logic Corp. Press Ctrl+C to start LST Logic Configuration Utility... I type…
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"The Sun Management Center server is being initialized. Retry?" error on SunMC 4.0 console

I have installed the SunMC on my V490 server. And after the es-inst, es-setup, when I run the "es-start -c" it will show the login screen. After I login, it will hang on the "Welcome to Sun Management Center" window and after a long while will pop…
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How to get Sun X4100 Firmware updates from Oracle?

This document directs how to get there, but it is for the old Sun website. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19569-01/820-1188-12/core_ilom_firmware.html#50413605_67571 Download the flash image .ima file using these steps: Naviage to…
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writing to opensolaris ramdisk over NFS

I want to read and write to a ramdisk on OpenSolaris for performance testing purposes. The tests would be aimed at network transmission and I want to rule out disk performance. I set up the ramdisk on the NFS server, machine A, with mkfile -nv…
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Apache start script dumping core

Operating system: Solaris / SunOS. When starting Apache2.x using: ./apachectl start the following error is printed to the terminal: Illegal Instruction - core dumped Any idea what could be causing this or are there any logs I can inspect? More…
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Choice of PHP Application Server

Possible Duplicate: Enterprise Grade PHP Application Servers Hi Folks, I am on the lookout for a commercial PHP (application!) server that comes with Vendor support to use with enterprise scale applications. I know that it quite easy to put…
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