Use it as a space heater.
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> wrote: > Yes, the license(s) go with the box. I have everything that came with it > from the original install. It's a beast, running 8 processors and 64GB of > RAM, I believe. It was completely decked out when purchased new. We just > built a VM box that the circulation system runs on now (not sure who's > software they're using, but the guest OS is Windows 2008 Server) so they > have no need for this one any more. > > I'm not sure how much drive space it has, but that's not an issue as I > could boot off one of the HBAs from one of our two IBM XIV storage systems. > > I would like to find something to do with it, as otherwise it will get > surplused and sold for pennies on the dollar. I know it's beyond EOL for > Sun, but it's certainly powerful enough to do other stuff, I would think... > > Dan > > > On Oct 21, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Rich Thomas wrote: > > > Does it have the OS? I guess if it was still running it must. Does it > have the install disks or whatever? > > > > Back in Enron Broadband days I was told to unload all our network > infrastructure boxes that were sitting in a warehouse (yep, you read that > right, sell the network) -- Cisco network devices and Sun servers. Our > India affiliate said they would buy the Cisco stuff, but we had a little > problem in that we could not convey OS licenses. Their response was, "Not > to worry." I did worry, and left before completing that task. There was a > considerable issue with Sun OSs too, same deal. "Don't worry!" > > > > --R > > > > On 10/21/12 5:24 PM, Dan Penoff wrote: > >> I have recently acquired a Sunfire V890 server with all the fixin's > from our library circulation system. > >> > >> I know nothing about Sun systems, other than this one was running a > mother of an Oracle database (all of the library materials for the school > district.) > >> > >> I am wondering if there is a way I could retask it to be a host in one > of our VM clusters, and/or if it's capable of running esxi v5.0 or lower. > >> > >> If there are any IT geeks out there that might know what I can do with > this beast, I would love to hear your suggestions. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Dan > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com > >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >> > >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
