[osol-help] Considering buying E10K...
Hi all, As a non-Sun expert, I am considering buying an E10K as a file server for a business. It would come with a StorEdge with 12 x 73GB drives. Could anyone please advise how difficult it would be to install openSolaris, and what the major differences would be in running between openSolaris and my current centOS Xeon system. Regards, Matthew Doughty [b]Vesuro Networks Ltd[/b] This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Considering buying E10K...
Hi Matthew, On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 03:16 -0800, Matthew Doughty wrote: As a non-Sun expert, I am considering buying an E10K as a file server for a business. The E10K was a very (very) large machine that's actually now quite outdated now (it was originally sold with up to 64 400mhz processors! - modern processors are a lot faster than these) http://www.sun.com/servers/highend/e1/ It would come with a StorEdge with 12 x 73GB drives. This would be a good storage array though - you'd need to find out what sort of connection it uses, probably scsi or fc-al. For less than the cost of the hosting/electrical setup of the E10K (the E10k is very large, and requires a particular type of power input and cooling) you could probably buy a much more modern, low-end server that would probably fit your needs quite nicely. Something like: http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/ and put a scsi card in it which would talk to your StorEdge array http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/storage.jsp Could anyone please advise how difficult it would be to install openSolaris, and what the major differences would be in running between openSolaris and my current centOS Xeon system. You'd probably want to install Solaris S10U4 on this machine, or you could try Solaris Express (a development version of Solaris that includes source code from OpenSolaris) OpenSolaris is a different operating system than CentOS (which is based on Linux), but if you're familiar with CentOS, moving to Solaris isn't too complex. Installation on supported hardware should be trouble free. cheers, tim -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Considering buying E10K...
Hi, For fileserver a E10k system? How much I/O do you need? Most likely what I would advice, it would be a system capable of dealing with I/O. V490 or V890. The new ones M4000/M5000 I don't have enought experience about those. Well ... if you use a fileserver that uses lots of threads I would advice T5120, it's cpu is Niagara 2 that has 8 cores witch each core has 8 threads giving a total of 64 processes/threds (the same as E10K). The speed is Higher 1.4 Ghz per core. The downside is that you won't have lots of pci for the connection with the storage. Either way, in that case I T5220 can solve the pci problem. Either way, usually what I see and the system that has most PCI for high I/O is V890. Regards Ether.PT This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
[osol-help] need help compiling.
hie , i have some programs written in c++ in text form and now i want to compile then . i m using solaris 10 os ..with inbuilt gcc in usr/sfw/bin. so how to go about it. plz give the command and the syntax if possible. thank you. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Considering buying E10K...
E10K : requires as I remember it from 10 years ago 3 x 32 amps 220 volts For the money the Electrical power + the Cooling cost will amount to in a while. You can buy almost anything else . Also you need4 by 4 meters in floor space and a pprreettyy wide door to get it inside you building. The unit is like 3 racks wide. And today there is a 2 rack unit server , the T5220 that does the same job as the E10k did for about 1/40 of the cost. //Lars This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] need help compiling.
Its not that simple . If you have a single sourcefile with no Libraries to be linked you can probably do #CC=/usr/swf/bin/gcc #CXX=/usr/sfw/bin/g++ #export CC CXX #/usr/sfwbin/gmake objectfilename If you have a more sofisticated set of C or C++ sourcefiles you need to learn about makefiles , the Linker and other things These books comes to mind, http://www.amazon.com/UNIX-Programming-Environment-Brian-Kernighan/dp/013937681X http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/make3/ This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
[osol-help] SXDE 1/08 upgrade problems
I have been running SXDE 9/07 on a fileserver for a couple of months and today I tried to upgrade to SXDE 1/08. However, after keyboard configuration the graphical installer fails, claiming the X-display cannot be initialised, and suggest use of the text-installer. I could probably use this instead but my I´m hesitating as I had no problems using the graphical installer on SXDE 9/07 (mainboard with intel G33 chipset with integrated graphics) Anybody else who has experienced similar problems? Any risk that something else will break if I use the text installer to upgrade? /Per This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Considering buying E10K...
E10K : requires as I remember it from 10 years ago 3 x 32 amps 220 volts For the money the Electrical power + the Cooling cost will amount to in a while. You can buy almost anything else . Also you need4 by 4 meters in floor space and a pprreettyy wide door to get it inside you building. The unit is like 3 racks wide. And today there is a 2 rack unit server , the T5220 that does the same job as the E10k did for about 1/40 of the cost. I put the first E10K into a major financial and news information provider datacenter in London many years back. From a sysadmin perspective, it was an interesting challenge. The bedding-in process was exhaustive, running bringup on domains at a high level for days to thoroughly test the hardware (some initially inexplicable problems were highlighted, and finally put down to bad CPU's), which was all very beneficial. I do like a system which gives you _ultimate_ control over the hardware - in the case of the E10K via a utility called redx - Red Cross - use it, and you may well need them ;-) which could allow you to actually fry bits of hardware. Great fun! I know/knew more about redx than any customer should... The author was Dan... or Tran... surname escapes me :-( If you buy one, type the undocumented command author into redx, and you will find out. On a management side, with the E10K there is a SSP - Service Support Processor, which for us was a U5 running a specialized version of Solaris 8, which through a private LAN can control the E10K hardware directly. You could play tunes by bringing up and down the speed of the fans :-) It was a great system (CRAY origin); but now its a dinosaur; and an expensive/unecologically-friendly one as everyone says. Buy a T2000, sort your storage carefully, install Solaris, and never look back... Regards... Sean. ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Creating 14+ disc media fileserver, suggestions for a noob to the OS?
Thanks for the extra suggestions, I'm going to get a 2nd 60GB drive for the OS now. I don't see how it would but would having the OS on slower IDE/133 drives slow down access to the RAIDz of fast SATAII drives? Sam This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
[osol-help] zfs root with sxde
It's my understanding that the latest sxde has zfs root, which I took to mean that if I installed solaris on a single drive computer it would have been formatted as zfs. However, when I look at zpool list, it tells me there are no pools defined. Am I mistaken? Thanks, Karl ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
[osol-help] SXDE 9/07 Internet Issues
So I've had Solaris Express Developer Edition (9/07 build) installed on my computer since around late October or early November. The installation went flawlessly except for one issue: the internet didn't work. I started with turning off NWAM and setting up the connections manually in the GNOME network admin interface, trying both static IPs (the information recorded from Windows ipconfig) and DHCP. The network has DHCP on it and it works fine under Windows. Fast forward to about 2 days ago, I accidentally booted into Solaris (don't use it that much anymore since I can't get the internet to work and I'm too lazy to install anything else) and figured I might as well see what happens. After screwing with the network admin again, it worked. Joy. It is now broken. Again. Apparently Solaris thinks there's no DHCP server on any network it connects to. Over the last few months, I've been through all sorts of different things including beta drivers and God knows how many ifconfig commands. I did a sys-unconfig tonight and that had no effect. It still couldn't find any DHCP servers. The GNOME network admin tool seems to be a bit wacky too; it doesn't save its data properly all the time. Anyway, I'm at my wits end here, so if anyone has any ideas that would be grand. I suspect it may have something to do with the DNS, but I've double checked them many times and they were the same even when it was working... This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
[osol-help] Solaris 10 5/11 installation problem - Relocation error: R_AMD64_pc32
Hi, Thanks for the help in advance I got following error when i tried to install Solaris 10 5/11 on Intel core2duo system MB is Intel dp35DP Error:- Relocation error: R_AMD64_pc32: file /kernel/AMD64/genunix: Vn_getops: Value 0xfffe000d61c3 Doesnot fitdo_relocations: /kernel/AMD64/genunix do_relocate failed Krtld: error during initial load/link phase Krtld could neither locate nor resolve symbols for /platform/i86pc/kernel/amd64/unix In the boot archive. Please verify that this file matches what is found in the boot archive. You may need to boot using the solaris failsafe to fix this Unable to boot Press any key to reboot Pls help me on this. I am very new to SOlaris Thanks a lot Bijoy This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Solaris 10 5/11 installation problem - Relocation error: R_AMD64_pc32
bijoy wrote: Hi, Thanks for the help in advance I got following error when i tried to install Solaris 10 5/11 on Intel core2duo system Why are you installing such an old version? What's wrong with an OpenSolaris release? Ian ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
[osol-help] Live-Upgrade to SXDE0108 fails / data loss?
Finally, I took the plunge on my main machine to upgrade. Taking my earlier problems and others' suggestions, I made a live-upgrade; exactly as pointed out on the website http://developers.sun.com/sxde/upgrade_guide.jsp I followed meticulously (as far as I know, since I have no experience), read all messages, everything went smoothly. At the end, lustatus showed two boot environments, with the old one being inactive, and the new one marked active. Alas, after the next reboot, I was dropped to the grub command; no good sign. It seems all data got lost, because booting to the SXDE0108-DVD, just for curiosity, did not find any Solaris environment; only a Solaris partition to which an 'Install' was proposed. I quit the installer, and format-fdisk would show the partition, and 'partition' display Part 2 backup 37.24 GB Part 8 boot 7.84 MB Part 9 alternates 15.69 BG I'd really love to recover my data :), and I don't believe that they are actually lost: everything was there before the reboot, including the two boot environments. Probably something was screwed up at reboot, with the partition/slice table damaged. So I hope. Explanation, why this happened? I dunno; maybe has to make with /dev/hda1 being a Linux /boot/, and /dev/hda2 being a partition to hold Nevada, /dev/hda3 being a Nexenta partition? and more partitions higher up being dedicated to the Linux install? Uwe This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-help] Solaris 10 5/11 installation problem - Relocation
I have got this version from Opensolaris free DVD distribution program by courier... Pls help me if you have solved thisissue before Thanks Bijoy This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
