Anyone running big SPARC boxes?

[John Rudd]

On Jul 8, 2004, at 6:08 AM, Peter Bonivart wrote:

> William Burns wrote:
>> Does it run w/ Solaris now/already?
>
> Here are some short specs on the V20z. It's even certified for Windows
> :-). The only OS that is not available yet is 64 bit Solaris for x86.
>
> *  Processor: One or two AMD Opteron 200 Series processors (models 242,
> 244, 248)
> * Main Memory: Up to 16 GB of registered DDR1-333 SDRAM (4 DIMM slots
> per processor for a total of 8 DIMM slots; 128 bit plus ECC databus)
> * Network: Two 10/100/1000-Mbps BaseT Ethernet ports
> * Expansion bus: Two 64-bit PCI-X slots:
>     o One full-length at 133 MHz
>     o One half-length at 66 MHz
> * Internal disk: One or two 36 GB, 73 GB, or 146 GB Ultra320 SCSI disk
> drives
> * Operating System:
>     o Solaris 9 4/04 x86 Platform Edition (32-bit)
>     o Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 for AMD Opteron (32-bit/64-bit)
>     o SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for AMD Opteron (64-bit)
>     o SUSE Linux 9 Professional (64-bit) (Community Edition,
> customer-provided)
>     o Microsoft Windows 2000 (WHQL-certified) (customer-provided)
>     o Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (WHQL-certified)
> (customer-provided)
>

Sounds very nice.  Have any idea about who we'd talk to about getting
FreeBSD certified for it (though, we might just go with Solaris if we
were to get some of them)?  How has its performance been?

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