Hello,I am quite a noob when it comes to hardware. We have an option of purchasing 2 Sun Fire servers (one for Oracle and one for a Java application). We can either choose the Sun Fire V490 or Sun Fire V4900. If you compare the Sun Fire V490 medium configuration to the Sun Fire V4900 small ...

hi ppl,im pretty new to all this so if the question doesnt make any sense, ah well ... i did not read through any of the docs on the web yet ... im kinda in the process ... ok this is the deal ... ive got a server sunfire v210 with ALOM ... lets say ip address of the server is 10.239.18.79 ...

Does the A1000 support the 146GB (X5268A) drives?Thanks,Harry

does any one know were i could find the drivers for the sunfire v20z network card. and does anyone know the chipset of the card?

I tried the lastest Installation Assistant and it supports rhel 4 UL. Is there a way to get the full version of RHEL 4 ES on a 20z.? Why does the install assistant only support RHEL 4 UL and not ES full version as well?-Sun Installation Assistant 1.1 for V20z/V40z1.1.3-v20z-x86_64 Web Update ...

Hi!How to configure automatic boot of V240 machine after power failure? After power gets resored, V240 remains in standby mode and one has to press button on front to power it up. It is not convinient because power failure can occur, for example, at night and the machine is not booted until the ...

am in need of a part number for the on-board fibre channel card.the customer called this morning (sat) and i need to get the part ordered asap.all documentation is on site and i am 3 hours away.please any help is greatly appreciated.customer says this is not a pci-x card.thanks to all in this ...

Dear All,I use the console cable with Ultra 10, its ok.With E450, the output is appear ok, but I can't type input.Please help.Thanks,Andry

I peeked inside a running V210 to see what the power supply PM was, and it kicked off a bunch of events, faulted the disks, and turned the service LED on:Jun 06 18:00:11 : 00070002: "Indicator HDD1.OK2RM is now ON"Jun 06 18:00:11 : 00070002: "Indicator HDD1.SERVICE is now ON"Jun 06 18:00:11 : ...

Sun just put V210 and V240 on their EOL list with last ship date of 06/06.How long will they support them or did they already drop support?Thanks

I have tested "try-buy" T2000 and I'm dispointed on the performance , I compared it with a dual cpu v240 as they are in about the same price range.I did the follwing tests:WebSphere Appserver v6 runing cloudscape and PlantsByWebSPhere app and Apache web server and WebSphere Plugin exactly the ...

Hi,I put several x2100's into production only to have them get stuck on their next reboot with the very first message (from the bios""Award Preboot Agent"...it never says "successfully loaded"I have an open case for Sun to research how to reset the BIOS with a jumper,but thought someone here ...

Hi,We have here some problems at a new netra 440. In the OpenBoot Diagnostics we receive the msg:WARNING: Device /pci@1e,600000/ide@d being marked with 'status' == failSC Alert: /pci@1e,600000/ide@d failWhen the OpenBoot Diagnostics are finished solaris starts but only with a few ...

o/s: Solaris 10 with patches up to date. LOM and system firmware at latest revisions.Trying to get a 12 bay, Model 711 Sun External SCSI enclosure working properly.Problem: When accessing any of the drives in the external enclosure seemingly random occurances of errors like this are being ...

RAID controller for SunFire 280R server?Where could I find hardware compatibility list for SunFire 280R server? (Not any x86 HCL) I am looking for 3rd barty manufacture RAID controller for the server (I have AHA-2940UW and AHA-131 w/mem Adaptec cards, any body triad theses?). Any successes for ...

Simple question, but I can't find a straight forward answer. How many on-board NICs are there in a Sunfire V880 server and what speed are they?Thanks

Hi All,Trying to view the images of a v240 server at: http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunFireV240/SunFireV240.htmlIt wants me to login, but you have to "Sunsolve Support Contract" to create a profile to login to view the pictures, I don't have a "Support Contract", but my company ...

hi allis there any tool beside "top" that can monitor CPU activity in mi-range servers as SUNFIRE 4800 ?Because i need time slot to know the peak time of the CPU and its activity in real timeP.S : i have Solaris 8 and Solaris 9RegardsTimely

I just inherited a new SUN Netra 20 never before used. I have a standard SUN Keyboard, but there are only usb ports present. OpenBoot attempts to boot from the net, and I can't get to an OK prompt to boot from the CD. I have several Dell USB Keyboards which I have tried, but none work. I get a ...

Hello,Is anyone aware of any utility or CLI tool, for Linux, to view/manage the current configuration/settings of the RAID on an X4200 running Linux?I've looked around, but haven't been able to find anything... Might it be from Sun, or LSI Logic, or anywhere else. There's drivers available ...

Hi!I am trying to connect sun netra t1 server to the console on my laptop.I have connected it to the LOM port on the server,but nothing comes on the windows hyperterminal.I have followed the 9600 8-N-1 settings.But when I connect to the serial port on the netra server the hyperterminal screen ...

Hello all,I'm a new Solaris administrator, but I'm familiar with the basics. I've just joined an environment that doesn't have any monitoring software installed for keeping an eye on server uptime and such. We recently had an E250 and a Blade 1000 shut themselves off due to heat (AC failure ...

The Netra-210 machines seem to have the small hard drives with Serial Attached SCSI.The hard drive cloning machine uses the older style SCSI connectors and we have a number of hard drives that are Ultra-160 drives. I have not been lucky with my search and have not found a converter so that I ...

Just wondering if you can use normal PCI network cards on the Sun Enterprise 250 server?The card is a Realtek RTL8139 PCI fast ethernet adaptor 32-bitAlso, would this card work on the enterprise 450 servers?thankyou,jason

i did a search and did not turn up anything relevant. hoping you guys will help:i am looking to consolidate a series of e4x00 machines to newer hardware. i am tryingto compare the total power usage. the power input of a e4500 is 1400W, but what measurement is that (per ...

hi Alli have a second hand server 280R and when i tried to access RSC via serial connection on my laptop, i couldn't enter because i don't have the password of "admin" and i can not access the server remotely because i don't know if there's any O.S already installed.I tried to re-direct the ...

I have an Enterprise 250 server with 2 gig of ram that experienced a power failure due to a breaker blowing, (now I have a UPS connected to it) while it was doing a Solaris 10 install on the second cd. It got to the fourth cd and tried reinstalling it several times after which it would not ...

Greetings,I have a 280R with two internal drives that are not mirrored. After the server has been online for a few hours, picld reports that both disks have failed. About 30 seconds later it reports that both disks are ok.I have taken the disks, cpu's and memory and put them in an identical ...

Hi, One of my E4500 servers logged an Uncorrectable Memory Error and rebooted itself. It stated that it's Syndrome 0x3 , indicates that this may not be a memory module problemWhat does Sydrome 0x3 mean and how can I be sure there is nothing wrong with any of the memory modules.Jun 19 13:41:15 ...

Please guide me upon what should be the frequency for rebooting of High End enterprise servers like 15K seriesWhether it should be weekly , monthly etc.

Hello,I have a v210 server which I need to connect to an external tape library with a 68GDM connector. However, the v210 connector is identified in the getting started documentation as a "mulitmode Ultra 160SCSI" . several questions. is the ultra 150scsi external connector on the v210 ...

Hello,I am running an X4100 which from what I can tell seems to have somekind of memory problem. The system intermittently reboots and somehow it's gotten progressively worse. I have checked the logs and have not found anthing that provides any clues as to what may be wrong. As consequence, i ...

Hi, I would like to change the logical device names for an external StorEdge. Booting into single user mode from a CD and deleting everything in /dev/dsk/ and /dev/rdsk/ as well as the path_to_inst file and then reconfigure booting doesn't work. Solaris remembers which physical device name was ...

HI all,Here we have Sun Enterprise 250, but not able to get the Display though we have PCI Frame Buffer Card. & This Card is connected to Cybex xp4040 & using the monitor cable between sun monitor & VGA port of Cybex xp4040, we are not getting any display.So Can anyone help us ...

Hello All,I've been looking around and am having trouble finding a definitive answer to the question of what is the largest hardrive that a 420R can accept. We'd be most interested in hearing from real life experiences. What is the largest size drive people have been actually able to use in a ...

I actually created this problem myself. I have two v440s and one has a quad ethernet card and one doesn't . I swapped the disks and neither system came back up. I swapped the disks back and one system came back up. When I run raidctl I get:# raidctlRAIDRAIDRAIDDiskVolume Status ...

G'day,I have an E250, it has four HDDs, a tape drive and CDROM.I want to install Solaris 10 on it, when it starts up i press Stop A and type in boot cdrom.Then i get about 10 of these errors:Fatal SCSI Errorat script address 48 Unexpected disconnectThen after that it says:Cannot read disk ...

Hello All,I need some advise about how to install a soundcard into a E450.The partnumber of the soundcard is 501-2592 and it should work in an E450. And I can buy the card for a reasonable price.Is it difficult to install such a sound card into the system? It is PCI so just put it in a free PCI ...

Hello,I have setup a netdump server and client which seem to communicate fine as it relates to initial process startup, but when the x4100 server crashes, it does not created crash dump file. Question,1. does the x4100 server nic suported with netdump? 2. The Sun DIag disk does not seem to work ...

Hi friends, We r using E-3000 sun sparch server from last few days this server ok prompt not comes. I m also shutdown server and then start but same thing happens. I m also check the server logs but noting any found related this problem. We r using dump terminal insted of sun monitor from last ...

I am moving the Sun E250 into a rack and I wanted to use the KVM the other systems are using. Will this definitely work, not work or does it depend on the KVM?

I have to replace a scsi disk which is a dedicated offline mirror on a sunfire v240, do I have to power off the box before doing this? Or can scsi disks be replaced on the v240 (offline mirrors of course) while the system is up & running?

HiMy X2100 box stops responding to the USB keyboard. Yes, i did get another keyboard just to make sure this is not a keyboard problem. Also the screen redraw was so slow, 2-3 second to refresh after changed value, like on the g'old 8086. I could see the characters drawn one by one (like a deja ...

I am trying to configure SC but when i use the serial cable supplied by sun it shows me nothing when using hyperterm or terraterm. I have used the 8N1 as told but the only thing that i can see is when i send a break i get the message "SC alert: SC request to send break to host"anyone have any ...

One convenient way of cloning a machine (with hot-pluggable disks) is to use the dd command - e.g.# dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 of=/dev/dskc0t1d0s2 bs=512kThis certainly works when the machines are identical. I am replacing a SunFire V240 with a V210. I know the machines are very, very similar - ...

Hello Everyone,I am trying to connect Netra T1 105 server to my laptop and use hyperterminal at 9600 8-N-1 settings.I have used Sun's 530-2889-03 connector attached to my laptop DB25 db port and RJ45 connected to Netra's serial link port.I am not able to see any login prompt. I need to ...

Is it possible to upgrade my SunFire 280R w/ 1x 750 MHZ cpu ( ultraSparc lll ) to 1.2 GHZ ?Will the board support it ?

Hello all,I'm thinking uf buying a used X4100 off eBay for personal use at my home. I know the X4100 has a 3 year warranty on it from SUN. My question is that assuming the machine has been in service for, let's say 1 year, does that mean that the remaining 2 years are available to me?I don't ...

Got a problem with my SUN Fire 280R system. The problem is that it wont boot because of a "Corrected ECC error" message.I've searched alot on this but cant find anything useful. I heard it may be a bug in OpenBoot that causes this and I even found a patch for this but since I cant boot solaris ...

Hi, I've bought an X2100 server with optional service processor. Shipped with the package comes a bootable CD with some DOS-tools to flash the BIOS and configure the service processor (IP/netmask/gateway, usernames/passwords, etc). However this server comes with no CD/DVD-drive by default, so ...