Hardware supporting Solaris 2.6
Hi, I'm investigating the options for supporting a couple of E3500s running Solaris 2.6 for the next few years.
For a variety of reasons upgrading the o/s is not practical so whatever is done must support Solaris 2.6. Obviously buying more used E3500s is one option but I was wondering if there might be a better hardware option than the E3500s which would continue to support Solaris 2.6. i.e. a more modern one which has great availability of spares & skills for support.
Thanks.
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njm] at [2007-11-26 10:04:35]
# 1
I think in terms of migrating to a new architecture you might be out of luck. The next generation of midrange systems only support Solaris >=8 ( SF 3800 ). So your choices are to scale horizontally or vertically, in other words, cluster the E3500 or E4500 ( horizontal ) or upgrade to an E6500 or E10000 ( vertical ). I would look to the E4500, the system supports reasonable system throughput and loads of memory ( 28GB ). The E6500 is a good platform, but in my opinion too big. The 10k will be very expensive to run. All these systems are supported through Sun IBB or you could source used. Contact Sun for service life information.
# 2
I agree, the E4500 would probably be your best bet.
These systems are very cheap these days, and would it allow you have whole unit hot spares if necessary.
If you are using the onboard FC-AL disks as the root disk in the E3500, you can move these disks to an A5200 FC-AL array and attach it to the E4500 (You would have to enable and edit your NVRAMRC in the OBP to reflect the correct boot device.)
Sun4u at 2007-7-7 1:40:15 >
