Hello! I am in the process of getting a used SPARC based server for an application that will not run on x86 if I also want to run Solaris. The application in question is Lotus Domino and the objective is to use ZFS to in effect create a disk based incremental backup solution.
A local supplier has a few Sun boxes on the shelf - a few V240's, a V890 and a pretty well-specced V480 (aka 480R). However, having a look at the Opensolaris HCL, there is no mention of explicit support for the SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R but there is for V490, V880, V890, V240 and more. The V480 is mentioned in the Sol10 HCL though. I downloaded the installer the CD and had a look in /platform/. There is a SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R directory and there are several other platforms that are symlinked to that directory (such as the V490 which was explicitly supported by OpensSolaris): drwxr-xr-x 4 erik staff 2048 18 Maj 00:44 SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R lrwxrwxrwx 1 erik staff 18 18 Maj 00:44 SUNW,Sun-Fire-V490 -> SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R My gut tells me that "it should work" but is there something that I don't know? Thanks, /Erik -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
