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The E10K was a very (very) large machine that's actually now quite outdated now (it was originally sold with up to 64 400mhz processors!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/e10000/ > 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 [email protected]
