[zfs-discuss] Sun X4200 Question...

2013-03-11 Thread Tiernan OToole
I know this might be the wrong place to ask, but hopefully someone can
point me in the right direction...

I got my hands on a Sun x4200. Its the original one, not the M2, and has 2
single core Opterons, 4Gb RAM and 4 73Gb SAS Disks... But, I dont know what
to install on it... I was thinking of SmartOS, but the site mentions Intel
support for VT, but nothing for AMD... The Opterons dont have VT, so i wont
be using XEN, but the Zones may be useful...

Any advice?

Thanks!

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Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun X4200 Question...

2013-03-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn

On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Tiernan OToole wrote:


I know this might be the wrong place to ask, but hopefully someone can point me 
in the right direction...
I got my hands on a Sun x4200. Its the original one, not the M2, and has 2 
single core Opterons, 4Gb RAM and 4 73Gb SAS Disks...
But, I dont know what to install on it... I was thinking of SmartOS, but the 
site mentions Intel support for VT, but nothing for
AMD... The Opterons dont have VT, so i wont be using XEN, but the Zones may be 
useful... 


OpenIndiana or OmniOS seem like the most likely candidates.

You can run VirtualBox on OpenIndiana and it should be able to work 
without VT extensions.


Bob
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Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun X4200 Question...

2013-03-11 Thread Tiernan OToole
to tell you the truth, i dont really need the virtualization stuff... Zones
sounds interesting, since it seems to be ligher weight than Xen or anything
like that...


On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Bob Friesenhahn 
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote:

 On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Tiernan OToole wrote:

  I know this might be the wrong place to ask, but hopefully someone can
 point me in the right direction...
 I got my hands on a Sun x4200. Its the original one, not the M2, and has
 2 single core Opterons, 4Gb RAM and 4 73Gb SAS Disks...
 But, I dont know what to install on it... I was thinking of SmartOS, but
 the site mentions Intel support for VT, but nothing for
 AMD... The Opterons dont have VT, so i wont be using XEN, but the Zones
 may be useful...


 OpenIndiana or OmniOS seem like the most likely candidates.

 You can run VirtualBox on OpenIndiana and it should be able to work
 without VT extensions.

 Bob
 --
 Bob Friesenhahn
 bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/**
 users/bfriesen/ http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
 GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/




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