On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Vick Khera <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Lenny <[email protected]> wrote: >> I got offered a Sun Fire X2200 with Opteron Dual Core 2210(that's 1.8GHz). >> Will that do it? (for ~150kpps)
That's a little slower than what I use in prod (2218's), but it should work - I'd want to make sure there were two physical dual core CPUs in the box (paranoia - and well...that's what I tested ;-P). > Double check the NICs in that box. I believe they're broadcom and > nvidia (yes, Sun does a mix and match on the same motherboard! You > get two of each.) Also, one of the NICs doubles as the network port > for the service processor, so if you're inclined to use the SP, you'll > need to account for that dual use on the NIC port 1. Yeah, when I looked at the X2100's, they had 2 nvidia and 2 broadcoms onboard. The real issue wasn't the nics...other than they all suck IMO, but that to use the lights out management, you lost both broadcoms (unless you run Solaris on them - that _might_ have changed in the last couple years). Now, I'm not a huge fan of broadcom nics, but leaving me with only nvidias meant I had a machine with four completely unusable nics and I was _still_ putting a quad port nic in the box, thus costing me more than an equivalent machine from any of Suns competitors. --Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
