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Would a DL760 make a good Sunray server running Solaris 10?
Would Solaris 10 make good use of all eight processors and all
eight gigabytes of RAM and the gigabit ethernet? Is there a driver
for the memory manager PCI cards? How well would Solaris work
with the 2 gigabit fibre channel cards?

Barry
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Barry OGrady wrote:
> Would a DL760 make a good Sunray server running Solaris 10?
> Would Solaris 10 make good use of all eight processors and all
> eight gigabytes of RAM and the gigabit ethernet? Is there a driver
> for the memory manager PCI cards? How well would Solaris work
> with the 2 gigabit fibre channel cards?
>
> Barry
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The server itself should work fine, Solaris has no problems scaling to 8
CPU and 8 gigs of mem. The ethernet controller and other stuf you would
probably have to give some more info on, if we were to give you some
help on that.

/tony

On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:38:56 +0200, none <""tony\"@(none)albers-data.dk"> wrote:

>Barry OGrady wrote:
>> Would a DL760 make a good Sunray server running Solaris 10?
>> Would Solaris 10 make good use of all eight processors and all
>> eight gigabytes of RAM and the gigabit ethernet? Is there a driver
>> for the memory manager PCI cards? How well would Solaris work
>> with the 2 gigabit fibre channel cards?
>>
>> Barry
>> =====
>> Home page
>> http://members.iinet.net.au/~barry.og
>
>The server itself should work fine, Solaris has no problems scaling to 8
>CPU and 8 gigs of mem. The ethernet controller and other stuf you would
>probably have to give some more info on, if we were to give you some
>help on that.

Thanks.
The gigabit ethernet controller is a HP NC7770.
The 2 gigabit fibre channel cards are Qlogic 2300..
It has a Smart Array 5312 controller.

I am currently running Windows Server 2003 on it. I had to enable PAE so
that Windows could see more than 4 gigs RAM. I understand that is a 32
bit limitation. Would Solaris have the same limitations?

>/tony

Barry
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On Apr 13, 12:55 pm, Barry OGrady <god_free_jo...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> I am currently running Windows Server 2003 on it. I had to enable PAE so
> that Windows could see more than 4 gigs RAM. I understand that is a 32
> bit limitation. Would Solaris have the same limitations?

Presumably it has a 64bit-capable CPU, so definitely not.

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:14:10 -0700 (PDT), Tim Bradshaw <tfb+google@tfeb.org> wrote:

>On Apr 13, 12:55 pm, Barry OGrady <god_free_jo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I am currently running Windows Server 2003 on it. I had to enable PAE so
>> that Windows could see more than 4 gigs RAM. I understand that is a 32
>> bit limitation. Would Solaris have the same limitations?
>
>Presumably it has a 64bit-capable CPU, so definitely not.

It has eight Pentium 3s.

Barry
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On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:55:35 +1000, Barry OGrady <god_free_jones@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:38:56 +0200, none <""tony\"@(none)albers-data.dk"> wrote:
>
>>Barry OGrady wrote:
>>> Would a DL760 make a good Sunray server running Solaris 10?
>>> Would Solaris 10 make good use of all eight processors and all
>>> eight gigabytes of RAM and the gigabit ethernet? Is there a driver
>>> for the memory manager PCI cards? How well would Solaris work
>>> with the 2 gigabit fibre channel cards?
>>>
>>> Barry
>>
>>The server itself should work fine, Solaris has no problems scaling to 8
>>CPU and 8 gigs of mem. The ethernet controller and other stuf you would
>>probably have to give some more info on, if we were to give you some
>>help on that.
>
>Thanks.
>The gigabit ethernet controller is a HP NC7770.
>The 2 gigabit fibre channel cards are Qlogic 2300..
>It has a Smart Array 5312 controller.
>
>I am currently running Windows Server 2003 on it. I had to enable PAE so
>that Windows could see more than 4 gigs RAM. I understand that is a 32
>bit limitation. Would Solaris have the same limitations?

Solaris 10 appears to be running 100% on the DL760 now.
I had to include a driver for the array controller before install could see the
hard drives, and I had to install a driver for the NC7770 gigabit ethernet
and manually configure network information.

>>/tony
>
>Barry

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