Greetings,
on this matter, Sunfire x4150 a 1U machine with 2xcpu sockets, "eight" drive bays, 64 GB expandability, 4 NIC packs quite a punch for its size.
I don't think I've ever seen such power in such a small package
Regards
Rajagopal
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 08:59:24PM +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
on this matter, Sunfire x4150 a 1U machine with 2xcpu sockets, "eight" drive bays, 64 GB expandability, 4 NIC packs quite a punch for its size.
Sunfire X4540; 4U, dual quad core AMD Opteron, 48 (count them!) hotswap SATA drives (so can scale to 48TByte of space in 4U), etc etc.
When Sun came out with the X4500 I immediately said "NAS server". Then Sun came out with ZFS and I said "Really, NAS server". Now I note that the X4540 is marketed as "Simply the best selling storage server". Heh.
ZFS is really nice. If VMware was supported on Solaris 86 then I would have built my own home server with Solaris rather than CentOS. (Although I'm not using VMware on that machine, at present; merely UserModeLinux for my protected instances). But CentOS is handling my 5*1Tbyte RAID5 OK for now :-)
Stephen Harris wrote:
ZFS is really nice. If VMware was supported on Solaris 86 then I would have built my own home server with Solaris rather than CentOS. (Although I'm not using VMware on that machine, at present; merely UserModeLinux for my protected instances). But CentOS is handling my 5*1Tbyte RAID5 OK for now :-)
You know the inverse is true right? Solaris is supported on VMWare ESX(i). Though SATA disks are not officially supported by the VMFS file system in 3.x.
ESXi is as free as VMware server.
nate
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 08:30:42AM -0800, nate wrote:
Stephen Harris wrote:
ZFS is really nice. If VMware was supported on Solaris 86 then I would have built my own home server with Solaris rather than CentOS. (Although I'm not using VMware on that machine, at present; merely UserModeLinux for my protected instances). But CentOS is handling my 5*1Tbyte RAID5 OK for now :-)
You know the inverse is true right? Solaris is supported on VMWare ESX(i). Though SATA disks are not officially supported by the VMFS file system in 3.x.
I wanted Solaris as the Host OS so it could natively manage my disks via ZFS. Making it a guest would be pointless. Underneath that I would run a couple of smaller Linux instances (eg for internet facing services), maybe a Windows instance and so on.
Stephen Harris wrote:
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 08:30:42AM -0800, nate wrote:
Stephen Harris wrote:
ZFS is really nice. If VMware was supported on Solaris 86 then I would have built my own home server with Solaris rather than CentOS. (Although I'm not using VMware on that machine, at present; merely UserModeLinux for my protected instances). But CentOS is handling my 5*1Tbyte RAID5 OK for now :-)
You know the inverse is true right? Solaris is supported on VMWare ESX(i). Though SATA disks are not officially supported by the VMFS file system in 3.x.
I wanted Solaris as the Host OS so it could natively manage my disks via ZFS. Making it a guest would be pointless. Underneath that I would run a couple of smaller Linux instances (eg for internet facing services), maybe a Windows instance and so on.
Have you looked at virtualbox (http://www.virtualbox.org/)? I haven't tried it myself but it looks like a match for vmware and can be hosted on solaris.
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