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Thursday, August 13. 2009

I received my new desktop/test rig/fileserver/sun ray server/internal webserver for my office at home today. I've ordered the wrong version of the case, so i have to purchase some additional fans tomorrow afternoon to complete the assembly. A first test install of OpenSolaris yielded no driver problems so far. Network detected, graphic card detected, sound detected. As some people asked me about my setup.

Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P
AMD Phenom II X4 905e (4x 2.5GHz) 4x512k
be quiet! BQT P7-PRO 450W Dark Power PRO
4GB (2x2GB) Corsair XMS3 DHX DDR3-1333
Zotac GeForce 9500 GT 1024MB PCIe
Sharkoon Rebel12 Economy Edition Big Tower
LG GH22NS30 22x DVD±R 10x/8x DVD±R DL 12
Two Seagate ST3250318AS Barracuda 7200.12 250GB

For the IPMP tutorial i've integrated two e1000g into the system, but they were transplanted from a old system into the new one. Well, I will report about my tests and the further configuration in the next few days.

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 18:58 | Comments (15) | Trackbacks (0)

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I'm a bit surprised you didn't buy a motherboard/ram with ECC support. Could you explain why you choose so?

I always thought that's a ``must have'' criteria; even for SOHO servers.

#1 Stadtkind on 2009-08-13 21:18 (Reply)

I though a while about opting for ECC but i decided to go otherwise out of A simple reason: The server part is a side function. Mainly it's my test rig and development machine . So basically it's a desktop.

By the way: AFAIK the ECC isn't a mainboard property ... it's a property of the IMC .... as someone wrote in a mailinglist ... most of the time non-ECC is just the result of a poorly written manual and spec list, their intent was to express "not registered" not "non-ECC"

#1.1 Joerg M. (Homepage) on 2009-08-14 06:41 (Reply)

Oh, be quiet, dann wünsche ich dir mal mehr Glück mit denen als ich es hatte.

#2 Jul on 2009-08-13 22:52 (Reply)

Das ist jetzt mein zweites be-quiet. Ich hatte noch keinen Ärger damit, aber wie heisst es so schoen: YMMV

#2.1 Jörg+M. (Homepage) on 2009-08-14 05:59 (Reply)

Zotac GeForce 9500 GT 1024MB PCIe
en, 1G memory for video card.
Are you play video games on sunray or solaris?
^_^

#3 adam on 2009-08-14 04:23 (Reply)

No .... but i needed two dual-link DVI Ports for my system as i have two 23" displays. And i knew that this type of card works in a Solaris System.

#3.1 Jörg+M. (Homepage) on 2009-08-14 05:52 (Reply)

Why did you use two 250GB HDDs? To make a RAID1?

#4 Rui on 2009-08-14 09:08 (Reply)

Of course .... I saw too many dead harddisks ... so i use RAID wherever possible. I've put all my harddisks into this system as well yesterday evening ... 2 harddisks for boot (the both in the list) and 5 1TB disks i've already owned in a raidz.

#4.1 Jörg+M. (Homepage) on 2009-08-14 13:21 (Reply)

Why not SSD's? The new intel X25M's are cheap now, and work with solaris

#4.1.1 Raymond on 2009-08-15 05:29 (Reply)

Hey, i have to work for my money

)) 180 Euro for 80 GB is a little bit too much for my taste ... but ... well ... later perhaps

#4.1.1.1 Jörg M. (Homepage) on 2009-08-15 07:41 (Reply)

i think you're fully right, doing it as a mirror or raidz. (in my opinion the right way is radiz2 or mirror with 3 disks) BUT most consumer mainboards have only 6 SATA ports. In your setuo you need 7 Sata ports - are there reliable, performant and cheap

sata controllers available, that are supported by OpenSolaris?

#4.1.2 Max N. on 2009-08-26 21:32 (Reply)

Why not a mini-ITX with VIA Nano CPU? Energy efficiënt and the foundry is Fujitsu. And what helps Fujitsu helps Sparc...

Only half-jokingly

Michiel.

http://www.mini-tft.de/xtc-neu/product_info.php?info=p28606_Jetway-NF77-1G6E-LF--Mainboard--Mini-ITX--VIA-EDEN.html

#5 Michiel (Homepage) on 2009-08-19 21:16 (Reply)

Because i need vastly more compute power on the system than a Nano is able to deliver ...

#5.1 Joerg+M. (Homepage) on 2009-08-19 22:03 (Reply)

Young man! I started out my professional career (?) on an IBM S/32 with 13MB disk, 16KB RAM and a 1MHz processor. - One gigglehertz should be more than enough for everyone!

O.K. You may laugh now.

#5.1.1 Michiel (Homepage) on 2009-08-20 21:09 (Reply)

Well ... there are some Windows XP Virtualbox sessions running on the system ... i don't want to do that with 1 GHz

#6 Jörg M. (Homepage) on 2009-08-20 21:11 (Reply)

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