Sunfire X series servers!!

[toupeiro]

I've been a die-hard Proliant supporter for years, well before HP bought Compaq, but over the last couple of years I've definitely done an about-face towards Sun.

I just received 2 of X4600 servers with 4 Dual core Opterons (capacity of 8) and 32GB of ram per box for Oracle Database servers and paid several thousand dollars less than a Proliant DL585 which can only scale up to half of what these are capable of. I could have gotten quad-core chips, but it gets very expensive with Oracle Licensing. Dual core is still the sweet spot.

I just ordered one of their next-gen AMD boxes X4140 which has 2x Opteron Quad Core processors, 32GB of RAM and 1TB local storage in a 1U form factor and it was very inexpensive.



I'm not trying to be a salesman for Sun, but these machines are really second to none. I just thought I would share because to me, it seems like a long time since a company made some real breakthroughs in server design, and I am excited to see the offerings Sun has been putting out.

-T.

[bsteimel]

I wondering if you could help me out. I too just got a x4140 Sun server and am trying to install ubuntu 64 server 8.04 onto it and am having trouble. I have gone through each step and installed all the compenents, configured the service processor and now when i start the console and turn on the server nothing displays.

This is my first experience with sun servers and this whole remote console thing is a first. I worked with proliant servers as well which we never used the lo interface with HP. It seems like you have to use there lo interface by default whether through a server or through a serial connection which is what I'm using.