RedHat on Sun Equipment

[Rigler, Steve]

E450's are an older, "workgroup" class server that could handle (AFAICR)
up to
four UltraSPARC-II CPU's. Re-manufactured ones can be found for pretty
cheap.

I have no experience with RedHat on SPARC hardware, but I'm pretty sure
the
most recent release to support it was 6.2.  You could probably recompile

newer packages yourself for the machine, but you'd likely end up with
more of
a novelty machine than a production server (based on the
supportability).

Going with Solaris on a Sun (any machine) would be the best bet, but
then you're
faced with migration issues.  Depending on your situation that might be
hard
to justify with such old hardware.

btw - The RedHat equivalent to Sun's DiskSuite would be either LVM or
raidtools.

-Steve

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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Willem van der
Walt<willem at top.health.gov.za>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 8:37 AM
To: Ted Beaton
Cc: redhat-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: RedHat on Sun Equipment

Hi,
I do not know the model, but does it not have a sparc processor?
There is a redhat version for sparc, but one would have to do a llittle 
more work.
I think it is going to be easyer to just load the applications on the
Sun 
box and use Solaris on it.
Once you have gcc going opn the Sun, you can get most things working if
it 
is open-source.
Regards, Willem



On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Ted Beaton wrote:

> I've spent most of my time running Solaris on Sun equipment.  The past
6 months I've been working with RedHat on intel pc's (as "servers").
Management doesn't want to spend any money.  I've got an opportunity to
pick up a Sun Enterprise 450 Workgroup server for very cheap money.  I
would like to use it to replace a pc that has been pressed in to service
as a "server" but we are running RedHat on it.  I have a copy of Solaris
that I could put on the 450 but the apps we have on the "pc server" are
running on RedHat now.  I don't know if it would be a seamless
transition to move them to Solaris. Will RedHat run on a Sun Enterprise
450 server without any special configuration?  Also, does anyone know if
Sun's Solstice DiskSuite will run on RedHat.  It is a pretty good
software RAID solution that I am already familiar with.  I'm sure there
is another one out there somewhere but I'd rather not learn another
right now.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ted
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