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Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services.

On January 27, 2010, Sun was acquired by Oracle Corporation for US$7.4 billion, based on an agreement signed on April 20, 2009. The following month, Sun Microsystems, Inc. was merged with Oracle USA, Inc. to become Oracle America, Inc.

Sun products included computer servers and workstations based on its own SPARC processors as well as AMD's Opteron and Intel's Xeon processors; storage systems; and, a suite of software products including the Solaris operating system, developer tools, Web infrastructure software, and identity management applications. Other technologies include the Java platform, MySQL, and NFS. Sun was a proponent of open systems in general and Unix in particular, and a major contributor to open source software.Sun's main manufacturing facilities were located in Hillsboro, Oregon and Linlithgow, Scotland.

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Proper way to create a zfs off an existing directory?

Lets say I have an rpool with etc/ as a regular directory within it and now I want to create a separate zfs rpool/etc, obviously inheriting all the data I had in original /etc. What would be the most proper and safe way to do so?
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Improving SAS multipath to JBOD performance on Linux

I'm trying to optimize a storage setup on some Sun hardware with Linux. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. We have the following hardware: Sun Blade X6270 2* LSISAS1068E SAS controllers 2* Sun J4400 JBODs with 1 TB disks (24 disks per…
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Giving a new life to an old SPARC machine - boot and install related problems

My problem isn't one you encounter on a daily basis, yet I find interesting enough to share and ask for help. From the beginning: the academic scientific group I am a member of (we are focused on networking-related stuff) got today an ooold SPARC…
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VirtualBox guest network lost after host disconnects

I am running VirtualBox both on a Snow Leopard OSX host machine and on a Windows Vista host machine. Whenever my host machines lose internet connection the guest machines seem to lose internet connectivity permanently even after the host connection…
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Sun Solaris - Find out number of processors and cores

Our SPARC server is running Sun Solaris 10; I would like to find out the actual number of processors and the number of cores for each processor. The output of psrinfo and prtdiag is ambiguous: $psrinfo -v Status of virtual processor 0 as of:…
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VDI Comparison - VMWare View vs. XenDesktop vs. Sun VDI

We're looking at implementing a VDI solution where I work. Currently, we run a mostly Linux shop with Windows clients (Samba PDC too). We've been evaluating a VDI solution for use and was wondering what "real use" comparisons people have done with…
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OpenJDK vs. Sun Java6 on Ubuntu

Due to past (bad) experience resulting from the GCJ stuff being provided by default on certain distributions, I've always traditionally installed the official Sun Java package on servers. On Ubuntu it's been easy but now OpenJDK is a preferred…
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How can I tell SGE to stop assigning work to a compute node?

I want to mark a node (or set of nodes) as "offline" in the sense that I want Sun Grid Engine to stop assigning new work to them. This would be for some kind of maintenance work on the nodes themselves. The nodes should finish whatever work…
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Is there a Informix command to repair database?

We have a Sun Solaris system running Avaya CMS software. The software uses an Informix database. We have a single drive in the server. The drive began to go bad, corrupting files. We sourced a new drive and were able to duplicate the data from the…
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Restore old SunOS tapes

I have some old SunOS tapes I need to look at the table of contents before I shred them. Is there a Linux solution to restore these tapes?
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Resetting SP password using jumper P20 doesn't work on Sun Fire x4600 M2

The Sun Fire X4600 M2 Servers Service Manual says installing a shorting jumper across the P20 header pins will reset the SP password and clear the BIOS password. I installed the jumper then powered up the SP and the system fully as this note…
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Sun T5120: Memory issue with 8GB DIMMs, "Unsupported memory configuration"

I'm trying to upgrade RAM in a Sun T5120 server, replacing 2GB (Sun P/N: 501-7953-01) with 8GB DIMMs (Sun P/N: 511-1262-01). When bringing up the host system, I get the following errors on the ILOM: -> show faulty Target | Property …
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Beginner SAS and server questions

I am a c++ programmer and database administrator looking to expand my knowledge of server administration and maintenance. I have read the Wikipedia pages and several other documents I found by googling, but there are still a few things I don't…
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How can I prevent an old Sun PC from freezing when its keyboard is unplugged?

I'm responsible for an old (5-10 yrs?) sun PC providing an important service. However, whenever the keyboard is disconnected, it stops everything it's running (even stops responding to pings), and says "type OK to go" or "type GO to continue" or…
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Dtrace tips and tricks

What awesome tips and tricks have you seen or done with Dtrace?
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