22 Sep
2014
22 Sep
'14
8:50 a.m.
I'll be picking up an E6K from a local university next weekend. I'm not
sure exactly what hardware it has installed, but i know it has at least
10 cpu boards. I was wondering if these machines had the same ability of
the E10K to segregate the CPU's into multiple systems in order to run
multiple operating system instances independently?
22 Sep
22 Sep
9:45 a.m.
Mazel Tov!
The E6000s were a single platform system that came in its own rack; no
ability to have physical domains like an E10k, but you can do Solaris
Zones with Solaris 10 on it. 10 CPU boards would be 20 CPUs; each CPU
board would have a max of 2 CPUs on them. They could be as slow as
167Mhz (unlikely) or as fast as 440Mhz (also unlikely). Chances are
they're 360Mhz or 400Mhz, but they could be 250s, too. Boot disks
would be external to the system (usually) and should connect via SCSI
(but all in the same cabinet.) Some systems were set up with an A5000
for the disks in the same rack, and it could boot over FC-AL. There is
a possibility it has an internal disk board that would take 2x SCA
drives and one of the slots giving it internal disks. You could do
cool things with the FC-AL setup, as you'd have fully redundant
connections to the drives either via Alternate Pathing (old Solaris)
or MPXio (later Solaris.) 2x the bandwidth to the disks and 2x the
fun.
They are fairly standard (large) Sun kit. 9600/8N1 on ttyA for the
console. However, it is possible to give it a physical console. The
clock board has a type-5 keyboard hookup, and you can throw an sbus
framebuffer in there. It may have an IO board with a UPA slot so you
can put a Creator 2D or 3D in it, giving you one of the "fastest
workstations" of the period.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Alex McWhirter
<alexmcwhirter at mojovapes.net> wrote:
I'll be picking up an E6K from a local university
next weekend. I'm not sure
exactly what hardware it has installed, but i know it has at least 10 cpu
boards. I was wondering if these machines had the same ability of the E10K
to segregate the CPU's into multiple systems in order to run multiple
operating system instances independently?
--
-Jon
+32 0 486 260 686
3:06 p.m.
Was the A5000 the only hard disc storage option offered on the E6K?
On Sep 22, 2014, at 1:45 PM, Jonathan Katz <jon at
jonworld.com> wrote:
Mazel Tov!
The E6000s were a single platform system that came in its own rack; no
ability to have physical domains like an E10k, but you can do Solaris
Zones with Solaris 10 on it. 10 CPU boards would be 20 CPUs; each CPU
board would have a max of 2 CPUs on them. They could be as slow as
167Mhz (unlikely) or as fast as 440Mhz (also unlikely). Chances are
they're 360Mhz or 400Mhz, but they could be 250s, too. Boot disks
would be external to the system (usually) and should connect via SCSI
(but all in the same cabinet.) Some systems were set up with an A5000
for the disks in the same rack, and it could boot over FC-AL. There is
a possibility it has an internal disk board that would take 2x SCA
drives and one of the slots giving it internal disks. You could do
cool things with the FC-AL setup, as you'd have fully redundant
connections to the drives either via Alternate Pathing (old Solaris)
or MPXio (later Solaris.) 2x the bandwidth to the disks and 2x the
fun.
They are fairly standard (large) Sun kit. 9600/8N1 on ttyA for the
console. However, it is possible to give it a physical console. The
clock board has a type-5 keyboard hookup, and you can throw an sbus
framebuffer in there. It may have an IO board with a UPA slot so you
can put a Creator 2D or 3D in it, giving you one of the "fastest
workstations" of the period.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Alex McWhirter
<alexmcwhirter at mojovapes.net> wrote:
I'll be picking up an E6K from a local
university next weekend. I'm not sure
exactly what hardware it has installed, but i know it has at least 10 cpu
boards. I was wondering if these machines had the same ability of the E10K
to segregate the CPU's into multiple systems in order to run multiple
operating system instances independently?
--
-Jon
+32 0 486 260 686
9:50 p.m.
No; I saw some booting off of external SCSI shoeboxes, later models
off of A1000s or D1000s and others off of SSA100/200s.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Alex McWhirter
<alexmcwhirter at mojovapes.net> wrote:
Was the A5000 the only hard disc storage option
offered on the E6K?
--
-Jon
+32 0 486 260 686
On Sep 22, 2014, at 1:45 PM, Jonathan Katz
<jon at jonworld.com> wrote:
Mazel Tov!
The E6000s were a single platform system that came in its own rack; no
ability to have physical domains like an E10k, but you can do Solaris
Zones with Solaris 10 on it. 10 CPU boards would be 20 CPUs; each CPU
board would have a max of 2 CPUs on them. They could be as slow as
167Mhz (unlikely) or as fast as 440Mhz (also unlikely). Chances are
they're 360Mhz or 400Mhz, but they could be 250s, too. Boot disks
would be external to the system (usually) and should connect via SCSI
(but all in the same cabinet.) Some systems were set up with an A5000
for the disks in the same rack, and it could boot over FC-AL. There is
a possibility it has an internal disk board that would take 2x SCA
drives and one of the slots giving it internal disks. You could do
cool things with the FC-AL setup, as you'd have fully redundant
connections to the drives either via Alternate Pathing (old Solaris)
or MPXio (later Solaris.) 2x the bandwidth to the disks and 2x the
fun.
They are fairly standard (large) Sun kit. 9600/8N1 on ttyA for the
console. However, it is possible to give it a physical console. The
clock board has a type-5 keyboard hookup, and you can throw an sbus
framebuffer in there. It may have an IO board with a UPA slot so you
can put a Creator 2D or 3D in it, giving you one of the "fastest
workstations" of the period.
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Alex McWhirter
<alexmcwhirter at mojovapes.net> wrote:
I'll be picking up an E6K from a local
university next weekend. I'm not sure
exactly what hardware it has installed, but i know it has at least 10 cpu
boards. I was wondering if these machines had the same ability of the E10K
to segregate the CPU's into multiple systems in order to run multiple
operating system instances independently?
--
-Jon
+32 0 486 260 686 
2:05 p.m.
Hello Alex,
Slightly off topic to your original question, but assuming that you are planning
to use your E6K and need storage space, I am the proud owner of a Sun/StorageTek
D1000 JBOD not currently in use. Attaches via Diff. SCSI.
I had ran an E4500 w/8 CPU's as my main computer for several years, and had used
the D1000 for storage.
If you need/want it, its yours for the asking. I am located in North Texas, and
assuming you are also, I'm sure that some type of local delivery could be worked
out. The D1000 is very heavy, and is probably not something you would want to
pay to ship.
Operating system wise, if I were in your shoes, I would consider running one of
the following three options:
* Solaris 10 update 11 - current version
* Solaris 11 Express - Last official Sun/Oracle version supported.
* OpenSXCE - Open source Solaris based distro.
Either way, congratulations on snagging an E6K, it should be an awesome system.
Jerry
On 09/22/14 11:50 AM, Alex McWhirter wrote:
I'll be picking up an E6K from a local university
next weekend. I'm not sure
exactly what hardware it has installed, but i know it has at least 10 cpu
boards. I was wondering if these machines had the same ability of the E10K to
segregate the CPU's into multiple systems in order to run multiple operating
system instances independently?
25 Sep
25 Sep
7:27 a.m.
Unfortunately that's a bit of a drive as I'm located in Ohio. I do appreciate the
offer though.
I think I'm going to look for a fiber channel model, it seems the StorEdge A5200 is
fairly easy to find. Assuming that it's compatible with the fiber channel interfaces
in the E6K it should make a good fit.
On Sep 22, 2014, at 6:05 PM, Jerry Kemp <other at
oryx.cc> wrote:
Hello Alex,
Slightly off topic to your original question, but assuming that you are planning to use
your E6K and need storage space, I am the proud owner of a Sun/StorageTek D1000 JBOD not
currently in use. Attaches via Diff. SCSI.
I had ran an E4500 w/8 CPU's as my main computer for several years, and had used the
D1000 for storage.
If you need/want it, its yours for the asking. I am located in North Texas, and assuming
you are also, I'm sure that some type of local delivery could be worked out. The
D1000 is very heavy, and is probably not something you would want to pay to ship.
Operating system wise, if I were in your shoes, I would consider running one of the
following three options:
* Solaris 10 update 11 - current version
* Solaris 11 Express - Last official Sun/Oracle version supported.
* OpenSXCE - Open source Solaris based distro.
Either way, congratulations on snagging an E6K, it should be an awesome system.
Jerry
> On 09/22/14 11:50 AM, Alex McWhirter wrote:
> I'll be picking up an E6K from a local university next weekend. I'm not sure
> exactly what hardware it has installed, but i know it has at least 10 cpu
> boards. I was wondering if these machines had the same ability of the E10K to
> segregate the CPU's into multiple systems in order to run multiple operating
> system instances independently?
7:32 a.m.
On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, Alex McWhirter wrote:
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Unfortunately that's a bit of a drive as I'm
located in Ohio. I do appreciate the offer though.
Oh hey, someone else in Ohio.
I think I'm going to look for a fiber channel
model, it seems the StorEdge A5200 is fairly easy to find. Assuming that it's
compatible with the fiber channel interfaces in the E6K it should make a good fit.
If you need PCI FibreChannel controllers I have ... several.
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