[tech] E6000

[Adrian Chadd]

Nice E6000. Nice, big E6000. Well done Nick.

The E6000 is a fun machine to play with. Its going to be a pain in the
ass to get spares if anything fails. That doesn't stop it being useful -
200gig of attached storage with a decent whack of RAM does lend itself
to playing with commercialish Sun software on decent Sun hardware and
this in itself can be quite good experience.

Its going to require decent power and even better cooling -
I don't believe the UCC machine room would be a good home for it.

I'd suggest asking UCS/ACS for space and power in the datacentre.
Someone would have to draft up a letter requesting the space and
providing some decent reasons for it to be hosted. I'd suggest hitting
the "commercial application on commercial hardware" experience angle
at the very least.


2c, etc.



ADrian