[tech] 4x Sunfire v20z's from FAHSS

James French frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Wed Feb 10 11:58:35 WST 2010


Oh and a spare, still wrapped in plastic PSU.

On 10 February 2010 11:49, James French <frenchie at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> As has been discussed at a couple of meetings (at least one wheel
> meeting and one committee meeting) Arts no longer need our four
> original v20z servers so we're sending them UCCwards.
>
> What's actually coming:
> 4x V20z's (1 with an old iLom version as it fails updates, 1 with a
> dying/dead fan)
> 4x 73G 7200 rpm SCSI disks
> 4x Rail kits (and if they get put into the racks without these, I will
> use them on the person responsible).
> 2x 36G 7200 rpm SCSI disks
> 2x single port, Qlogic Fibre Channel HBA's (multimode tranceiver built
> into the card)
> 1x double port Qlogic FC HBA (requires SFPs)
> 1x 3 port Firewire card
>
> All of the boxes have dual Opteron 244's (1.8GHz) with two having 4G
> of ram and two with 3G. Matt Didcoe is currenly running DBAN on them
> before we bring them over (mostly as I'm a lazy bastard). To my
> knowledge, we've already earmarked these boxes as VM hosts, I'd
> strongly recommend that we consolidate all the memory into two of them
> and have the other two put aside for spare part cannibalism (esp as
> they're 5 years old and parts are difficult to get).
>
> Cheers,
> Frenchie
>


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