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What happened before - the arrival

On April 12 I decided that joining the Sun Try and Buy campaign for the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers would be an interesting idea.

So I applied for a T1000 (6 cores, 1.0 GHz, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB hd) for evaluation at work.
After easter vacation I got mail from Sun. We were accepted for the program and the T1000 should be shipped on April 28. Cool!

On April 21 I got a big package from Sun. More than one week early. Cool!
So we opened the package. Here is what we found (all pictures taken by my co-worker Björn Herwig):


Me (right) and my co-worker Dr. Dirk Stieler(left) were amazed about this nifty part of hardware.


The design of the front panel is way cool.


Few connectors on the back panel, but - everything you need :)


Sun is supplying a CAT5-serial to DB9 adaptor with the T1000, so connecting it to my linux workstation was no problem. Setting minicom to 9600, 8N1 and connecting the T1000 to power supply was done in few seconds.

Initial startup forced an extensive power on self test. This took some time. One cup of coffee later, the system management console (ALOM) prompt was active.

First I setup my password (using the "password" command ;)) then configured
telnet for the net management port using the interactive setup command "setupsc".
After this I had to use "resetsc" to restart the machine.

Telnet to the T1000 worked out of the box. Fine. Time to make some noise now.
"poweron" started the machine.

And man was it loud. I mean really loud. Some marketing guy who was around in our development department was shocked. His eyes getting bigger and bigger staring at the machine. That was fun.

Ok, so better "poweroff" fast. Ah. Silence. What a pleasure. Time to take the cutie to our server room now. Byebye T1000. See you via telnet.

posted by New Creation @ 8:11 AM