Re: A couple of Galaxy questions

From: Colin Stuckless (cstuckless_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/22/05 

Date: 21 Sep 2005 20:46:46 -0700

Rich Teer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm very intrigued by Sun's new Galaxy servers, but I have a
> couple of questions:

> 2. The X4100 can be ordered with 2 SAS drives plus a DVD drive,
> or 4 SAS drives if one doesn't need a DVD drive. Reading the
> white papers and other info, I get the impression that one can
> use a remote DVD/CD drive as though it is local, via the ILOM.
> Is my understanding correct? More specifically, suppose I have
> an X4100 with 4 SAS drives and an Acer Ferrari laptop, and connect
> the latter to the former's ILOM via Ethernet. If I need to boot
> from CD/DVD, could I place the disk in the Ferrari's drive and have
> the X4100 boot from it?

Rich,

I haven't gotten my hands on an X4100 yet, but as described, the
functionality sounds identical to that of the HP iLo (Integrated Lights
Out) ports on their DL servers which allow you to connect via a web
broswer, and then a Java based app allows you to 'map' your laptop's
CD-ROM drive to the server's and therefore boot from your laptop
machine over the network.

This works great, and if you store the rest of the install media and
share it via NFS for you can setup a machine pretty quickly this way.

I wouldn't want to do the entire OS install via the remote CD-ROM, as I
imagine the virtual media mapping is not nearly as high performance as
NFS at the same network speed (although I'd love to see some
benchmarks!)

-cjs

P.S.: The galaxy line looks awesome. I'm sure they were well aware of
the capabilities the 'other guys' have in their boxes and it looks like
they've matched or bested them in all areas.

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